the daily ramble
Jan. 16th, 2015 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday has included one bath, two loads of laundry, and some unsatisfactory fiddling with computers.
also I have yet to figure out how to uninstall and reinstall firefox when browsers can't go to the firefox webpage, or at least none of the bits that start https, which includes all the support. it probably involves putting the reinstall files on a memory stick having downloaded them to this computer. and I do not have high hopes of it fixing the problem.
also the light bulb has suddenly decided to make much less light in here. it is offputting. it hasn't gone out, it's just, like, sunset bulb.
I don't know if it's dim enough to need to get the book light out but it's not optimal.
niggly problems. daft.
my plan to write 1000 words per day kind of intended to make me write fiction. all words count, but it don't take very long before I'd be complaining about the same things again again, so it would be better to start a story and be less bored. It was my cunning plan to sneak up on myself.
... as per usual the too many options not enough brains effect is sort of a drag on my creativity.
at this rate I'll start writing up my epic mary sue of trying to get to sleep. there's variations which mix together Torchwood and Enterprise, and there's the long one that's mostly comics, and both of them are usually xovers with Stargate and related properties. Because who's to say that Doctor Who and Stargate aren't in the same universe? The rules are wiggly enough they might be. Stargates lead to planets ruled by a handful of species so far, and Doctor Who's lot mostly use ships, so that's why they wouldn't bump into each other.
trying to make an actually original story is, well, impossible, on account of stories being idea stew. some are closer to fanfic than others, but really, how do you invent a superhero or supers team and not be revisiting something that happened in a comic somewhere? and isn't a super team really the Knights of the Round Table when you get right down to it? And anything with spirit guides is going to look like a riff on HDM daemons or Sentinels, from a fanfic point of view. Like, The Sentinel didn't go in to the spirit guides side very often, but the standard trope set for Sentinel fusions or aus tends to include them, because we like that bit. Especially the soul mates / spirits merging bit, which is pretty much Sentinel canon. And sometimes the main difference between daemons and spirit guides is if they interact with the physical everyday world or not, either way they're chatty other halves. Which is not very Sentinel, but does give even the most stoic character someone to talk to. Like the dog that has all the emotions in that Batman cartoon I saw a bit of, because Batman can't be having with feelings. They're handy.
I could write a spirit guides thing and pretend it wasn't anything to do with Sentinel, but I'd be lying. and it's just interesting to see which bits get picked up and passed around as shiny. if that many people liked it and went around making Sentinel/Guide aus for their fandoms, there's something in it that clicks, regardless of source text.
I think part of it's the way it forges a long term and personal relationship out of working together. Like, human society has changed a lot recently, in terms of mobility and how we're organised. Ape brains have like a team that is their people, call it a tribe or band or whatever, they have far fewer people they're going to be seeing regularly and those are their people. And they'll work together to attain goals, like history humans hunting really big things or running a farm together. And through most of history they'll probably continue to see mostly the same people, unless they do a big quest or something. But nowadays we've got persistent relationships with family or romance, only they're not necessarily close geographically any more. And they're mostly expected to be split out from the working together to achieve a goal. And friendships might not be much to do with any other part of life. Like, you and your mates are not going to be going and getting all the foods together, much less growing it, and the people you eat with are not necessarily on your side in any way whatsoever, and it's all very weird to the monkey brains. And then the way many people make a living these days, the going off to work and then getting another job somewhere else and so on and so forth, the only persistent relationship is with money, or possibly debt. They're not doing things as a team who have goals in common and feelings to go with them, they are doing things for money, alongside other people who are also there because of money.
Our relationships have sort of split by specialisation, and the ones we spend the most hours on are not necessarily meant to be the closest.
But then there's fanfic, and maybe it's about police partners or spy teams or starship crews, but what it's mostly about is a relationship forged alongside other people who consider the work and the people they work with at most equally important, and will say sod the job if friends need them to.
It brings the hours and the work and the emotions back into alignment.
And, yes, adds sex. Because humans. But even TV shows that don't add sex still go with the relationships thing, the partnerships and found families, even when real work of even that sort don't work like that at all.
... none of that explains adding animal spirits. it's a more general theory of why team. because monkey brains.
what the spirit guides and soul bonds do though is add permanence in a very transient world, and depth and, well, spirit, an element of meant-to-be and connection that transcends the otherwise often mundane setting. Like, yeah, mostly they're going to be hunting boring humans who break laws, but there's more to the world than that, and they can both see it.
The Sentinel was about the both of them opening up the world of their partner, showing them stuff they couldn't have seen alone.
... i have spent far more time with Sentinel fic, even Sentinel/Guide aus, than with Sentinel canon. Not least because said canon is in my VHS collection.
but again, trying to pick up on themes that people are finding useful and valuable, that seems to be a thing.
I should have added something about coherence and having an actual point before challenging myself this way, or at least I shouldn't inflict it on the whole internet.
