Writers' Workshop General Chat Thread

[Misfit Angel]

Well, I know what I'm asking for when my birthday rolls around.

 

[Beth Pavell]

basic bitch

I still have no idea what the hell "basic" is supposed to mean now, beyond being some sort of hip insult

 

[Misfit Angel]

I go by @Caitlin 's definition: a mid-20s, early 30s white girl who is a fraud; into trends such as fashion and music, but deeply detestful of those very trends and the people who follow them, instead preferring simple pleasures and simple tastes. I don't know how accurate that is, but after years of having that term thrown at her, that's what she figures it is and that's what I've come to adopt it as.

 

[Ereshkigal]

I try to avoid it as description. It falls under the "buffalo" problem.

 

[AceTrainer14]

There is an Urban Dictionary definition that is a tad more blunt in defining things. I think it is one of the insults that has become so overused, much like Mary Sue or hipster, that it doesn't really mean anything anymore.

Speaking of names, this great tweet has suggested your pen name should be the name of your childhood pet and the thing you fear.

 

[Ereshkigal]

So my pen name would be Murderclaw Heights.

 

[Misfit Angel]

So my pen name would be Murderclaw Heights.

Totally stealing that for my next D&D campaign. Murderclaw Heights, home of the mysterious Catfolk: none have returned to tell tales (tails?) of what it's like.

 

[Ereshkigal]

Totally stealing that for my next D&D campaign. Murderclaw Heights, home of the mysterious Catfolk: none have returned to tell tales (tails?) of what it's like.

We both are of the same mindset. Murderclaw was a cat XD

 

[AetherX]

Dart Waking-each-morning-to-a-life-devoid-of-meaning-having-fallen-even-farther-down-the-pit-of-self-hatred-and-despair-with-no-sign-of-escape-besides-the-ever-approaching-shadow-that-is-death.

Hmm... I dunno how well that would play. I'll stick with Aether.

 

[AceTrainer14]

Dart Waking-each-morning-to-a-life-devoid-of-meaning-having-fallen-even-farther-down-the-pit-of-self-hatred-and-despair-with-no-sign-of-escape-besides-the-ever-approaching-shadow-that-is-death.

Hmm... I dunno how well that would play. I'll stick with Aether.

I mean, you could put that on the front page of a fic, or you could just have plain black with 'Edge' emblazoned across in a somehow even darker font.

 

[Time Breaker]

My "childhood" pet is my current one... so that'd be Sarah Heights.

Which doesn't even work because I'm a male.

...wonderful.

 

[Beth Pavell]

Pippin Winter

... sounds like I'm writing Peter Rabbit stories

 

[Instrutilus]

Tiny Death... Hammy Spiders... Hm...

 

[diamondpearl876]

Mother Death.

Huh. Sounds legit, I guess.

Don't ask why my first pet's name was Mother - I didn't name her, I swear.

 

[Nitro Indigo]

I didn't have a childhood pet of my own.

I'm also struggling for ideas for videos. I'm currently scripting a video about a "deeper look" at EP038, but that's it.

To be more specific, I want to add in a section questioning how Porygon got two evolutions in the first place if controversy blah blah blah, and how excluding them from the anime draws attention to the controversy because it's a conspicuous absence, but I'm not sure how to word it.

 

[Misfit Angel]

"Waffles Nuclear War" would be mine. I don't know why there was such paranoia about the outbreak of nuclear war in the early 90s, the Soviet Union had just fallen and Russia was licking its wounds, there's no way they'd have risked military action at the time.

 

[Ereshkigal]

Tiny Death... Hammy Spiders... Hm...

How about Hammy Death?

"Waffles Nuclear War" would be mine. I don't know why there was such paranoia about the outbreak of nuclear war in the early 90s, the Soviet Union had just fallen and Russia was licking its wounds, there's no way they'd have risked military action at the time.

It wasn't Russia they were paranoid about. It was the fact quite a few Russian nukes simply went missing during that period (some still are), and a number of groups breaking off from the Soviet Union that had really good reason to dislike the U.S. and included people crazy enough to actually use those nukes.

 

[Instrutilus]

How about Hammy Death?

To be honest, I like Hammy Spiders. Imagine the Shakespearean plays...

Anyone know how to do film effects? Do big, hammy spiders doing Shakespeare.

 

[Legacy]

I am working on a new fic, but I don't know when/if I'll get around to posting it around here or if there would even be interest. I know FF.net is a cesspool, but at least there are more eyes seeing it

Basically, it's another anime-verse fic, which I know is not that popular around here (not saying that's a bad thing, just sort of a fact). Takes place 7 years after a huge, catastrophic event that changes the entire landscape of life in Kanto. Down and out, Ash, has resigned to the fact that this is life now. People are hungry, oppressed and constantly in danger. But something from Ash's past spurs him on to attempt to put a stop to things and help try to restore peace and safety to his home region.

 

[Beth Pavell]

If I didn't know better I'd swear one of the barmaids at work is flirting with me

Do big, hammy spiders doing Shakespeare.

It'd have to be like Derek Jacobi in that one Frasier episode, hilariously murdering his way through Hamlet