Transcriptions from hell - part 1
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bending_sickle(This is me re-typing my two back-dated entries because both the floppy and the wireless internet hate me.)
Title: My cartridge fell out of my gun"
Written: March 12, 2006
Ah, Nathan, you funny little man you.
And why do I start this post with NFillion? Because I told mom about the difficulties of finding a remoteley satisfying copy of Serenity and how brother offered to buy if for me off of amazon.co.uk and she said she´d buy it for me.
Which is absolutely great, because I know my brother would possibly take ages to deliver on his promise (I´ve been expecting him to come visist since December, for example.)
On the other hand, I´m a bit worried that my brother will be upset because he was the one who was going to get me this present and feel betrayed or somesuch that I turned to my parents.
Then I slap myself because my brother isn´t that type of person.
He´d probably say, "oh, cool, now I don´t have to worry about it. whew".
I spent the day writing the beginning of the "Jayne at the brothel scene". I´m a bit worried about it because the way I set it up, Jayne doesn´t step into some bar-ish house and frolic drunkenly with women before hauling one upstairs.
(Edit: Never, repeat, never, imagine Jayne frolicking.)
Also, I seem to have trouble writting scenes with many people in them.
And then there´s description and its lack.. Need more description. *le sigh*
And names. Oh gods, the names. I have to name the pimp, and the whores, and I just can´t come up with anything. I found adequate names for the gun-trafficker and another gun model via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metaquotes entires (Robespierre and Delcat 52 respectively) but having no luck with people names.
(Edit: Because gun-traffickers aren´t people, obviously...?)
Am somewhat disturbed, however, that I can name so many parts of a gun. Upset, too, that I can´t come up with a visible modification to a hand-pistol that would be cool. So far, I´ve got "longer handle". Hot damn. Suggestions? (Although if one of you turns out to be extremely knowledgeable about guns, I might be concerned.)
I´ve typed out some fo today´s work, and am delighted to announce the addition for 533 words to the Jayne-fic. Which needs a name. And a well-defined plot-point.
Granted, I finally came up with a decent title* for my Planet of the Apes (2000) fic four years after I started it.
That fic´s so totally on the backburner, as is "Hero´s Manual". It´s frustrating how slow I write, because there´s a whole stack of half-done stories and scribbles I want to put together. (Edit: It doesn´t help that some of the longer texts need a complete overhaul. Oy.)
I´ve got a few quotes I want to work into the Jayne´fic, wondering if maybe in the character-centric chapters I might want to title them with the quote that defines said character. *squints* Yeah, that made sense. But since I won´t be doing that every chapter, I´m not sure. Plus it sort of defines the scene and creates expectation in the reader. I really like it when other pleople do it, though.
E.E.Cummings**, however, has a reserved seat in various yet-to-be-written chapters, as part of a dialogue. Because there´s something about Cummings that makes him pefect for crazy-girl dialogue.
Today I got smacked upside the head with a thought: I could totally twist the "Late-night call" drabble into a Simon&River scene. (Not, note, a Simon/River. That´s not going in this fic. This would be a simple "don´t give up" comfort scene.) It so works, too. (Unless y´all think it sucked donkey and has no hopes of being fixed. In which case...I will ignore you.)
I likewise got smacked with another idea for a cameo-character which might result in adding background infor about the ´verse and about Jayne. Especially as I´d mention a few things of Jayne´s past this character would be aware of.***
Must, however, investigate about Chinese colour symbolism.
Edit: Done and done.
Been thinking of using clips from the R.Tam Sessions****, Neil Gaiman readings, and Monty Python, amongst others, as material for my conversation class. Think that would be cool.
Been also thinking about the Star Wars (Darth Maul)/Firefly crossover. I think he´d kill them all and take the ship. Probably too fast for any sort of fic from the crew´s pov. If I stretched it out a bit, maybe he could toy with River a bit, ´cause of the whole Reader/Force-sensitive parallel. He´d scare the shit out of Reaver-shy***** Jayne******, though.
...and that scene alone might make me want to write this.
Oh, yes...
o.0
I just realized that River kicks Reaver ass and that, my dears, makes this non-existant fic all the more awesome.
PS: Totally need to find a way to put footnote numbers instead of this ridiculous amount of asterisks.
* "Degrees of Freedom"
** Don´t give me that crap about it being ee cummings. He signed his name with capital letters.
*** It would also be an excuse to quote "The Ballad of Jayne", aka "The Hero of canton". (A song made 100% more adorable because of the "Firefly" easter egg of Adam Baldwin singing it.)
**** Not Session 165 where she´s rambling on about mattresses because "the mattress can´t be trusted, it has to be gutted."
*is in bed*
*eeep*
Why can´t I trust my sweet (yet uncomfortable) foam mattress named Zem (as all mattresses are, according to the Hitchhicker´s Guide to the Galazy).
But seriously, folks, watch, the sessions.
Here´s an icon to serve as a trailer:
by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elizalavelle
Session 165, as mentioned, might just scar you a little.
***** Reavers are a bit like really fast sombies, reportedly enjoying the raping to the death of, eating flesh of and flaying skin of their victims. (They´re homely, though, because they make clothes out of the flayed skin.) People they really like get it done in that order.
