Hiatus and meme
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Semi-hiatus for vacation until the 17th of June. I apologise in advance for flakiness or a complete absence as the internet situation is up in the air right now. But tagging in a different time zone should be interesting.
To procrastinate horribly before leaving in a few hours, Cindy hit 10k comments a few days ago and Tiffany ( Read more... )
Semi-hiatus for vacation until the 17th of June. I apologise in advance for flakiness or a complete absence as the internet situation is up in the air right now. But tagging in a different time zone should be interesting.
To procrastinate horribly before leaving in a few hours, Cindy hit 10k comments a few days ago and Tiffany ( Read more... )
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Most things by Neil Gaiman--both YA and adult.
Diana Wynne Jones' books--a good start would be books like A Tale of Time City for the standalone books or The Lives of Christopher Chant for the Chrestomanci series.
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series.
The Princess series by Jim C. Hines--all three fairytale princess as Charlie's Angels, only their boss is a women and they kick ass. And Sleeping Beauty is gay for Snow White.
I could go on, but reverse for book commendations. YA or adult fiction is okay.
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn is a good book if you're into chinese mythology and settings, and the female heroine is a pretty strong character! The second book should be coming out soon, too.
I like anything by Tamora Pierce; I don't think she's written anything recently, but she still has a ton of YA books that are worth reading. My favorites are The Circle of Magic quartets.
T.A.Barron's books! He wrote 7ish books on Merlin and then a trilogy on Merlin's decedent; they are very good and I spent my middle school years obsessing over them.
Poison Study and Magic Study by Maria Snyder are really good, but the last book in the trilogy was honestly a disappointment because it was just like Magic Study. They're still an entertaining read with a nice bit of magic and politics ( ... )
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Tiffany: She is such a prickly teenager who wants to be both an adult and a teenager at the same time. It is also interesting to play someone who is so literal sometimes that she looks like she doesn't have a sense of humor. She can be hard to play because she is mostly aware of her own issues all the time--thank you First Sight, Second Thoughts and Third Thoughts.
Cindy: Ex-princess is so incredibly social and brash most of the time while being rootless and noncommittal in her personal life compared to the commitment she shows towards her job. It's a thing that sometimes plagues people--detachment from people and commitment to ideals that makes her a good spy and a terrible person to have a long-term relationship with. And she's not really smart or willing to stare down her issues like Tiffany does.
Was that a weird set of pings?
Machika and Leo's terrible/wonderful road trip adventure--aka what would your characters do when thrown together in a strange situation?
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Tiffany wouldn't have stood for it if she had a stepmother who mistreated her. Any stepmother would have been jelly within a day of being stared at by Tiffany. And she might go to the dark side if someone pushed her towards using her considerable willpower and observation skills to even the score. If that ever happened, then she'd get put down by the other witches, most probably Granny Weatherwax as she's the one usually called in for that sort of thing.
Cindy would have wound up as an adventuress or a seamstress in Ankh-Morpork (read: lady of negotiable affection) who dabbles in intrigue because sod this farming, she's not one to be a dairymaid or a witch. So there's not that much difference in her personality except for the part where she won't be immortal and she won't be a Fable.
Reverse for Leo and Machika?
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I wasn’t expecting a reverse and when I thought about it I grew concerned.
Machika would have been seen as completely crazy growing up because she’d be yelling at the voices in her head all the time and also comment on weird things like those pretty shining lights everywhere. She would freak everyone the hell out by DISAPPEARING for days on end and then come back going “whoops I was exploring that black hole but it’s cool, you guys, all of the zombies are dead now!” And when she eventually met Elliot she would probably CLING insufferably because oh my god it’s a person who talks to me. Uh. I highly doubt any of the Terrible Things that happened to Elliot would happen with Machika there, because she would watch his back and have developed her powers/control over Things more than Leo has. She would be Elliot’s servant as long as he paid her and would complain about it all of the time and call him stupid and throw things at him when he did something wrong. And then they would work together to Fix The Abyss or whatever the hell ( ... )
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Cindy is a lot closer to a fanatic than Tiffany will ever be. So that makes her dumber and less likely to see the point of view of the other side. But she's working on it. Slowly.
Tiffany is a teenage girl with all the issues that a teenage girl has. It gives her the occasional case of the stupid because she is very rash. And when she can't think straight, things tend to get worse.
Leo's relationships with people who are not Elliot?
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Uhhhh. Canon, camp, or both?
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So outside of Elliot he has one friend. Canon is a pretty miserable place for Leo, okay.
Camp: He does not have a super lot of CR, but I have to say it is infinitely better than canon. People don’t hate Elliot! People are actually friends with Elliot. Which makes them okay to talk to. And the people in camp are interesting. He enjoys talking to them and learning things about their worlds, etc, but he doesn’t want to get too invested because eventually they will be leaving. Despite that, he still finds himself enjoying the people without having to force himself to be polite. Idk, did you want specifics ( ... )
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Tiffany would like Granny Weatherwax to experience Camp because she'd like to see someone make sense of it and she would like to see if Granny handles it any better--witches are competitive that way.
Who would Machika want at Camp? I figured Leo doesn't want anyone other than Elliot . . .
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Machika wouldn't really wish Camp on anyone, but she does miss her friends. She'd want Kiki here because she misses Kiki terribly and is worried that he is eating Ayla out of house and home.
SHE WANTS GRANDFATHER HERE. She knows that dead people can be in Camp, and people from different points in time. She really, really wants to see Grandfather, and every time she deages she remembers how much she misses him. :( She isn’t expecting it, and she knows that would only make it harder to leave when the time comes. But she still really wants to see him ( ... )
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Tiffany: Magic's pretty normal back at home because home is saturated with magic. But it's harder to use magic back at home because it's basically about pushing against the magic field. The magic users from other places don't seem to have those sorts of constraints and it is worrying. Tiffany doesn't believe that power comes for free and power definitely corrupts the user. On the other hand, different kinds of magic, yay! She would like to study some of it at the very least.
What does Leo think of the magic users in Camp? Has he ever thought about getting help from them?
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