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[bubosquared]

Going to hell. Emma Watson? I hate you and your underaged self.

So what exactly have Dan and Rupert been up to? they look like they've not slept in three days. Oh, the possibilities, ...

(Molly? If you're driver of the bus to hell, I'm, like, the ticket checker, I think.)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You'd hate her? Why?

In my experience, developing characters isn't the hardest thing about writing non-fanfic. I've found that once I learned how to get across characterisation in fanfic, I could do it in non-fanfic, too, and then the characters started developing themselves. it's the world-building that gives me problems. of course, I write mainly SF&F, so there is that.

[rsadelle]

Because she has that whole obnoxious teenage style thing going on.

I think the world-building is much easier than the characterization. I have this idea in mind for a stock sci-fi/fantasy novel with lesbians, and the world is built in my head, but I can't get a handle on the characters.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Huh. See, around here, teenage style involves eye-hurting colours and five-inch soles. I only wish kids would dress like this around here, it'd make life a lot easier for my retinas.

[rsadelle]

It's not just that it's the teenage style, but that nearly everyone dresses like that. It's my complaint about celebrities these days too: they're all starting to look alike, and that's just boring. (The fact that the actors in the American version of Queer As Folk look like such stereotypical actors is one of the main reasons I have no interest in watching it.)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hm, that could be it. I don't read a lot of magazines anymore, so I'm not really exposed to celebrity fashion.

[rsadelle]

It's not even just the fashion. It's the hairstyles and facial features and body types and just everything. I don't want everyone to look alike. That sort of thing makes life boring.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

That's true, if she'd dress the way most people do over here, I'd think she was boring, and you'd think she was different, I bet. :D

(Although I have to admit, I think this is pretty standard dresscode for a British celbrity, so. :/)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Also, I've found filling out character sheets helps with getting a hold on a character.

[rsadelle]

I want to do that, but I've been frustrated at every turn by my computer. See, I want a two-sided form. So I set up the margins so that they're the same on each side of the page. But then when I print it (either on my printer or my mom's), the edges of the tables (which are the width of the page) aren't even on either side, which means that if they're put two-sided, you can see through the page to the lines on the other side. I need to just nudge the margins so that they will line up, but I got frustrated with it last time I messed with it and temporarily gave it up. Not, of course, that I'm a little obsessive-compulsive or anything like that

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Hm. I fill them out on the computer (mostly because I can never read my own handwriting), and it's mostly the actual filling out that helps. I suppose I should print mine out once they're all done, though.

Have you tried page setup -> margins?

[rsadelle]

I want to fill them out longhand. I've used that to mess with the margins, and for some reason, when it prints, it doesn't actually print in the center of the page even if you have the margins equal on either side. Anyway, because we were having this discussion, I messed with them again, and I think I have them even on either side now.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I've come to the conclusion that to get computers to do what you want, you need about 50% technical knowledge and 50% voodoo. Alas, my boss disagrees, and won't lte me sacrifice a goat over the server.

Spoilsport.

[rsadelle]

That apparently applies to copy machines too. I got the things to line up, but I went to make copies, and the copy machine didn't copy them lined up. So now I either need to figure out what the copy machine is doing and set the margins up so the copies will line up, or else I have to just print them double-sided.

I doubt it's the actual ritual your boss is opposed to; it's probably the increased janitorial costs associated with getting blood out of the carpet.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's extremeny odd. *rubber chicken?*get any higher. Our landlord sucks goats, man. They're half the reasons those thieves from a few weeks ago got in the building in the first place.

[rsadelle]

*blink* Rubber chicken?

Also, yes, it is very odd.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Rubber chickens are essential for voodoo.

Or, possibly, I should stpo reading Garfield so much.

[rsadelle]

Ah, I see. We do actually have a rubber chicken. It lives in one of the kitchen cabinets. (I also have an inflatable eyeball which I unfortunately forgot to take to work for the whole Halloween decorating thing.)

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

You people are freaks. (Says the girl whose computer at work is surrounded by a small *NSync puppet, a Biker Mice from Mars action figure, and a yo-yo ...)

[rsadelle]

You think that's weird. My everyday toys around my room include a ceramic witch, a bendy witch, a bendy skeleton, a plastic mummy, a witch Pez dispenser, The Count from Sesame Street holding a pumpkin, Pinky and The Brain, Buzz and Woody from Toy Story, and a little bunny in a carrot car.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've got a bunch of those things in my Trunk o' Junk, which will appear around my computer as soon as I actually clean out said To'J.

[rsadelle]

That's not junk! They're valuable collectibles. ;p

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

maybe yours are. Mine are junk. Anyone want my Magic: the Gathering cards?

[rsadelle]

Magic: The Gathering? That is junk. I take it all back.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

And that's one of the few things in there that might actually still be worth something. A mini-knife, some fluorescent string, a Slinkie, ... I collect randomness, I tell you.

[rsadelle]

I have a slinkie! It's the plastic kind that's different colors on either side. My (lesbian) boss has a rainbow koosh on her desk.