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gumnut-logic · 4 years

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Fanfic Asks 1

This is for @tsarinatorment and @faerie-dancer who asked for V I R G E and V I R G respectively ::hugs you guys:: And also for @such-a-random-rambler who asked for I R and in part for @louthestarspeaker and @janetm74 who also asked for I and @coffee-and-lenna who asked for G. You guys are wonderful.

V. Do you prefer writing established relationships or first times?

If you had asked me this a couple of years ago, I wouldn’t have had a clue, but having written so much Virgil/Kayo (something I would never have thought would have happened), I have to say that I certainly enjoy writing a relationship that sticks like glue. While I don’t see it happening in canon at all, whatever it was I managed to do with those two seemed to work. They have their issues (aka Virgil being a self-sacrificing idiot at times and Kay refusing to admit she is human every now and again), but their relationship is just wonderful to write. Scott and Em, on the other hand are completely different, yet still stuck together.

It was a challenge to get both couples together initially. Virg was the easiest. At the end of Lug Day, it was like he’d been shot by cupid’s arrow….not that he would admit it until I drugged him up several thousand words and fics later. Kay was a wrestle, refusing to show any vulnerability. Virg has the patience of a saint. Em was a little starstruck, but battling so much else at the same time that she didn’t realise she was in love until it suddenly epiphanied. Scott…Scott was the worst. The man would not let down his shields. I had to fight him and it took him a long, long time…sixty thousand bloody words to finally get him there.

In summary, established is easy, first times are hardwork. But they are both fun :D

I. Do you have any particular inspirations when you write fanfic?

Inspirations or aspirations?

I get inspired by all sorts of things. Single word challenges are great. Convos with fellow writers (aka you guys). Lots of ‘what ifs’. Single scenes that sprout in my head then need twenty thousand words of plot to reach.

As for aspirations…I like a challenge. Can I do that? What would happen if I did that? Ooh, I don’t think that has been done before. That would just be a cool scene.

I do try to be different, partly because I can’t help myself, and partly because I just like to explore concepts.

R. Would you ever write a sequel to any of your fics? Which one(s)?

::cracks up and points, laughing:: Apparently I can’t help but add to the AUs I’ve created. According to Ao3, I have fifteen series and I know for a fact that isn’t the total number of sequels.

As for ‘which ones’…the latest is the Anna Kent series which I refuse to leave alone and will hopefully be writing more. The Kermadec AU is definitely going to have more added to it – I have written plans for a sequel to the main fic…once I finish the first one. One sequel that may not be apparent is one that was nudged by a reader on Ao3 who said they would like to see the other side of ‘That Musical Voice’. That fic has rested long enough now for me to go back and re-read and yeah, I think I could manage that – lots of Scott and John worrying over an injured Virg. ::hides ‘The Joker and the Hero’ behind my back…I haven’t forgotten them, I promise::

G. Do you prefer writing one-shots or chaptered fics?

Ummmmm….do I have a choice? I try to write one shots and you’ve seen what happens. One shots are good for finishing and feeling accomplished. Chaptered fics string along for weeks and torture my ability to complete things…but at the same time can be great fun to explore and enjoy with friends.

My problem is I traditionally couldn’t write long. Now apparently, I’m having trouble writing short.

Well, at least I know I can write a novel if poked and prodded and cheered on enough ::hugs you guys::

E. Have you ever written a crossover?

Apart from the inevitable blending of Thunderbirds Are Go with Thunderbirds TOS, there have only been a couple of rare instances of me writing crossovers.

There is one tease scene of TAG Warm Rain/Knight Rider – I Really Need Saving, featuring Kitt (apparently I like writing AIs) and way, way back when I was a teenager (you know, back in the dark ages of the late 80s) I wrote a crossover between Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG which never made it off paper, much less was finished.

-o-o-o-

#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction #writing #fanfiction #meme

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sartorialadventure · 6 years

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I had meant to do a post on historical poor and working-class fashions, but found the subject too difficult. Wonderfully for me, this series (A Stitch in Time) is covering some of the same issues I wanted to talk about, and in this episode, even the specific outfit I wanted to discuss!

This is Dido Elizabeth Belle, the subject of the movie Belle starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and her cousin, Elizabeth Murray. (As a side note, Dido’s uncle and guardian, the Earl of Mansfield, was a judge, and ruled in 1772 that slavery had no precedent in common law in England, and had never been authorised under positive law. This was popularly interpreted to mean that slavery was illegal in England, and it was widely believed after that time that any slave setting foot in the country would automatically become free.)

