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melayneseahawkI think I've lost the right to my "honorary man" card. I need to get over this obsession with shoes and articles of clothing with an internal structure of their own. Yes, I've admitted before that I would live in corsets if I could, but I caught myself actually considering the logistics of it a few days ago.
And then yesterday, I bought these shoes. No, I didn't need them (though I do need a pair of sneaker-y things). Yes, they were on sale, and I used the gift card my Secret Santa (from work) toward them, so they only cost me about $18 of real money. And I did this while on the phone with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kashmir_ki_kali, and she can vouch for the sheer girlyness I was exhibiting at the time.
I think this counteracts my proficiency with power tools (cutting steel is fun! nail guns are just so cool!), my gamer tendencies, my ridiculously furry legs. (My hair is value neutral; it's long, but I don't get girly about it.) I'm ashamed of myself.
On the other hand, I'm listening to this song, and my brain immediately labels Javert Lawful Good and Valjean Chaotic Neutral. So, apparently, I'm a girly geek (geeky girl?). Bah.
And then yesterday, I bought these shoes. No, I didn't need them (though I do need a pair of sneaker-y things). Yes, they were on sale, and I used the gift card my Secret Santa (from work) toward them, so they only cost me about $18 of real money. And I did this while on the phone with
kashmir_ki_kali, and she can vouch for the sheer girlyness I was exhibiting at the time.I think this counteracts my proficiency with power tools (cutting steel is fun! nail guns are just so cool!), my gamer tendencies, my ridiculously furry legs. (My hair is value neutral; it's long, but I don't get girly about it.) I'm ashamed of myself.
On the other hand, I'm listening to this song, and my brain immediately labels Javert Lawful Good and Valjean Chaotic Neutral. So, apparently, I'm a girly geek (geeky girl?). Bah.
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I KNEW you were cool!
23/12/06 06:26 (UTC)Although I gotta note that I take my fondness for gaming perhaps a *tad* too far. As in I'm planning to play out action sequences for my fics on a hex map to keep it believeable. And, oh no even worse, I'm planning to have Jack discover RPGs during a lockdown. *hides head from thrown objects*
But realistically the opprotunities for humor abound with that little plot bunny. Especially if he cons the rest of SG-1 to join in. Can you imagine them creating charactures! Not to mention gaming is a superior way to learn how to improvise with small team/party tactics without injuring anything but papers and pencils......maybe the odd hex map or so. I know that's where I learned it.
And I can't COUNT how mant times I've watched/read something, canon or fan made, where I was thinking "Sheesh this person really needs to Game with a good GM for a while" Although I've got to admit those instances usually occur when I'm watching or reading something brought out as professional. It is my confirmed opinion that anyone who writes professionally in the Action/Adventure or Horror genre should be a part of a good gaming group for at least two years.
Re: I KNEW you were cool!
23/12/06 06:29 (UTC)Re: I KNEW you were cool!
23/12/06 08:32 (UTC)Anyway, the SGC is in a lockdown, but it's not a serious, life-threatening, thing. Just a bug or something they don't want getting off base. And it just so happens that one of the computer techs that de-bugs the dialing computer is also an ardent gamer and has gathered a gaming group among the members of the SGC. Incidentially this character is also going to be based on my husband who is like this and would do this if he were in this situation.
So you got a regular gaming group locked down on base right? What are they going to do with thier empty hours......game of course! So they've taken over a small room, someone (cause you know there's always SOMEONE) has got the basic books and a set or two of dice (cause when is one set ever enough), and they get the group together to intesively game out the boring hours. All logical right?
Well Jack's wandering around base, as HE is wont to do, and he hears a snippet of the gaming byplay and it sounds combat related. Soooooo, he listens in for a while and realizes that the GM likes to put suprises on his gamers and they have to react tactically to these things that they aren't expecting.
Then he covertly checks to see who is in the room and looks up thier recent proformance evaluations. And lo and behold, he finds that the people in the gaming group tend to react better, quicker, and more intelligently off world than a random sample of others in thier various posistions. And an idea is born!
BUT, he needs solid proof, so he collars the GM character privately for a quiet chat. He wants to test to see if gaming can be used for training purposes. And the only way he knows how to prove that it will work is to test the theory on his own team. So he challenges the GM to create a game unusual enough to test the tactical skills of SG-1. And the GM agrees with the proviso that he can bring in one experiances gamer to be in the party (a characture my daughter is developing for me) And so the fun begins!
I mean can you picture it? The character creation phase alone I can milk for tons of laughs. And when Jack wants to swipe one of Carter's best de-buggers to run RPGs? *snort* Especially in this particular scenario he's not exactly in the Air Force or her superior officer anymore.....so she doesn't have to just grin and bear it.
But right now I don't even know if anyone is even reading the first story in the series........nobody is leaving comments so there's no way to tell. But if you want to look it up the first three parts have been posted on jackslashdaniel among other places. Perhaps tomorrow I'll start also posting it on my personal journal. I'm too tired to mess with it tonight.
Re: I KNEW you were cool!
23/12/06 17:04 (UTC)What's the story, I haven't seen it.
Re: I KNEW you were cool!
23/12/06 23:49 (UTC)Tell you what my husband, who understand the intricacies of LJ MOUNDS more than I do, is going to help me get it organized in a new journal the way I want it. LJ is giving me fits all over the place.....everybody thinks since I've had an account, and sometimes a paid account, since 2001 that I know LJ. I barely know how to do a cut! I don't know anything.
All I ask is that you give it a try. It's a crossover, an AU,an openended series, has got several original characters with one original female character who happens to be named Ariana. And the only reason that the name on THIS account is Ariana was because the journal was made when I was deep in her developement phase and roleplaying her to make her a 'real' character. But if I'm a good enough writer, which I've been working at for 20 odd years to be.....then I should be able to pull these off.
So i hope that you will give the Middle path a chance. I'll make sure you know when the new journal is up and running. And even better when I get the website with all the illustrations I'm commissioning and other neat stuff on it. There is a mock up of one of the pages, the timeline of the Family O'Malley, if you want to look at it: http://web-boulevard.com/mockup/themiddlepath/timeline.htm
And pass you mouse pointer over the medallions, there's some suprise links there. See if you like.
Re: I KNEW you were cool!
24/12/06 04:34 (UTC)(I'm doing an AU crossover yadda right now, too, and no one's reading it either. I know the feeling.)
Re: I KNEW you were cool!
24/12/06 19:38 (UTC)Heh, I'm actually gettin better reations from people I sent it to that don't know EITHER show. I just got an email from one that I just met on a DeVinci Code site that said he couldn't put it down till he was finished. What have I done? And what do I DO with it?LOL
Happy holidays!