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  1. Ya'know, and this is just sort of my personal musing, but I've always wondered about the properties of the Super-hymen. Could any mortal man measure up?
  2. Alright, now I looked about and there was a thread somewhat similar to this, though it seemed to deal exclusively with sexual or sex-related words. I found myself today looking for a good word to say something rather specific without going into more than one or two words as to not break the flow of the scene. Long story short, I couldn't, and still cannot, think of one, so I turn to you the fine people here at the forum for advise. And working under the assumption that a large quantity of people happen to have run into similar situations, or simply like expanding the vocabularies of other writers, I decided that I should make my very first thread. Now in my particular situation I'm looking for one or two words to say 'without his eye patch' in a classy way which doesn't obstruct the flow of the scene. The character literally just took the patch off so saying it just 'without his eye patch' seemed a little too redundant and 'unmasked' isn't exactly what I'm looking for since an eye patch doesn't really 'mask' in the first place. I hope you all have some ideas and are willing to share them with me, I'd be more than willing to return the help would you find yourself in a similar situation. The worst part is I can't even think of a word close enough to what I want to plug it into thesaurus.com
  3. Don't know. Maybe we just like girls that can kick us on our arse?
  4. I'll add a second to that. Something about that girl just starts a stirring in me. But I'll also say that I'll always hold a flame for Azula from Avatar:TLA.
  5. While agreeing that it's more the, elemental feelings of a scene that make it stick with you. I am a fan of the term 'Flesh Dagger' in reference to the male body part. I feel it adds a certain something, nice driving piercing image invoked while deviating from the traditional. I have yet to field test this however.
  6. Honestly? I'm not much of a fan, but mostly because to me, Teen Titans is a fairly closed universe, there aren't many legitimate ins for original characters, even well developed ones. Any OC to be put into that sort of situation would either come out of the blue or require some manner of long expansive set up that would detract from the cannon characters. Which as a better member than I once said, are the whole reason we read the fan fiction to begin with. As for the self insertion part. I would generally say that if Character-X behaves 90% of the time how you would, he's you, even if he doesn't share various other traits with you, and, again my personal opinion, the main reason I don't like Self Insertion character is because they tend to have little to know purpose to their actions. People who write character as themselves, in my opinion, tend not to know why their character would do something, and thus they generally leave out the motivation or repercussions of the action, which tends to make for a poor story. While OCs who share traits with their makers are more or less inevitable, it's probably damn near impossible to get a character who is both believable and so unlike you that they don't share even a passing similarity. For me, what really drives characters home, is their motivation, their past. Even if the story doesn't touch on it, when the author knows a character's past, you tend to just be able to sort of feel it in the way they write, the words they choose. Verses the author who just makes their character do this or that for the sake of the plot, or worse for the sake of them being 'in character' these sorts of things just tend to be a little too flavorless for my tastes. Still your plot could be an interesting one, just would have to remember to make sure it's more about the Cannon Characters, than the original.
  7. I suspect it has more to do with the fact that we're the authors than some magical connection to the publish key. Though it's certainly true that once it's up someplace else, it seems like a monkey managed to get in and type in a few things while I wasn't looking. But I think it's because, when we're looking at it in, whatever format we use to work on it. I use Word, we know what the word is supposed to be, we know how the story is supposed to play out, and so that's what we see. While when we're reading it someplace else, we're reading it, the words have moved, the paragraphs have been stretched out or compressed, but everything is never exactly where it was when we were working on it. We have to actually look at the words to figure out what is being said, and so when we made a mistake or said something not quiet as clearly as we thought we did, we notice. I swear, if I had a nickle for every time I hit that 'edit chapter' button just to fix up a few errors here and there, then went back to reading and saw a half dozen more...
  8. I have to admit it seems a reasonable enough theory, and it might be true for some. But for me it isn't jealous spite which spurs my hatred of Sue. In truth I can find a well written story with a Sue character quiet entertaining. Now some might find that an oxymoron but hear me out. No matter what it is we watch, we read, we hear, we almost always know the ending. The good guy saves the girl, the bad guy goes down, they leave a cliff hanger for the squeal. If you're talking reality no authored work truthfully stands to it. Sues are just another part of that fantasy work, and no matter whose fantasy it is, if it is adequately expressed I can find myself enjoying it. It doesn't matter to me sometimes whether the characters are themselves, or whether the main is a deity in fleshy form. It's the story. The problem with most Sue that I find repulsive, isn't that they're all powerful and perfect. It's that they cannot grow. Which is I'll admit partly what you've stated, a perfect being cannot become any more perfect, but think of it for a moment, a story isn't worth its salt if it ends in the same place it began, that's why most shows die off after a season or two. You can't reset the clock too many times. We never really expect the main character to die, and when they do we expect something to happen to resurrect them, after all how can you have a story if you killed your main character? By the very nature of knowing we're reading a story, we're altering our expectations. If a story were to truly be as chaotic and random as the real world, if it's characters each showed flaws of nature, weakness of heart or poor choice of judgment, than it wouldn't be a story. We want stories that inspire us, arouse us and incite us, and reality often falls too far short of that hurtle.
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