So, I got together with LiLe and we have a date for winter and the color is sparkling cranberry ! Although I'm not sure if it's an actual color or just the color of the smoothie I was drinking . . .
Pictures !
Here is a picspiration for Allison's dress. I saw it in an ad and loved it.
Also going back to chapter 10 where Minnow and Alan are in the meadow, the images were inspired by a few things including . . . you know it's coming . . . Twilight. But, it means more here because they don't have green where they are. Also, the image of Alan in a field was one I always had for this story.
(I posted it for the lols)
Chapter 12
When I began this story I'm not sure Allison was ever going to come back but, I always wanted Allison to be a sympathetic sweet (almost Juliana-like) character from the start.
I have to admit in all of my sci-fi cyberpunk research I never actually got a chance to fully read anything. There was one William Gibson short story called Dogfight I did like and read and Allison is based on a character from that. I've mentioned this story before as where the line "antique paper bills in plastic sleeves" in the prolouge came from.
The story is about a theif, Deke who has a brainlock preventing from going back to his home of Washington D.C after he is caught. At a bus stop in Norfolk, VA he sees some men playing a game that is like minature planes dogfighting and he wants to beat the best player so he stays in the town.
Anyway at a hotel he is staying in he befriends a girl names Nance who is a very smart 17 year old engineering major at William and Mary who builds programs and holograms. The character has a "mental chastity block,"because her parents want her to concentrate on school.
It's a kind of complicated story and the creative commons formatting/editing is terrible but, I could talk more about it if anyone is curious. Anway there is a section where Nance gets this drug called Hype that helps you concentrate. She wants to use it for her interview for an impressive job that will make her paretns take the block of but, Deke wants it to win his match and there is just a piece of dialouge/scene I love. He says to her :
"Baby, you got the fucking world! Take a look around you six ounces of
blond Lebanese hash! Little anchovy fish in tins. Unlimited medical
coverage, if you need it." She was backing away from him, stumbling against
the static waves of unwashed bedding and wrinkled glossy magazines that
crested at the foot of her bed. "Me, I never had a glimmer of any of this.
Never had the kind of edge it takes to get along. Well, this one time I am
gonna. There is a match in two hours that I am going to fucking well win. Do
you hear me?" He was working himself into a rage, and that was good. He
"Where did you stash it?" Pinned against the bed under his body, Nance
began to spasm, her entire body convulsing in pain and fear.
And no, I have no idea what Blonde Lebanese Hash is referring to. . . maybe a food ?I found that paragraph the best thing in the story which is mostly about gampeplay and jargon. Also,I mention this because it gives more insight into Allison's character orgin. I suppose I was playing up her innocence some. And I kind of like the people completely in love emotionally and never physically because they can't touch. . . or maybe I miss Pushing Dasies.
Chapter 13
Playlist *This has some of my favorites I've been saving since UL2*
-1-Pokerface by Daughtry
-2-Bleed it out-- Linkin Park (had this one since UL2)
-3- My Guardian Angel (had this one since UL2)
-4- Howl's Moving Castle theme
