djanewty

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:17:26 GMT

Okay guys, PB challenge time!

Point me towards someone who looks like an Indonesian were-nightjar.

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:38:54 GMT

Awright, awright, I'm bored. And taking a meme from Snapple:

MEME, requiring input

1) Make a list of 10 characters.
2) Assign each character a number.
3) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them. (IE: "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?" (The more random the better!)
4) Post the answers and who was who on the list.

(These are gonna be a mix of fandom characters and characters I've RPed, because.)

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:22:06 GMT

So, yeah, I'm pretty grossed out by the weird corporate-speak about informed thought leaders, etc., and I'm not gonna spend any more money on LJ. This doesn't mean a heck of a lot for anyone but me and vivian_shaw, though: I'm keeping most of my journals here as active as they've been. They'll just lose a lot of icons when the paid stuff runs out.

I just really, really wish InsaneJournal didn't have that grating ~Woo! Tee-hee! Insanity!~ shtick going on. It really pisses me off. Seriously. A lot. Unfortunately, by and large I've heard IJ works better than GreatestJournal.

Meh.

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:36:31 GMT

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:39:33 GMT

I have vague memories of this thing I used to do where I'd, like, go online and feel energy and enthusiasm for RPing my characters in public places.

:/

Yeah.

Meme from everyone

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:59:54 GMT

I have an assortment of pups! They include:

secretarybird - Djehuty
thutmosis - Djehutymes
strong_one - Set
mr_tetu - Mr. Tetu (See how clever my usernames are?)
indivar - Indivar Herron (See? See?)
ishmael_herron - Ishmael Herron (My cleverness it is uncanny.)
francis_varney - Francis Varney (Okay, you get the point.)
the_boat - Boat
ocktypus - Octopus marginatus, who's probably just hiding in a coconut shell and perfecting his scheme to take over the world.
nexus_gnome - Toshiro
eldritchinfirmi - an assortment of ghouls, mummies, banshees, bogeymen, etc.
Other pups that I'm forgetting but that you can ask about too.

Ask the pups questions, behind the 4th wall, of course. Whether IC or OOC, they have to answer. You can ask the mun questions too! What the heck!

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:58:15 GMT

For purposes of RP, it will be nice when I am not covering one and a half other people's hours in addition to my own, so that I can be online for large portions of most days. This should be the case soon.

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:43:23 GMT

Egyptian fruit bats at play!

...sure it's RP related. Djehuty has fruit bats. >_>

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:09:12 GMT

Wheeee! I will be offline for a bunch of next week, going to look at Finger Lakes and beautiful Upstate New York in general. It is a vacation! A road trip, even! :O

Aw, jeez, peer pressure.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:23:19 GMT

1. Who are you?
2. Yay! How long have we been RPing together?
3. What was your first impression about our RPs? (IE, were you nervous, intimidated, disappointed, impressed, amused, annoyed?)
4. First characters we played together?
5. Most amusing scene from one of our RPs?
6. Most depressing?
7. Sappiest/most romantic?
8. Cutest couple from our RPs?
9. Cutest friends?
10. What's your favorite character that I play? Why?
11. Least favorite? Why?
12. Something you'd like to RP/see happen in an RP with me at some point (no matter how random!)?
13. Name a song that reminds you of one of our couples/one of my characters and why you chose it.
14. Anything in particular that makes my style of RPing stand out from others'?
15. Anything I could improve on? (Dude, please answer this. There's a lot I know I should work on.)
16. Character of mine you'd like to see more of?

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:07:23 GMT

I'm away to the Boston area for a couple of weeks, and expecting patchy internet access, of the sharing-computer-with-my-dad sort.

Picspam

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:17:24 GMT

So I was poking around the internet, trying to find more good images of Set (surprisingly hard to do) and discovered a really, really beautiful ibis figurine. I'm inflicting it on you all, under a cut. Not much information about provenance; 6th-4th century BC.

Innit pretty?

Check out the lovely details on the head:

Boring ruminations about potential characters, with a word-usage digression.

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:58:08 GMT

Eh, so. Yeah. There was someone all invoky on the Egyptian pantheon, and I dusted off Set, who's been mostly messing around in frivolous AU-land, etc. And of course I was all thinky. Blah blah blah.

Some mythological characters it would be cool to play (or even cooler to see played well):

Horus: Dude, Horus the younger has such potential. Excellent storyline: raised in hiding, pretender¹ to the throne, must avenge father's wrongful death and grow to take his place, embodiment of political order and kingship. Plus, damn, you have the potential for some beautiful icons, with falcons and statues of kings. I think sometimes about playing him myself, but he'd run the risk of blurring too much with Djehutymes. Also, there gets to be a point where it's really hard to keep avoiding having my characters interact with each other, and there's no way that Djehuty and Set would both ignore Horus.

