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squeemu: Writing original fiction vs. fanfiction.

Heh... I haven't done as much of either this year. Mostly it's been math. Still, I tend to have the same approach, start with a handful of ideas and a few plans and flesh it out as I go.
The main difference is worldbuilding. With original fiction - at least with NaNoWriMo, which is where most of it has come from for me - I'm basically doing everything on the fly. So the worldbuilding doesn't really start coming together until the third or fourth draft, if ever I get that far. Sometimes that might not matter, but most of the time it does. That's why I can write and post fanfiction so quickly, but original fiction comes slowly to me.

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thebaconfat: Favorite book or movie of the year.

I'm going with movies, because all of the books I had time to read were textbooks. And all of the movies I saw in theaters were Marvel, if memory serves, because I went with my partner. (I'm not big on movie theaters. I prefer to wait until they get released on DVD and watch them with captions.)

So out of those films I probably most preferred Captain America: The Winter Soldier, because Steve (in his own movies, not so much in The Avengers) is so much fun. He's a bit out of his element but he's dealing with it, he's making lists of things people tell him he needs to see, he constantly cracks jokes, and yet he's still a respectful guy who doesn't treat others like crud in the name of humor, which is why he ended up surrounded by such awesome people and made so many allies. I liked Guardians of the Galaxy, but it did some things that really ticked me off ("I'm sorry, I forgot you were there!"? Wat.) And the X-Men films have always been hit-or-miss for me.

squeemu asked me which characters I have identified with the most in the past.

Out of all the characters I've encountered, the one I've identified with the most in the past was probably Bernard Marx from Brave New World. It might not be the most flattering comparison, but it's the one that hit me the hardest - he's an ordinary man who's smart, doesn't quite fit into his world, but wants so badly to be a part of it that he'll do anything, while at the same time seeing all of the problems with it and still wanting to be able to criticize it. Sounds a lot like me, in high school at least. XD

After that... hmm. I'm not entirely sure of anything more recent. I've been told that I'm a lot like Yuna (FFX) but I'm having trouble really seeing it.

Whew. It's been crazy, but now finals are over and I have a chance to rest and catch up.

On a side note, I want a Squishable Sea Pig. So silly and cute.

( Talking a bit about music. )

Went out for dinner in mid-post, ended up crashing afterwards. It was a good evening.

Anyway, squeemu asked me about pets - whether or not I have one, whether or not I want one. I do not currently have a pet. We don't have the time, room or energy for one right now; besides, we can't have a dog while we're living where we are now. We could have a cat, but I seem to have developed a severe cat allergy and can't be around one for more than an hour without regretting it for days after. It's a shame, because if the allergy wasn't an issue, I'd love to have a cat someday; I grew up with both dogs and cats and I love them both.

I am still hoping to have a dog someday. I don't have any preference for what kind of dog we'd get; all I would ask is that we adopt from a shelter or an organization that takes care of abandoned dogs, because I don't want to support the breeding and sale of purebred dogs. We'll probably end up getting a medium-sized dog or larger; if we ever do decide to foster/adopt an abandoned purebred dog, my partner would probably push for a pug or a shar-pei. I'd just as soon have a mutt, myself.

(Side note: My partner used to joke about getting a pet raccoon if we ever have a house of our own, but has since rethought that decision. It's for the best. They're adorable, but very destructive.)

12/10: Best fandom ever. Asked by yohjideranged.

(Rambling)

Talking about my past attempts at running communities, fannish or otherwise.

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(I just got home from a party; it's still Saturday for me. ;p )

12/6: Themes that appeal to me while writing. (mako_lies)

Let me see if I can put a few words to this.

( A few things I like to write about )

Day 4 - yohjideranged asked me about fictional villains I like to write about.

(Here you go.)

This took a lot of thought. Like everything else relating to what I want, it's hard for me to think of these things on the spot, so this might be added to throughout the day.

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Apparently I tried to do something similar to the December thing a few years ago. I had completely forgotten. *adds some of those ideas that I didn't get last time to the list, in case I don't get many requests this year*
(...but yeah, feel free to request topics.)

Currently sitting and doing physics homework. I'm on the last question, and it is by far the hardest one, because I hate torque so much. Rotational dynamics are the one thing from last year's class that I just didn't get. (This year, so far, it's electric potential. It would have helped if I had learned about vector fields earlier in calculus, though. I think I could've made more sense of it if I'd known how the fields and the potential zones meant, mathematically.) But if he's going to be asking questions about torque and magnetism, I'm going to have to go back and look at it some more. Maybe see if I can get some tutoring.

In unrelated news, apparently hippos are the new cats. The worst cats, even. (It's just ridiculous enough for me to find adorable. And it doesn't help that I like baby hippos.)