bloodyrosemccoy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-07-15 03:48 pm
bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-07-15 03:48 pm
Entry tags:
More Words
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
agenttrojie gave me some more words a couple weeks or so ago. Here they are!Garnet – I am fond of garnet for many reasons. Yes, I very much like the gem itself—the way it can look so much like a drop of faceted blood or a pomegranate seed* makes me really prefer it even to rubies. But after that, the rest of my reasons are markedly insane. In the miswired synesthetic synapses of my brain, the word “garnet” is the most onomatopoeic one ever seen, heard, felt, tasted, and just experienced. It sounds exactly like the gemstone looks—and more than that, it’s got a musical tone (two, actually), a taste, and a goddamn hand movement to go with it. It has never been topped for pure fused-senses goodness.
Malaria – Did you know that the Super Mario Bros. music can alleviate the symptoms of malaria? I discovered this in my host family’s house in Mombasa, while lying miserably on my mattress being extremely thankful for the quick response of the clinic’s medication and my host mother’s intelligence in dragging me to that clinic. Suddenly the familiar Mario music, the one that I am pretty sure is encoded into my DNA, wafted into my consciousness, and I sprang off the mattress and stomped out to find the kids crowded around their bootleg video game system. “Gimme that,” I said, taking the controller.
“You know Super Mario?” one said, wide-eyed.
“You kidding? This game’s as old as I am!”
And I totally forgot I had malaria for the rest of the evening.
Spore – One of the few PC games I’ve been into—sure, I like the Little Bit Of Everything game itself, but the real appeal is in being able to build the aliens and the buildings and spaceships inside my head. I just wish it wasn’t so cartoony.
Doll – Yeah, I’m the Crazy Doll Person. I could make a lot of in-depth psychological points about why dolls give me insight into myself; I could argue that they are exercises in character development; I could go on and on about my interest in their parallel with authors’ characters and the illusion of independent agency, but the simple truth is that they’re just so damn cute.
They also seem to be a focus for a lot of my craft projects. I'd never have learned to sew if Kuen didn't need clothes.
Space – Space. The Final Frontier. It’s … big, and full of cool, fascinating things, like pulsars and nebulae and swirling galaxies so big we can’t wrap our heads around them—and all of them look really great as desktops. Plus, someday we’re going to bust out into space and absolutely fuck shit up, and we’ll all have a great time, especially when we meet the aliens. I take it for granted that there are aliens somewhere else.
I like to write stories set in space because, while we know some key things about how space works, it’s big enough to accommodate as many fantastic worlds as we can come up with without having them proven wrong anytime soon. It’s a giant sandbox, where you can study real science and speculate with dreams. And, of course, in a very vast sense, it's where we live.
*Which actually gives us the name “garnet.” The more you know!
no subject
Also also, in Swedish the word "garnet" means "the yarn".
no subject
January, then?
no subject
...Now I want to get a load of fruit and toss them - preferably from a height - just to see which one smashes the best...
January it is. The third, even.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
I agree that Spore is a little bit of fun wrapped in immensely useful creator tools. The same is true of the Sims and pretty much everything else Wright has done. My hope is that it's opened the door for a serious evolution game somewhere down the line.
no subject
I have dolls to take the place of sims, but for the really alien aliens I've got Spore.
no subject
no subject