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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2010, 11:05:17 pm » |
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My gammabilities might include manifesting will through strong emotion triggered by speech.
...are you saying you'd be a demagogue? |
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« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2010, 10:19:56 am » |
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Can you have multiples?
Some people are quite disposed towards multiples. |
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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2010, 12:37:52 pm » |
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Hmm. I think mine might boil down to "Wonderful things are going to happen." (Is there such a thing as a benevolent Anomaly?) To expand mine a little more, it has roots in how I feel like I had a chance when I was really little to pick what genre I would live in. Seriously, it was like that. I had a chance to pick how I would look at the world and the things that happened to me. I didn't know much about stories, and had never heard the word "genre" -- I was in single digits of age, out in the sticks -- but I thought fast and my answer was "fairy tales and stories like that." I think it was "The Borrowers" that I had just read which influenced me pretty strongly on that. Wonderful things are going to happen, and really neat improbable things can be true, and there are tiny people living unseen around us and it's a very good idea to be nice to them, and suchlike. Neil Gaiman's poem "Instructions" comes to mind. http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofinstr.html |
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« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2010, 06:15:42 pm » |
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If there's a benevolent Anomaly, I think you have it.
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« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2010, 09:25:34 pm » |
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I absolutely know what my mythology would be: pretty basic Chosen One storyline (Potter-style...). The only question is how that would manifest; I imagine the anomaly/my brain would take whatever happened to be handy at the moment of breakthrough and adapt that into a magic power befitting a Chosen One...
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He's a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal OF ACTION... "Hey, where's Villette?"
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« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2011, 08:38:32 pm » |
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Yes, even though this topic has been dormant, I'm commenting. I've been thinking about "my mythology" this whole time. (I know, I know.) I still haven't figured it out. But I have got this:
My subconscious is hooked on Peanuts specials: trying to be as sincere as the pumpkin patch and always choosing the little tree that looks like it needs me.
Good grief! :]
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2011, 08:51:19 pm » |
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Your first crack would be the way your friends stand around and go HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA at you. Your second crack would revolve around footballs and psychiatrists.
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« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2011, 09:00:35 pm » |
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Your first crack would be the way your friends stand around and go HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA at you. Your second crack would revolve around footballs and psychiatrists.
That mirrors reality a little too well... |
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2011, 09:59:05 pm » |
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I'd almost forgotten what I was thinking when I asked about multiples back when.
Mine might be:
1 - Everything turns out well eventually. (yes, even horrible things like the heat death of the universe, which I won't be there to see)
2 - Oooh! SHINY!!!!
3 - Unanticipated gifts can make people feel a little better. (I give a lot of those.)
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And sometimes you laugh because you are alive, when you really shouldn't be. Nation - Terry Pratchett
"There's no good way of doing it," she said. "Dying. And they're alone. Even when you're right there." Daphne Worth 1.01 Breathe
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« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2011, 03:22:44 am » |
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Given the way my daydreaming goes when I'm angry, I'd probably turn into a TK-oriented version of Magneto.
Only not so nice.
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« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2011, 10:21:19 am » |
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Yes, even though this topic has been dormant, I'm commenting. I've been thinking about "my mythology" this whole time. (I know, I know.) I still haven't figured it out. But I have got this:
My subconscious is hooked on Peanuts specials: trying to be as sincere as the pumpkin patch and always choosing the little tree that looks like it needs me.
Good grief! :]
Awww. That's endearing. Really and truly. Your friends will sometimes stand around you and sing, too. Which is pretty cool. |
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« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2011, 09:14:16 pm » |
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Yes, even though this topic has been dormant, I'm commenting. I've been thinking about "my mythology" this whole time. (I know, I know.) I still haven't figured it out. But I have got this:
My subconscious is hooked on Peanuts specials: trying to be as sincere as the pumpkin patch and always choosing the little tree that looks like it needs me.
Good grief! :]
Awww. That's endearing. Really and truly. Your friends will sometimes stand around you and sing, too. Which is pretty cool. I can do the dance! (Sadly, it's the only dance I can do. Stupid Irish clog-dancing genes!) |
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"I wanted to tell you both. I've met someone."
"Danny, that's good," his mother said, sounding strange and strained and cautious. "What's--"
"His name's Grayson. He works for the State Department."
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« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2011, 04:34:10 pm » |
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Yes, even though this topic has been dormant, I'm commenting. I've been thinking about "my mythology" this whole time. (I know, I know.) I still haven't figured it out. But I have got this:
My subconscious is hooked on Peanuts specials: trying to be as sincere as the pumpkin patch and always choosing the little tree that looks like it needs me.
Good grief! :]
Awww. That's endearing. Really and truly. Your friends will sometimes stand around you and sing, too. Which is pretty cool. is the analogy for how I felt at 4th st. You know how you're helpless to that little fountain of delight bubbling up inside you when they gather around and the voices start singing? And Charlie Brown is not different, but is still changed by the fact that the people around him are suddenly his people? That's it! What did Bear call it? "nerdy talk about books with writers" -- so totally my flavor of delight! I've discovered a lot of my "mythologies," but so few of them would lead to death... still mulling. But getting closer. And I think I'd start out with spring fever, reach my full strength with the fullness of a Minnesota summer, and have to travel south to follow the sun when the seasons started to turn. Yep; we definitely need a seasonal gamma.** **I don't think Betty Johnson counts. Her timing is coincidental. |
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #28 on: August 29, 2011, 09:01:58 pm » |
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I've got it now! (Officially: the dr says it is my real super-power, although in "real life" it only works on my own self.)
My Mythology: I can incubate whatever tiny speck of a germ into a systemic infection in a matter of hours. Seriously. It's a great power: just grow what's already present (or whatever happens to get introduced) and inhibit the body's immune response. Doctors would never be able to discover what made the victim so especially susceptible to this particular strain of whatever virus or bacteria, which thrives much too quickly for even the fancy new drugs to combat without immune-system assistance.
Oh, darn, this is just a gammability, not an actual mythology... well, the target would have to be stupid people, in some way. We couldn't possibly sympathize with the victims. Oh, okay, I'll work on it.
Later.
When I'm feeling better.
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"I was waiting for the dotted yellow. I'm not Chaz." It was a rich, hallucinatory web of geometry...
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« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2011, 06:50:52 pm » |
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I do hope you feel better soon - that sounds kind of grim.
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