Thursday Already?

[tealin]

One of my very few original characters - I used to be able to draw him rather well, but ... lack of practise again ... And the rest are just doodles.

Iraq is on the verge of civil war: bad news for Iraqis, great news for Ken Burns.

– The Colbert Report

Comments

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

You love your pillow as much as I love mine. OTP!

What is the story behind your character? Does he have a "biography" or is he just a design idea you liked?

And what a****** is Ken Burns?

[maladroitness.livejournal.com]

haha, i like his eyebrows. great expression...very pouty. and i could SO use that pillow right now. i'm in european history snoooooore.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ken Burns made a very, very good documentary of the American Civil War for PBS in the early nineties. He's gone on to do other ones, on baseball, jazz, and an early twentieth-century boxer, but he's most famous for the Civil War one. (It also has a brilliant soundtrack which has been used in a billion things since.)

My character... well, he was going to be part of my One 'Original' Story Idea but that kind of fell by the wayside when I realized it was 97% backstory and 3% plot. So he has a little personality but mostly he's just anger.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

What an attitude to European history! Just think of all those kick ass kings and all the fun wars and all those nifty dates you have the chance to learn!

How can you be on the net in the middle of history class? Does you teacher let you sit there with a lap top?

[aisforamy]

Hee! I like your OC, but the best is the pillow hugger. I think everyone can identify!

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh, can you share his backstory? Pllleeease?

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

What's your OC's name? I have... an awful lot of OCs. Most of them are just sort of backgrounders with names, like Tyler and Holly (who run in a sled team), but some are fully-fledged characters, like Falaranx Stormfeather (who is a gryphon).

The pillow hug is very cute. Pillows are nice to hug.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, but school history lessons can remove the interest from anything. We could be learning about William Wallace or King James IV (who was one of Scotland's most, well, kingly kings) and it would still be boring.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well... he used to have a name, but in the years since he wandered into my head I've realized that it's contradictory to some of the cultural perceptions amongst characters in the book, especially those who would have named him ... and also that 'Raven' is one of the most hackneyed, overused, and stereotypically 'fantasy' names in all of literature. (It's also commonly female, which I've never been able to figure out – yeah, nothing has more feminine mystique than a scruffy black scavenger with a grating harsh croak for a song. Helloooo?)

[sparrowofjack.livejournal.com]

Be thankful that you don't have CANADIAN history. It's all about how we strived to be recognized as a different country than Britain. Oh, and movements. And strikes. And our political parties.

(Glances at reccurring themes.) Apparently, we complain a lot.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

My roommate summarizes Canadian history thus:

We built a railway. Then we drained a swamp and built another railway. Old men in suits sat around and talked about things.

Ahh . . . Gordon Lightfoot

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

The Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Nice song.

[karwei.livejournal.com]

Ken Burns is pretty cool.

I am in love with your character's nose.

[yoodi.livejournal.com]

Icon lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove[insert love here a billion times]

Can I steal? *pretty puppy eyes*

Yoo

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes. True, true. My mother is Scottish but lived many years in Canada before moving on to America. She loved Canada a lot, but she hated the history classes. She and I used to have friendly arguments about it a lot because I was a bit sick of the US history focusing only on wars. Nonetheless, Canada is a great country. I have gone there from time to time for outdoor activities like cross country skiing. I have irrirated my mom more than a few times by suggesting to move there, but most likely it will be to move back to Iceland which will irritate my mother even more. Still, Canada is a fantastic country!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Speaking of ravens...the short that was nominated for an oscar about a badger has these HI-LAR-IOUS ravens...ohhh, so funny! More on that later.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I sure can identify with that character's affection for his pillow!

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

So can I, as I have lately been suffering from terrible insomnia.

Oh, for just one full night of sleep!

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I have a distant cousin in Canada. She's something like a cousin-twice-removed and lives near Vancouver. I laughed rather disproportionately when I looked it up in the Atlas and found a town called Spuzzum.

Isn't the Queen still Canada's head of state?

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I don't have any characters called Raven. Not even the ravens, whose names are Corax, Huginn, Muninn (ooh, original) and Odin.

I once saw a raven in the Innsbruck zoo that sounded like a pig. When I was at the Tower of London I saw one pecking at what looked like a backbone.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Most of Norway's history is about trying to not be a part of Sweden and Denmark. 500 years of freedom fights, and people STILL think Norway is the capital of Sweden...

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

I know... a recent email bulletin from Travel Weekly had an article that mentioned a special travel airfare to Oslo, Sweden.

My boss, being Swedish, found this enormously funny and shared it with everyone in the office. The very next day Travel Weekly resent the email with an apology. I imagine they got more than a few comments from Scandinavians.
:-)

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Insomnia has to be just about the worst fate I could imagine befalling anyone - how can you enjoy ANYTHING when you're exhausted? I am so truly sorry and hope it passes quickly.