Fire at Wil! (Wil the FE archer: Yipe!)
Bretonnian Archers – take 2
finished Summer ’04
posted for Mar 23, 2007
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Kevin: Well, it’s really Jen writing this, because Kevin is too busy to write anything here (like the fact he’s playing Star Wars Battlefront II…). Anyway, he wants to say that these are obviously his archers again, but this picture was taken later and they’re in a different formation. So, cool.
Also, we unpacked our videos at long last – VHS, you know, videotapes. Not DVDs. And we found the Kevin and Jennifer show (the first ten years of my life + the first five years of his) and the Material and Form show, a partially televised art course recorded at Emily Carr by some guy named Tom Hudson. It’s pretty nifty, and we both enjoy it a lot.
Jen: Today was wet out. I don’t like walking outside in the wet because there are drowned earthworms all over the sidewalk. Blech.
I think my brother has become more interested in Zela suddenly. (I think it’s because he was a character in the unrevised Book 2). This is rather encouraging, but still, when he doesn’t understand something, it’s like he refuses to understand and then we start screaming at each other. “It’s like this!” “But I don’t get that!” “It’s so obvious!” “No it’s not!” and so on and so on.
I really need to work on my Kalmairic grammar. This morning I decided that their worst ejaculation/expletive/swear word would be “I am not happy about this”, only in about two syllables. Probably something like infinitive present (this doesn’t exist, but I’m making it up!) of ‘be’ and ‘unhappy’ all mixed up, with some dropped sounds/vowels-and-or-consonants/syllables. Marked conveniently and correctly by apostrophes.
I need to work on my grammar because as soon as I do that, I can work on ‘generating’ words. After I have the language, I can name places in Zela’s world and then I can make a real map, and then the story will be written with sense.
I discovered an artist who likes drawing funny pictures. She draws pictures of the Alice-in-Wonderland/Mad Hatter pairing, and some LotR, and some Matrix, and some Pirates of the Caribbean, and one wonderful Harry Potter.
I don’t get half of the Matrix one, and it’s getting boring for me because my brother likes it so much, but Elrond in sunglasses is cool. I like the way she draws the twins.
