Everything we do tonight is wrong, wrong, wrong

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From kraada, a meme. I will be out of town for the weekend and potentially AWOI (absent without internet), so my replies may take a few days, but—

Comment and I will:

1. Tell you why I added you to my friends list and/or why I keep you there.

2. Associate you with something. A song, a color, a work of art, a character in a play, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you/us.

5. Associate you with a character from a book or a film.

6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

8. In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

Comments

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Well. I suppose you could always do more writing . . .

That's my other deadline . . .

1. Your dialogues on movies are unfailingly interesting and I love your comics.

2. Recoil (with Nicole Blackman)'s "Breath Control."

3. I speak only from experience of Boschen and Nesuko and Moving Innocent, but your characters have the ability to shift from consistently smile-worthy humor to punch-in-the-heart pain with as little as a line of dialogue or a shift of expression between panels: and then back. I do not know if that is a balance I could pull off, much less maintain.

4. You set me up with a prince.

5. Tadhg Conneelly, from The Secret of Roan Inish (1994).

6. Where does your name come from?

7. I'm inexplicably fond of the one with Donald Duck about to be grabbed around the throat by a book.

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2. Recoil (with Nicole Blackman)'s "Breath Control."

And now I need to hear that song . . .

your characters have the ability to shift from consistently smile-worthy humor to punch-in-the-heart pain with as little as a line of dialogue or a shift of expression between panels:

You're sweet, thank you. Humour's a tricky business, as I have to trust myself that I can count on its effects as I move forward, yet humour can be so subjective. But I find pain and humour flow pretty naturally together--most people I know, myself included, when they talk about something painful tend to interject humour in order to ease self-examinations. I've used humour as a defence mechanism when I was kid, and I apply it sometimes as an anaesthetic when I need to have a discussion with someone about something sensitive.

4. You set me up with a prince.

What could I do? He threatened to quit if he couldn't have you.

5. Tadhg Conneelly, from The Secret of Roan Inish (1994).

And now I need to see that.

6. Where does your name come from?

It used to be the name of a character in Boschen and Nesuko's universe, but I liked it so I stole it, and now his name's Seluchen, which may actually be a slightly less silly name than Setsuled, but I chose Setsuled because it's slightly silly. I came up with the character in high school, freshman or sophomore year. Like many of my alien names, I started by spelling an English word backwards, in this case "delete", and then adding whatever letters I felt like.

7. I'm inexplicably fond of the one with Donald Duck about to be grabbed around the throat by a book.

Heh. Since you're a writer, I'm not sure it's so inexplicable. It comes from the 1945 short "Duck Pimples".

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And now I need to see that.

It has selkies, not mermaids, but it's one of my touchstone films about the sea. Splash is another, because I saw it at such a young age that all the romantic comedy bypassed me completely and what I retained was the myth and the metamorphosis, and all the scenes aboard the Flying Dutchman in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Like many of my alien names, I started by spelling an English word backwards, in this case "delete", and then adding whatever letters I felt like.

Where did the names "Boschen" and "Nesuko" come from?

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It has selkies, not mermaids, but it's one of my touchstone films about the sea.

And my interest was already piqued.

Splash is another, because I saw it at such a young age that all the romantic comedy bypassed me completely and what I retained was the myth and the metamorphosis

I wore out the tape I loved it for those reasons. And naked Daryl Hannah. Yes, I was lecherous, even as a five year-old.

Where did the names "Boschen" and "Nesuko" come from?

Nesuko's name used to be "Nes," which I got from the acronym for Nintendo Entertainment System--remember, I came up with her when I was thirteen or fourteen. At that point the happiest day of my life was the Christmas morning I was given my first Nintendo. In fact, that day still ranks pretty high.

A few years later, I began noticing "Nes" was a pretty common name in a lot of the Sci-Fi I was reading. So, since I noticed nearly every other Japanese woman's name ended in "-ko", and I was just becoming interested in Japanese culture, she became Nesuko.

Boschen used to be spelled "Boshen," and it was just what he looked like to me when I drew him. I might have been influenced by the bothans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bothan#Bothan) from Star Wars. When I was informed that "Boshen" was an actual name, I changed it slightly, adding the "c" maybe also to vaguely reference Hieronymous Bosch.