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([personal profile] rflong May. 4th, 2008 01:35 am)
from [profile] xnamkrad

Leave a comment and I will
a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your LJ.
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From: [identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com


Okay, I am leaving a comment, although question, "e," has me a bit nervous...

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


a) I knew you from Notebored and Liberty Hall so you were one of my first friends here, I think.

b) Apart from demonic cats (!), probably images like the High Chaporal or Gunsmoke thanks to Prarie Silver.

c) You are never afraid to speak you mind. :D

d) Well there was that one incident with a certain someone who shall remain nameless and a sort of smack down situation (or two).

e) What was the inspiration for Prarie Silver?

f) The cat! The cat!

From: [identity profile] gabriel-writes.livejournal.com


a-Way cool, but it seems like we've know each other for a long time.
b-Dusy, dusty, dusty.
c-That's because my brain doesn't have lips...
d-Food for thought. I might ask someone in common more about THAT fallout.
e-Wanting a fantasy with elements other than Celtic/Arthurian background.
f-Is sleeping.

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


a) I went to pcon V and met you there.

b) Gosh, the whole Irish SF scene at this stage! :D

c) Your strength, determination and organising a fantastic convention.

d) I was nervous as hell going to the con on my own that first day, and you were so welcoming!

e) How did you get involved in all this?

f) The shadow cat logo - it rocks.

From: [identity profile] xnamkrad.livejournal.com


a) snap - lol
b) wow, thats a lot :-)
c) thanks
d) the pleasure was mine
e) have been involved with this since the mid 90's in one way or another. In 2006 I was asked if I'd take over the running of P-Con. so P-Con IV and V are actually the only cons (I wish there was another name for these) I've run.
f) I had it done for my website (you know about the site?) by a professional some years ago.

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


I have to go out right now, and we're having a Dora sundress emergency (apparently - life with a 3 year old!) but I will do so this evening! Promise! :D

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


a) we met through the strange and twisted paths of Liberty Hall and Notebored, mutual friends and ... it all gets a bit blurred.

b) Wolves (of course), fairies, and the weird idea that you are somehow all unknowing, closely related to my friend Lindsey.

c) You are open, friendly and so supportive.

d) Having never met in person, you came up to me at Pcon and whispered "I'm theladywolf" and went "What's Lindsey doing here?" then realised you weren't Lindsey! :D

e) Are you in fact Lindsey? :D Ok, no seriously, I think you're a teacher - what do you teach?

f) the fairies one above.

From: [identity profile] theladywolf.livejournal.com


OK I am Lindsey but it's been fun messing with your head. :D



I'm a primary teacher and a few years ago I moved from teaching mainstream into Learning Support and Resource, all now referred to as S.E.T.

From: [identity profile] wolf-dude64.livejournal.com


I think I may have posted to this anonymously by accident. Still getting the hang of this LJ stuff. As I said--do me, do me!

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


It's all right. I have the power to delete little slip ups like that!

a) When did we first start critiquing? It has been a very long time, so when you arrived here I had to.

b) Military fantasy, suits of armour and Sutton Hoo because of that av you had on Notebored/Liberty Hall.

c) You're Dude! What's not to like? And you've never given up on my Holtlands stories.

d) That Lizzies story. I loved that story. (ok, technically not you but...)

e) This is a tough one. Em... Where did the inspiration for Osha come from?

f) The Sutton Hoo mask isn't on Lj so I can't pick that I guess so the one above. But if you happen to load the mask/helmety thing on, it would be that one.

From: [identity profile] wolf-dude64.livejournal.com


It's funny--I came up with the name Osha from my work. In the U.S. OSHA is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They regulate workplace safety. I loved the name for my female character in The Order of the Wolf. Strange huh?

The actual character of Osha came about from a documentary I saw years ago. I can't remember the name of it, but it was on the BBC and hosted by some English dude. Anyway it was one of those history shows that reenacted scenes from the past. This particular episode showed how peasants lived in a medieval village. They were depicted as living a simple lifestyle unencumbered with the prudish ideals of society, basically they had nothing and couldn't afford the ideals of their overlords--That's how I wanted to depict Osha.

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


a) You're a Diva.

b) Now? Hot pink hair!

c) You go after what you want and have turned an unpleasant situation right around.

d) I'm still jealous that you met John Barrowman twice.

e) Where did you get the name enticing_thorn from?

f) Fizgig. Has to be Fizgig!

From: [identity profile] enticing-thorn.livejournal.com


That's a good story actually... I had a phase (which i'm kinda still in lol) where i was obsessed with Rogue from the Xmen...and on a site i was browsing it referred to her as an Enticing Thorn - pretty to look at but deadly to touch. I just loved it. So when i decided to join LJ it was the first thing to pop into my head. I use it to sign up to almost everything now.

From: [identity profile] tchernabyelo.livejournal.com


Belatedly, and since I alerady have this meme outstanding, I shall kill two birds with one stone (poor, poor birds) and get your answers as well...

From: [identity profile] rflong.livejournal.com


a) Hatrack, Liberty Hall, Notebored etc... I've known you online for ages! How could I not friend you?

b) Easter mythology and those cranes.

c) Your creativity and your critiques are always insightful and helpful

d) Vying for position with you an Aliette in The Biggest Reject (until you two started selling everything! Talk about a cop out! :D)

e) Where did the name tchernabyelo come from? Why eastern mythology? (Yes, that's two)

f) The cranes, or herons, or whatever the birdies are. (Wait! Those aren't the birds you're going to kill, are they? I like them!)

From: [identity profile] tchernabyelo.livejournal.com


b) threw me for a minute until I realised you'd missed the n off!

d) I'm not selling everything - I'm still top of The Biggest Reject so far this year. The best way of getting the sale is to sub as much as possible, after all... pure scattershot theory!


e) Tchernabyelo is a coined mock-slavic word from the root words for black and white. Before Yi Qin took over, much of what I wrote was set in a Slavic milieu that has yet to see the publishing light of day (there's only one story doing the rounds).

Eastern mythology is a very good question. I wrote a handful of Chinese pieces a long time ago (as in over 20 years - one of them, admittedly polished since, is the one that's in Fictitious Force issue 5), but nothing more until 2005. I grew up loving "The Water Margin", and the recent wuxia films like "Crouching Tiger" and (particularly) "Hero" are just wonderful. For a while I had an idea to do a story about someone who was called just "Walker", who would be going around a vast Chinese-style country tracking down reincarnations of ancient heroes and villains (that was a Water Margin riff, coupled with the idea of someone who walked everywhere to keep in connection with the Earth, Antaeus-style). When I started writing, something in this mutated and, out of nowhere I can consciously recall, Yi Qin and her dead twin sister turned up.

The rest is (ongoing) history. About 2/3 of the stories I've sold have been Yi Qin or that milieu, and several have sold first time out. I have clearly stumbled on something, so I'm damned well going to stick with it.

f) I don't kill birds. Though a time may come when I make an exception for chickens.
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