Five Things Meme
You know the drill, people. I commented on quiet_tiger 's five things, so she or he gave me this list of five. If you comment on this list and request it, I will give you a list of five things that I associate with you, which you can then elaborate on in your journal.
1.Tim Drake -- Tim either narrates or stars in all of my stories. He fascinates me. Tim turned himself into a hero using only raw obsession and a dream. He didn't have childhood tragedy spurring him on, the way Bruce and Dick and Jason do. He doesn't have super-powers, the way the Supers and the Wonders and the Flashes do. He just fell in love with heroism and calmly, methodically, ruthlessly, built himself into a hero. Tim's mind is exceptional, not his body, but he used his mind to make himself into something powerful. I find that enchanting.
Tim is Robin, but he doesn't belong to Batman as completely as Dick or Jason did. He holds a piece of himself in reserve. Where Dick believed in Bruce absolutely and Jason (recently) loathed Bruce irrationally, Tim learns what he can from his partner but realizes that Batman is not a terribly stable individual.
Tim is also the easiest character for me to write. Some friends of mine say that I'm like him, but they were probably just flattering me.
2. Jason Todd -- Jason is Tim's opposite. He's brash and rash and rough around the edges. Where Tim is careful to a fault, Jason tends to say exactly what he's thinking, often with charming vulgarity. He's fiercely protective of the things he cares about and he's competent, except when impulse or his personal code of honor makes him act like an idiot. What's not to love? Especially when he isn't beating up on Tim.
Jason's is much harder for me to write than Tim, but I've been experimenting with his voice lately. It's fun.
3. Drabbles -- Yep. My longest story is shorter 1500 words, and usually I work with fewer than 500. This length works well for me because I'm more interested in complex emotional reactions than in plot. In 15,000 words, something needs to happen, but in 500? Not so much. Some of my favorite stories use fewer than 100 words.
4. Quizzes -- Not very often! I try to remember that pretty much no one cares how I scored on whatever personality- revealing quiz interested me for five minutes. But sometimes the temptation is too much, especially if I haven't written in a while. This is mostly a fan fiction journal, but you guys can deal with the occasional quiz. They're fun. If the quiz tells me something that I already knew about myself, I assume the quiz is useless. If the quiz tells me something that I didn't already know about myself, I assume that the quiz is wrong. In this way, I can take as many personality quizzes as I like without the danger of learning anything about my personality.
5. Sporadic Posting -- Er, yeah. Sorry. I write lots of things, then decide that I don't like them enough to post them. Also, writing is work. It's much easier to read other people's stories, to take quizzes, or to do memes like this one.
1.Tim Drake -- Tim either narrates or stars in all of my stories. He fascinates me. Tim turned himself into a hero using only raw obsession and a dream. He didn't have childhood tragedy spurring him on, the way Bruce and Dick and Jason do. He doesn't have super-powers, the way the Supers and the Wonders and the Flashes do. He just fell in love with heroism and calmly, methodically, ruthlessly, built himself into a hero. Tim's mind is exceptional, not his body, but he used his mind to make himself into something powerful. I find that enchanting.
Tim is Robin, but he doesn't belong to Batman as completely as Dick or Jason did. He holds a piece of himself in reserve. Where Dick believed in Bruce absolutely and Jason (recently) loathed Bruce irrationally, Tim learns what he can from his partner but realizes that Batman is not a terribly stable individual.
Tim is also the easiest character for me to write. Some friends of mine say that I'm like him, but they were probably just flattering me.
2. Jason Todd -- Jason is Tim's opposite. He's brash and rash and rough around the edges. Where Tim is careful to a fault, Jason tends to say exactly what he's thinking, often with charming vulgarity. He's fiercely protective of the things he cares about and he's competent, except when impulse or his personal code of honor makes him act like an idiot. What's not to love? Especially when he isn't beating up on Tim.
Jason's is much harder for me to write than Tim, but I've been experimenting with his voice lately. It's fun.
3. Drabbles -- Yep. My longest story is shorter 1500 words, and usually I work with fewer than 500. This length works well for me because I'm more interested in complex emotional reactions than in plot. In 15,000 words, something needs to happen, but in 500? Not so much. Some of my favorite stories use fewer than 100 words.
4. Quizzes -- Not very often! I try to remember that pretty much no one cares how I scored on whatever personality- revealing quiz interested me for five minutes. But sometimes the temptation is too much, especially if I haven't written in a while. This is mostly a fan fiction journal, but you guys can deal with the occasional quiz. They're fun. If the quiz tells me something that I already knew about myself, I assume the quiz is useless. If the quiz tells me something that I didn't already know about myself, I assume that the quiz is wrong. In this way, I can take as many personality quizzes as I like without the danger of learning anything about my personality.
5. Sporadic Posting -- Er, yeah. Sorry. I write lots of things, then decide that I don't like them enough to post them. Also, writing is work. It's much easier to read other people's stories, to take quizzes, or to do memes like this one.