I was interested in the contrast between the clothing of the two women here: Dido’s outfit is very plain when compared to Elizabeth’s, and exoticized by sashes and a turban (which was popular among upper-class white women as part of the “Turkish” style, but was also common among black British servants). The episode above explains in more detail that Dido was raised as a gentlewoman, but that as an illegitimate child, there was a difference made between her and the rest of the family, and she held a liminal social position (not unlike a governess, who was neither a servant nor a part of the family).

One thing they don’t mention which I had turned up while researching is that the turban or similar headcoverings could be seen as a sign of one’s belonging to the black community. Slave women in the US often wore their hair up and wrapped in a kerchief: in fact, in some parts of the US south, they were required to do so by law.

The Tignon Laws of 1786 decreed that women of African descent, slave or free, should cover their hair and heads with a knotted headdress and refrain from "excessive attention to dress" to maintain class distinctions. Before that time, black women of Louisiana could vie with white women in beauty, dress and manners. In particular, women of African descent would often adorn their hair with colorful jewelry, beads and other accents, demonstrating an exotic appearance which attracted the attention of white male suitors. This perceived threat to white women's relationships with French and Spanish Creole men incurred the jealousy and anger of white women: thus, the Tignon Laws.

However, black women would not allow the law to keep them down. Historian Carolyn Long notes, "Instead of being considered a badge of dishonor, the tignon…became a fashion statement. The bright reds, blues, and yellows of the scarves, and the imaginative wrapping techniques employed by their wearers, are said to have enhanced the beauty of the women of color." [source] Women of color in Louisiana decorated their tignons with their jewels and ribbons, and used the finest available materials to wrap their hair: they reinterpreted the law without technically breaking it.

^ A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women of Color, Agostino Brunias, circa 1769.

This excellent article points out,

Even when Louisiana stopped enforcing the laws in the early 1800s, free women of color continued wearing the tignon. It’s a testament to their resilience: The women of New Orleans refused to allow a piece of cloth to humiliate them, erase their status, or diminish their femininity. Instead, they reinterpreted the tignon as a symbol of empowerment. (And Black women in Louisiana weren’t the only women of color to use clothing to resist oppressive laws: In 1773, free women of color in Saint-Domingue were prohibited from wearing shoes, so they wore sandals, adorned their toes with diamonds and continued to do so after the laws were lifted.)

Clearly, while utilitarian, in that it protected one’s hair from the elements, a headwrap could be an expression of individualism, even for enslaved women. “Cassandra Stancil, enslaved in her youth, insisted that she never asked another woman how to tie her head-scarf. ‘I always figured I could do it,’ she said, ‘I could try and experiment and if not get that, get something that I liked.’ [source]

Black women in Africa had worn similar headwraps ever since trade brought European fabrics to Africa. (They are still worn today, such as the gele of West Africa.) Perhaps for these reasons, there are quite a number of images of women of color of all classes in English and French-speaking countries of the 18th and 19th centuries wearing turbans or tignons similar to Dido’s.

^ Unknown; previously attributed to Jeanne Etienne Liotard. Portrait of a Young Woman. France (c. 1750-1799)

^The famous Marie Laveau of Louisiana, 19th century

^Free Woman of Color, New Orleans, 1844 by Adolph Rinck

^William Kay. Seamstresses, St. Kitts (Carribean), 1798.

The headwrap has long been a symbol of pride, beauty, individualism, and community for women of Africa and the African diaspora.

#fashion #18th century fashion #fashion history #black history #black fashion #black hairstyles #headdress #hats #hairstyles #18th century

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roxvnnes-blog · 6 years

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"if ashley fragipane gets to go by halsey, I get to go by nxa, end of."

