Post by C on Dec 28, 2009 17:44:40 GMT -5
name:
...I'm the C of many names. You can call me C.
nickname:
There are people who call me Ciri? And Jai calls me Little Monkey. Does that count?
age:
Fourteen years, almost five months.
location:
SPARTA the Internet, gluing captions to your cats Mexico.
occupation:
Student.
gender:
Vaguely female.
website:
friendslocked journal / writing journal (under construction)
appearance:
Pretty much this, except my hair's grown out and I wear different rings and more earrings now. Um. Text description: five foot four, shoulder-length brown hair, brown eyes for staring at people and creeping them out with, glasses usually (they're. pink. this is because of the government), four ear piercings total, small hands, huge feet. Probably carrying a book. May hit you with it, even.
hobbies:
Writing? Reading. I draw. And sing, and write songs every now and then except then I forget them. I like to memorize things! And I did aikido for more than a year, but recently quit, and was an honor guard geek for a year and a half until I graduated and my new school won't let me. Those are pretty much the things I talk about, though.
favorite books:
...You are not asking me to list them? *whimpers* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Truth, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Sandman series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Soul Music, Dune, His Dark Materials, Fahrenheit 451, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Ender's Game, Neverwhere, the Harry Potter series; and I just know once I hit post I'll remember something I could never have left off and oh gods I'm a horrible person, etc. etc.
favorite movies:
This one's easy! The Illusionist, MirrorMask, Across the Universe. And Repo! The Genetic Opera is trying to grow on me in the form of being stuck in my head constantly.
favorite tv shows:
Life on Mars (the BBC version).
favorite music:
You can shove pretty much anything at me and I'll probably be happy with it. For some inexplicable reason electronic and very, very acoustic (think Jack Johnson or less recent Suzanne Vega) are my favorite genres though.
favorite writing music:
My current writing playlist has Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, Nightwish, and Suzanne Vega. It's a pretty typical one.
about you:
I think I just did that. Miscellanea, then -- ninth-grader, geek, likes cats, has wrist problems, I think we mentioned the myopia, is a perfectionist, wants to be a copyeditor, has people in her head. That's about it.
current novel title:
Um... January I'm working on Cause and ifupdown. I've got a CAU summary lying around. Let's talk about CAU.
current novel genre:
Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / What Is This I Don't Even
current novel summary:
CAU:In this alternate universe (there are characters from pretty much every story, and ones from the same story that should never have met), there's only three worlds -- Black and White, which contain the universe's magic balanced between, respectively, advanced and dystopic versus almost mediveal levels of technology, and Colorless, ours, a sink for everything else and magicless.
There are, however, those who want to change that: the so-called Organization or Org, aiming to get magic into Colorless and keep the worlds separate at the same time; the Ant, or Antimagic, who want to destroy magic altogether, bringing all three worlds down to an equal footing; the Re'idal, who want to link the worlds closer together, despite that this could cripple or destroy Colorless itself, which seems to have been intended to serve as a nexus; and a splinter faction of the Re'idal and Ant, who are trying to keep everything the way it should be -- no or little magic in Colorless, travel from Black to White or White to Black an impossibility, and even travel from other worlds through Colorless closed off.
If there's only three worlds, though, what's with the Epikastes of Re'idal, from a world that's not Black or White? What about Ilse, a member of the Org and something that no one recognizes, usually dismissed as obviously from one of the two worlds the speaker isn't from?
Oh, and while factions are being listed, how about the Jamestown Institute -- a government-sponsored project disguised as a town, which started as an attempt to create androids with true artificial intelligence and has now branched out since all prototypes displayed telepathy.
On the side of the Org are Cat Hydan, who possesses one of the rarest magical abilities in the world: being able to travel from one world to another by way of a blood sacrifice, and even to take others with her; and Case, a telepath with an uncanny resemblance to Cat who would follow her to the ends of the Earth (and has followed her farther). But there's a new menace for which they may have to forget their missions and even Cat's vendetta against her extremely dangerous and somewhat sociopathic older brother: a more powerful telepath than Case which seems to be trying to destroy all four sides.
current novel excerpt:
Cat looked curiously at the book Case had planted on the kitchen table. “So... how’s that going for you?” she asked, offhand, awkward.
“S’okay,” Case replied around a pen she was holding with her teeth for some reason, presumably because her hands were occupied and feet in shoes. She frowned—at least, considering the pen, it looked like that was what she was doing—and turned a page quickly, scanned it, set the book down and spit out what actually proved to have been a marker all along. One of her sleeves was rolled up, the forearm covered with notes in supposedly permanent maroon ink. “I don’t see why it’s scary but the xenobiology could be fun.”
