Jesus christ, it's two hours to NaNo
EDIT: HEY ARI, HEY ARI, I checked the forum FAQs and apparently fanfiction is officially allowed now. :O "Yes, fanfiction counts. The only rule for content we have is that it must be fiction."
HELP ME OUT, FLIST. Give me your spare names. Characters (double barrel names are love; ethnic characters would be awesome because for some reason the vast majority of my current cast have turned out Pakeha*), "if I opened my own restaurant it would be called", "there should be a shop called", "I would write a song called", "if I had another journal and there was no such thing as a character limit it would be", "wouldn't that make a cool band name", whatever. Anything you don't mind me using. (In other words, don't give me the name of your future child in case the character turns out to be a prick.)
Please and thank you. ♥
(Current cast list includes:
From RP, AU'd into the 'real' world: Ash Ward, Nic Ward (and her twin sister Dani, who I don't play), Maria Santiago, Aveline Izumi Rocher, Tora Makino, Sumiko Fujieda, Takara Aragaki (huh. notice how they're all from Digimon universe? o_o); Lu Carmichael
From musing, condensed into one generation: Brendan Langwell, Dairine Starr, Julian Aberdeen, Calix Nielsen, Luna Freeman, Jono Matsuki Marshall, Zach Murdock Tilmitt, Lane Perrin, Tash Kavanagh, Nicci Nielsen Thomas, Natalie Owens,
and various from my old Awaroa project...and a name I saw on a reCaptcha and was like "AHA!")
* I heard there's this theory that most people, given a literary character without any defined or blatantly obvious ethnicity, tend to picture them as their own race.
I always picture them as white. Similarly, most of my original characters are white. I suspect the latter is because I know shit all about Filipino culture and writing a Filipino immigrant is just screaming for the Mary Sue label, but... ? How do I still picture random characters as white by default? Side effect of growing up in a white-dominant society with predominantly white friends (though towards the end of primary school, my best friends were Chinese-raised-in-New-Zealand and Filipina-raised-in-Japan)? The media's fault?
HELP ME OUT, FLIST. Give me your spare names. Characters (double barrel names are love; ethnic characters would be awesome because for some reason the vast majority of my current cast have turned out Pakeha*), "if I opened my own restaurant it would be called", "there should be a shop called", "I would write a song called", "if I had another journal and there was no such thing as a character limit it would be", "wouldn't that make a cool band name", whatever. Anything you don't mind me using. (In other words, don't give me the name of your future child in case the character turns out to be a prick.)
Please and thank you. ♥
(Current cast list includes:
From RP, AU'd into the 'real' world: Ash Ward, Nic Ward (and her twin sister Dani, who I don't play), Maria Santiago, Aveline Izumi Rocher, Tora Makino, Sumiko Fujieda, Takara Aragaki (huh. notice how they're all from Digimon universe? o_o); Lu Carmichael
From musing, condensed into one generation: Brendan Langwell, Dairine Starr, Julian Aberdeen, Calix Nielsen, Luna Freeman, Jono Matsuki Marshall, Zach Murdock Tilmitt, Lane Perrin, Tash Kavanagh, Nicci Nielsen Thomas, Natalie Owens,
and various from my old Awaroa project...and a name I saw on a reCaptcha and was like "AHA!")
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- 23:47 Perfect timing for the next Doctor Who special (in the UK.)! Right after my exams finish! /looks at @Soapy412 #
- 23:50 I uploaded a YouTube video -- Waste Another Day acoustic cover bit.ly/1ZWniD #
- 23:53 Okay, I've got some rather bizarre spam e-mail tonight. Subject line: "It all starts again" Body: "Or crafty Mermaids stole them away" #
- 23:53 Subject line: "Soligi, izoli" Body: "The sun frequently proved himself greedy of human blood, and he was never stinted by his priests" #
- 23:54 Subject line: "We are cruel to each other" Body: "To some milk-white Hens of Dorking" #
- 23:54 And one last, short but sweet: Subject line: "Bessie" Body: "I am not deceitful" #
- 23:55 I think if I run out of ideas on my NaNo, I'll look into my spam box and incorporate something from that. BRILLIANT. #
- 00:56 Bahahaha, my sister and I just spontaneously burst into the drink driving "mate" "mate" "mate" "mate" "mate" "mate" "Dave." ad. #
- 03:58 Waste Another Day is suddenly getting me these friend requests from other players and I wish they'd say something, not just hit add. #
- 03:58 I don't mind it so much on Facebook, not with classmates or something, but with strangers it says "we're vaguely similar, make me popular." #
- 04:14 Then again. Where is the line between a classmate and a stranger? #
- 14:02 I have no criminal record, so the most I got asking for it was a letter saying "nah, couldn't find anything". Hope it's enough for my visa. #
- 14:45 MY FAMILY ATE MY PIZZA #
- 15:38 twitpic.com/nm5j5 - Looks a disaster but tastes okay? Let's hope I don't turn into a hamster. #
- 15:41 Ha! I just saw a @nztv/Glee on Facebook of all things. Wish I'd thought to screencap it. #
- 16:51 Spam e-mail, subject / body: Reeds room / to fly at master John like that #
- 19:59 The pasta alfredo from a packet I made smells exactly like instant mac and cheese, but doesn't taste it. My nose is confused. #
- 20:23 ... Huh. If I read Skins fic while writing something else, whatever I'm writing ends up with more swearing than usual. #
- 20:40 Goddamnit, I hate how I lose interest two-thirds of the way through meals. :| #
* I heard there's this theory that most people, given a literary character without any defined or blatantly obvious ethnicity, tend to picture them as their own race.
I always picture them as white. Similarly, most of my original characters are white. I suspect the latter is because I know shit all about Filipino culture and writing a Filipino immigrant is just screaming for the Mary Sue label, but... ? How do I still picture random characters as white by default? Side effect of growing up in a white-dominant society with predominantly white friends (though towards the end of primary school, my best friends were Chinese-raised-in-New-Zealand and Filipina-raised-in-Japan)? The media's fault?