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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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.