Again with the no one caring...

[nike_ravus]

Sent my drafts of novel to my first readers, and then decided to spend the next two days making a cover, which is terrible, but amuses me. It has pretty colors, even if half dead markers are the worst things ever for scanning.


I have just noticed however that it manages to put the main character entirely in the background.  It does suggest which characters I am actually interested in though.  Hmmm, it looks nicer small.

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I find it so odd that I am the authority in this pairing when I totally started out knowing hardly anything about either fandom. Having factual knowledge about dragons is sort of an amusing question. There has been so much built up over time and you have the european dragons who were pretty much a stand in for the devil, and then you have Chinese dragons who were elemental spirits and mix them together and you have all sorts of things. I just read Dragonhaven, by Robin McKinley, which was incredible, and I'm reading Temeraire (Naomi Novik), both of which have awesome dragon mythologies. I couldn't stand Anne McCaffery though, she has flying lizards, not real dragons at all (and the biological imperative for heterosex just turns me off).

Considering vocal apparatus, and my recent phonetics class, the real trouble is creating the lip shaping that does modify the vowels quite a bit, and the vocal folds would probably be big and vibrate slowly so they would have very low pitched bumpy tones. Hmmm... and the shape of the tongue would have to have a large root, and would they be able to nasalize? If the fire comes out of their nose would it be a good or bad idea for them to have a passage from nose to mouth or should it be a closed circuit, and then just the shape of the mouth might create some odd overtones. The length of the soundwaves and the pitches would be all slightly different.

Oh, Jafar. Now I need to link something...
http://community.livejournal.com/disney_kink/361.html?thread=86633
and will let it stand for itself.

But definitely the general seems to be a good fit for Elizabeth. Strauss as king? O.o I really, really want to see these hybrid forms! They sound awesome! I had this image of Emma as presenting herself as some sort of wandering sorceress, so she manages to be a feared outsider wherever she goes, but I do not know what you are doing with magic. It does rather have similar educational implications though.

I would not have known Pon Farr except that I spent about 3 months reading pretty much every fic on P&P, at least where I had a tiny understanding of the source material, and it can be pretty popular, though personally I have a deep affection for Klingon mating rituals. :D Biting! Umm... not that I'm suggesting anything here.

These comment boxes are terrible to check over. I usually just IM though my gmail account. Why don't you just email me?

ZauPuppy at gmail dot com

I have in fact forgotten my AIM password, so I may or may not ever be able to log in again. But my screenname is the same as my email if I ever do manage it.