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Post by Stacy on Feb 13, 2011 22:11:49 GMT -5
Mosaic QuestionsFirst Name: Stacy (resurrection) Currently reading: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire What is your favourite quote?"Today has just been turned to a bad day. For me that is. Because Mrs. Greene put a starter on the board for us. I just hate it when people make me write stuff. I like to impress my very own real fellings. I'm thinking about being a true story writer." - me, on May 3, 1989, age 8, in my second grade journal. And yes, it's verbatim. What is your favorite book? Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte Favorite Color: green One of the things I love most in the world: freedom Who is your favorite author? Edgar Allan Poe Who is your favorite character in fiction? The Joker, from The Dark Knight One Word That Describes Me: fiery If you had one wish: One day I'm going to break these chains. Favorite Drink: sweet tea Which book has had the greatest impact on you (eg moved/disturbed/thrilled/made you cry)? My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass Other QuestionsWhat have you written so far - and where can we find it (URL/Publication)?In the Valley of the SunA Sims 3 story of love, fire and death. 10A full text story about events in the life of the villain of Valley when he was a teenager. Knock Three TimesA one-off full text short story about a farmer and his adventures around Halloween. I do plan on one day writing a prequel and a sequel. How do you like to handle romantic relationships in your story? Do you have a general approach, or is the approach tailored to the characters?I suppose it's tailored to the characters, since it's not like a thing I set out to think about. It just kind of happens. Like all of my work - it's based in my personal experience. I draw a lot on my relationship with John. Lilith and Jason in the middle of Valley, where he comes and gets her at the Goth house and everything - that's basically me and John when I was in my late teens/early 20s and going through my own little patch of insanity. Seth and Caitlyn - at the moment I'm pulling a lot on a mutual crush I had in high school. Although we never went on a date and actually hardly talked, but yeah - the emotions I remember definitely help me write it. Seth and Sarah though - now that's interesting. And why I am going to write a Sarah POV zombie apocalypse story one day to explore it. It is different than Lilith and Caitlyn, because Sarah pursued him. Sarah chose him. I think - he idealizes Lilith and Cailtyn, imagining them to be the ultimate soulmate companion he's looking for, someone who will understand him. Sarah - that whole thing is, I think, infinitely more complex. I really am going to write that story, maybe when I'm done with 10. Once I was singing along to I Alone and Grace said it was creepy. I said "Well, yeah. It's a Seth song." She said "Seth loves somebody?!" and I said "He thinks he does." Which that led to John saying "Seth is very nebulous in what he is." Even as a 15 year old, Seth is not all that physical. I mean - I am looking forward to writing an explicit Sarah/Seth scene one day, but I really don't think he's that much into sex. I imagine he can take it or leave it. The main Sarah/Seth song - Ava Adore - Smashing Pumpkins Also - dang this is a Seth song. Why I'm Here - Oleander I can't love you anymore I'm scared of the sound of it And woman, I just wanted moreI think - he's looking for something that he can never have. He wants - like basically a Vulcan mind meld type thing. But at the same time, he's scared to let anyone in. So - he wants total intimacy, a complete melding together, but he also stays very isolated inside all of his defenses. And he can never resolve that dichotomy. Okay, yeah - he's mine. And I should keep writing him. What was your favourite book in childhood?I thought about this for a bit. Hmm - I found Sherlock Holmes in sixth grade, so I don't know if that really counts as childhood, but I loved me some Sherlock Holmes. And then I found Edgar Allan Poe in seventh grade. No wonder I like writing short pieces. I have an answer! It's from somewhere between third grade and fifth grade - closer to third, I think? A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. I really liked the idea of time travel, and of course it was all about overcoming ignorance and unequal political systems. What's your absolute favourite story?Anything with Seth in it. That's right, I'm all egotistical! Bwahahahaha! How did you start writing, i.e. What happened that made you realize that writing was your thing?Well - as you can see from my favorite quote, I was too young at the original realization to remember it. I've dabbled in it all my life. But I didn't really get serious until...Nightmare, in Valley. I think that's where I realized that this is what I'm supposed to do with my life. It just...it felt really really good. Like...yes, this is it, this is life, this is the blood and the bone and the water and the burning fire that sweeps through and destroys everything in its path. Have you ever written something that you really wish you could change when you look back at it?No, not really. I mean - when I look at older stuff, I want to edit the words, tighten them up, make them better. But for actual plot and character stuff - no. It all comes from itself and goes the way it wants and it's right the way it is. Favorite Weather: A bright sunny slightly chilly day in early to mid fall, with the trees blazing red and orange and yellow and the sky a deep perfect blue and a slight smell of smoke and dead leaves in the air. Were you ever surprised at a character's popularity among your fanbase? Jason did grow on me there at the end, but still - I think I was surprised by how his death affected others. That was the chapter that got the most comments, brought the most lurkers out. And I think some people may have stopped reading. But it had to be done. I don't know - I don't think about readers or their reactions when I write. So it's very easy to surprise me because I don't have an idea beforehand and I...I think we all know I don't have a good grasp on how other humans work or how they're likely to react to things. So yeah - it was a surprise that his death affected readers that much. Hey - this is timed well, with the whole getting better about social anxiety on here and thus being able to read the replies and answer any further questions! Also! Listening to Seth music while writing it and...I think I'm starting to feel Seth again.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Feb 13, 2011 22:51:08 GMT -5
Yay it's Stacey's turn. I've been looking forward to this one.
