Hi.
I think it was Bono who said that, for him, every death in his life is the same one - each death brings up the death of his mum when he was a teenager.
I think, for a similar reason, that this is why heroic, sacrificial deaths in fiction affect me so much - when a soldier stays behind and holds a corridor against the greatest heroes of his time, fighting through the night, one on one, before falling, just so his closest friend and brother in arms can escape (and who leaves him no choice, by way of tossing the rope the friend had climbed down from the window) it is to me the same hero dying to save his love.
When the lord of a superreal realm allows himself to die at the hands of his sister, so that powers almost as ancient as him will not destroy his kingdom, it is to me the same sacrifice to save a world.
It is by this revelation that I know that, despite what I may have thought, The Cross does affect me emotionally. Jesus? Thank you so much, my love, my brother, my friend.
SamfiSh
Note: fiction mentioned is Troy: Fall of Kings by David Gemmell & Sandman: The Kindly Ones 13 and The Wake Series by Neil Gaiman
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Updates
Hihi
Well! I've been in Birmingham for about 6 weeks now. Interesting times.
Goodness, I'm awful at blogging.
Blog redesign has happened again. It's now cleaner and lighter.
Um, yes, Other things. New blog at http://innocencepermitting.wordpress.com/, dedicated to my rambling stories and poems.
I had a load of things I was gonna talk about, but I've now forgotten them all.
So, at the end of what is up there with my worst ever posts, I bid you adieu. Adieu!
SamfiSh
Well! I've been in Birmingham for about 6 weeks now. Interesting times.
Goodness, I'm awful at blogging.
Blog redesign has happened again. It's now cleaner and lighter.
Um, yes, Other things. New blog at http://innocencepermitting.wordpress.com/, dedicated to my rambling stories and poems.
I had a load of things I was gonna talk about, but I've now forgotten them all.
So, at the end of what is up there with my worst ever posts, I bid you adieu. Adieu!
SamfiSh
The Three Laws of Wheaton
- A person may not actively be a dick or, through inaction, be a dick.
- A person must prevent ot, except where such action would conflict with the First Law.
- A person must preserve their own lack of dickishness as long as such prevention does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
cyaz
Good evening, chapters and chapsticks. I am leaving Kent tomorrow!
This may be news to some of you. If it is, then you are either new to the blog, or (if reading this on Facebook) have not been paying attention - I am moving to Birmingham for 9 months or so.
It seems less exciting/scary/trepidatory/stressful than it should be. This worries me because I half suspect I don't believe it's happening, and am in fact living in subconscious denial. It should be all those things regardless of whether it seems it or not - hopefully less of the latterest - and I aim to get stuff out of it, as well as giving. I'm hoping this will be my squire year, and after this I will be elevated to the squire/knight hybrid that ms. Aamodt prophesied my future self to be. Or maybe I won't yet, but that's fine too, cos God'll do what God'll do when God'll do it, in a way that's right for Him (and hence right for me).
Kent, I have loved you in all the ways a man can love a county (as well as all the ways a woman, dog, and trestle table can love a county). About half of these ways are illegal in Georgia and/or Utah. Farewell!
From,
a SamfiSh
This may be news to some of you. If it is, then you are either new to the blog, or (if reading this on Facebook) have not been paying attention - I am moving to Birmingham for 9 months or so.
It seems less exciting/scary/trepidatory/stressful than it should be. This worries me because I half suspect I don't believe it's happening, and am in fact living in subconscious denial. It should be all those things regardless of whether it seems it or not - hopefully less of the latterest - and I aim to get stuff out of it, as well as giving. I'm hoping this will be my squire year, and after this I will be elevated to the squire/knight hybrid that ms. Aamodt prophesied my future self to be. Or maybe I won't yet, but that's fine too, cos God'll do what God'll do when God'll do it, in a way that's right for Him (and hence right for me).
Kent, I have loved you in all the ways a man can love a county (as well as all the ways a woman, dog, and trestle table can love a county). About half of these ways are illegal in Georgia and/or Utah. Farewell!
From,
a SamfiSh
Friday, 20 August 2010
Writings of a written persuasion...
...written by me when I writing.
I am once again stucked on a writing project. Well, not quite stuck, but making the oh-so-wonderful progress of a few words a day. This lead me to this.....
Does anyone want to write tennis style with me? I send you what I have so far, you write the next bit, then you send it to me and I write the next bit, etc.
Open request to the one person who half reads this and any restless spirits out there on the interblag.
Speaking of writing, I dreamt a scene this morning while I was still asleep. Not like it was happening in my dream, but I was writing it in my dream. I knew it was morning because I then woke up with it still in my head, managed to run through it in my mind, then fell asleep again. I the forgot it. I remember it was really good and also what it was vaguely about, but that's it. I'm pretty cross.
Speaking of dreams, when I woke up for the final time this morning I was worried that there really were subterranean cave dwellers who had re-written the bible so as to have Jesus as a fellow cave dweller. In my dream I went and visited the cave complex, where they had a small town in a cave underneath this big house, and I remember lots of blue water....
ANYWAY
GOODBYE
From,
a SamfiSh
P.S./Edit - my twitter feed isn't showing all my tweets. Never mind!
I am once again stucked on a writing project. Well, not quite stuck, but making the oh-so-wonderful progress of a few words a day. This lead me to this.....
Does anyone want to write tennis style with me? I send you what I have so far, you write the next bit, then you send it to me and I write the next bit, etc.
Open request to the one person who half reads this and any restless spirits out there on the interblag.
Speaking of writing, I dreamt a scene this morning while I was still asleep. Not like it was happening in my dream, but I was writing it in my dream. I knew it was morning because I then woke up with it still in my head, managed to run through it in my mind, then fell asleep again. I the forgot it. I remember it was really good and also what it was vaguely about, but that's it. I'm pretty cross.
