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[winneganfake]

My god. The pain levels today have been off the charts. Late night scooter riding in the cold and wet is, apparently, still on my "thing's I can't do yet" list.

That said, Tonight, I'm working on new shit. Because new shit is what's needed to fill stock totes.

And I'm working on inspirations for new stuff. Like the videos my kid is currently addicted to- 09, by Shane Acker.

9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation
by FrFKmeron

Or other bits. Which I'm looking for. So, right now, I ask this- what's in your head? What's speaking to you? What's giving you nightmares, stirring your passions, capturing your interest, or even just tickling your fancy? What leaves you sitting on your balcony at 1:18 in the morning, staring up at the bleak cloudscape, and just plain thinking that's cool?

Words are good. Pictures are good. Links and embeds are good. Most of all, answers are good.

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[(Anonymous)]

I am on my iPhone out and about but I have some stuff I can post when I get home and I also have a LOT of images to upload to the secret stash which you have access to. Most of what I have swirling around are my ideas that I currently don't posses the tools or skills for.

[(Anonymous)]

Lilibat btw.

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

Grouchiness. Smells, incense like myrrh and cypress, rich dark bitter food scents. Textures, wool and silk and metal and crystal. Music you don't care for. (http://skinnywhitechick.com) Stories to frighten children (I'm working on a feltie of Baba Yaga's Hut on Hen's Legs). ARFs (Shadow Unit (http://shadowunit.org), Continuous (http://portoutreach.com/voices/) Coast (http://www.continuouscoast.com/forums/index.php), Polytics (http://polytics.org/), and the pre- (http://tabu1arasa.com/)show (http://sato-kenji.com/) for Palimpsest (http://www.amazon.com/Palimpsest-Catherynne-Valente/dp/0553385763/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231735466&sr=8-1)).

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

Dreams about being a character in a video game and therefore susceptible to some controlling figure's decisions. Someone who wants to kill me and will keep trying till it's done.

Also, but in a more cheerful sense, large full moons and especially low and high tides.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Hm. What specifically about the high and low tides? Or is there a specific?

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I inked that sketch from yesterday. It's in my journal.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

So I saw! Me likey!

[asimaiyat.livejournal.com]

I think I am riding out the end of my Death Note obsession. Still trying to write a fic, mostly because I feel bad for enjoying the hell out of a bunch of other people's work without actually contributing anything, and because I like the idea of essentially writing a little thesis for my pairing and why it works, in fic form.

I am just finishing re-reading James Ellroy's LA Quartet, a series that kind of changed my life when I first read them at 18, and getting even more out of them this time around. I am seriously dying for some crime fiction ideas to write about, because I feel like my ideas about the genre have solidified enough that I could do some really good work. And I'm feeling that good old Anxiety of Influence because my highest ambition as a crime writer is to do something that would make Ellroy proud. I love the way he writes about what drives acts of weakness and brutality and courage and heroism, his sense of redemption even though the world he writes about is so deeply compromised. I find myself kin of wanting to be one of his characters, even though most of them die horrible and untimely deaths.

I've also been fixating a lot on sex and mind games and sex *as* a mind game. That sort of goes back to writing Death Note slash, obvsly. Thinking about the boy who won (dammit), and the boy who lost (making things get boring, dammit), and the generally self-destructive pursuit of, ahem, balls still in play.

Also I keep looking for more Christmas chocolate that hasn't been eaten yet.

[the-tall-man.livejournal.com]

Clive Barker stuff, right now - Weaveworld, Imajica.

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

You've read Great and Secret Show, right? And Abarat?

One and Many

[pattytoo.livejournal.com]

I'm really interested in creating a Soul Collage at the moment. I am fascinated with the idea of each of us being made up of a combination of selves, archetypes, community ideas, and primitive energies.

[feather333.livejournal.com]

...and i didn't even have the decency to remember to give you more of my clock faces on Saturday.

i am, indeed, a bad, forgetful (but not quite evil..?) friend.

as for what's leaving my head spinning with cool lately?
really, really geeky insights into the history of the English language and words, marveling at how cool Old English was, and wondering if i should start on the path to becoming a linguist of some sort. or, at least, going to work for a dictionary.

ya, i'm THAT geeky. and it probably won't help you much on your quest :-)

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Hey, I completely forgot them as well, so bad on the both of us, I guess.



Hm. Linguistic geekiness. Is cool, but yeah, probably not much I can use there right off the bat.