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Post by tangent on Nov 16, 2010 11:22:13 GMT
I know Kwereti sounds like qwerty. It's part of the fun aspect of the name. =^-^=
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Post by Ally on Nov 16, 2010 15:53:34 GMT
im reading the mists of avalon.... king arthur times through the eyes of the woman... gwenhwyfar, viviane, igraine, morgraine, morgause and soo to be more I read a volume of that years ago...great read, I might track it down again.
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Post by Emily on Nov 16, 2010 22:50:31 GMT
To be honest I don't actually know whether the pirate is dead or not, -Ally always says the footloose script writes itself... well when it comes to drawing it sometimes the characters... misbehave. The script for this page says that were-keti shoves the pirate into a cupboard and locks it- but she was so busy prancing round the deck she didn't have time for finesse and took her out in between one panel and the next. The next page is scripted as a rather calm discussion of Iordan's escape plan attempts- but the elves got all bitchy about being in a room with iron doors and An and Iordan ended up yelling at each other... I swear I try and keep to the script but they make their own expressions up and they ad-lib!
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2010 0:24:16 GMT
And sometimes that is when the comic shines the brightest.
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Post by Ally on Nov 17, 2010 18:38:31 GMT
The best part of creating a story is when the characters take things into their own hands ^_^ Proves they're alive.
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2010 18:47:55 GMT
Tell me about it. I saw that happen twice in The Trip - first when I was writing it as a CRfH fanfic, and then a second time when I repurposed it as my own fiction. I was DEFINITELY not expecting some of the relationship situations that happened. One couple stayed together that I intended on breaking up, another one formed where I honestly had no idea there were feelings there, and a third was... ugly. Ooooh was it ugly! =^-^= And yet I still sense there's something still there, despite how it fell apart.
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Post by Ally on Nov 17, 2010 22:22:20 GMT
With me it's usually characters surprising me with secrets I didn't know they had. One of my secondary characters, who was meant to just be bad and a bit useless, turned out to only have been playing bad and a bit useless, and actually had a whole other agenda that she'd never told me about.
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Post by tangent on Nov 17, 2010 22:52:55 GMT
Sounds like one of the magical girls to me. =^-^=
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Post by Emily on Nov 17, 2010 22:52:58 GMT
I'm just there with my pencil going "obey the script dammit, you told Ally this was what you wanted!!!" and they're like "ooh but we'd only just woken up then, now we're hungry and we're going to make trouble," like bratty children.
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Post by NFFaerie on Nov 17, 2010 23:11:11 GMT
id love to read a comic where the main character does what a normal person would do... when something shadowy passes by what do you do? A) follow it like every other comic main character would do B) ignore it and continue ur life wouldnt be much of a hit though? lol
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Post by tangent on Nov 18, 2010 0:36:22 GMT
Unless the shadow turns around, snags the main character, and drags him/her into the adventure. =^-^=
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Post by NFFaerie on Nov 18, 2010 0:43:30 GMT
well thats another thing the reader will expect. he or she expects the shadow to be followed to to snag the main character
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Post by tangent on Nov 18, 2010 2:32:24 GMT
Besides. There are some of us who WOULD follow the shadow. Back six years ago now there was the Summer of Shadows, where my former roommate and I witnessed mobile shadows that moved and existed where shadows should not be. They were a blackness so deep they shimmered. And some of them could fly.
The closest I could describe them is the shadow-creatures from the movie Ghost (I think that's the one - the one with the sex scene that happens when the girl is at a potter's wheel). Though the Shadows from Babylon 5 (the ships) kind of looked like it as well in terms of coloration (a shimmering blackness).
On Midsummer's Eve, he and I also witnessed one other thing... something of tremendous beauty and joy. Faerie lights. I saw three... they were discs of light that hovered maybe an inch from the ground, but didn't illuminate their surroundings. When you looked at them you saw light. But the light was not something that interacted with the world around us. It was self-contained.
I've never seen the faerie lights again. That saddens me.
I've also not seen the shadows (with the exception of brief glimpses that might just be my imagination) since the Summer of Shadow. That I feel more ambiguous about... because there was a sense of something... Other about the Shadows.
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Post by Emily on Nov 18, 2010 9:13:22 GMT
ooh intruiging! I've never seen anything like that... though i swear I saw a Wallaby in the forest once. No one believed me... till we heard that some of the wallabys that roam loose at Whipsnade zoo had escaped. I mean we live a good 30 miles away... but it was at least possible.
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Post by NFFaerie on Nov 18, 2010 10:22:10 GMT
faerie lights... every person in my family has seen the faerie lights that can be seen at our cabin during the winter.... there are stories about them where i come from saying that if you look at it too long you will forget where you are and time will move without you... people say so.... but its just stories
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Post by stokerino on Nov 18, 2010 10:29:16 GMT
saying that if you look at it too long you will forget where you are and time will move without you... I've played computer games like that. :-p
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Post by Ally on Nov 18, 2010 21:45:53 GMT
id love to read a comic where the main character does what a normal person would do... when something shadowy passes by what do you do? A) follow it like every other comic main character would do B) ignore it and continue ur life wouldnt be much of a hit though? lol In my books, I try and make my protagonists act like real people would if they'd been yanked into another world...sadly that leads to me generally writing protagonists going through massive mental breakdowns. I've never really experienced anything supernatural - I often see shadows, figures or movement out of the corner of my eye, which stops when I look directly at it, but as it only ever happens when I'm very tired, I don't think it's anything but my brain telling me I need sleep.
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Post by NFFaerie on Nov 18, 2010 22:46:23 GMT
youd loose the intended audience though. id love to see a comic with the main character doing normal things on a routine but in the background of a place there could be medieval knights or elves or a faerie floating by her ear while theres a vampire or mermaid as her best friend yet its still based on her boring life and what she does. (i turned the main character to a girl appearently) those friends dont effect anything. id like to see a comic like that but i dont know if i would read it or like it. it has to grab the readers interest like...
footloose: faeries elves and magic newfoundland faerie: likes magic and supernatural with a kick of humor and sarcasm dialogues
they fit perfectly. this comic grabbed my attention exactly the same way when cassandra clares new book: clockwork angel came out
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Post by Emily on Nov 19, 2010 12:27:07 GMT
where did you first find us, by the way? lets us know what kind of advertising works best!
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Post by tangent on Nov 19, 2010 13:19:10 GMT
newfoundlandfaerie: You mean Blip, in other words. In which the main character doesn't realize she's God's butt-monkey (no destiny, so she's being forced to live a meaningless life so she doesn't disrupt everyone else's preordained destiny), and has best friends who are a witch, a vampire, and a cyborg... and she has no idea.
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