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Post by thelunarfox on Dec 16, 2010 1:31:42 GMT -5
Sorry, I should clarify. I think Matt's love of fishing says more about why there's such a division between them now, though thinking about it further the sleeping babies that does add to everything. I think I do see them both a little clearer after this.
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Post by raquelaroden on Dec 16, 2010 17:46:13 GMT -5
Damn. All these awesome mosaics lately are really making me want to do this for my characters. Laura and Beth seem to find the perfect pictures! Gorgeous.
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Post by laura on Dec 16, 2010 19:39:41 GMT -5
OMG, yes, Rachel, these things are ridiculously addicting! Be careful if you start, lol! ;D This is my last one for now, then I have to get back to real stuff. I'll maybe finish off his profile later tonight. Corbin Gray:1. name: Corbin 2. grew up: in a small woodsy town outside Portland, Oregon 3. favorite food: steak and potatoes (organic) 4. favorite color: rich shades of green 5. favorite weather: crystal clear starry nights 6. favorite drink: green tea 7. currently reading: the third draft of his doctorate dissertation on physical therapy and eastern medicine 8. most important job: teacher 9. if he had one wish: to spend his life showing her everything there is to see 10. thing he loves most in the world: the soft breath of surprise Leila takes when he touches her 11. one word to describe him: limitless 12. something else: too soft for his own good *If you can't read it, the caption on the photo for #9 reads: "now, take my hand, and we could run away." <-- I thought that suited him well, lol!
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Dec 16, 2010 23:50:20 GMT -5
Ow ow ow ow ow ouch!!! Poor Corbin! It really looks like Leila is 'the one' for him. And neither Matt or Leila have anything in their mosaic for each other. Matt is job, and Leila is family. It's ok Corbin - in TS3 I am creating a very special single lady just for you!
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Post by choco on Dec 17, 2010 3:00:54 GMT -5
These mosaics are so gorgeous. It makes me want to do one for myself. I love how Leila is incorporated into. In response to what Kiri said, I think they've been together so long they probably assume that they're ingrained into each other's life (mosaic) without saying so or even thinking about it all the time. Corbin, on the other hand, hasn't felt like this before so it's so exhilarating how could you not think about it? It's beautifully tragic.
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Post by laura on Dec 17, 2010 8:43:41 GMT -5
Thank you guys! I would say Leila has something for both Matt and Corbin in her mosaic - I don't know if I can explain that without giving away spoilers though. Or is this story already spoiled by now? lol! I do feel them both being very present in her mind, but I also feel her masking herself still, especially right now, which is why her answers are kind of vague. They're vague, but also 100% true for her at this moment in time. It's kind of odd that I choose to do these at this specific point in time. I wonder how different these mosaics might look if I'd done them a year later, or a year earlier? But no, Matt doesn't have anything in his mosaic for her, which is telling, and the couple things he had for her in his "loves" list of the profile are even more telling. I feel kind of bad about doing these, actually. It feels a little bit like cheating, in a way. Like I'm giving away too much. Though I guess there aren't many things in these profiles that you haven't heard already in the story, but putting them all together like this is very telling. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? lol! I don't know, I guess I kind of feel like if I'd done my job right, you should have been able to get these things from the story already? But anyway, thank you all! Corbin's mosaic was extra hard to do. Especially #10! OMG, how impossible is it to find a picture of "touch" on Flickr? There were lots of holding hands pictures, but I had this very specific kind of touch in mind. So hard to find! I think I ended up searching through the "lovers" tag in the end, lol! Should have started there first
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Dec 17, 2010 17:13:11 GMT -5
Yeah - looking back at her mosaic, I can see her with Matt and Corbin in there - but hidden, while Corbin's all on the surface. There's a lot that you can tell from the stories, but I think that there's also a lot that the mosaic clarifies because you get to see it in a different way - so all the things just click.
Well done finding the right pictures! I'm amazed at the photos you have found! How long did it take to make?
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Post by laura on Dec 18, 2010 8:57:17 GMT -5
Kiri, Corbin's took me the longest. The answers he gave me were more abstract, so it was harder to find images of actual things to represent them, lol! I probably picked at his, on and off, for most of an afternoon. Maybe a couple hours in total? Leila's was difficult in that way too, but because it was my first, I wasn't as nitpicky with it. I kind of wish I could go back and tweak a couple of her pictures, but I'm not going to. Hers took me probably just as long as Corbin's though, but that's partly because I was still figuring out how. Matt's was pretty quick and easy, lol! He's a pretty simple kind of guy Maybe 45 minutes?
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Post by laura on Dec 20, 2010 11:33:45 GMT -5
Wow, random childhood memory just popped up. Isn't it amazing how memories get suppressed and stuffed down? It's not like you mean to forget these things in a deliberate way, but it just happens. Like a defense mechanism or something? Personal life experiences are SO individual and important. They really shape a life, and I truly believe that. It makes me wonder how we can manage to relate to each other at all, since we're all seeing the world through such a completely different view? Not sure I want to talk about the specific memory in such an open and public way, (having to do with my mom, and the summer before she died), but I just have to say, I'm sure it plays a huge role in how I write Leila's story. (<-- not that I mean Leila is going to die, lol!) Not only that, but I can also see how it's made an impact on my own life. Everything does, everything we live through, it all adds up, it all means something. Every little choice that everyone around us makes, and how we react to it, it all steers the course. And we think we have all these choices - we make choices every day - but do we really? Because as shaped as we are, how could we possibly make any choice other than the one we've been conditioned to make in that moment? (And I've clearly been spending too much time in Corbin's brain lately, lol!) Sorry, that's so unbelievably vague. That can't possibly make any sense to anyone but me ;D LH update is well in the works, just putting a final polish on it right now.