Reading this I've realised who Seth reminds me of, minus the murderous side line. Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory. They have that whole aversion to contact thing going on, and obsessive componants.
I didn't care when Jason died. I was hugely upset when Seth died, but less so for Lillith. I didn't attach to them like Seth. Seth is just the ultimate Sim character.
Too tired for questions, I'll think on it over night.
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Post by jennifer on Feb 13, 2011 23:32:54 GMT -5
Great mosaic, (I can see your fiery side in there ) and interview!
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Post by Stacy on Feb 13, 2011 23:59:43 GMT -5
Pinkfiend - I keep hearing about the Big Bang Theory in various internet circles. Maybe I should check it out. Obviously I didn't attach to them like I did to Seth either. What surprised me about audience reaction to Seth was the dislike of him at first. Before I brought him onstage. I knew he was awesome all along, of course. But once he was actually in the story, public opinion seemed to turn and to agree with me on his awesomeness. Thank you for all your compliments on Seth. I hope you're having fun with him in your ISBI. Jennifer - Thank you! And it wouldn't be a current-day Stacy mosaic without a lot of fire.
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Post by dinuriel on Feb 14, 2011 2:32:05 GMT -5
Great interview, Stacy Have you ever had a character develop in a way you never expected? I'm curious because your work reads so seamlessly and there's never a detail out of place, yet your characters take on lives of their own.
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Post by rad on Feb 14, 2011 8:22:23 GMT -5
My favourite of the Valley lot is still Sarah. I love all of them (and Caitlyn's becoming a favourite too) but Sarah intrigues me the most.
Gorgeous mosaic, very Stacy.
Question: What kind of comedy do you like best?
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Post by sb on Feb 14, 2011 9:00:07 GMT -5
I love your mosiac! The flash and the fire, and the chains and barb wire. It is totally you.
Your writing fascinates me; it's so intense and yet so careful.
I've mentioned before that you have a strong sense of geography and it comes out in your writing. You know where you are, where the characters are. Have you ever thought about writing something in a place you don't know at all? Not recommending it, just curious.
