creeping onward at their petty pace
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truepennyThe Mirador, Chapter 11: 12,638 words
Felix is an anti-hero. Let's all be clear on that. He's cruel and vain, and, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala has remarked, in most books he'd be the villain. I don't expect people to like him; if I do my job right, though, you'll sympathize with him, poor stupid bastard that he is.
He is also sometimes acutely painful to write.
My subconscious was clearly listening. I've had two heavily narrative dreams in the past three days, both of them begging to be made into stories, both of them with female protagonists. Not, of course, that I have time to do anything about it.
matociquala has a deeply thought-provoking post about aesthetics in sff.
I dreamed last night (before the wacked-out cyberpunk anime dream with the bitchin' storyline and kickass heroine) thatmirrorthaw and I adopted two stray female cats whom we named Foxtrot and Echo. (Echo and Foxtrot are, of course, Mick and Jamie's callsigns in the Ghoul Hunters stories, as for example, here.) Foxtrot was a long-nosed gray tuxedo cat with a bad habit of play-biting people's wrists as a sign of affection. Echo was a part-Persian mongrel, fluffy and flat-faced, with big round pale yellow eyes. She was very shy, but starved for love. This dream was so vivid and detailed (including going to the vet and interactions with our current cats) that I woke myself up at least three times thereafter thinking, I have to tell [matociquala | heresluck | family member who is not on LJ] about Foxtrot and Echo--but wait, I only dreamed them.
Dreaming about adopting stray cats is nothing new. It's the vivid verisimilitude and consequent lingering conviction of reality that still has me weirded out.
Felix is an anti-hero. Let's all be clear on that. He's cruel and vain, and, as
matociquala has remarked, in most books he'd be the villain. I don't expect people to like him; if I do my job right, though, you'll sympathize with him, poor stupid bastard that he is.He is also sometimes acutely painful to write.
My subconscious was clearly listening. I've had two heavily narrative dreams in the past three days, both of them begging to be made into stories, both of them with female protagonists. Not, of course, that I have time to do anything about it.
matociquala has a deeply thought-provoking post about aesthetics in sff.I dreamed last night (before the wacked-out cyberpunk anime dream with the bitchin' storyline and kickass heroine) that
mirrorthaw and I adopted two stray female cats whom we named Foxtrot and Echo. (Echo and Foxtrot are, of course, Mick and Jamie's callsigns in the Ghoul Hunters stories, as for example, here.) Foxtrot was a long-nosed gray tuxedo cat with a bad habit of play-biting people's wrists as a sign of affection. Echo was a part-Persian mongrel, fluffy and flat-faced, with big round pale yellow eyes. She was very shy, but starved for love. This dream was so vivid and detailed (including going to the vet and interactions with our current cats) that I woke myself up at least three times thereafter thinking, I have to tell [matociquala | heresluck | family member who is not on LJ] about Foxtrot and Echo--but wait, I only dreamed them.Dreaming about adopting stray cats is nothing new. It's the vivid verisimilitude and consequent lingering conviction of reality that still has me weirded out.
