Comments | lizamanynames: I'm Sick and Delerious. Have a Banik Linguistics lesson.

lizamanynames

I'm Sick and Delerious. Have a Banik Linguistics lesson.

Oct 06, 2005 05:00

Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh... sick.

I've got this head cold thing which means I'm listless and can't think and when I do think it's all disjointed and weird; I slept for something like 12 hours total and kept having the most messed up psychotic dreams ( Read more... )

linguistics, stark, essays, baniks, fic meta, appleseeds, farscape

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gjohnsonkoehn October 6 2005, 21:01:08 UTC

The fact that I think I understand 'deathing' leads me to believe I am, in fact, horribly, horribly far off. I'm just not that clever. Still, I suppose there's always a first time for everything.

After his scars heal after PK Wars, Stark's right eye is a solid orb of glowing gold.

That may actually be even cooler than his mask...

lizamanynames October 6 2005, 21:47:24 UTC

The fact that I think I understand 'deathing' leads me to believe I am, in fact, horribly, horribly far off. I'm just not that clever. Still, I suppose there's always a first time for everything.

Indeed. Or it could just be you're the same kind of wacky in the head as me.

That may actually be even cooler than his mask...

Squeeee! Thank you!!

gjohnsonkoehn October 6 2005, 22:09:24 UTC

Alright, lemme run this buy you; 'deathing' is simply the act of attending a (presumably public) death, in the same way that clubbing is simply the act of going to a club. Neither term, however, conveys any specific kind of behaviour; clubbing can entail drinking, dancing, flirting, hooking up, and various other things, in all number of combinations. Similarly, deathing could entail, say, mourning, philosophising, a search for artistic inspiration, or some kind of reinforcement of a desire to, say, live each day to the fullest knowing that death comes to all things. None of these things specifically depend on being present at a death, in the same way that you can drink or dance in places other than a club, but deathing includes these behaviours the way clubbing includes a broad selection of behaviours.

I... hope that made sense. I think I lost myself a little in the middle there.

So, for the eye, are we talking a sort of post-lost in the games Enzo Matrix, but without the red 'M' stencilled in?

lizamanynames October 7 2005, 08:55:07 UTC

YOU GOT IT!!!! YOU GOT IT EXCATLY!!! WHOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!! *grabs you and dances around the room*

So, for the eye, are we talking a sort of post-lost in the games Enzo Matrix, but without the red 'M' stencilled in?

And my memory of Matrix (the Character) is fuzzy, but yeah. Basically. And sometimes it glows. But not all the time, because that would exceed the special effects budget. :D

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jhall1 October 6 2005, 21:05:13 UTC

Get well soon.

lizamanynames October 6 2005, 21:48:15 UTC

Thanks. M'trying.

numb3r_5ev3n October 9 2005, 04:31:52 UTC

Here's a question, just because I'm curious to see what your answer will be...how similar do you think the Banik are to the Marags from the David Eddings universe?

lizamanynames October 9 2005, 14:16:47 UTC

Ooooooooooooooh...

Iiiinteresting...

The details of Marag culture are fuzzy in my head, it's been a while...

...and SHIT, our copy of the Riven Codex is packed somewhere while we move furniture around in preparation for the new couch...

I'm drawing a blank on Marags, except that they're a Malloean race (or you know, from that continant anyway) and they're not the demon worshipping people, or the Dals, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

numb3r_5ev3n October 9 2005, 21:16:28 UTC

Well, the Marags were the Children of Mara, and were mostly wiped out by the Tolnedrans, who sold the ones who were left into slavery to the Angaraks. For the next few thousand years, the Marags who were left existed as a slave race of the Angaraks, who sacrificed many and worked the rest to death for the most part. By the time of the events of the Belgariad, only Taiba was left, and she became the progenitress of the new Marag race after the death of Torak.

lizamanynames October 10 2005, 13:03:29 UTC

I remember them now! They were matriarchal, and beleived in blood scrifice.

I honestly don't think there's much resemblance between my Baniks and Marags, aside from that grim, steady determination Slave races get.

Actually, if I'm drawing inspiration for the Banik from anywhere else in science fiction, the people they bear the most resemblence to are Tenctonese, from Alien Nation. And even then only cultrually, because physiologically they're almost nothing alike. Hell, my Delvians are physiologically closer to Tenctonese than my Bnaik are - and that's only in very superficial ways.

Though now that I think of it, the ghosts of the Marag... yeah, there's some resonance there. But the Banik are very much a living race, even if large parts of thier culture have been ravaged by slavery.

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