Speaking of dreams, when I woke up for the final time this morning I was worried that there really were subterranean cave dwellers who had re-written the bible so as to have Jesus as a fellow cave dweller. In my dream I went and visited the cave complex, where they had a small town in a cave underneath this big house, and I remember lots of blue water....
ANYWAY
GOODBYE
From,
a SamfiSh
P.S./Edit - my twitter feed isn't showing all my tweets. Never mind!
Saturday, 14 August 2010
3 for luck
I forgot: I am now pretty much definitely moving to Brumingham, home of Brum the car and the Bullring and Bromwich and Birmingham New Street Station, and many other things that begin with B.
I'm moving in 19 days! Hells Bells and buckets of blood that's close...
S-aaaaaahi'mgoingtohavetogrowupoutofneceSSity-mfiSh
I'm moving in 19 days! Hells Bells and buckets of blood that's close...
S-aaaaaahi'mgoingtohavetogrowupoutofneceSSity-mfiSh
Webcomics and thoughts thereupon
Webcomics: I read many.
Overcompensating, Rice Boy, Dresden Codak, Nedroid, Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, Dr. Mcninja, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, and xkcd.
That seems like a lot, but it only takes up 15 minutes a day, three times a week. Which is less than soap opera or Britain's got Star Idol Factor viewers would spend on their nonsense, and is (mostly) done intelligently and tastefully, and with real talent.
Anyhoo, enough of me getting defensive.
What I wanted to say is this: of the comics I read, some have passed their respective heyday. This is not to say that I don't enjoy them, or that the output of these writers and artists is sub par (in fact many of what these individuals produce is excellent)
The most prominent examples are xkcd, A Softer World, Dr. Mcninja, Something Positive and Questionable content.
These webcomics just used to be better! For example, Dr Mcninja peaked at Punch Dracula. Why? Look at the title. Punch. Dracula. I rest my case? No, but it is very good. read it and find out!
Something Positive peaked when 3 of the characters were trapped by crazed catgirls on a cannibalistic orgy of death and fangirlism at a comicon, and where assisted by Wil Wheton. One of the funniest storylines ever. One of the reasons I'd state this as the peak is that [SPOILERS - text now in white] one of my favourite characters in the strip, a midget called Pepito, is killed and mostly eaten by the catgirls.
I used to find ASW hilarious. From clever wordplay to black humour, the strip, as I read through the back catalogues, never disappointed. Even now when I hit the "Random" button, the older strips make me laugh in a way the new ones never do.
XKCD: the 1337, The Race and Journal storylines. Check them out.
I'd recommend all the comics I've listed - as I said, just because I'd say they'd peaked, this doesn't mean I don't think that they are, in most cases brilliant.
If you're after great art, I'd recommend Rice Boy or Dresden Codak.
If you would be more interested in a quick laugh, that may often be thought provoking, read any of the following: Overcompensating, Nedroid, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, or xkcd.
SP and QC are slice of life comics, following the cast as they go about their lives. The former I'd place well below the latter in terms of writing, art, and content quality.
Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Doctor Mcninja are serialised webcomics, though this is about as far as the similarities go - though DW and DM have both featured Zombies (the former almost exclusively), as did BM's predecessor, Scary Go Round. WARNING: BM contains children...
SF
Overcompensating, Rice Boy, Dresden Codak, Nedroid, Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Questionable Content, Something Positive, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, Dr. Mcninja, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, and xkcd.
That seems like a lot, but it only takes up 15 minutes a day, three times a week. Which is less than soap opera or Britain's got Star Idol Factor viewers would spend on their nonsense, and is (mostly) done intelligently and tastefully, and with real talent.
Anyhoo, enough of me getting defensive.
What I wanted to say is this: of the comics I read, some have passed their respective heyday. This is not to say that I don't enjoy them, or that the output of these writers and artists is sub par (in fact many of what these individuals produce is excellent)
The most prominent examples are xkcd, A Softer World, Dr. Mcninja, Something Positive and Questionable content.
These webcomics just used to be better! For example, Dr Mcninja peaked at Punch Dracula. Why? Look at the title. Punch. Dracula. I rest my case? No, but it is very good. read it and find out!
Something Positive peaked when 3 of the characters were trapped by crazed catgirls on a cannibalistic orgy of death and fangirlism at a comicon, and where assisted by Wil Wheton. One of the funniest storylines ever. One of the reasons I'd state this as the peak is that [SPOILERS - text now in white] one of my favourite characters in the strip, a midget called Pepito, is killed and mostly eaten by the catgirls.
I used to find ASW hilarious. From clever wordplay to black humour, the strip, as I read through the back catalogues, never disappointed. Even now when I hit the "Random" button, the older strips make me laugh in a way the new ones never do.
XKCD: the 1337, The Race and Journal storylines. Check them out.
I'd recommend all the comics I've listed - as I said, just because I'd say they'd peaked, this doesn't mean I don't think that they are, in most cases brilliant.
If you're after great art, I'd recommend Rice Boy or Dresden Codak.
If you would be more interested in a quick laugh, that may often be thought provoking, read any of the following: Overcompensating, Nedroid, Wondermark, Hark! a Vagrant, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Cyanide & Happiness, or xkcd.
SP and QC are slice of life comics, following the cast as they go about their lives. The former I'd place well below the latter in terms of writing, art, and content quality.
Dead Winter, Bad Machinery, Doctor Mcninja are serialised webcomics, though this is about as far as the similarities go - though DW and DM have both featured Zombies (the former almost exclusively), as did BM's predecessor, Scary Go Round. WARNING: BM contains children...
SF
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