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Post by Stacy on Feb 14, 2011 22:30:34 GMT -5
DinurielAwww, thanks. I'm thinking of how to answer - I don't really have expectations in general, lol. Always found that hard to answer on surveys on the first day of school - "What do you expect from this class?" "I have no idea?" Jason wasn't supposed to be in the story much past the breakfast scene in Morning. Thus why he's straight out of the Sim bin. And I remember at first people didn't like him and didn't think he and Lilith were right for each other, but by the Fire Death Alone trilogy people loved him and said they were perfect together. So - I didn't expect Jason to end up as a central character. But I don't feel like that really answers the question, because - it doesn't seem to be about his personal development, but more his role in the story that I didn't expect. Gosh. This is hard. Well - this may be a tiny bit of a spoiler for 10, but Paul - if you even remember him, lol - you'll see him again. And - I don't know him yet, really, but he's changed a lot since I first brainstormed 10. But again - it's his role in the story that has changed. I just looked at some of my original notes, when he was named Will and Caitlyn was Olivia Ashe, lol. And apparently my first idea was that, in the bathroom scene in 10.01, he'd stop the physical bullying but then verbally bully Seth. That's crossed through though, so I must have changed that pretty quickly. I'm looking forward to seeing how he develops, but...I can't say I have any expectations about it. Sarah - Sarah's changed a lot since her original inception. I really liked writing her diary and getting to know her. Gah....okay, I guess I will say that my characters do take on lives of their own and develop in their own ways that I never consciously planned or expected, but it's also not in ways that I didn't expect. I just...dude, I have no control and I don't know where I'm going and I just ride the rapids, lol. And I don't look forward much - I just concentrate on getting out of the current set of rapids alive. RadThank you! And hey - I am going to write that Sarah POV story one day, so you'll see her again. And I'm glad you're liking Caitlyn - me too. I don't know if I can say a kind... I really like Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, in books. Although - the blurbs for Terry Pratchett that are all "lol, slapstick" make me so mad. Pratchett is a freaking genius and his books are so deep, with so many themes and ideas. Yes, they're funny, but they're also great literature. And I love the Georgia Nicolson books, by Louise Rennison. Haven't read the last one yet - I hear it's not as good. I don't know - I'd be here forever listing everything I find funny. Trying to think if there are any qualities that hold it all together.... I love this web comic! Dinosaur ComicsYou should check out the mouseover text and the subject line of the email if you click contact too. I don't know. This conversation one night at dinner is still providing occasional laughs around here. The Chicken DimensionYou may not get this if you don't play WoW, but it's one of the funniest WoW videos I've ever seen. ShadowmourneI often find 50 Cent's tweets hilarious. I don't know, man - this is another question that's hard to answer, lol. I guess - if I had to generalize - I like the bizarre, the contradictory, the random, the ridiculous, the strange, the imaginative, and the surreal. BethThank you! Yay I'm glad my mosaic looks like me! Well - I am thinking about perhaps doing a story set on the bayou - now, whether it'll be Sims 3 and set in Twinbrook, or a full text story actually set in Louisiana, I don't know. I kind of lean towards Sims 3 and Twinbrook myself. But unlike Valley, I wouldn't use Twinbrook as Twinbrook - I'd definitely want it to represent that bit of Louisiana. The protagonist would be a private detective, female, and Creole. So - not only a place I don't know, but a culture I don't really know. I've made the main character in CAS and named her Adele Labeau - here's an LJ entry with her pic. AdeleIf I get around to it and actually do it - it's going to be a huge challenge. I am going to research the hell out of the place and the culture before even starting. I've done a little initial scouting around the net, and the culture is so complex. It's like - I may be suddenly deciding to climb Mt. Everest without any mountain climbing experience here, in terms of writing another place and another people. But I do like a challenge. So we'll see - maybe one day. After 10 and the Farmer Brown prequel and sequel and some Glitterface the Necrofairy tales and the Sarah POV zombie apoc story. LOL. Hey - the Glitterface stories are going to be fantasy. So that's going to be doing some actual worldbuilding, and will be writing a place that's purely my imagination. And umm - how are the chains and barbed wire like me, lol? Well - we do have a joke around here. Which goes back to Rad's question - I love the Powerpuff Girls. Especially Bubbles, who I may have more than a little in common with. "I'm hardcore now!" Yay thank you all so much for the compliments and the support and the questions! I love you all really really a lot and you are the bestest friends ever in the world of all times.
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Post by hrootbeer on Feb 14, 2011 23:59:12 GMT -5
Stacy, I thought of you today when I was teaching...at least you crossed my mind when my class was discussing Frankenstein.
One of the kids was going on about how Victor got so caught up in his own creation that he couldn't appreciate it's beauty since it was so monstrous. I was impressed that the kid had gotten into it so much that he actually thought of such a deep thing to say, that I nearly missed one of the other kid's responses. The other kid said, "The reason he couldn't appreciate the monster's beauty was that he never really looked at him. All he saw was his outside...an outside that he had created and didn't want to believe was flawed. I don't know why he was surprised that the monster looked ugly. Victor is the one who gave him all of his flaws. If Victor hadn't been so self centered, he would have seen the monster's true self."
Ok, so what had me thinking about you was how you truly love Seth. You created him. He's a monster (to an extent), but I think you see his beauty. It's something I really like about you...and your writing. I think you really "get" your characters. I'd like to meet and talk to you in person. I have a feeling that you'd really "get" people, too.
So here's my question...What do you and your friends talk about when you are just hanging out? Do you talk about the things you "talk" about here?
