A little late, but more than Simons got!
I know, the guy works nearly year round - he deserves a vacation. Hell, I appreciate the slacking time. I have a backlog that admittedly will appreciate the extra work I'll be doing it, and the break. Breaks are nice. Unless they're broken computers, but that goes without saying.
When I get home, I'll take a shot or two of Atma. Atma Genji. Oh my precious computer. Way more than I need . . . but isn't that the whole point?
I'm on the new commuter train right now, the WES. For more details, go to www.trimet.org. Its a pretty awesome train, thats not actually run BY trimet, but for it. Which means it actually works, on time, and so forth. I think its the best thing trimet has ever made, even if it is at times a little bumpy. Awesome seats, no need to stand, and the chairs recline slightly! Plus? Free wifi, which I am using now to type up this blog post.
Game fuel is back again by the way. Stop by your local soda dealer and pick some up. Tell them MK sent you. They wont do anything special, but I'd appreciate it.
I've resisted myspace, but I can be found on hypnotize me! a social networking site for hypnosis. Its honestly better to poke me by instant messenger, but I know I'm not always on. Also, I am migrating to madamkistulot@live.com as opposed to my ancient hotmail that no longer works for email anymore, anyway.
There is lots more planned for Aurora and Sylvia, but I find myself more and more wanting to do something more visual with them/other characters. Maybe I just need to write something else and more often, but maybe also my visual artist friends and script writer friends are rubbing off on me. Both are equally likely as far as I can tell.
In other news, the flash cartoon that I am essentially co-creator of is all but finished. After some menus are action scripted, and I finish the subtitles, it'll be finished. Its about 22 minutes, which is about the same ammount animated of a half an hour cartoon. Its "The Legend of Link: Oh god yes, and spiders". The title is amusing as hell, and so is the actual comic. I only have one line, two words, but I am responsible for lots that has been done for it, including the originam remade theme that I'll need to link to here some day, even if its less Madam Kistulot and more Carin McLeoud. Under the Cowl is fine time to time I hope, as it tends to kill people just like it killed batman. Poor batman. poor batman superman from the planet of the capes.
I havent had any more trips to the comic store, mostly because I realized I am a highly impressionable writer, and those comics were not good for me. Especially not with some of the things going on. The Dark Reign, the Blackest Nights . . .
And people complained when I killed Olivia.
Another thing worthy of note, is that today is my first day going to work completely without the aid of crutches. This might not be interesting to you, but I've been on them for nearly half a year.
Goddess, do I hate crutches.
So, until next time, aka tonight . . .
~Madam Kistulot
p.s. god damn it, Batman is dead and the Phoenix is coming back to life. Does anyone see a problem here?
When I get home, I'll take a shot or two of Atma. Atma Genji. Oh my precious computer. Way more than I need . . . but isn't that the whole point?
I'm on the new commuter train right now, the WES. For more details, go to www.trimet.org. Its a pretty awesome train, thats not actually run BY trimet, but for it. Which means it actually works, on time, and so forth. I think its the best thing trimet has ever made, even if it is at times a little bumpy. Awesome seats, no need to stand, and the chairs recline slightly! Plus? Free wifi, which I am using now to type up this blog post.
Game fuel is back again by the way. Stop by your local soda dealer and pick some up. Tell them MK sent you. They wont do anything special, but I'd appreciate it.
I've resisted myspace, but I can be found on hypnotize me! a social networking site for hypnosis. Its honestly better to poke me by instant messenger, but I know I'm not always on. Also, I am migrating to madamkistulot@live.com as opposed to my ancient hotmail that no longer works for email anymore, anyway.
There is lots more planned for Aurora and Sylvia, but I find myself more and more wanting to do something more visual with them/other characters. Maybe I just need to write something else and more often, but maybe also my visual artist friends and script writer friends are rubbing off on me. Both are equally likely as far as I can tell.
In other news, the flash cartoon that I am essentially co-creator of is all but finished. After some menus are action scripted, and I finish the subtitles, it'll be finished. Its about 22 minutes, which is about the same ammount animated of a half an hour cartoon. Its "The Legend of Link: Oh god yes, and spiders". The title is amusing as hell, and so is the actual comic. I only have one line, two words, but I am responsible for lots that has been done for it, including the originam remade theme that I'll need to link to here some day, even if its less Madam Kistulot and more Carin McLeoud. Under the Cowl is fine time to time I hope, as it tends to kill people just like it killed batman. Poor batman. poor batman superman from the planet of the capes.
I havent had any more trips to the comic store, mostly because I realized I am a highly impressionable writer, and those comics were not good for me. Especially not with some of the things going on. The Dark Reign, the Blackest Nights . . .
And people complained when I killed Olivia.
Another thing worthy of note, is that today is my first day going to work completely without the aid of crutches. This might not be interesting to you, but I've been on them for nearly half a year.
Goddess, do I hate crutches.
So, until next time, aka tonight . . .
~Madam Kistulot
p.s. god damn it, Batman is dead and the Phoenix is coming back to life. Does anyone see a problem here?
Labels: comics, Electrum, EMCSA, life, Madam Kistulot, Nebula, rambling, ranting, Redundancy, snark, Writing
posted by Madam Kistulot at
7:56 AM
3 Comments:
Sweetie, killing Olivia was a valid plot point. There's nothing wrong with killing characters. You are impressionable sometimes, but I don't think killing her was a result of your comic reading.
I was talking with VP last night about that, actually. Perfectly normal, valid story points and writing techniques, when used on the Archive, are nattered about to no bloody end. Many readers of that site expect the stories to be soft or tidy or . . . well, heaven forbid someone kill a character or end on a really dark note. *wiggles fingers mockingly* I, for one, respect a writer who can kill characters when it needs to happen. Her death wasn't senseless or for show.
Just don't kill Sarah only to bring her back to life several times as an avatar manifested through her younger self from another timeline, or something equally absurd . . .
Yay for waking up to surprise Kitty-posts! *kisses*
Glad to see the both of you blogging again. :) Being on crutches for that long sounds wretched. I hope you're both doing well now, or at least as well as can be expected.
Valencia's right. Killing a beloved character, when it serves a purpose, rather than just because you can, is a completely valid writing technique. The first time an author explained it in such a way that made sense to me was with the death of Sturm Brightblade. *grin*
I think the writing that is submitted to the EMCSA is very different than writing that is submitted to other sites, such as the BDSM Library and the Grey Archives, where dark stories are prevelent.
Enough rambling from me. I just wanted to say it's good to see you back again.
--Wyn
Wyn: I'd argue that writing submitted to fetish sites with tight communities around them differs from many other types of writing, period. That's not always a bad thing, but sometimes the result is the peculiar reactivity we often see here when an author does something 'dark', even if it's not really DARK so much as showing a less happy aspect of everyday life, such as death. The darker communities are comfortable with darker themes, so the influence shows up in the stories and eventually is suffusing and reflective. If that made sense. I get the impression community influence has much more to do with most (non-mainstream, self-published) fetish writing than is the norm in most other places.
Also, she's blogging again. I don't see myself following suit, but I definitely enjoy the Kitty-posts! I'm glad to see you commenting again, though; I was wondering about you.
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