Reading and Writing, Weekend October 24–27

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 23 of 23 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So playing total catch-up here (I know, I know). On Thursday, I managed to write some at the end in the Justus POV fic of "Its Own Absolution" due to a wonderful antagonists prompt from in_the_blue. It gave me a good headstart. I percolated a lot on Sabbath about it, but didn't turn that sketch into fic until Sunday, and awkward fic at that.

Somewhere in there, I also sketched down some other stuff and have started to rethink my approach to this collaboration. I need something that doesn't fit easily into worldbuilding I've already done for any other story. It's not fair to thecatisacritic.

Also, trovia got me off on an amazing Avengers fanfic novel (I'm a sucker for brothers), so there's that. It took time to read and was good for when I was feeling totally bleh on the mental front.

To the counts:

October 24, 2013

• Fiction: 1041 words - Month to Date: 29,911 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 48 words - Month to Date: 362 words

October 26, 2013

• Fiction: 180 words - Month to Date: 30,091 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words

October 27, 2013

• Fiction: 1139 words - Month to Date: 31,230 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words

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Re: Brain dump to follow...

[scribblemyname]

Not just implication, which is how I get off on these tangents thinking that's what it is when it's a ten-foot-pole thing.

Because if it's blatantly obviously clear that it's not that, you still won't touch it, just as I won't touch scientific vampires that were created by a plausible science fiction origin and handled in a clearly different manner (yes, I'm thinking of a very specific example). I just won't touch it.

:blinks:

No psychics, but you do telepaths? Now, I choose my phraseology, but I'm not sure there's a huge difference. I just looked it up. There isn't a difference. It's another word for what I just call mental or mind-based, which is technically what psychic means: mental. I don't use the word because of the connotations but yeah. So is telepathy out? Pretty basic stuff that.

Re: Brain dump to follow...

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Like I said, my lines are convoluted.

Sounds almost like Stargate Atlantis' wraiths to me, and I was willing to watch that, at least for a while.

Psychics always seemed to me to get visions, and it was the source of the visions (like mediums) that bothered me, and as for telepaths...

I have been thinking for a long time that I shouldn't have anything to do with them. I've had a hard time sticking to that line, but part of the reason I didn't give many prompts for Cate was because she was a telepath (and yet I ended up crossing Recall with Special Unit, so you can see I'm not good about that line. It doesn't help that I liked Jean Grey and other telepaths before I tried to be more faithful and cut the inappropriate things out of my life.)

Re: Brain dump to follow...

[scribblemyname]

I'm don't do mind control, but seeing as it's scientifically and chemically possible to mess with brain waves or read them, then I don't see a problem letting a human mind talk to another one, especially because the hard-wiring is so close to there.

So we'll skip it in this story, but recognize that it won't be nixed from Kingdoms and Thorn. In my vernacular, due to the meaning of the words, telepaths can essentially hear and talk with brain waves instead of mouths if they wish. Nothing crosses the line with that really. Mindreaders on the other hand are another kettle of fish as they do essentially mind meld and can only HEAR minds by either linking in or by being in the line of fire when someone projects thoughts.* In Kingdoms and Thorn speak, Recall is an aggressive touch mindreader. They are both broad categories but that's essentially how they operate.

*Thought projection is like when I'm thinking in the direction of a stoplight, Turn green!

Re: Brain dump to follow...

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying that you would or should take it out of Kingdoms and Thorn.

I have done telepathic bonds myself. Ren has a couple when she goes into the other world. I don't know if that's why I could never finish her story (the guilt of me knowing I was writing things I thought I shouldn't even though her bond started with Ascanati who creatures that are incomprehensible without some level of mental connection.) And Alora was a telepath/telekenetic.

I didn't see Recall as a mindreader at all, or she would never have gotten on the page. Then again, there was a scifi show I watched where they had the technology to project memories onto a screen and watch them, and that was how her ability started to form itself in my mind, as a way of... playback at first.

Now I say that, and I'm just getting more convoluted. I just have that nagging sense that even though I explain it with science, it's still not okay, and sometimes I think I shouldn't be in scifi at all since it must all be wrong somehow.

*sigh*

Re: Brain dump to follow...

[scribblemyname]

Sorry I mentioned anything, but all I meant was that in my worlds mindreading is simply and strictly in reference to being able to read something that originated in someone else's mind. Memories and thoughts are the typical form of that. Telepathy is simply and strictly in reference to be able to catch or throw brain waves and make sense of them even when they're not your own. I don't think that's wrong. But like I said, mind-control. Out.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Recall and sorry I mentioned her. Didn't mean to prompt you to reconsider her.

Re: Brain dump to follow...

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yeah... My definitions are different.

I don't do mind control, either.

I have... a lot of issues, obviously. I don't think I could throw out Recall's story. I have a hard time with that once I've started. *sigh*