Creativity, Anxiety, and RAAAAGE!!!!

[Stacy]

The Psychology of Creativity

This was like...WHOA.

I have sort of always danced around the idea that Seth is Shadow Stacy, really. John said a long time ago that Seth was the Mary Sue of Valley - using the term to mean the character most representative of the author, but not necessarily a perfect idealized representation like how the term is usually used.

Anyone else identify with this? How does your shadow inform your work?

Whoa - rereading it and I'd better stop here so I don't have to spend all tomorrow night writing an essay and processing this before I can get back to 10.07.

Oh god, I just figured out Valley.

Songs like Firestarter, Psycho - "I'm the firestarter, you're the firestarter", "maybe I'm the one who is the schizophrenic psycho, maybe you're the one who is the schizophrenic psycho".

People wondering if Seth was possessing Lilith, if she was imagining him, if he was her Tyler Durden. All of their similarities in how they thought and how they saw the world and how they interacted with others.

Seth was Lilith's shadow. Seth is my shadow. I am Lilith and I am Seth and Valley was the story of the consciousness going into the dreamworld of the unconsciousness, confronting the shadow.

And so what is 10? I've been seeing the similarities there - 10.06, they go into the factory. Nightmare, sixth update of Valley - Lilith goes into Seth's dreamworld for the first time.

In Valley we met the enemy, and now he is us.

So, is 10 like Inception? We are now on the third level of the dream, the unconsciousness going to find and confront itself?

[rad]

Interesting topic. I guess I like to spread myself through several characters. The Kyotis, Dayes and Populouses notsomuch; I work with what the game gives me, although there are characters in there that are closer to me (In the Kyotis that'd probably be Alli, Lola, Amanda, Karis and Joanna, in the Populouses Annalise, Eddie and Gail. Not sure about the Dayes. Possibly Fuji in a weird way)

But where there's more of a story, like the Lazarus Dispatches or Taken, there's probably something of me in most of the characters. In the Lazaruses, Alf and Chaotica were probably the most like me in some ways but I could see myself in Cas, Hirogen and Krillitane too.

In Taken, Katie, Marissa, Naomi, Susie, Niamh, and a few of the characters you haven't yet met all have aspects of me within them. I wouldn't say there's one character in anything that I pour myself into entirely, but there are things they think/say and ways they act that definitely are me.

[lepifera]

From the very little I know of Hindu mythology, creation and destruction are two sides of a coin. To bring forth something new, one must destroy the old. The imagery Hindu goddess Kali and her dance on the human skulls, and that it stands for really fascinates me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali).

Perhaps when one is already content with the social construct one inherits, one would not feel the need to break free of status quo, to give new interpretations to one's experiences, or to remold the world according to a different vision.

Have been lurking around and still waiting to see what would arise from the ashes of Seth's fire 10.

[pinkfiend1]

Part of me is in Moon Daisy which is perhaps why she is so hard to write and get into because I don't like sharing things about me. Mainly I suppose it's the whole aversion to the act of getting pregnant. And in a way I suppose the voice in her head, because if I take my medication too late, or get too tired I sort of hear another voice.

[mdpthatsme]

I'm with you Pink. I don't like hearing other voices in my head too. Actually I think I get built up scenes in my head to the point they're about to explode. Must learn a cure for this...

I can connect with the creativity and RAAAAGE part of this.

I try to put a little of myself within each character, but there are some (Kassidy Lane and Nova) that I really have nothing in common with. The biggest chunk of me went to Marvelous Mac, Mr. Know-It-All of Power and such. I suppose it's always why I'm comfortable writing about him because it's not more than writing about myself. That should be disturbing.