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Post by Stacy on Feb 15, 2011 11:09:28 GMT -5
Your class sounds awesome - interested in the material and vibrant and great discussion. You must be a great teacher. I do indeed love Seth. I'm over the little crisis I had with him the other day. He is mine and, as Kiri said, I am his. Haha - my first reaction was "Seth isn't a monster!" and then I realized that I related Kanye's song Monster to him enough to think about doing a music video with him and it. I think - I think maybe that's the good in his story. I've seen that from a few readers - how they're surprised at how they can understand and sympathize with him. I was all "Expanding their definition of human. RESULT!!!" I'd like to talk to you too! It's not IRL, but I'm chiquitakemp on Yahoo if you have it. Uninstalled AIM and not getting back on there, though. I asked John for help on answering your question. He said "I don't have casual friends because I don't do friends. You don't have casual friends because you don't do casual." I don't really have IRL friends other than the people I live with, and we talk about everything. Although we all have different interests and so sometimes we get a little frustrated. Like it's hard to talk to John, a certified Reader and consumer of the creations of others, about writing and creating. And on his end - I'm sure he gets frustrated when I don't know what to do with his attempts to talk about the creators he likes and their stuff. Grace is like that too - she talks a lot about all these fandoms she's in and actors and movies and TV shows. Spending hours you could be writing consuming the work of others sounds like pure hell to me, so I just tune her out and think about 10, lol. I don't know - trying to think of what I talked with my friends about in high school. We did a lot of creative things together, like making up epic stories based on random things, from what we were studying in US History to just riffing off a song and creating a character based off it. Yeah - that's mostly what I remember from then, creating hilarious stories with them. Still do that with John and Grace, as you can see from The Chicken Dimension LJ entry. And there's other examples - like the epic song I made up about Duckzilla when the wall decoration next to our table featured a duck way out of proportion to the boats next to it, and how I made up an oppressive hushpuppy society, led by a dictator named Bertha, with a valiant resistance led by...I think Hector?...with the hushpuppies at dinner one day. Which John then proceeded to eat Bertha and Hector and everyone. I also like to listen to my friends talk about their lives and experiences. And I like to talk about mine. So - I like to share souls. With my current online friends, on IM - a big thing is sharing music. I talk about some of the same things I talk about on here with people who are interested in it. Who are mostly friends from here, lol. So yeah - IRL it'd probably be fun and creative and random. Online - it can be like that, but I also demand souls in return for my own. I want to know your experiences, your problems, your loves and your hates and your dark nights of the soul and your music. And I give you mine. Yeah - I want the same thing Seth wants. Total Vulcan mind meld!
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Post by hrootbeer on Feb 18, 2011 0:03:46 GMT -5
Thanks Stacy for your answers Unfortunately, I don't IM at all. Part of the reason has to do with a past problem related to IMing and being misconstrued and then having the whole thing blow way out of proportion. I just avoid anything more than a forum for non face-to-face communications. At least with a forum, you have a record of what is said and any mis-communication can be pretty rapidly cleared up. Aside from that, I just find the sound of a person's voice conveys as much if not more than words. Same with body language, if not even more. I get what you mean about Seth wanting Total Vulcan mind meld. Personally, I'd be scared to death of such complete knowledge sharing. Some things should remain unknown, IMO.
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Post by qui on Feb 18, 2011 10:16:11 GMT -5
LOVE this! I swear you're Favorite weather took me back t my childhood! Sunday evenings playing is leaves that's fallen as the sun was beginning to fall behind the row of houses!
People didn't like Seth? That's very interesting because they second I first read about Seth, I felt I could relate and instantly liked him.
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Post by thelunarfox on Feb 18, 2011 12:34:12 GMT -5
I really really look forward to a Sarah story. There isn't much of her in the original story, but I've always wondered about her. How she came to find Seth and fall in love with him.
What's also interesting is how different the three relationships of his are that we've seen. Caitlin and Seth, I think you do an amazing job capturing that feeling of a crush when you're young, but it's a little tiny bit twisted too. It's so subtle, definitely a subconscious thing that sort of seeps in-between the words. I would like more please!