Isis: I am not, generally, very interested in mother goddesses. Consuming passion directed at a person--child, lover, what have you--doesn't usually speak to me as a character trait, although I know it's a big one for plenty of writers; maternal tenderness towards all of mankind, which is what Isis moved towards over time, also doesn't to me make for a lot of character interest. But, that said, I feel like someone could make a lot out of Isis for writing or RP purposes. She has some moments of remarkably cold and steely ambition--poisoning Re to coerce him into revealing his powerful secret name, for instance. Impregnating yourself by the dead king makes an interesting power play. She's "cleverer than millions of gods," she nips around in disguise, she's cool.

Hephaistos: See, I think about things other than Egyptian religion! Really! Anyway, Hephaistos hangs out in his workshop and makes robots. What more do you want for Nexus play? He makes golden women, gold and silver watchdogs, bronze fire-breathing bulls, brass and iron horses. He also makes divine jewelry, weapons, and chains. Furthermore, he has a complicated family life, with being despised by his mother and married to a prodigiously unfaithful wife. He hangs out with satyrs and cyclopes--and his beautiful golden robot girls. Anyhow. I feel like he would upgrade well into modern-time RP. Weird ugly brilliant inventor guy.

Wepwawet: Okay, mostly I just like saying Wepwawet. Anyway, he's the Opener of Ways, another Egyptian canine-headed god--described in one book as "a kind of celestial guide dog"--who mostly helps the dead get to where they're going. Even though he probably doesn't do much psychopomping these days, I have this image of him going off and doing sort of Aragorn-Ranger type stuff. He could make a fun minor character: nice visuals, interesting providence, lots of room to interpret a personality.

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¹ In the older, neutral sense of the word, without implying any falseness to the claim. Hee. This word has been a pet peeve of my brother's, so I finally looked up what the OED says. Modern usage is almost entirely in terms of a false claimant to a position, but I'm gonna have a moment of sisterly solidarity and use the old-school meaning.

Um, yeah.

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:57:36 GMT

So. Until my computer is happier, I pretty much am nnnnot going to be online a whole lot. I am filled with meh.

Bridgie, I think maybe the Djmes-and-Courtney birthday hanging-out just isn't meant to be. :/
PrIME folks, y'all can go ahead and process apps and what-not without me. (Don't wait for me--I'll just slow you down. *coughs blood, wipes dramatic grit from face*)

Meh, I say.

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:40:37 GMT

On the off chance that I ever post in BRPS, some things I will remember to avoid. Like unto the plague. These are things that bug me. (Note that I still go to BRPS at least once a day and fret over drama. Because I am a hypocrite.)

1. TL; DR. If the suck can't be explained in one or two quick paragraphs, it's probably open to a dozen interpretations, at least half of which aren't worth bitching someone out for. Likewise, if it can't be explained to my non-LJ-RPing husband without elaborate backstory, I need to tell myself it's probably just internecine (inter-Nexine?) wank.

2. "Your friends." This phrase sets off all my Kali alarm-chimes. I was kind of amused when she told me that "you and yours" were all wanktastic. (I have a yours? Holy shit! I had no idea! Here I thought I only talked to, like, two or three people on IM or IRC. I must be cool! Or wait, maybe she means my pets...? Because goddammit, if Pinto has been getting out of his cage to cause internet drama on my computer, I'ma gonna be pissed. BAD PARROT.) Seriously, though, it is a lame phrase. It usually comes across to me as "I don't know who exactly I'm mad at, but you seem to RP with a bunch of people and I know you talk to some of them OOC and have in-jokes." It's a fabulous way to maximize drama, since instead of a rant about one person, it's now a rant about a dozen or more people!

3. Complaining about people that I still play with but haven't talked to about my irritation. All questions of being-a-grown-up and if-it-bugs-me-so-much-why-haven't-I-said-so-before aside, that's just asking for a lot of "look, dumbass" comments.

4. "I'm just venting," following a post written in a letter format loaded with insults and rhetorical questions. Also, "I love you dearly, but...." posts.

5. Self-conscious references to the letter format. >_> Old meme.

6. Unnecessary references to the kind of sex that's going on. If it's the frequency and publicity of sex that's annoying, does it really matter if it's gay, straight, poly, kinky, unrealistic, boring, poorly-spelled, unsafe, etc? And if that is the problem--which it could well be; there's things that do squick me--then it's probably a good idea to have the honesty to say so and get right to that problem. It just bugs me when someone says "I'm sick of all the gay sex that's happening here," and then seems annoyed when people respond as though the complaint is about the gayness of the sex and starts saying in comments "well, what I really meant was...."

7. Pretty much, just posting in the first place. But hey, like I said, I read BRPS every day, so it's absurd to complain about posting there.