┈ did you read that latest viral gossip issue on ROXANNE BALINGER/ NXA? she is one of my favorite R&B/NEO-SOUL artists. they’ve been releasing music for TWO YEARS now, but viral gossip has only been talking about them for the last YEAR. get this, i think i heard SHE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH HER PREVIOUS MANAGER. they’re known as the BITTERSWEET of the music industry, since they have a rep for being BOLD but BRUSQUE, but who knows. maybe that will change once they become #1. ( KAYLA, 21, CST, SHE/HER. )

yo whats up its ur local garbage girl baby kay n this is 97.5 wabd with the test drive at five -- srs tho hey it meme, back at it with a fem muse. im hella excited to play and develop her as well as connect with all yall for her so lets get it on

BACKGROUND:

originally from the cascade heights area of atlanta georgia. her parents were middle class & instilled work ethic into her during her early years

TW FOR DEATH/CAR CRASH when she was 12 her parents were killed in a car accident and she went to live with her grandma because she was her only known living relative

it got rough bc she had to move across the city to lakewood heights to be with her grandma

a troubled Problem child, like her grandma rlly tried but she couldn’t keep roxanne on a leash at all. she was always getting into trouble at school and getting into fights.

by HS she was rlly an outcast, she always seemed like she was unhappy (which she was??) but she also thought nobody gave a fuck about her (still kinda does??)

this was when she rlly started taking a liking to music. like, when she had nobody else around, she had her cds/tapes. she felt good when she listened to janet jackson, aaliyah, britney bitch (lily 👀 👀), lauryn hill, eartha kitt, macy gray, and ella fitzgerald like she just?? rlly?? loved??? music??

but she was 17 going on 18 had no skills, barely graduated hs and has like 1 friend probably sooo

strip

while she was dancing she spent her free time writing/creating songs/lyrics

one night @ the club she asked a client if she could sing to him n he let her but he also told her she’d better stick to dancing lmao what a douche

she rlly wanted to be a music star tho because she felt like a lot of her songs were /realistic/ because they were truthful to her n figured ppl could #relate

so she had a small following on her soundcloud and did a little local show where she was discovered by her first manager. she was frank w/ roxanne and told her basically she wasn’t great but she had potential and if she could put in the work they could make her a big name in the industry

to sum it up, she worked day and night (literally, in the day on music in the studio and at night in the strip club) to get her EP out which gained her more traction (titled UR after it’s lead-off track) during this time she had an affair with her manager who was a married woman, but she rlly cared about roxy and roxy cared about her?? they kinda loved each other romantic stylez?? but it was still rlly ugly in the public eye so when she signed to the big label she parted ways w/ her old manager

now she’s living in LA, fortunate enough to be a full time musician with a highly anticipated debut album

PERSONALITY:

extremely humble. she’s never showy or a braggart when it comes to things she does

still very confident tho. both in herself and in her music because she’s worked so hard on it

very tell-it-like-it is. she’s not one to lie for clout or partake in some bullshit just to make money, especially if it involves music.

very much doesnt care if u hate her, like?? she’s like cool? so what if u dont like me??? i’m not doing this for you anyway???

she’s not one to start any beef chicken or pork but if you badmouth her or drop her name then she will definitely know and she’ll definitely tell her honest opinion of u next time she’s asked n it might sound shady but it’s the Truth from her lips

hardly has a sense of commitment in romantic relationships but values friendship highly and would never betray a true friend

pansexual n very open about her sexuality, experiences, and lifestyle

not Mean but she is blunt and doesn’t like to play games w/ ppl eiether. her intention isn’t to hurt someones feelings but she also feels like ppl deserve honesty

believes in love bc her parents were madly in love and highkey she wants to have that for herself some day she just doesn’t rlly know if it’s in her cards right now???

v into the mystical

OTHER:

okay... so she’s actually named after her grandma. her full name is ethel roxanne balinger, but dO NOT call her ethel. literally it’s such a well kept secret that idk if anyone will ever know that’s her real first name??

she even had it legally changed to just ‘roxanne balinger’ after she got signed so u wont even catch her with an ID that reads ‘ethel’ on it.

seriously if u call her ethel bc somehow your character knows, she’ll punch them

i think?? that’s it right now???? this is already long asf??? but hmu if u wanna plot?? i dont have a connections page yet but im getting there lol

#viral:intro #— * | justkaylathings

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dramallamadingdang · 8 years

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Oh, God! Question meme! A really long one! Run! Hide!

Tagged by @ajaysims. *points* It's his fault! His! Not mine! ;)

This is really long, since it's a synthesis of two of these questions memes and I have verbal diarrhea. So, I cut.

Name: Katrina

Nicknames: Most RL people other than my kids and grandkids call me Kat because one syllable is less than three. :) Simmers call me iCad because that's what I chose to call myself when I started participating in the community. Hubby calls me Kitten. Kids call me Ma, usually in exasperated/long-suffering tones. Grandkids call me Mimi because I hate the usual things that grandmothers are called because they're associated with old people. I may be old, but I'm not old, y'know? :)

Zodiac sign: Taurus, but astrology is still bullshit.

