midterms make me think
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cornerofmadnessone of us has to. Judging by grades, my students aren't. funny thing, I was trying to do a biomechanical question and I was out of ideas so I tossed in a throwaway for this range of motion (which RoM was the answer) and put in Medusa's (from Soul Eater 'vector plate,' and one of them (wannabe lady coach) wrote that in on the fill in the blanks.I'm still giggling.
Speaking of Soul Eater, tell me I don't need to get invovled if they do a ladyfest all inspired by FMA's.
I’ve been thinking a bit about my writing and what it says about me. On the surface people probably think I have issues with women. Not really, it’s more that I appreciate the fact we CAN be just as deadly as men. So let’s have a good long look at my novel writing history
1984-86 – Moondancer Orion. Inspired no doubt by too much Mospeada, V and love of SF. I do remember there were freedom fighters who were joined by one of the aliens, Orion. Orion was an abused young man by his domineering sister (can not remember her name). She definitely physically, mentally and sexually abused Orion. I do remember forced necrophilic activity. What was I smoking in H.S.?
87-91 – I was finishing college and medical school. I don’t remember any novels then, at least not any that went far. Mostly it was short stories for EQ and Star Trek plus my RPG for Star Trek which back in that time period were short stories (often interactive with other members by phone and snail mail, gasp, remember those things?). I’m sure I had abused boy characters there too.
I DO think this might be the time where I wrote Dervish where Adahy had kidnapped Marisha for accidentally straying into his territory. I had been watching too much Sheik with Rudolph Valentino.. (it might have been in the time period below too).
92-93 – had more time in medical school/residency since I was seeing patients more than studying. Wrote two novels (never finished) Blues in the Night and something else with ‘blues’ in the title. Christian Thibodeaux meets up with Dr. Shanakill Cavallomora, a psychic detective (I QUIT these because my writers groups kept laughing at me. No one will believe in a psychic detective and now they’re everywhere).
Chris was abused badly by his father, ran away and became a teenaged, homeless alcoholic in New Orleans, working as a jazz musician, finally cleans himself up in the first book (before he meets the doc)
94-96, two novels, Machiavelli Moon and Rage like a River
I may have completely lost Rage (OH NO) but there were no abused childhoods but only because the characters in this SF murder mystery were transgenic clones grown in test tubes and had no parents. Though arguable, military training from the moment you could walk might be abusive in its way. The torment here is how normal humans react to the crèche kids.
Machiavelli Moon- you all know this vampire mystery by now. Sulien was kidnapped from the monestary he had been installed in as a child and was tormented for a century or more. His kids were as well. Sulien survived (sort of, claustrophic though). His daughter Erianwen is nuts (and now I shall have to make doubly sure she is nothing like Drusilla even though she never was). Wicahpi was abused and beaten by his father as well (and his mother is schizophrenic). Wicahpi took Chris’s route and became and alcoholic musician.
98-2000 mostly spent building my medical practice. I had a few novels but never got far. Did mostly fanfic and original fic for another RPG, the Cauldron (yes there were abused boys there too)
In the 21st century we have:
Ties that Bind (with evil_little_dog) where the whole crew of Trevhan (hers) Tully and Athalia (mine) being abused by their father who murdered their mother (the boys, athalia is unrelated) and he snaps Athalia’s mind.
Red Skies (with evil_little_dog), Domi (hers) and Tarran have both been abused sexually since early childhood, Domi by strangers, Tarran suffered a lot of psychological abuse by his mother and she started whoring him out when he was a kid, he’s not all there sometimes either. Adao was told by his father he was the reason his mother jumped off a cliff and then spent the next few years beating him.
Melt into the Wind – Yukio Acerbi, psychopomp/grim reaper/shinigami, whatever you like to call him, was sexually abused by his step dad and committed suicide and that’s how he ended up on the pscychopomp force…
Beneath the Torn Sky – Placid Longstaff has an alcoholic dad who is quick with his fists.
Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron – YA werewolf mystery, Killian has been systematically abused by his guardians, one of which is a liansidhe who’s slowly draining his life force
Until the Ice Breaks – Makai isn’t so much abused as neglected as the unwanted bastard child.
Echoes of the Dying – Newcomer Mirron is also highly physically, sexually, emotionally abused by his mother (he was telling me about a brand this morning… during the anatomy mid term)
I would like to point out that I had a relatively normal childhood. My parents are more geek than ogre. I have NO idea what this issue I have is other than last life I was this boy I keep writing about again and again….
the shaky shack decked out for Halloween. Yeah, seriously not much left in the way of decorations. still have a ton of plants
Speaking of Soul Eater, tell me I don't need to get invovled if they do a ladyfest all inspired by FMA's.
