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chanter1944) wrote2006-11-16 11:30 pm
chanter1944) wrote2006-11-16 11:30 pm
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cider revelations and other stories
I should *really* have remembered that.
The number one rule about letting Wisconsin apple cider sit for any length of time.
cider. settles.
Ugh!
Fished out my old Arina story last night. I can't believe I actually kept the thing! That had to have been from 2000, maybe even earlier.
Several of the names are getting a shift-around--Ijilya to Ijilyar for consistency, since i-jila means something entirely different elsewhere in that universe, and Talor has Arini ancestry so it's likely he'd have a name ending in -ar, Dalamir to Dalamar since the original name is ruddy awful and again, Nellina has Arini in her, and a syllable scramble that makes Shanril's surname Luokwan and hints at his Asian Terran family. The ship is still the Morning Wanderer, though I'm highly tempted to only write in a single occupant at the beginning, as the sidekick for Solomon I dreamed up in high school is twenty thousand shades of a Mary Sue and not even sensible now. I *am* keeping some of the features I wrote her in as having and using them as the general description for Altairans, which explains why Talor's skin is so scarily fair. Might tweak Solomon as well, turn him into just another nosy possible colonist with an urge to find out about a place before he settles down--and that would make sense, given what happened on Alcor 3, never mind Sirius Secondary... though if I'm remembering the story arc right, the extent of the damage on Sirius Secondary wasn't known about until *after* Solomon helped the eight escape the Arini justice system. Come to think of it, I need to rewrite Sirius Secondary's story some time too, edit out most of the high school sophomore-ish idiocy and give a plausible reason for the memory loss suffered by the twenty-six surviving colonists, never mind the severe corruption of language. Alcor needs an overhaul one of these days itself, as does the drama taking place on and beneath Earth around the same time--ministers of youth, hypercapitalism that makes today's America look like a walk in the bleeping park, the rejection of all genetic carriers of abnormal abilities and the telepaths' retreat to Luna. Ooooh, could that tie in with the crash landing of the Marie Celeste just shy of the dark side of the moon? Depending on the range of any given telepath's abilities, and the limited technology left to either group between the crash and the scramble for survival, it's possible that neither one would know the other was there. The telepaths might catch a hint, but it's not as though any one of them would be in a position to do anything about a separate colony--they'd probably think that just about every human they might come into contact with was irrevocably biased against them and they'd be pretty close to right, between the virus specifically engineered to attack them and the rest of the physical/verbal persecution back home. And one way or another I'm going to need to tie Alwadi and Talja Nair into this and oh man, does this ever link straight into the lingual shifts Dr. Mercer brought up the other day! I'm still not sure how I got Talandor out of hell, but I have the general idea of the Nerian myth surrounding it--demons doomed to dwell in fire, but be unable to stand fire at the same time, even if I don't have the reasoning behind the name of their version of the fiery furnace. That might've just been a case of charlie saying something until her mouthwords made a pretty sound.
Uh, I'm shutting up now. Good gods, if anybody read all that I... don't know whether to be amazed or mortified.
The number one rule about letting Wisconsin apple cider sit for any length of time.
cider. settles.
Ugh!
Fished out my old Arina story last night. I can't believe I actually kept the thing! That had to have been from 2000, maybe even earlier.
Several of the names are getting a shift-around--Ijilya to Ijilyar for consistency, since i-jila means something entirely different elsewhere in that universe, and Talor has Arini ancestry so it's likely he'd have a name ending in -ar, Dalamir to Dalamar since the original name is ruddy awful and again, Nellina has Arini in her, and a syllable scramble that makes Shanril's surname Luokwan and hints at his Asian Terran family. The ship is still the Morning Wanderer, though I'm highly tempted to only write in a single occupant at the beginning, as the sidekick for Solomon I dreamed up in high school is twenty thousand shades of a Mary Sue and not even sensible now. I *am* keeping some of the features I wrote her in as having and using them as the general description for Altairans, which explains why Talor's skin is so scarily fair. Might tweak Solomon as well, turn him into just another nosy possible colonist with an urge to find out about a place before he settles down--and that would make sense, given what happened on Alcor 3, never mind Sirius Secondary... though if I'm remembering the story arc right, the extent of the damage on Sirius Secondary wasn't known about until *after* Solomon helped the eight escape the Arini justice system. Come to think of it, I need to rewrite Sirius Secondary's story some time too, edit out most of the high school sophomore-ish idiocy and give a plausible reason for the memory loss suffered by the twenty-six surviving colonists, never mind the severe corruption of language. Alcor needs an overhaul one of these days itself, as does the drama taking place on and beneath Earth around the same time--ministers of youth, hypercapitalism that makes today's America look like a walk in the bleeping park, the rejection of all genetic carriers of abnormal abilities and the telepaths' retreat to Luna. Ooooh, could that tie in with the crash landing of the Marie Celeste just shy of the dark side of the moon? Depending on the range of any given telepath's abilities, and the limited technology left to either group between the crash and the scramble for survival, it's possible that neither one would know the other was there. The telepaths might catch a hint, but it's not as though any one of them would be in a position to do anything about a separate colony--they'd probably think that just about every human they might come into contact with was irrevocably biased against them and they'd be pretty close to right, between the virus specifically engineered to attack them and the rest of the physical/verbal persecution back home. And one way or another I'm going to need to tie Alwadi and Talja Nair into this and oh man, does this ever link straight into the lingual shifts Dr. Mercer brought up the other day! I'm still not sure how I got Talandor out of hell, but I have the general idea of the Nerian myth surrounding it--demons doomed to dwell in fire, but be unable to stand fire at the same time, even if I don't have the reasoning behind the name of their version of the fiery furnace. That might've just been a case of charlie saying something until her mouthwords made a pretty sound.
Uh, I'm shutting up now. Good gods, if anybody read all that I... don't know whether to be amazed or mortified.
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