Staring at the ceiling gets really *old*
Oct. 14th, 2011 03:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethIt is college tomorrow. Well, today, seeing as it is past three in the morning. I have slightly less than four hours to get eight hours sleep. And I'm not the slightest bit sleepy. I've only been awake 12 hours, why would I be sleepy? Of course I was only asleep four hours before that, but apparently that don't matter. So I'm left knowing that I can probably be both awake and coherent by the time it is time to leave for college, but at that point I would be committing to staying awake more than 24 hours, and crossing the road several times at the end of it. Not Good. So unless I get some sleep in the next three and three quarter hours I can't go to college. And yet, as mentioned, not tired.
At times like this my brain spins its wheels quite creatively.
Today I have figured out who the King of Dust and Ashes is, especially who he is to January. Also possibly why he's very disappointed in his son. I was thinking, in my ghosts 'verse, the ghosts pair up with a living person, and then both of them have more power. Ghosts can't form new associations so it has to be someone they knew when alive. And people can do desperate things for power. So then I thought, Hamlet and Ophelia. Only that way she isn't just trying to get out, she'd have a plan.
... there's a leap in there that makes perfect sense in my brain...
The King of Dust and Ashes as played by Patrick Stewart, who was in Hamlet, playing both King and Ghost. Only in this 'verse he's both in one person. Like January, he walks both sides of that door. But he has been doing it just a little longer, and he has truths to impart. He would capture J for long enough to explain them.
He would also keep calling J Jon. Fixing that and fixing her own identity and agenda all go hand in hand. But when she stands up and says if she's anything she'll be Queen of Shades... then the King starts laughing, and lets her go. He says, if she wants to contend for that throne... and then he just laughs.
I should probably write some of these as proper stories.
I like ghost stories because killing people doesn't solve anything. They do an Obi Wan on you and you're in twice as much trouble. Of course, all things considered, so are they...
I like the story with Rachel and Helaine because there's all these guys with swords running around treating it like a fighting story but really it's all building up to a wedding. Is much more fun that way.
I was also thinking about comics, and superheros, and what the important parts of that story are for me. I keep thinking on which characters I would keep out of the DCU and they're not actually ever ones with superpowers. It's all about the humans who push themselves harder and fight the good fight. Maybe in power suits or with improbable degrees of athleticism, but still, humans.
The forces they're fighting against? Probably not so much human. We're always outnumbered, we're maybe outgunned as well.
Today I watched a Smallville episode because the digital guide said Ted Kord was in it. And Booster Gold. It didn't mention Jaime Blue Beetle was in it too. It was about fame and secret identities. And of course how Booster, initially, is Doing It Wrong, because of wanting to be famous and rich and stuff, instead of just being heroic and hoping the bills get paid somehow. It reminded me of all the reasons I can't watch Smallville, because I care about the DCU and they just kind of mash it up in a blender and end up with DCU dribbly bits. Booster wasn't Booster even. And Ted was barely in it, and he was just some industry guy, not a daft class clown in skintights shooting people with light and air. And Dan Garrett got mentioned but only for long enough to go evil and dead, which feels a bit odd. The only plus point was Lois Lane decided to make Clark Kent into a secret identity with glasses and all. It's like that fixes decades of her not noticing. Secretly she's going lalala I can't see him so neither can you lalala. Is fun. Mostly though, it extracts bits of character to tell its ongoing story, and its never the bits that were important to me. So Smallville is not so much fun.
I stopped reading comics ages ago. Tons of stuff has happened since then. I keep thinking I could catch up on the good bits, but mostly I only hear about the bits everyone goes AAAAAAA about at once.
I should probably try and sleep again.
It's just so so so boring.
There's a little graph of my attendance on one of the college Blackboard pages. I apparently miss college once ever seven weeks or so, except there's holidays so there's really no pattern, once or twice a semester is all. 90% attendance isn't really that impressive. And it's mostly this sleep thing. Though sometimes its the other sleep thing where I don't sleep because my brain has gone very wrong. Either way, sleep.
I should probably try and improve that sleep pattern thing too.
Thinking about superheros, clearly much more fun.
At times like this my brain spins its wheels quite creatively.
Today I have figured out who the King of Dust and Ashes is, especially who he is to January. Also possibly why he's very disappointed in his son. I was thinking, in my ghosts 'verse, the ghosts pair up with a living person, and then both of them have more power. Ghosts can't form new associations so it has to be someone they knew when alive. And people can do desperate things for power. So then I thought, Hamlet and Ophelia. Only that way she isn't just trying to get out, she'd have a plan.
... there's a leap in there that makes perfect sense in my brain...
The King of Dust and Ashes as played by Patrick Stewart, who was in Hamlet, playing both King and Ghost. Only in this 'verse he's both in one person. Like January, he walks both sides of that door. But he has been doing it just a little longer, and he has truths to impart. He would capture J for long enough to explain them.
He would also keep calling J Jon. Fixing that and fixing her own identity and agenda all go hand in hand. But when she stands up and says if she's anything she'll be Queen of Shades... then the King starts laughing, and lets her go. He says, if she wants to contend for that throne... and then he just laughs.
I should probably write some of these as proper stories.
I like ghost stories because killing people doesn't solve anything. They do an Obi Wan on you and you're in twice as much trouble. Of course, all things considered, so are they...
I like the story with Rachel and Helaine because there's all these guys with swords running around treating it like a fighting story but really it's all building up to a wedding. Is much more fun that way.
I was also thinking about comics, and superheros, and what the important parts of that story are for me. I keep thinking on which characters I would keep out of the DCU and they're not actually ever ones with superpowers. It's all about the humans who push themselves harder and fight the good fight. Maybe in power suits or with improbable degrees of athleticism, but still, humans.
The forces they're fighting against? Probably not so much human. We're always outnumbered, we're maybe outgunned as well.
Today I watched a Smallville episode because the digital guide said Ted Kord was in it. And Booster Gold. It didn't mention Jaime Blue Beetle was in it too. It was about fame and secret identities. And of course how Booster, initially, is Doing It Wrong, because of wanting to be famous and rich and stuff, instead of just being heroic and hoping the bills get paid somehow. It reminded me of all the reasons I can't watch Smallville, because I care about the DCU and they just kind of mash it up in a blender and end up with DCU dribbly bits. Booster wasn't Booster even. And Ted was barely in it, and he was just some industry guy, not a daft class clown in skintights shooting people with light and air. And Dan Garrett got mentioned but only for long enough to go evil and dead, which feels a bit odd. The only plus point was Lois Lane decided to make Clark Kent into a secret identity with glasses and all. It's like that fixes decades of her not noticing. Secretly she's going lalala I can't see him so neither can you lalala. Is fun. Mostly though, it extracts bits of character to tell its ongoing story, and its never the bits that were important to me. So Smallville is not so much fun.
I stopped reading comics ages ago. Tons of stuff has happened since then. I keep thinking I could catch up on the good bits, but mostly I only hear about the bits everyone goes AAAAAAA about at once.
I should probably try and sleep again.
It's just so so so boring.
There's a little graph of my attendance on one of the college Blackboard pages. I apparently miss college once ever seven weeks or so, except there's holidays so there's really no pattern, once or twice a semester is all. 90% attendance isn't really that impressive. And it's mostly this sleep thing. Though sometimes its the other sleep thing where I don't sleep because my brain has gone very wrong. Either way, sleep.
I should probably try and improve that sleep pattern thing too.
Thinking about superheros, clearly much more fun.