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Dixie currently feels:
Excited
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I really have destroyed my sleep patterns.
I'm suffering from severe insomnia - the only time I can actually sleep is between noon and 4PM.
I stay up all night now, either playing on my DS, playing Brawl - or hanging about on the forums.
Forums!
Which brings me to the reason why I'm so excited. :D
Raven The Ravenous, a user on my forums has suggested that a lot of us get together in threads and work on a collaboration fan fiction.
I've wrote with four other FFN users before, but that was only duos.
This is going to be with 11+ users, with about 3-4 at once.
I don't like to seem like I'm taking charge, because I'm not.
I may be the admin, and I organise the threads and stuff - but I seriously do love organising things.
Due to this, I want to be the fic cleaner. :)
I cleaned all four of the other fics I wrote with others, and I really enjoy doing it.
But yeah, I reckon Raven should be the fic producer, seeing as how it was his idea. :)
A great idea, might I add.
I've asked if I can take part - and be a rival character.
My character's going to be realistic in effect, be exactly like I am, because I'll find it easier to write that way.
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Today I felt like taking lots of photos. :)
So, I've taken some which sort of relate to the way I want to come across in the forum's collaboration fic. :D
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Rival Dixie
1. - Dixie is thinking.
2 - Dixie is still thinking. This is a closer shot, and I can't remember how I ended up taking it, but I like it. :)
3 - Dixie is contemplating.
4 - I found a way to set a countdown on the camera, so I can do a full shot of myself now. :D
5 - I took this one by accident. This is the black punk jacket I mentioned in the "things in common" thread. :)
6 - Dixie, in top form. This is how I'm going to appear firstly in the collaboration fic - sketching gory images in my little black book.
7 - Dixie is glaring at you. I'm actually glaring at the camera, but you can't see my eyes because of my fringe. :)
8 - Dixie is the displeased rival. I'm one not to be crossed. :)
9 - With Pokéball in hand, Dixie searches through this shrubbery in the hopes of finding a Chikorita. :D
10 - ...Pokéball, go!
11 - Don't make me have to use this...
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Rough Dixie
1 - ...Ow... Did that leave a mark?
2 - ...Eww, I can feel blood.
3 - ...Does it look infected?
4 - Beaten and bruised. (I apologise for the camera lens cap being in the shot! :D)
5 - Urrrrrgh... Pain...
6 - *Groans* ...Musn't cry... Musn't cry...
(I want this one to be my new avatar!)
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Pikachu Abuse!
1 - ...Mwah... You're gonna get it, yellow bastard.
2 - ...Oh Pikachuuuu...! :D
3 - Pikachu... Turn around darling... :)
4 - Guillotine!
5 - Pikachu is hanged. :)
6 - Gagged and interrogated at gunpoint. :)
7 - Spider torture!
8 - Skull wound!
For those who are rediscovering us, WELCOME BACK. It took us a couple of years, but we are back. Yay!
For those who are visiting for the first time, you are in for a treat! This blog is the collaborative effort of both Cas & Andreux of MindSay fame. Or notoriety. They kinda mean the same thing anyway, so just go with one or the other. (We totally shall conquer) -- if needed, have a gander at some past entries on this blog. They will give you a peek at the zany updates that you should expect.
Please excuse the mess though, guys. I mean, for goodness sake, it is our first day back. We need to clean up & make images & whatnot. Aside from disclaimers, we are glad that you could make it! Please come back soon 'cause we promise excellent & entertaining blog posts in here =)
Yours truly,
Andreux, the better half
Hey, all. Someone near me has Ralph's Nelson's (the Simpsons bully) "HA-ha" as their ring tone. Still not as cool as the Harry Potter-theme ringtone, but close.
Today is Friday. Most of us are pretty excited that we're so close to the weekend. For me, I like Friday's because I get to show my response to TheRacket's Creativity Exchange (Season 2), and because Friday nights are when we produce our internet radio talk show, WTF Radio. (You can answer tonight's Questions of the Week, if you haven't already.) ((TheRacket's half to be featured here as it's made available.)) (((Paths4Byzantium and AAP have their own CE going on as well.)))
Creativity Exchange has been a great artistic exercise tool. For this second season of CE, if I respond with something visual, I've only allowed myself to respond with photography. It helps push me into exploring my responses a little more, and this has too be a good thing. Though I wonder sometimes if by broadening my horizons, I'm not stretching out a balloon or a pair of jeans so that they never quite hold the same shape again... but enough downers, onto CE2, Week 9 (words by TheRacket, photo by me):
[caliginosity]
dim room locked rocking
chair squeaking
sque-eeak
sque-eeak
clock ticking tock
shrieking thing gloom grim
About Creativity Exchange
TheRacket had a brilliant (and fun) idea. He asked me if I would be interesting in a Creativity Exchange (those are my capitalization, hence, I'm naming it. So, there). It's almost like a short game of tag; he will write or I will draw and we would exchange what we created to the other. There are no hard and fast rules; one person creates something and the other collaborates. He could sketch and I could write, I could take a picture and he write a haiku, he could write a ballad and I illustrate a passage... we're making it up as we go along. The best kind of game, really.
Creativity Exchange Timeline
- Monday &/or Tuesday we work on creating something for the other.
- Wednesday we exchange the pieces secretly.
- Thursday we work on our responding pieces.
- Friday we display them.
Layer Cake Exchange Timeline
Similar to the above exchange, this one adds one more step.
- Monday we secretly exchange our first pieces (Part I) so that only the other can see.
- Wednesday we secretly reveal our responses (Part II), which are responding to the other's Part I.
- We each prepare a response that ties in with the respective Part II, trying to forget about our own original piece that inspired it.
- Friday we publicly reveal our responses to Part II thereby creating a Part III.
- The end product is two separate exchanges, using an original work to inspire a response. Then that response inspires a following response. Techinically, this type of creativity exchange could go on for a long time.
Creativity Exchange Archives
(issue by weeks)
| Season 1 of Spin-off Creativity Exchanges:
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(If you've tried your hand at a Spin-off, please let us know. We'd love to see it.) |
The Creativity Exchange button, push it to go to our wikipage:
Feedback is always appreciated.
Below you will find a photograph snapped and set by nomad. My response this week is a 50-word story, or so it began until I decided to play around with the spacing a bit. It's still a 50-word story (title not included), it just looks...um...unusual. Some think rules are meant to broken. I think that way of words and sentences. Sue me.
Also, you will find some more of my words at nomad's place (link forthcoming) and her response to them. And do check out AAP's and P4B's (?) exchange, too!
Happy Friday,
[tR]
Image by Nomad
[approaching despair]
i crept up to its edge and froze.
dead forest.
old land of dry bark skeleton limbs.
chipped. bruised. peel-
ing.
tens of thousands of brittle
branches. black bony
fingers grasp-
ing at
mist.
vanity.
vanity. all is vanity.
i stumble
chok-
ing on the poison cloud sky.
the birds do not sing.
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