8. Failure to proof-read and spell-check.

9. Posting before 10 AM or after 9 PM. After about ten in the morning I get way less irritable about Internet Drama. And after nine my brain cells start flying home to their night-time perches. And bats come out, and there's the soft whisper of the wind in the pine trees, and small white moths appear suddenly as ghosts in the dim light from the living-room window...Oh. Wait, no, that's sitting outside at night in the summer. D'oh.

10. There should be a number ten. How about...eh. Trying to tell myself or anyone else that a post "isn't about anything in particular that's just happened."

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:26:00 GMT

Okay, I don't know to what extent I'll be able to be around online; my computer has picked up some incredibly persistent malware and wrestling with it is...sucking and my computer in general is sucking and I am about ready to kill things.

Not a happy camper here.

Signs of the apocalypse!

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:54:25 GMT

Well, not really. But I seem to have been dreaming about LJ last night. Snapple had deleted allican_take's account, and Hippolyta had a new PB.

Fri, 18 May 2007 00:17:03 GMT

I will have more Djehutymes icons soon, hopefully! I rented the movie from which most of his current ones come, and am very pleased.

It's that meme! :D

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:03:53 GMT

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:56:26 GMT

Hey, you know what would have been nice last night?

Getting any comment notifications at all! That would have been nice!

Character development, lol

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:59:59 GMT

Sooo, for some strange reason I've been pondering weirdly static characters who never seem to learn anything from their IC experiences. I've also been trying to remember to go through and update some of my characters' profiles, and I changed Indivar's default userpic from essentially "i hate things" to "okay, actually i don't hate things after all."

Which made me want to put up a post here with blurbs about how various of my characters have changed since I started playing them. Sure, it's self-absorbed, but then other people can write about their characters? :D?

secretarybird: Yup, he's changed! He started out being preoccupied with physicality and integration with the literal, present world; he also had a very unhappy spell of being stressed by the Nexus. He's settled down a lot since then. In some ways I feel like he's sort of....become a more completed character, now, and I don't really have particular directions I need to take him. It's kind of limiting.

mr_tetu: Lulz, Tetu, he takes two steps forward towards growing up and then he sort of sprawls on a couch and says "dude, whatever." He started out as a very laid-back guy. Working in MAHS changed that in a lot of ways; I mean, it's really hard to go through some of the serious trauma there and continue to be mellow and optimistic. He still manages but a lot of the time it's a deliberate effort on his part. There's a cheery surface; it's not fake, but as soon as you push him to think about things he's really got a lot of anxiety and unhappiness. Hopefully working at PrIME will let him recover quite a bit. In Tetu's case, some of his recent characterization has been difficult, since I've had to have him adapt ICly to an OOC decision to leave a comm. It's not something he would logically have done. But, eh, sometimes OOC motivations need to trump IC ones.

ishmael_herron: Whee time travel vampires! He has a fairly static personality; he's someone who learned very young to be private and defensive and to pay close attention to the rules. That's not a personality that adjusts easily. Becoming a vampire has made him a little more open--he doesn't care quite so intensely what other people think of him. But, yeah, it takes a lot to make him change. He doesn't do well in a multiverse setting, so I hardly ever play him anywhere but one-on-one.

thutmosis: He changed a lot from being a cute precocious kid to being a somewhat bratty teen, but I feel like since then his personality has stayed about the same. Or rather, it wavers around as much as it always has--he's still in a really awkward phase of life and hasn't at all sorted out who he is. Maybe that's just sloppy characterization?

indivar: No longer hates things unduly! He's, like...kind of normal. Bit of a dork, still not very socially adept, but pretty normal. I started playing him when he had all kinds of real-world-ish issues going on, but they were the kind of issues that people do tend to sort out, given enough time and emotional support. I'm looking forward to playing him more, though.

Okay, I'll shut up now.

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:13:36 GMT

RP note to self, squid whisk art project

http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1999

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:42:21 GMT

Okay, until I beat my last-minute tax HORROR HORROR ARGH into submission, I can't really be around for RP. Not...that I have been around much anyway but AUGH PART-YEAR RESIDENT STATE TAXES MARRIED FILING WHAT JOINTLY? SEPARATELY? I DON'T KNOW AUGH.

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:30:19 GMT

Mmmmmmmm, resources. Check this out: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

It's the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834, online. They're working on digitizing the 1834-1913 stuff, which would be more useful to me, but still: this is pretty damn cool.

GOD MODE (D_M entry that will not happen)

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:39:37 GMT

Djehuty: Huu, what is this God Moding I keep hearing of? Do you mean like this? *appears with the gold skin and the hair of lapis and the thirty cubits tall and the earth trembling and trees cracking before him as he walks*

Okay, no, I don't actually want to do that. But still. It would be at least a little bit funny. >_>

And that, by the way, is just from the description of some minor previously unknown little snake god that turned up on an island in The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor. I'm betting Djehuty rates at least a good fifty cubits.