Barely even human body parts will give yourself away

[sovay]

The pattern of my days has tended toward craptastic, but theseatheseatheopensea has been writing incredible fills for prompts that I left in threesentenceficathon, most recently the one I threw out originally for an episode of TNG I hadn't seen since childhood. The latest pebble rushthatspeaks has brought me from the internet is a black cat Tarot whose particular standout is the Hanged Man. fleurdelis41 sent me Jewish dance cards and ashlyme a suite of Stanley Myers' The Martian Chronicles (1980). spatch introduced me to Beans. I have been re-reading Robin Scott Wilson's Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973), the anthology in which Le Guin explains how her brain plotted out the characterization of her novelette "Nine Lives" (1969) without bothering to let her know in advance:

Together with this glimpse of the situation, the character of Owen Pugh presented itself, complete and unquestionable, and indeed, at that very point, pretty enigmatic. Having a character really is very like having a baby, sometimes, except that there's a lot less warning, and babies don't arrive full-grown. But one has the same sense of pleased bewilderment. For instance, why was this man short and thin? Why was he honest, disorderly, nervous, and warmhearted? Why on earth was he Welsh? I had no idea at the time. There he was. And his name was Owen Pugh, to be sure. It was up to me to do right by him. All he offered (just like a baby) was his existence. Any assurance that this highly individualized, peculiar, intransigent person really was somehow related to my theme had to be taken on trust. A writer must trust the unconscious, even when it produces unexpected Welshmen.

I don't think anyone has ever made a Morden-and-the-Shadows vid to the Pack a.d.'s "Cardinal Rule" (2011) and it's a crying shame.

Comments

[asakiyume]

wow, just dipping in to those prompt responses; they're great!

I love this as a prompt, too: "my dream house is a negative space of rock"
very cool

[sovay]

wow, just dipping in to those prompt responses; they're great!

I don't think anyone has ever written this many different fics for me and it's honestly been kind of amazing.

I love this as a prompt, too: "my dream house is a negative space of rock"

It was one of my instantly favorite lines from its album and I love what theseatheseatheopensea did with it.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, fills by theseatheseatheopensea are definitely something! I loved the S&S one, of course - and your prompt is very elemental, you're right. *hugs for th rest*

[sovay]

Aw, fills by theseatheseatheopensea are definitely something! I loved the S&S one, of course - and your prompt is very elemental, you're right.

I'm glad I asked for it!

*hugs*

[theseatheseatheopensea]

All credit goes to you, for leaving such excellent, pounceable prompts! <3 <3 <3

And even though I know better than to hope for anything, I still hope for less craptastic days! *hugs*

That black cat tarot is lovely! (I admit I'm more of a Marseilles deck person, but I can still appreciate beautiful tarot art, especially if it includes cats!)

[sovay]

All credit goes to you, for leaving such excellent, pounceable prompts!

I still appreciate deeply that you pounced on them!

And even though I know better than to hope for anything, I still hope for less craptastic days!

Well, I mean, same.

*hugs*

That black cat tarot is lovely! (I admit I'm more of a Marseilles deck person, but I can still appreciate beautiful tarot art, especially if it includes cats!)

The cats in it are so very cat.

[selkie]

On the plus side your godson spoke more human sounds than in like. Two weeks.

[sovay]

On the plus side your godson spoke more human sounds than in like. Two weeks.

I liked his parting pterodactyl screech.

(spatch is thrilled that he is directing one-third of All in the Timing. Apparently it was one of the inaugural productions of Theatre@First in 2004.)

[gwynnega]

I love the black cat Tarot. Also the "unexpected Welshmen" quote.

[gullyfoyle]

"Unexpected Welshmen" is the new name for my band.

[sovay]

"Unexpected Welshmen" is the new name for my band.

I would like to preorder your debut EP.

[gullyfoyle]

"Chase Our Asses Back to Pontypool" from Rarebit Records

[sovay]

I love the black cat Tarot. Also the "unexpected Welshmen" quote.

It's a really wonderful essay by Le Guin. The other one that sticks with me accompanies Harlan Ellison's "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" and I have no idea how much of it to believe.