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1. The Hell is a framling?
In the opening chapters of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, a professor is explaining the four Norse orders of foreigness to her class; raman, varelse, utlanning (there should be an umlaut in there, I think), and framling; a framling is defined as 'human, but not of the same world'. The direct translation from Swedish is 'stranger'. I originally chose 'Framling' as a penname, because I thought that was cool and I felt it fit me pretty well, but when I came to LJ there was already a framling, and an em, so I squished the two together.
2. I may or may not have already asked this, but say that plans were being made for a Discworld movie. Whose name would you like to see on the script, and whose name should placed under the director's credit?
Well, ideally it would be directed by Terry Gilliam, maybe in collaboration with Tim Burton (but only if it was animated.), because Gilliam has a knack for hiring the right people to get the setting to feel right, and also a taste for the bizarre. As for writing the script, if Mr. Pratchett declined, then I'm sure I'd be glad to step in. (Duh.) And I'd probably askdisc_sophist to do a cowrite, solely on the basis of her Foul Ole Ron icon.
(BTW, there have already been two Discworld films, animated, available on DVD - one is Witches Abroad, and I can't remember what the other one is but have a suspicion it may be Mort.)
3. 3. Write your own Myst age. Please.
Well, you'll have to live with the flyer/condensed version, because I haven't time to write a Book :p Also, it will be a very small Age.
The Age of Êhm, I'd call it, and it would have a temperate climate and a southern boreal ecosystem; occasional deciduous trees, very tall, with trunks wide enough to be hollowed out and circulatory systems such that hollowing them out does not kill the tree; instead, the sap would coat the inside wall and harden into a lacquer; conifers would form the bulk of the forests, with pine-cones the size of people, and needles that become soft and drop off when they die. In the spring, when the sun hits the cones, they begin to open, heralded by a drum-like noise as trapped air is released. This serves as a warning to the native people that the cones are about to fall and it might be a good idea to remain indoors for a bit. The seeds of the pinecones are good to eat and a bit sweet, and there is a harvest every year, followed by dancing.
The forest slopes down around a huge bay, glacier-carved (so technically a fjord, but with cliffs worn into slopes by erosion) which leads out to a huge freshwater sea; the beach is made of peridotite pebbles, worn smooth over millenia and red where they've been oxidised, but bright green when cracked in half. They make a gentle slope until the high tide line, at which point they take a sharp dip and keep dipping, so the bay gets very deep very quickly. The fish in it are small and brightly coloured, as are the birds which fly in the forest. Sometimes huge birds with massive wings can be seen floating over the sea; sleeping on thermals with their wings outstretched.
All of the machinery is hydraulic and finely balanced, nearly frictionless; haul a bucket of water from the bay and pour it into a similar bucket at the top, and the potential energy will cause the machine to start working. There is no need for steam or valves (oh, how I hated steam and valves in "Riven" and "Exile"!).
4.In your opinion, has Bush done anything right? (Double credit for this, it's like asking where Santa's house is located)
Well, when the Trade Center towers fell, he was reading a book to kids in an effort to show them that reading was a good thing. That’s pretty cool. (I’m not sure he should have kept going after he’d been informed, but the concept is pretty good.) And... well, he means well, I’m sure.
And Father Christmas lives on Ellesmere Island. Duh.
5. Be honest: Did you like "The Lone Gunmen?"
Yes. I liked The Lone Gunmen. I liked them as secondary characters, and I liked them as primary characters, and when they were primary characters I got more of the interaction between them, which was one of my favourite things about The X-Files. I love the name because it’s grammatically correct and still an oxymoron, I love the way they all complemented each other, and I loved that they Fought Evil by being really geeky.
So yes, I liked TLG.
coreyfoster_esq, the mind behind my Jolly Budgie icon.1. The Hell is a framling?
In the opening chapters of Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, a professor is explaining the four Norse orders of foreigness to her class; raman, varelse, utlanning (there should be an umlaut in there, I think), and framling; a framling is defined as 'human, but not of the same world'. The direct translation from Swedish is 'stranger'. I originally chose 'Framling' as a penname, because I thought that was cool and I felt it fit me pretty well, but when I came to LJ there was already a framling, and an em, so I squished the two together.
2. I may or may not have already asked this, but say that plans were being made for a Discworld movie. Whose name would you like to see on the script, and whose name should placed under the director's credit?