Height: A hair less than 6'0/about 182cm. And very underweight due to digestive/metabolic issues mostly because of a malfunctioning liver. (No, not from alcohol. From having had asymptomatic Hepatits C that I most likely got from a blood transfusion in the early 80s, before they screened donated blood for that. It sucks, y'all. Cherish your liver. Baby it. Seriously. Stop with the alcohol. Just stop. Do weed instead.)

Orientation: In experience/practice: A Kinsey 2. In terms of the kind of person who attracts me: People with IQs over 130. I really, truly don't care what you look like, what gender you identify as, or what sex organs you have or don't have. Smart is seriously sexy. So, I'm sapiosexual. :)

Ethnicity: Whitey-white-white, yay! :| Glow-in-the-dark white. I-start-burning-in-the-sun-in-30-seconds white. Damn-near-albino white. Also, mostly of Welsh descent. Only sort of half-second-generation American on one side; my paternal grandma was one of those horrible immigrants who took a job away from a Real American(TM). She was even a somewhat illegal one, for a few months. But she was white and British so I guess that's OK.

(Sorry, as a person married to a man whose mum -- who is awesome -- was born in Mexico and who came here legally with her family when she was 7 and is a citizen but she still gets shit these days because she’s “a Mexican,” I've sorta come to really hate the kind of people who tend to call themselves Real Americans(TM).)

Favorite fruit: Okra, especially when part of aloo bhindi masala, an Indian dish. Okra IS a fruit. Really. Look it up. Also, tomatoes.

Favorite season: Autumn, when everything is dying. MWAHAHAHAHAH!

Favorite book series: Still Sharon Kay Penman's "Welsh trilogy." Also, though not really a series, per se: The Star Trek novels that were published in the 80s. They got mostly stupid after that, but there were some gems that were published in the mid-80s, before The Next Generation was a thing.

Favorite flower: Calla lilies. Usually used in funeral arrangements, along with Easter lilies, yay. Flowers of death! MWAHAHAH!

Favorite scent: Lilacs. Lavender. Honeysuckle. And this "rain" scent scented candle. It's so clean and fresh and not-perfumey, yet it manages to drown out the brine smell that eventually permeates everything when you live close to the shore...

Favorite color: Greens. All shades, although I prefer the yellower shades, especially the darker ones like army green. Also, orange.

Favorite animal: The spotted hyena, but I already extolled their many virtues the last time I did this list, so I'll refrain. Also, elephants.

Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: Hell no, maybe, and yes please (if it's vegan), respectively.

Average sleep hours: Sleep? What is this word? *just came off a 38-hour work "day" a few hours ago, and I'm too wired to sleep.* YAY SHOWBIZ! :| But generally, when life isn't crazy, usually about 6 hours per 24 hour period. And I'm nocturnal, so those six hours are usually between about 0900 and about 1500. :)

Cat or dog person: Both person. And llama person. And alpaca person. And horse person. And snake person. And spider person.

Favorite fictional characters: Spock. (Well, actually, pretty much the entire original Star Trek crew except, well, Kirk. Whom I hate. With a passion. I really like Abrams-Kirk, though. Oddly enough. So it might just be that I can't stand Shatner...) The Cardassian characters from Star Trek: DS9, but especially Garak. Also, Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien from DS9. Jack O'Neill and Rodney McKay from the Stargate franchise. KITT from the original Knight Rider. And Jayne Cobb from Firefly. (Hi, @eulaliasims!)

Number of blankets you sleep with: I'm in SoCal at the moment. No blankets because I tend to sleep in the warm part of the day. And when I do sleep at night, there's a furnace-like husband and a large, furnace-like dog in the bed with me. Blankets would be overkill.

Dream trip: Still Antarctica. Or space. But Antarctica is more likely at this point. ;)

Blog created: I think it was December of 2013. Maybe November. Ahhhh, those halcyon pre-2016 years...

Number of followers: Right now? 1443. It might change in an hour or so.

Time right now: About 0220 Pacific Time, Wednesday, March 22. One month and one day until my birthday. I expect presents, people! (Nah, I kid. Birthdays after 50 don't mean much. Hell, birthdays after 18 -- or 21, nowadays, I guess -- don't mean much. :) )

Last thing you googled: I was looking for some textures to use for some recolors I'm working on during downtimes at work.

