Aug. 2nd, 2009

oh, cedric

Aug. 2nd, 2009 03:09 pm
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Misc: Text: own that shit)
Okay, I'm pretty sure this is going to be a post on the scale of epic.

Expandthanks and cracked teeth )
I've caught up with my f-list! I went back to around Thursday and hopefully caught everyone from then on. Sorry if I missed anyone!

Things I want to recommend to people.

A) [livejournal.com profile] zempasuchil drew Mary Blake/Renesmee. It is adorable.
B) Anything on [livejournal.com profile] houseofpevensie . I'm a bit erratic on commenting on them, but the writing is superb and I adore the characters.
C) [personal profile] animus_wyrmis posted her lovely Leah/Angela fic with no name. So pretty!

TV shows I watched while I was in a horrible mood - Chuck (about six episodes of the first season), Pushing Daisies (part of the first episode before I got kicked off the computer), Supernatural (a few of my favorite episodes), Project Runway (I have to admit, I generally skip to the reunion episode after my favorites get kicked off).

As proof that I really need to slow down on the fic writing and just concentrate on a few, I'm going to go ahead and do the 'give a line from each of your WIP's' meme. Um. For some of them it's more like post a paragraph.

Expandharborverse, nostalgia!origfic, what images return (next renesmee), untitled susan!fic, untitlted narniaexchange, untitled erasureathon )

I must turn in one Latin assignment and two Government assignments, and then I shall return to play with fic! Renesmee metafic is being difficult. a) I completely forgot Seth b) I introduced the Cullens. I'm thinking that needs to be a later story, that this one should be only about Mary and Leah. I dunno.

alale alala

Aug. 2nd, 2009 09:29 pm
be_themoon: I want a better world. By me. (Mulan: Mulan: garden walk)
Things Betsy finds fun: making up pantheons. Mostly because it involves researching pantheons, which I find so freaking fascinating. It's amazing! It is like candy to my brain, or something. It's awesome!

Fun facts of today's research:

Alala, female personification of the Greek war cry! Ironically enough, her name means "dumb, mute, speechless." I find this amusing.

Ares was the personification of more of less impulsive violence and slaughter, Athena the goddess of strategic fighting (also wisdom, probably the reason for the strategic fighting). Mars, the Roman (ETA: things Betsy should never do in a hurry - write about gods.) god of war, on the other hand, was the god of manly valor more. Minerva, the Roman equivalent of Athena, tended towards the crafts side of things much more than the war side.

Want to guess how this train of research got started?

Researching the Hippocratic Oath, so I could rewrite it more or less appropriately for Cedric, because he is a doctor. Then I delved into who he would swear by, got out my old research for the gods of a different world (hastily built during Nano for about twelve days and then set aside, because I needed something fun to write that year and that world was much too realistic). Currently he's swearing by the Gods Without Names (alternatively, the Gods Without Faces, which is technically inaccurate), and the small gods, which is the general name for all the lesser gods of all the religions, who have kind of gotten jumbled together at this point. The Gods Without Names were always my favorites - they were going to be the Winter gods, for a region of people who had invaded and conquered around two hundred years before. There's five of them, and each one has multiple titles (and these are just the most-used ones). Each one is very much up to personal interpretation.

The Goddess of Yesterday (the Grey Lady, the Dreamweaver, the Dawndreamer)
The God of Tomorrow (the Grey Lord, the Morrowweaver)
The God of War (the Red God, the Nightbringer, the Blood God)
The Mother (the White Lady, the Sun Goddess)
The Maiden (the Receiver, the Faceless)

Uh. Going to finish rewriting the Hippocratic Oath and going to bed now. *facepalm*

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