“Biology of things like the stillborn zombie children of a bicycle and a bat and a bucket of dead octopus... sses? Dead octopusses? Octopi? Those things.”
“No, silly,” the telepath grinned. She seemed oddly bright today, skin pink (and not just from the marker), eyes catching more light than usual. “The flowerpot starfish umbrella things, they’re the interesting-looking ones. The bucket-bat-bike things are sort of a silly idea, do they really scare people?”
Shrugging, Cat said, “I don’t know, I think so sometimes. They’ve mostly gone memetic now, but they break people and stuff.” By now she’d pulled up a chair and was thus able to stop looking down weirdly at Case, that was nice.
The Case in question considered this for a moment. “Right, guess that would scare people. But as soon as they start being tentacles and eyes and bicycle, it doesn’t touch me. I think...” She looked gravely at her folded, mismatched hands, one gloved, one covered in notes. “I think monsters don’t scare me if they’re not people-shaped, because then I couldn’t know.” Looking up brightly, she added, “Anyway, I can break people too, so who am I to judge things that do it by existing and stuff?”
Cat was starting to get the edge of a suspicion and she grabbed the edge of the table quite hard, saw Case frown at the secondhand pressure on half a dozen scabbed-over cuts. “So, Case,” she said, voice light but too slow. “What exactly happened while I was gone?”
Case locked her fingers behind her neck so as not to look at them and set her eyes on the ceiling. “You see, there was this boy who tried to touch me...”
current novel cover:
I don't have one.
current word count:
...What is this I don't even. See, this is the downside of keeping docs by month... I've been writing it since May, though, so I'd say... um... at least 20k?
word goal:
Finished, and backstories, and stuff. If I put it all together in one document it would be nice to see something between 100 and 150k, but the story itself's likely shorter.
future plans for 6Mo, 6No:
Six months! Since I'm kind of doing them anyway. 300k would be nice. I've got novels planned out, no idea what I'm going to be working on -- okay, that's a lie, I have some focuses planned, like CAU and ifupdown January, and FLW in March, and INM in May. And Terrible Things in December, probably. Other than that, no idea.
are you published?:
Online -- most of my stuff's on my author tag at RaTs. Since the board doesn't like that URL format: community.livejournal.com/tag/[author]+c
...I'm the C of many names. You can call me C.
nickname:
There are people who call me Ciri? And Jai calls me Little Monkey. Does that count?
age:
Fourteen years, almost five months.
location:
occupation:
Student.
gender:
Vaguely female.
website:
friendslocked journal / writing journal (under construction)
appearance:
Pretty much this, except my hair's grown out and I wear different rings and more earrings now. Um. Text description: five foot four, shoulder-length brown hair, brown eyes for staring at people and creeping them out with, glasses usually (they're. pink. this is because of the government), four ear piercings total, small hands, huge feet. Probably carrying a book. May hit you with it, even.
hobbies:
Writing? Reading. I draw. And sing, and write songs every now and then except then I forget them. I like to memorize things! And I did aikido for more than a year, but recently quit, and was an honor guard geek for a year and a half until I graduated and my new school won't let me. Those are pretty much the things I talk about, though.
favorite books:
...You are not asking me to list them? *whimpers* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Truth, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Sandman series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Soul Music, Dune, His Dark Materials, Fahrenheit 451, Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, Ender's Game, Neverwhere, the Harry Potter series; and I just know once I hit post I'll remember something I could never have left off and oh gods I'm a horrible person, etc. etc.
favorite movies:
This one's easy! The Illusionist, MirrorMask, Across the Universe. And Repo! The Genetic Opera is trying to grow on me in the form of being stuck in my head constantly.
favorite tv shows:
Life on Mars (the BBC version).
favorite music:
You can shove pretty much anything at me and I'll probably be happy with it. For some inexplicable reason electronic and very, very acoustic (think Jack Johnson or less recent Suzanne Vega) are my favorite genres though.
favorite writing music:
My current writing playlist has Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, Nightwish, and Suzanne Vega. It's a pretty typical one.
about you:
I think I just did that. Miscellanea, then -- ninth-grader, geek, likes cats, has wrist problems, I think we mentioned the myopia, is a perfectionist, wants to be a copyeditor, has people in her head. That's about it.
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current novel title:
Um... January I'm working on Cause and ifupdown. I've got a CAU summary lying around. Let's talk about CAU.
current novel genre:
Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / What Is This I Don't Even
current novel summary:
CAU:In this alternate universe (there are characters from pretty much every story, and ones from the same story that should never have met), there's only three worlds -- Black and White, which contain the universe's magic balanced between, respectively, advanced and dystopic versus almost mediveal levels of technology, and Colorless, ours, a sink for everything else and magicless.