Well, ideally it would be directed by Terry Gilliam, maybe in collaboration with Tim Burton (but only if it was animated.), because Gilliam has a knack for hiring the right people to get the setting to feel right, and also a taste for the bizarre. As for writing the script, if Mr. Pratchett declined, then I'm sure I'd be glad to step in. (Duh.) And I'd probably ask
disc_sophist to do a cowrite, solely on the basis of her Foul Ole Ron icon.(BTW, there have already been two Discworld films, animated, available on DVD - one is Witches Abroad, and I can't remember what the other one is but have a suspicion it may be Mort.)
3. 3. Write your own Myst age. Please.
Well, you'll have to live with the flyer/condensed version, because I haven't time to write a Book :p Also, it will be a very small Age.
The Age of Êhm, I'd call it, and it would have a temperate climate and a southern boreal ecosystem; occasional deciduous trees, very tall, with trunks wide enough to be hollowed out and circulatory systems such that hollowing them out does not kill the tree; instead, the sap would coat the inside wall and harden into a lacquer; conifers would form the bulk of the forests, with pine-cones the size of people, and needles that become soft and drop off when they die. In the spring, when the sun hits the cones, they begin to open, heralded by a drum-like noise as trapped air is released. This serves as a warning to the native people that the cones are about to fall and it might be a good idea to remain indoors for a bit. The seeds of the pinecones are good to eat and a bit sweet, and there is a harvest every year, followed by dancing.
The forest slopes down around a huge bay, glacier-carved (so technically a fjord, but with cliffs worn into slopes by erosion) which leads out to a huge freshwater sea; the beach is made of peridotite pebbles, worn smooth over millenia and red where they've been oxidised, but bright green when cracked in half. They make a gentle slope until the high tide line, at which point they take a sharp dip and keep dipping, so the bay gets very deep very quickly. The fish in it are small and brightly coloured, as are the birds which fly in the forest. Sometimes huge birds with massive wings can be seen floating over the sea; sleeping on thermals with their wings outstretched.
All of the machinery is hydraulic and finely balanced, nearly frictionless; haul a bucket of water from the bay and pour it into a similar bucket at the top, and the potential energy will cause the machine to start working. There is no need for steam or valves (oh, how I hated steam and valves in "Riven" and "Exile"!).
4.In your opinion, has Bush done anything right? (Double credit for this, it's like asking where Santa's house is located)
Well, when the Trade Center towers fell, he was reading a book to kids in an effort to show them that reading was a good thing. That’s pretty cool. (I’m not sure he should have kept going after he’d been informed, but the concept is pretty good.) And... well, he means well, I’m sure.
And Father Christmas lives on Ellesmere Island. Duh.
5. Be honest: Did you like "The Lone Gunmen?"
Yes. I liked The Lone Gunmen. I liked them as secondary characters, and I liked them as primary characters, and when they were primary characters I got more of the interaction between them, which was one of my favourite things about The X-Files. I love the name because it’s grammatically correct and still an oxymoron, I love the way they all complemented each other, and I loved that they Fought Evil by being really geeky.
So yes, I liked TLG.
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Date: 2005-09-07 01:53 am (UTC)Re: Like searching for Bigfoot
Date: 2005-09-07 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 02:00 am (UTC)I actually liked the archaic mechanics in Riven. But the idea behind those aesthetics was to make those ages seem "corrupt" through the sprawl of crude technology, so I totally see why. I just like the look and all. I dunno why.
Vince and I started writing an age last year, but lost the vision for it. Sometime, I wanted to make one based off of pinball (no lie). That didn't work out. Eh.
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Date: 2005-09-07 02:33 am (UTC)Nope - simple hydraulics, that's the way to go.
Kadesh Tolesa - with the giant trees? But there was no water in that one - aside from the trees, it seemed pretty dead. Very cool, white, grey, flat if I remember correctly - serene, sort of. Mine's all (in my head) October-y and noisy. :)
(It's actually based on the Laurentian mountains, up near St-Hippolyte)
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Date: 2005-09-07 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-07 02:17 am (UTC)Also, I do fear the budgie. Very much so.
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Date: 2005-09-07 02:36 am (UTC)And the budgie is kickass. I still giggle to see it.
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Date: 2005-09-07 02:48 am (UTC)I spelled mine wrong lol. And also now a lot of people think I'm a guy when they first meet me online. **headscratch** (Sorry that was kind of a long explanation)
That seems like it would have been a really interesting paper to do ... lol and it seems like you always learn something odd about the person when you learn where their chosen name comes from.
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Date: 2005-09-07 03:48 am (UTC)