Fave music artist: In terms of non-classical stuff: Queen, always and forever. But I also really like the Barenaked Ladies and other such alternative groups from the 90s as well as 80s New Wave stuff. Also, Metallica. In terms of "classical" stuff: Beethoven, always and forever.

Song stuck in my head: Beethoven's 8th piano sonata, 3rd movement. I was playing it at work today...on my cello. I'm working on arranging the entire sonata for solo cello...starting with the 3rd movement because I do better working on things backward. (Since I'd be willing to bet most people don't know the tune off the top of their head, here's Dubravka Tomsic playing it on youtube, if you're curious.

Last movie I watched: Star Trek Beyond. I liked it better than Into Darkness but not as well as the first Abrams-verse one...

Last TV show I watched: I have Stargate Atlantis paused on my computer screen at the moment. I plan to work on furnishing/decorating the house I put up for download tonight when I'm done with this, and I usually have a TV show playing while I build/decorate stuff in my game. :)

What I’m wearing right now: A pair of black sweatpants and a Telluride Daily Planet T-shirt. (That's the local newspaper at home. :) ) Boring white underwear. My fleece-lined moccasins because my feet are always cold.

The kind of stuff I post: Sims stuff, duh! At least on this blog. :) The other blog has the ranty/political stuff.

Why did I choose my url: Because I like to point and laugh at silly internet drama and because I own llamas, and I added dingdang because dramallama was taken and because of this song.

Gender: According to every one of those silly "What Gender Are You?" online quizzes, I am male, mainly because I'm a self-confident, argumentative, assertive, non-empathetic asshole who doesn't do "feelings." Yet, I have girl plumbing. Go figure. Meh, it's all just social conditioning and expectations, anyway, so...I rebel. I reject gender labeling and their associated roles.

Hogwarts house: I took a quiz once and it said Gryffindor. I've never read Harry Potter or seen any of the movies except one of them during an airplane flight...and I fell asleep during it, so...Yeah, I don't know what it means to be Gryffindor. Don't much care, either.

Pokémon team: Don't know anything about Pokemon, either.

Lucky number: 13 because I am anti-superstition. (Well, except when it comes to white pianos, of course, but I have hard evidence that they are evil, so it’s not superstition. ;) ) Or 42. Take your pick.

Dream job: I once said "Not having one" but then followed it up with "but that's boring." So, I decided to take on some work through June. And you know what? I'm gonna go back to "Not having one." I just need to find some volunteer work to keep me occupied for a few hours a day. Not for 38-hour "days," though. :p

Relationship status: I is married to my second husband. He's cute. And a lot younger than me, woooooooo! First marriage wasn't nearly so fun, though. The only good thing that came of it was my kids.

Pets: Oh, God. Most of them are back home in Colorado (where I have a 39-acre ranch) while I'm here in California, but:

A herd of llamas and alpacas, about 50 total at the moment, but "unpacking" season is approaching, so that number will be going up to about 65 soon. 5 horses 2 nanny goats...which actually belong to a neighbor but they're currently housed on my property, so...they count! 8 dogs 5 cats...although sadly that will probably be going down to four soon because the 18-year-old whose had health problems all her life is currently quite sick and likely won't be getting better. :( Also, there are a ton of barn cats, but they don't really count as pets. A flock of chickens. 1 rooster, the rest hens. 1 California kingsnake 5 tarantulas, various species 8 dragonfly nymphs. I think 2 will become dragonflies this year because I've had them for a few years now...

Last song you listened to: Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, for somewhat sentimental reasons.

Favorite TV Show: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I love the original series a lot, too, but DS9 surpassed it in my book.

First Fandom: Star Trek, of course. I remember declaring that I would marry Spock when I grew up. I was 3 at the time, in 1967, watching the episode "Amok Time" (in which Spock almost gets married) in its original run. We'd only just gotten a color TV a few months before, so it was REALLY COOL. I also wrote a crapton of fanfic in the 70s/80s and a bit in the 90s. Even published a 'zine in the 80s. It was expensive as hell back then but SO MUCH FUN!

Randomly Tagging People I Don’t Think I’ve Tagged For This Thing Before: @randommindtime (It's what you get for following me!), @yandereplumsim, @elfpuddle, @halousims, @nuttydazesublime, and @kayleigh-83. As always, feel free to ignore for whatever reason. :)

#non sims #meme #ye olde questions meme

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