Offers and Request

[lodessa]

First I have sort of an awkward question/request to make. I'm writing a story right now that is contains a number non-white characters (African American, some of whom are of mixed parentage) and I'm finding myself terrified of putting my foot in my mouth and saying something stupid, stereotypical, or just generally offensive, in relation to their

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[girlupnorth]

^ What she said.

[lodessa]

check below.

[lodessa]

1) Sat on the Iron Throne. With everyone dead there was no one to accuse him of treason. It wasn't really that uncomfortable as he was a lightly built man so he decided to keep it, since that would be a deterrent to those with physical prowess he lacked. That would come in handy when the population started to recover come spring and people began to try and question his authority.

2) Gave Catelyn Stark a proper burial. He laid her next to her daughter and raised a giant monument over them. He visits it regularly, bringing flowers and talking to the dead. What people don't know is that the mausoleum contains an entrance to an escape passage.

3) Bartered the food stuffs he'd hoarded for a crown. Then he gave the person most likely to threaten his reign Harrenhal with a smile.

[nentari]

First meme: King Lear's Fool

Second meme: Three things Gilderoy Lockhart did after the world ended by mouldy cheese.

[lodessa]

1) He is the bastard son of a nobleman and he knows it.
2) He can't go back to his home village because his mother was killed by an angry mob who claimed she was a witch.
3) Before becoming a Fool, he had a lot of more traditional jobs. He hated them all.

1) Put flowers in his hair, the fungus produced brilliantly colored blossoms.

2) Raised his favorite nurse from the dead. The cheese had killed whatever was ailing his brain and he remembered that she'd been kind to him.

3) Set himself up living in a ballet studio, he loved the walls of mirror that reflected him from every angle.

[nentari]

:D

[sainfoin_fields]

Three things Simon Tam did after the world ended by his sister.

[lodessa]

1) Took the one ship he could find still functioning to the ruins of Earth That Was. The place we dead and barren but it seemed appropriate. Where else could he lay her to rest? She had been just as broken.

2)Worked without sleep for 2 1/2 weeks at a makeshift clinic. He couldn't meet any of the refugees eyes. If it weren't for him the world would have been protected from her, instead of her having been protected from the world.

3) Back on Earth That Was, he put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The radiation and destruction he could have handled, but the 'verse was too lonely without her... even if he had been the one to pull the trigger for her too.

[sainfoin_fields]

No fair making me sniffly and heartbroken!

[lodessa]

I just couldn't thinking of non-depressing way to write it. Because Simon couldn't just let her destroy the world, but Simon without River is like a ghost.

(I also wrote River after the apocalypse and it is less sad)

[juushika]

Hamlet's Ophelia.

(yeah, sure, predictable, but I love the varying theories about her character, and have quite a few lot in my personal canon about her.)

[lodessa]

1) Knew that Hamlet's feelings about her would cool. When he went nuts she saw the opportunity to lock him down anyway though.

2) Compares every man to her brother. None of them match up. Her madness is mostly the result of knowing he will be disappointed in her when he hears of what has happened.

3) Looks up to Gertrude and has little fantasies about her favoring her among the other noble maidens and braiding her hair... sometimes it is a motherly thing... sometimes it is sort of lesbonic.

[girlupnorth]

Lady Macbeth.

[lodessa]

1)Her mother was a frail woman, prone to fainting, who was put aside by her father for failing to produce a male heir.

2) Her father was prone to indiscretions involving low class whore and other people's wives and daughters. Eventually someone poisoned him.

3)Macbeth wasn't really up to the standards she had hoped for in a husband, but he was a decent fixer upper. She would have killed him if someone with a better position had wanted to take her as a wife.

[girlupnorth]

2) But not Lady M. herself?

3) Of course she would do just that. *nods*

[lodessa]

2) No, his death made her socially downwardly mobile. She may have slipped something into more than one woman whom he'd impregnated's drink though.