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Post by Stacy on Feb 18, 2011 16:41:30 GMT -5
Yay I read the new replies! Yeah - I score 100% openness on personality tests. Just the way I am. And I have noticed from your posts that we do have very different minds. Which I think is awesome - I find people who are very different from me fascinating. Qui I love you, so yay, glad you liked my profile thingy! Also all happy that you like and relate to Seth. And that is a lovely memory about your childhood. Mostly what I remember is - like when he killed Bella, one of my younger readers got really mad at him. And people would talk about hoping to see him get his comeuppance and justice and all that. I think they were using a different definition of "justice" than the one I use, lol. LunarYAY! I'm looking forward to writing it too. Sarah is special, 'cause she's the one who lets me write first person. So that'll be a new experience and new learnings when I get around to her story. I imagine - like what I tried to show in Interlude was the idea that they met in college. Here was this pretty cute dude, but he kept to himself and was quiet and introverted. Sarah was intrigued by him and attracted to him, so she went up to him and worked her way in, finally. At least enough to start a relationship, if not enough to really really connect with him. Of course the zombie story is a different universe and they'll meet under different circumstances, but yeah. Aww, thanks for the compliments on Seth and Caitlyn. A reader who is young with a crush said she could totally identify with Seth in the more recent 10 chapters. But yep - it is still Seth, so there is a twist there. I'm particularly proud of 10.04, and the echo of the description of the flower in the description of Caitlyn. There will be more. Answering these posts always helps me get back into 10space mentally. And one of my Valentine's presents was a collection of tubes - that contain caffeinated sugar. Nixie Tubes, they're called. So yeah. Planning on downing them all tonight or tomorrow and seeing what a sugar/caffeine rush does for me, lol. Yay thank you all so much!
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Post by raquelaroden on Feb 18, 2011 18:12:53 GMT -5
As much as I love your stories surrounding the Sethverse, I also love the other worlds you construct--like for Farmer Brown. The prospect of a story about a Creole private detective is very exciting! I wouldn't mind seeing a bit of that soon.
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Feb 18, 2011 20:00:29 GMT -5
I agree with Rad - I loved reading the Farmer Brown story, and would love to see more of that. Also a Creole private detective sounds very intriguing! I've been trying to think of a question to ask for the last week - and I think I've finally found the one I want to ask: One of the things that I love about your work, is the way you write. There's a poetry to it, and your struggle to get the right word for the right image is awe-inspiring. Beauty of words is one of those things that stands out about you, for me. Have you ever thought of/done - as an exercise - a story where you purposefully picked the wrong words, and the wrong images, and tried to write as badly as you could? If you did, was creating purposeful ugliness difficult for you, or did you enjoy the humour of it? (I'm thinking of Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest type of purposefulness)
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Post by themctavishams on Feb 20, 2011 17:22:57 GMT -5
I've been MIA but I really loved this interview, too Stacy!!! I love (LOVE) your mosaic... it's fantastic. I agree with Kiri, there is absolutely a poetry to what you write. It's inspiring, and lyrical, and lovely. Thank you for beginning this community, and thank you for allowing me to be a part of it Edited because oh man, I just saw that spelling error :X I am thoroughly embarrassed.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Feb 20, 2011 18:09:25 GMT -5
Seth is entirely brilliant. I keep thinking of new similarities between him and other characters. Not that I'm saying he;s a clone of anyone, far from it, but I think he just encapsulates such a wide variety of aspects that he realtes to so many things. My latest thing, apart from Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory (more for the younger years) is Phantom from Phantom of the Opera (haven't seen the sequel was meant to be last years bday presant) because I suppose I always see him as fundamently good like the Phantom (I mean who seriosly was happy when Christine chose Raoul?) he just happened to do bad things. I keep wondering what made him want to make life fruit, and the resounding thought in my head is that it's something to do with Caitlyn, or somebody he loved? Maybe not as a way to prolong his life but to bring someone back to life Any basis of truth in this? I just really want to know why he really did it.
I think Love the way you lie is the themetune to your Seth as whenever I read anything to do with Seth I want that song on.