I’ve been thinking a bit about my writing and what it says about me. On the surface people probably think I have issues with women. Not really, it’s more that I appreciate the fact we CAN be just as deadly as men. So let’s have a good long look at my novel writing history
1984-86 – Moondancer Orion. Inspired no doubt by too much Mospeada, V and love of SF. I do remember there were freedom fighters who were joined by one of the aliens, Orion. Orion was an abused young man by his domineering sister (can not remember her name). She definitely physically, mentally and sexually abused Orion. I do remember forced necrophilic activity. What was I smoking in H.S.?
87-91 – I was finishing college and medical school. I don’t remember any novels then, at least not any that went far. Mostly it was short stories for EQ and Star Trek plus my RPG for Star Trek which back in that time period were short stories (often interactive with other members by phone and snail mail, gasp, remember those things?). I’m sure I had abused boy characters there too.
I DO think this might be the time where I wrote Dervish where Adahy had kidnapped Marisha for accidentally straying into his territory. I had been watching too much Sheik with Rudolph Valentino.. (it might have been in the time period below too).
92-93 – had more time in medical school/residency since I was seeing patients more than studying. Wrote two novels (never finished) Blues in the Night and something else with ‘blues’ in the title. Christian Thibodeaux meets up with Dr. Shanakill Cavallomora, a psychic detective (I QUIT these because my writers groups kept laughing at me. No one will believe in a psychic detective and now they’re everywhere).
Chris was abused badly by his father, ran away and became a teenaged, homeless alcoholic in New Orleans, working as a jazz musician, finally cleans himself up in the first book (before he meets the doc)
94-96, two novels, Machiavelli Moon and Rage like a River
I may have completely lost Rage (OH NO) but there were no abused childhoods but only because the characters in this SF murder mystery were transgenic clones grown in test tubes and had no parents. Though arguable, military training from the moment you could walk might be abusive in its way. The torment here is how normal humans react to the crèche kids.
Machiavelli Moon- you all know this vampire mystery by now. Sulien was kidnapped from the monestary he had been installed in as a child and was tormented for a century or more. His kids were as well. Sulien survived (sort of, claustrophic though). His daughter Erianwen is nuts (and now I shall have to make doubly sure she is nothing like Drusilla even though she never was). Wicahpi was abused and beaten by his father as well (and his mother is schizophrenic). Wicahpi took Chris’s route and became and alcoholic musician.
98-2000 mostly spent building my medical practice. I had a few novels but never got far. Did mostly fanfic and original fic for another RPG, the Cauldron (yes there were abused boys there too)
In the 21st century we have:
Ties that Bind (with evil_little_dog) where the whole crew of Trevhan (hers) Tully and Athalia (mine) being abused by their father who murdered their mother (the boys, athalia is unrelated) and he snaps Athalia’s mind.
Red Skies (with evil_little_dog), Domi (hers) and Tarran have both been abused sexually since early childhood, Domi by strangers, Tarran suffered a lot of psychological abuse by his mother and she started whoring him out when he was a kid, he’s not all there sometimes either. Adao was told by his father he was the reason his mother jumped off a cliff and then spent the next few years beating him.
Melt into the Wind – Yukio Acerbi, psychopomp/grim reaper/shinigami, whatever you like to call him, was sexually abused by his step dad and committed suicide and that’s how he ended up on the pscychopomp force…
Beneath the Torn Sky – Placid Longstaff has an alcoholic dad who is quick with his fists.
Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron – YA werewolf mystery, Killian has been systematically abused by his guardians, one of which is a liansidhe who’s slowly draining his life force
Until the Ice Breaks – Makai isn’t so much abused as neglected as the unwanted bastard child.
Echoes of the Dying – Newcomer Mirron is also highly physically, sexually, emotionally abused by his mother (he was telling me about a brand this morning… during the anatomy mid term)
I would like to point out that I had a relatively normal childhood. My parents are more geek than ogre. I have NO idea what this issue I have is other than last life I was this boy I keep writing about again and again….
the shaky shack decked out for Halloween. Yeah, seriously not much left in the way of decorations. still have a ton of plants
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Date: 2010-10-19 02:12 am (UTC)Interesting that the same sort of character appears again and again.
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Date: 2010-10-19 02:28 am (UTC)the bad parent
the abused boy
the insanity
over and over for 25 years now
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Date: 2010-10-19 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-19 02:36 am (UTC)next year's nano, successful author realizes all her characters has the same background and wonders why. A past life regression reveals the thruth and opens the door to past evil...only i hate stories that have us living out our past lives
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Date: 2010-10-19 02:37 am (UTC)I'd still dare you to do it.
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Date: 2010-10-19 03:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-19 08:18 pm (UTC)Everybody has a character they write over and over, it's just that everybody's default is different. At least yours isn't a Mary Sue like some (published) authors I could name.
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Date: 2010-10-19 08:56 pm (UTC)this is probably true. (another friend concured with that on email)
oh do name them so i can avoid them
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Date: 2010-10-19 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-20 01:25 am (UTC)