Way Weird

[ickaimp]

So I woke up this morning dreaming that Miss Piggy was getting sworn in as President of the United States of America, being the first to break both the gender and the species barrier.
... O_o ....

Then went to one of the closer libaries in the area and discovered that they have a graphic novels section. Read the first 3 books of Sandman by Neil Gaiman, and graphic novel versions of Mort and The Light Fantastic by Terry Prachett. Kinda disturbed at how different Ysabell, Death's Daughter appears in both of them. (Ysabet, is that how you decided on your name? ~_^ )

Dude... Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman is a way tripped out combination to get mixed up in your head... For one thing, there's 2 Deaths floating around now and they BOTH have senses of humour. o_o

Am going to have to start looking up books on puppetry soon, starting to try to design Diskworld cotumes and dammit, all of our mental costume designs lately have been giant puppets operated on the inside.
damn cool tho.

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Re: Names, NG & TP

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

**laughs** Yeah, I know what you mean about the Full-First-Name thing, although my mom had a tendency to go *completely* garbled when she was trying to get us to stop and get back there RIGHT NOW! or else, so what was usually yelled was along the lines of "AAAAARGH! What the HELL--?? WHERE IS SHE?!?" and everybody'd just point at my disappearing figure halfway down the block and accelerating.

Funny thing is, I had a friend in Las Vegas whose SCA gaelic name gradually got perverted at work into 'Sienna', which stuck; first time I called for her on the phone I used her regular mundane name and nobody knew who I was asking for.

Fairy tales... and here I keep thinking up murder mysteries. And considering the most GRUESOME questions, like (for instance) whether or not human skin, when tanned into leather, continues to keep its fingerprint-patterns intact. I know, I know, very gross and all that, but it's an intrigueing thought with possibilities for a nice plot, isn't it? Gloves that would *literally* finger a deceased (hopefully, anyway) victim for a crime, because they'd leave unmistakeable fingerprints. However, I can't even remotely think of a place to find this sort of thing out-- and I'm not sure I want to. Because that would mean somebody had DONE that, and... brrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Okay, now I have the creeps. Lunchtime! Lunchtime cures all ills.

Re: Names, NG & TP

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

In the Sandman books yesterday, there was a Ceral Convention.
... actually, it was a Serial Convention. As in Serial Killers.

One of the guys wore leather ties. He was kinda famous for it.
In fact, it was a little known fact that he made the ties himself.
From his victims.

Enjoy your lunch! ^___^

Re: Names, NG & TP

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Yup-- I bought the Sandman series as the comics came out; I'm a fan from waaaay back of NG's stuff. The leather ties gave me the major shivers and a few uneasy thoughts about past surgeries. Erk.

Still not too sure about the fingerprints thing, though; I suppose, since cowhide does show lots of wrinkles and tiny ridges, it IS a possibility that fingerprints would keep. I suspect they'd be rather blurred, though. Hmmmmmm... Dunno if it's a DC kind of plot, though-- maybe this is one I ought to consider for those fledgling non-fanfic thingies I keep outlining. Had a funny thought about doing a Kindaichi storyline, though, with a victim that was dying slowly of poisoning. It wouldn't be murder until the victim was dead, and Kindaichi would be able to question somebody who would be a corpse by the time the story ended, which would be a very weird thing, especially if the victim was *aware* of this. Huh..... Wonder how a DC/Kindaichi crossover would work?

And lunch was good! Leftover beef stew, mmmmmm...

Re: Names, NG & TP

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Someone had an unfinished DC/Kindachi fic on the old Animeforever DC fic archive... Was pretty good. ^^

From an actual trial:

Q. ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial instead of an attempted murder trial?
A. The victim lived.

I've been a closet Gaiman fan for years, just now finding the time to sit down and read a bunch of his stuff.
Still find the concept that there is an 8th Endless named 'Donuts' out there that the other 7 don't acknoledge. ^__^

Re: Names, NG & TP

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

@__________@..........

.........Donuts?

I am having severe difficulties here picturing one of the Endless that looks like Homer Simpson. I really, really am.

Re: Names, NG & TP

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Y'know... that mental picture never quiet crossed my mind... O_o