Rotsab M. Hyolf
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- Posted: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:47:40 +0000
phantomkitsune
Haha, we are practically writing letters to each other at this point.
Sorry! xD I get very talky and then vanish, haha.
phantomkitsune
Well, we met our freshman year of university, when our dorm rooms were right next to each other, but we've been restricted to just online communication the past couple years while I've been here - she's visited once, and I've visited once, but it's rather expensive. I was lucky enough to have a fairly literary circle of friends in high school, though I go to my online friends more about writing these days.
Oh, nice! That's too bad about the visiting, though.
I find for the most part internet friends tend to be more honest, possibly because there's the 'I may never see you again' aspect? Might just be the crowd I hang out with, though.
I hope you guys get to see each other again soon! Don't buy any Strawberry Frappuccinos from Starbucks, though.
phantomkitsune
That's one of the things that I like about fanfiction, that I can chill out and not worry as much about perspective and do storytelling things that amuse me: for one week straight we just put up error messages and cackled.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm sure your fans appreciated that. xD
phantomkitsune
I think the diary-thing wouldn't quite pass as traditional memoir: I'm using the conceit that the main character is a spy in near-future but quite obviously technologically and culturally shifted China. It really sucks for your aunt that the editing process hurt the story that way.
Oh, that sounds really cool! I'm sure schools would love it for the ties between author and (I assume?) character, then.
Yeah, it does suck that happened. They got her to change the title from, 'The Poor People's Prayer,' to a title I liked more, so I at least agreed with them on that. Apparently they were very nice and approachable, too.
phantomkitsune
Homestuck resolved a lot of things - we're just past the second intermission in Act 6. There's actually been a fair amount of exposition on the way the whole thing works, as well as direct in-work meta-commentary by the author. I think it's at a not-too-cliffhanger-y part right now, if you were to start reading things again: there are a few obvious things coming, but we have fairly decent ideas of how it'll play out.
Oh, cool! I'll have to check it out some time, then. I'm actually on my dad's computer, so I'll hold off until I have mine again. Hopefully it won't be back to the cliffhanger by that time! xD
phantomkitsune
I mostly like using technology to illustrate a post-singularity universe: a couple story-universes have fairly casual implants, like augmented cognition and retinal-implant computer monitors. The interaction and interplay between humanity and technology is fascinating to me, and I like playing with that. Also spaceships, and sometimes space operas. A friend of mind suggested Pride and Prejudice-stuck in space, and it's still lurking in the back of my head wanting to happen. For urban fantasy, a lot of both: I've done retellings of a bunch of fairy tales in modern settings, and am currently working on even more (though very, very slowly), and for my novel I nicked King Arthur and strained him through some Welsh myth and shoved him in as a background character, along with some old Irish myths and Jewish myth and Eastern Iranian religious language used as epithets stirred into bildungsroman featuring an attitudinal pot-smoking New Yorker.
Wow, sounds very cool. You do your homework! I love the diversity.
Also; Pride and Prejudice: The Space Opera needs to happen. If they can make a zombie version, there is no reason there shouldn't be a space opera one. xD