****** But not Cappy Mal. Mal´d be cool. ´Cause he´s cool.
Title: My cartridge fell out of my gun"
Written: March 12, 2006
Ah, Nathan, you funny little man you.
And why do I start this post with NFillion? Because I told mom about the difficulties of finding a remoteley satisfying copy of Serenity and how brother offered to buy if for me off of amazon.co.uk and she said she´d buy it for me.
Which is absolutely great, because I know my brother would possibly take ages to deliver on his promise (I´ve been expecting him to come visist since December, for example.)
On the other hand, I´m a bit worried that my brother will be upset because he was the one who was going to get me this present and feel betrayed or somesuch that I turned to my parents.
Then I slap myself because my brother isn´t that type of person.
He´d probably say, "oh, cool, now I don´t have to worry about it. whew".
I spent the day writing the beginning of the "Jayne at the brothel scene". I´m a bit worried about it because the way I set it up, Jayne doesn´t step into some bar-ish house and frolic drunkenly with women before hauling one upstairs.
(Edit: Never, repeat, never, imagine Jayne frolicking.)
Also, I seem to have trouble writting scenes with many people in them.
And then there´s description and its lack.. Need more description. *le sigh*
And names. Oh gods, the names. I have to name the pimp, and the whores, and I just can´t come up with anything. I found adequate names for the gun-trafficker and another gun model via
metaquotes entires (Robespierre and Delcat 52 respectively) but having no luck with people names.(Edit: Because gun-traffickers aren´t people, obviously...?)
Am somewhat disturbed, however, that I can name so many parts of a gun. Upset, too, that I can´t come up with a visible modification to a hand-pistol that would be cool. So far, I´ve got "longer handle". Hot damn. Suggestions? (Although if one of you turns out to be extremely knowledgeable about guns, I might be concerned.)
I´ve typed out some fo today´s work, and am delighted to announce the addition for 533 words to the Jayne-fic. Which needs a name. And a well-defined plot-point.
Granted, I finally came up with a decent title* for my Planet of the Apes (2000) fic four years after I started it.
That fic´s so totally on the backburner, as is "Hero´s Manual". It´s frustrating how slow I write, because there´s a whole stack of half-done stories and scribbles I want to put together. (Edit: It doesn´t help that some of the longer texts need a complete overhaul. Oy.)
I´ve got a few quotes I want to work into the Jayne´fic, wondering if maybe in the character-centric chapters I might want to title them with the quote that defines said character. *squints* Yeah, that made sense. But since I won´t be doing that every chapter, I´m not sure. Plus it sort of defines the scene and creates expectation in the reader. I really like it when other pleople do it, though.
E.E.Cummings**, however, has a reserved seat in various yet-to-be-written chapters, as part of a dialogue. Because there´s something about Cummings that makes him pefect for crazy-girl dialogue.
Today I got smacked upside the head with a thought: I could totally twist the "Late-night call" drabble into a Simon&River scene. (Not, note, a Simon/River. That´s not going in this fic. This would be a simple "don´t give up" comfort scene.) It so works, too. (Unless y´all think it sucked donkey and has no hopes of being fixed. In which case...I will ignore you.)
I likewise got smacked with another idea for a cameo-character which might result in adding background infor about the ´verse and about Jayne. Especially as I´d mention a few things of Jayne´s past this character would be aware of.***
Must, however, investigate about Chinese colour symbolism.
Edit: Done and done.
Been thinking of using clips from the R.Tam Sessions****, Neil Gaiman readings, and Monty Python, amongst others, as material for my conversation class. Think that would be cool.
Been also thinking about the Star Wars (Darth Maul)/Firefly crossover. I think he´d kill them all and take the ship. Probably too fast for any sort of fic from the crew´s pov. If I stretched it out a bit, maybe he could toy with River a bit, ´cause of the whole Reader/Force-sensitive parallel. He´d scare the shit out of Reaver-shy***** Jayne******, though.
...and that scene alone might make me want to write this.
Oh, yes...
o.0
I just realized that River kicks Reaver ass and that, my dears, makes this non-existant fic all the more awesome.
PS: Totally need to find a way to put footnote numbers instead of this ridiculous amount of asterisks.
* "Degrees of Freedom"
** Don´t give me that crap about it being ee cummings. He signed his name with capital letters.
*** It would also be an excuse to quote "The Ballad of Jayne", aka "The Hero of canton". (A song made 100% more adorable because of the "Firefly" easter egg of Adam Baldwin singing it.)
**** Not Session 165 where she´s rambling on about mattresses because "the mattress can´t be trusted, it has to be gutted."
*is in bed*
*eeep*
Why can´t I trust my sweet (yet uncomfortable) foam mattress named Zem (as all mattresses are, according to the Hitchhicker´s Guide to the Galazy).
But seriously, folks, watch, the sessions.
Here´s an icon to serve as a trailer:
by
elizalavelleSession 165, as mentioned, might just scar you a little.
***** Reavers are a bit like really fast sombies, reportedly enjoying the raping to the death of, eating flesh of and flaying skin of their victims. (They´re homely, though, because they make clothes out of the flayed skin.) People they really like get it done in that order.
****** But not Cappy Mal. Mal´d be cool. ´Cause he´s cool.