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Post by Stacy on Dec 20, 2010 13:48:30 GMT -5
It made sense to me.
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Post by thelunarfox on Dec 21, 2010 2:03:19 GMT -5
Made perfect sense to me too. It's a very poetic truth.
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Post by somuchsong on Dec 21, 2010 3:01:34 GMT -5
It makes complete sense to me as well. Your own experiences are shaping the way you write, just as our experiences shape the way we might interpret what you're writing.
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Post by raquelaroden on Dec 21, 2010 7:16:45 GMT -5
It does make perfect sense. The philosophy department I was in for my graduate work specialized in the topics surrounding the concepts of free will and action theory. So it's not at all surprising that this thought crossed your mind, particularly with the way you delve into the motivations and histories of your characters.
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Post by laura on Dec 22, 2010 12:01:56 GMT -5
Thanks everyone! Glad it made sense!
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Post by laura on Dec 22, 2010 12:22:29 GMT -5
Okay, first of all, I have no idea why I was so compelled to do this study, lol!
It must have something to do with the profiles I've been doing, thinking about each character and how they view sex (which of course, is a question inspired by Lunar's profiles for Ruin, lol!). It was especially noteworthy to consider the "Romance Sims" in my neighborhood (either primary or secondary), and how each of them view the sex they have so much of. They all pretty much clearly fell into one of three categories. So that made me wonder about my other aspirations of "sim/characters" and what their differences might be toward sex.
I have a theory brewing on my "popularity sims" at the moment, but we'll come back to that later. This just might become another one of my huge epic character studies, lol! (Still have yet to post the MBTI study I started...)
First, "romance sims": they fall into three types - lovers, screwers, and flirts. <-- I personally used a much more colorful and appropriate word for the "screwers", but alas, this is not my blog, so I tamed my potty-mouth, lol!
lovers: would opt for emotional and connected love-making over purely physical sex Tyler Jackson Corbin Gray Joel Harris Aurora Miguel Sophie Phoenix
screwers: would opt for vivid and exciting physical sex over emotional connection Maxwell Shaw April Hutchins Emmy Masuko Bella (Bradshaw) Gibson Adrian Jackson Heather Huffington
flirts: all talk, gutter brain, but follow-through is usually either with devotion or no game at all Leila Watts Summer Phoenix Cameron Gibson Berjes Monif
too young to decide: - Fiona McCullough... this one is hard! She's definitely void of emotion, so that rules out "lover" for her. She uses her sex appeal to get what she wants, but has yet to actually put out, so I'll speculate "flirt" for her, and she's certainly devoted to herself, lol! - Ryanne Phoenix... she's definitely not all talk, so that rules out "flirt", but otherwise, she's too young to tell, I think. - Angelo Shaw... given his short attention span, you might guess he'd end up a "screwer" like his dad, lol! But somehow I feel him caring more about them, in the moment. So I'll speculate him as a "lover" - though a serial one.
See, wasn't that fun?!? Hmmm, I wonder if this is a very fascinating exercise in procrastination? lol! ;D
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Post by sb on Dec 22, 2010 15:25:03 GMT -5
That's a really interesting way to divide them up. I've had at least three that seem to fit in more than one category. A flirt who will follow through with great game if properly motivated. A screwer who will chose not to do so if it causes too much trouble for him (the why bother, find another house without an alarm system). And the very accomplished flirt with game who enjoys the physical enormously but will opt for the emotional connection if it's there. Maybe that falls into the first category though.
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Post by muzegoddess on Dec 22, 2010 15:50:59 GMT -5
Lovers, screwers, and flirts. I love it, never thought of it quite that way. Excellent character study idea that I'll have to try with some of my characters.
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Post by laura on Dec 22, 2010 16:08:41 GMT -5
Beth, of course! Characters, like people, often act outside their own personality norms, given the right motivation or emotional circumstances. I get the multiple categories thing too. This was just for my "romance sim" types though. I'm working on 12 types in total, and each of my characters has two - one for primary aspiration, and one for secondary. And some even fit types they don't even have an aspiration for at all, lol! It's a lot like how I interpret their aspirations though, very loosely. I think of it more as a primary driving force. It doesn't mean they can't or won't do these other things, it's just what they prefer, if they were given the choice. Muze, thanks! Let me know if it rings true for any of your characters! I'd be very interested to know if this fits for anyone other than me, lol! I'll have the full post up tonight, I think. I want to take some pictures for it, and that should be fun!
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Post by sb on Dec 22, 2010 16:14:14 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to it! I stuck with the romance sim types too, but they can be very different people as you pointed out, depending on other motivations, drivers, or emotional circumstances. Or boredom. Your 12 types are incredible...
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Post by somuchsong on Dec 22, 2010 23:18:47 GMT -5
So you've been talking about this sex study all day on Twitter and I finally thought that there might be a few more details here in Babble! Anyway, it sounds unbelievably interesting and I can't wait to read it. I am actually very nerdily excited about it!
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