There are, however, those who want to change that: the so-called Organization or Org, aiming to get magic into Colorless and keep the worlds separate at the same time; the Ant, or Antimagic, who want to destroy magic altogether, bringing all three worlds down to an equal footing; the Re'idal, who want to link the worlds closer together, despite that this could cripple or destroy Colorless itself, which seems to have been intended to serve as a nexus; and a splinter faction of the Re'idal and Ant, who are trying to keep everything the way it should be -- no or little magic in Colorless, travel from Black to White or White to Black an impossibility, and even travel from other worlds through Colorless closed off.
If there's only three worlds, though, what's with the Epikastes of Re'idal, from a world that's not Black or White? What about Ilse, a member of the Org and something that no one recognizes, usually dismissed as obviously from one of the two worlds the speaker isn't from?
Oh, and while factions are being listed, how about the Jamestown Institute -- a government-sponsored project disguised as a town, which started as an attempt to create androids with true artificial intelligence and has now branched out since all prototypes displayed telepathy.
On the side of the Org are Cat Hydan, who possesses one of the rarest magical abilities in the world: being able to travel from one world to another by way of a blood sacrifice, and even to take others with her; and Case, a telepath with an uncanny resemblance to Cat who would follow her to the ends of the Earth (and has followed her farther). But there's a new menace for which they may have to forget their missions and even Cat's vendetta against her extremely dangerous and somewhat sociopathic older brother: a more powerful telepath than Case which seems to be trying to destroy all four sides.
current novel excerpt:
Cat looked curiously at the book Case had planted on the kitchen table. “So... how’s that going for you?” she asked, offhand, awkward.
“S’okay,” Case replied around a pen she was holding with her teeth for some reason, presumably because her hands were occupied and feet in shoes. She frowned—at least, considering the pen, it looked like that was what she was doing—and turned a page quickly, scanned it, set the book down and spit out what actually proved to have been a marker all along. One of her sleeves was rolled up, the forearm covered with notes in supposedly permanent maroon ink. “I don’t see why it’s scary but the xenobiology could be fun.”
“Biology of things like the stillborn zombie children of a bicycle and a bat and a bucket of dead octopus... sses? Dead octopusses? Octopi? Those things.”
“No, silly,” the telepath grinned. She seemed oddly bright today, skin pink (and not just from the marker), eyes catching more light than usual. “The flowerpot starfish umbrella things, they’re the interesting-looking ones. The bucket-bat-bike things are sort of a silly idea, do they really scare people?”
Shrugging, Cat said, “I don’t know, I think so sometimes. They’ve mostly gone memetic now, but they break people and stuff.” By now she’d pulled up a chair and was thus able to stop looking down weirdly at Case, that was nice.
The Case in question considered this for a moment. “Right, guess that would scare people. But as soon as they start being tentacles and eyes and bicycle, it doesn’t touch me. I think...” She looked gravely at her folded, mismatched hands, one gloved, one covered in notes. “I think monsters don’t scare me if they’re not people-shaped, because then I couldn’t know.” Looking up brightly, she added, “Anyway, I can break people too, so who am I to judge things that do it by existing and stuff?”
Cat was starting to get the edge of a suspicion and she grabbed the edge of the table quite hard, saw Case frown at the secondhand pressure on half a dozen scabbed-over cuts. “So, Case,” she said, voice light but too slow. “What exactly happened while I was gone?”
Case locked her fingers behind her neck so as not to look at them and set her eyes on the ceiling. “You see, there was this boy who tried to touch me...”
current novel cover:
I don't have one.
current word count:
...What is this I don't even. See, this is the downside of keeping docs by month... I've been writing it since May, though, so I'd say... um... at least 20k?
word goal:
Finished, and backstories, and stuff. If I put it all together in one document it would be nice to see something between 100 and 150k, but the story itself's likely shorter.
future plans for 6Mo, 6No:
Six months! Since I'm kind of doing them anyway. 300k would be nice. I've got novels planned out, no idea what I'm going to be working on -- okay, that's a lie, I have some focuses planned, like CAU and ifupdown January, and FLW in March, and INM in May. And Terrible Things in December, probably. Other than that, no idea.
are you published?:
Online -- most of my stuff's on my author tag at RaTs. Since the board doesn't like that URL format: community.livejournal.com/tag/[author]+c
Are you going to be incorporating your RaTs into the novel goals to try and finish up some flavors? I think I might. I still have Vanilla and Strawberry and Cayenne to finish. D:
(That aside, though, bookshelves shared through spacetime would be so awesome I can't even say. And also are being a vague plotbunny. Whyyy did you do this to me?) 