But there, my daily thousand words, today about monkey brains and the value of team and spirit guides in a money mediated transient world.
also I have yet to figure out how to uninstall and reinstall firefox when browsers can't go to the firefox webpage, or at least none of the bits that start https, which includes all the support. it probably involves putting the reinstall files on a memory stick having downloaded them to this computer. and I do not have high hopes of it fixing the problem.
also the light bulb has suddenly decided to make much less light in here. it is offputting. it hasn't gone out, it's just, like, sunset bulb.
I don't know if it's dim enough to need to get the book light out but it's not optimal.
niggly problems. daft.
my plan to write 1000 words per day kind of intended to make me write fiction. all words count, but it don't take very long before I'd be complaining about the same things again again, so it would be better to start a story and be less bored. It was my cunning plan to sneak up on myself.
... as per usual the too many options not enough brains effect is sort of a drag on my creativity.
at this rate I'll start writing up my epic mary sue of trying to get to sleep. there's variations which mix together Torchwood and Enterprise, and there's the long one that's mostly comics, and both of them are usually xovers with Stargate and related properties. Because who's to say that Doctor Who and Stargate aren't in the same universe? The rules are wiggly enough they might be. Stargates lead to planets ruled by a handful of species so far, and Doctor Who's lot mostly use ships, so that's why they wouldn't bump into each other.
trying to make an actually original story is, well, impossible, on account of stories being idea stew. some are closer to fanfic than others, but really, how do you invent a superhero or supers team and not be revisiting something that happened in a comic somewhere? and isn't a super team really the Knights of the Round Table when you get right down to it? And anything with spirit guides is going to look like a riff on HDM daemons or Sentinels, from a fanfic point of view. Like, The Sentinel didn't go in to the spirit guides side very often, but the standard trope set for Sentinel fusions or aus tends to include them, because we like that bit. Especially the soul mates / spirits merging bit, which is pretty much Sentinel canon. And sometimes the main difference between daemons and spirit guides is if they interact with the physical everyday world or not, either way they're chatty other halves. Which is not very Sentinel, but does give even the most stoic character someone to talk to. Like the dog that has all the emotions in that Batman cartoon I saw a bit of, because Batman can't be having with feelings. They're handy.
I could write a spirit guides thing and pretend it wasn't anything to do with Sentinel, but I'd be lying. and it's just interesting to see which bits get picked up and passed around as shiny. if that many people liked it and went around making Sentinel/Guide aus for their fandoms, there's something in it that clicks, regardless of source text.
I think part of it's the way it forges a long term and personal relationship out of working together. Like, human society has changed a lot recently, in terms of mobility and how we're organised. Ape brains have like a team that is their people, call it a tribe or band or whatever, they have far fewer people they're going to be seeing regularly and those are their people. And they'll work together to attain goals, like history humans hunting really big things or running a farm together. And through most of history they'll probably continue to see mostly the same people, unless they do a big quest or something. But nowadays we've got persistent relationships with family or romance, only they're not necessarily close geographically any more. And they're mostly expected to be split out from the working together to achieve a goal. And friendships might not be much to do with any other part of life. Like, you and your mates are not going to be going and getting all the foods together, much less growing it, and the people you eat with are not necessarily on your side in any way whatsoever, and it's all very weird to the monkey brains. And then the way many people make a living these days, the going off to work and then getting another job somewhere else and so on and so forth, the only persistent relationship is with money, or possibly debt. They're not doing things as a team who have goals in common and feelings to go with them, they are doing things for money, alongside other people who are also there because of money.
Our relationships have sort of split by specialisation, and the ones we spend the most hours on are not necessarily meant to be the closest.
But then there's fanfic, and maybe it's about police partners or spy teams or starship crews, but what it's mostly about is a relationship forged alongside other people who consider the work and the people they work with at most equally important, and will say sod the job if friends need them to.
It brings the hours and the work and the emotions back into alignment.
And, yes, adds sex. Because humans. But even TV shows that don't add sex still go with the relationships thing, the partnerships and found families, even when real work of even that sort don't work like that at all.
... none of that explains adding animal spirits. it's a more general theory of why team. because monkey brains.
what the spirit guides and soul bonds do though is add permanence in a very transient world, and depth and, well, spirit, an element of meant-to-be and connection that transcends the otherwise often mundane setting. Like, yeah, mostly they're going to be hunting boring humans who break laws, but there's more to the world than that, and they can both see it.
The Sentinel was about the both of them opening up the world of their partner, showing them stuff they couldn't have seen alone.
... i have spent far more time with Sentinel fic, even Sentinel/Guide aus, than with Sentinel canon. Not least because said canon is in my VHS collection.
but again, trying to pick up on themes that people are finding useful and valuable, that seems to be a thing.
I should have added something about coherence and having an actual point before challenging myself this way, or at least I shouldn't inflict it on the whole internet.
But there, my daily thousand words, today about monkey brains and the value of team and spirit guides in a money mediated transient world.
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Date: 2015-01-16 07:59 pm (UTC)(I had the same problem when I reinstalled last week.)
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Date: 2015-01-17 03:19 pm (UTC)but thanks.