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Post by Stacy on Feb 25, 2011 0:19:44 GMT -5
Drinking grape water. World, you can end today, I don't personally care. Oh man, the Seth IRL dude on Twitter has taken over my brain. He is leading me back to Seth, I think. Rachel, who is Teh Awesome: YAY! I am very happy that you liked Farmer Brown! I do look forward to the prequel, Knock Knock Knockin' on Hell's Door, and the sequel, yet to be named. Hmm - The Scarecrow Always Knocks Thrice? The world there is pretty much home, with some supernatural elements added. So I am quite fond of it. I worry about stepping on your toes with the private detective thing, but that's far far in the future (but hey, maybe I can work up a thousand words or so like the intro to the Sarah POV zombie story I have) and I assure you it will be totally different from Ed. Which is awesome. Like you. Kiri, beloved: Awww, thanks! And oh yes - that is the grand struggle, is it not? Always reaching for perfection, for the perfect image and the perfect words to describe that image. I loves words. They are so beautiful, and wonderful, and good. LOLOLOLOL, no. Can't say I've thought of that. That...that goes against all that is Stacy, young lady! Next thing you know you'll be sapping and impurifying all of my precious bodily fluids. I am all up for crazy random stuff, like my Sims 2 legacies and Gunky. But, alas - no, I cannot make it ugly. Thinking about it - I really don't think I could. I made fun of purple prose in the last chapter of the first Sims 2 legacy and in A Faustian Bargain - but I'm rather proud of it and I think it's pretty, lol. There is high art perfect beauty, and there is the fun lulzy beauty, and there's stops in between, like Farmer Brown. But I don't think...I don't think I would enjoy trying to create ugliness. But I think you're talking more parody style, which takes ugliness and pushes it so far that it bends around the curve of the universe and becomes beautiful. And amusing. I can do that. I like doing that. But setting out to write something that would be mediocre or hateful or violent (I know some readers find Seth disturbing, so I guess I'm talking about my personal view of hateful and violent), or that would hurt me - nope. Can't do it, don't wanna do it. 'Twould be a crime against my soul and the soul of all that is, dear lady. Christie, who I shall call...sweetness: Yay thank you! Mosaics are full of awesome, yes? I do pay a lot of attention to the sounds and to the letters. I've looked up "prose poetry" but it's not at all what I do. Thank you for coming here and hanging out with us! I'm glad you're part of our community. Pinkfiend, friend of the fire: Wow - that's an awesome comparison! I like it a lot, and will have to think about it. And yes, I always preferred the phantom myself to Raoul. Seth is fundamentally good, and I'm so happy that you recognize that. Chaotic good, to be sure. Twisted chaotic good. Very twisted. LOL. Thinking about the life fruit and ambrosia - I can see that as an unconscious motivation. I don't think it would have been conscious. Consciously he just wanted to not die. But the offer to Lilith, to bring her back, to have her be his Persephone - I think that was rooted in Sarah's death. Subconsciously, he was completely riddled with guilt about that. Thus the getting drunk on the anniversary of it - getting drunk is not something he would take lightly. It would take great emotional pain to drive him to it. Even if he wasn't completely aware of said pain. So he was projecting Sarah on to Lilith, in a way. Like somewhere in his mind he had the idea that if she died and he brought her back, that would cancel out Sarah. Balance his karma. End the guilt and the pain. Stop Sarah from haunting him. I remember when I showed Rad this Seth song - Restin' Bones by Primus - she said that the end didn't sound like Seth. But it does. I remember I was working on a later Valley chapter, and the sentence "Why don't I just kill myself?" appeared in my head. Now, I ain't gonna lie - it's been me thinking that more than once. But that felt different. It wasn't me. It was Seth's voice. The dude has many many layers, and that motivation is on one of the deepest layers, one he would never be conscious of until Lilith set his house on fire, and even then it wouldn't have come at first. Seth has never been a psychopath. Never. He is capable of empathy and emotion. He just got all twisted up. So yeah - the Phantom is a very good comparison. Thinking about 10, with Caitlyn and the growing interest in alchemy...hmmm. I think, in 10 - at the moment he hasn't even really had the idea of eternal life. He's had a taste of death, with the deaths in the factory fire and the way some people in the community blame him and take it out on him. But he hasn't even begun to experience the horrors life has in store for him. Bwahahahaha! So at the moment - the alchemy is...it's like a hobby, it's fun, and it's a way to shut out the bullies and the loneliness. And it maybe makes him feel a little special and powerful, that he's learning all this arcane stuff that no one believes in, but he's finding that with a little tweaking, some experimenting - it's working. So that too is not anywhere near the dark obsession it will become later. As for how Caitlyn plays into what the alchemy and everything becomes - we shall see. And yes - I do think I'm ready to get back to writing fairly soon. Hopefully this weekend. And I agree - Love the Way You Lie is indeed very much a Seth song.
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Post by muzegoddess on Mar 11, 2011 11:30:43 GMT -5
Beautiful mosaic and I loved this interview. You have such passion and kindness and such a beautiful spirit. Never let anyone tell you anything different.
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