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well it's prolly the height of tacky to sequester myself away and not read my flist all day long, then come on and post a request for help from all my lovely flisters ~ but i promise i will try to get reading and catch up as soon as i can.
my request? i'm trolling for prompts.
i have been madly coding all morning, so i am a bit in "mad scientist" mode. having reinstalled nucleus at my lookingland site, i have created an all-new home for Reconstruction and have figured out how to syndicate it to lj. now i just need content. content ~ ! mwhahahahaahaha.
which is where you all come in. what sort of content do you want to see?
post one or more of the following:
if it helps to know, this story takes place in america in roughly the 50-year period between 1844 and 1894. knowledge of history is not required, but if you have some, feel free to wield it!
there are no rules as to what you can suggest. themes in this story revolve around war/peace, life/death, love/sex, faith/religion, the idea of wholeness (literally and spiritually), and trust (you know, all the biggies!).
i will draw as many of your suggestions ~ all ~ if i can, in context of this project, and post them as i create them. in essence, you are going to help determine the way in which the story is told.
if you think you can't come up with something "brilliant", just post the first thing that comes to mind. sometimes your first impulse is the most provocative!
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my request? i'm trolling for prompts.
i have been madly coding all morning, so i am a bit in "mad scientist" mode. having reinstalled nucleus at my lookingland site, i have created an all-new home for Reconstruction and have figured out how to syndicate it to lj. now i just need content. content ~ ! mwhahahahaahaha.
which is where you all come in. what sort of content do you want to see?
post one or more of the following:
- a word (blue, scowl, geranium)
- an image (a falling flower, a dead animal, strange rain)
- the context of a scene (a murder, a birthday, an argument).
- an evocative photo or piece of artwork (nothing tooooo specific).
- a question.
if it helps to know, this story takes place in america in roughly the 50-year period between 1844 and 1894. knowledge of history is not required, but if you have some, feel free to wield it!
there are no rules as to what you can suggest. themes in this story revolve around war/peace, life/death, love/sex, faith/religion, the idea of wholeness (literally and spiritually), and trust (you know, all the biggies!).
i will draw as many of your suggestions ~ all ~ if i can, in context of this project, and post them as i create them. in essence, you are going to help determine the way in which the story is told.
if you think you can't come up with something "brilliant", just post the first thing that comes to mind. sometimes your first impulse is the most provocative!
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A cotillion
A minstrel show
Yay for prompt-trolling! :)
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~ hahahahaha!
i drew the cotillion last night and have a scene in mind for turncoat, but that minstrel show is going to be hard art! i'll see what i can come up with.
thank you!
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thank you!
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Two to three rats socializing.
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i've got these in the queue, thank you!
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General Sherman.Hands, curling around a cup.
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p.s. i don't think i can squeeze sherman in (i'm on the wrong side of the war to have him wander through ~ but i'll see what i can do!).
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(oh, don't I know that. hance the strikethroughs. but my Deep Abiding Love for the man does not extend to anyone in the Reb si -- WAIT. WHAT ABOUT ARMISTEAD. Although he was in maybe three whole battles before he died in tragic Confederatebastard fashion. But, hey!)
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poor Lo. he was in at least five battles, i think, though getting killed at gettysburg always seems to me such a bigger waste than any of the others for some reason.
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Doesn't it? Maybe because it turns him into a statistic.
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so much to say, but i am going to muster all my self-restraint.
and yeah, 19th century fashion ~ all those buttons!
re: Lo ~ maybe. it just seems (from our 21st century perspective) that everything after gettysburg was a waste, though i suppose they had no intention of calling it quits at the time. and much as i love chamberlain (speaking of men who needn't bother bathing, though i said i would restrain myself), i often wish he'd've lost that fight on round top, though God only knows what would have ensued (and far more knowledgeable people have speculated muchly, so i will leave it to them).
and you thought you were going on? hahahahahah ~
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A pocket watch on heavy paper.
a family argument, quiet and subtle - no raised voices just pointed digs.
A badly painted forest-scape, the kind one only keeps because it was painted by a relative.
What is the worth in that?
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thank you!
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I must say I'm quite intrigued by this prompt idea of yours - very interested to see what you will come up with.
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As for an image...
http://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/gallery/small/047.html
Yes, it's a WWII drawing, but the title of the pic I understand is the same as a novel in a Civil War trilogy. Ever since I saw this picture a few days ago while doing my own research, I've been thinking of you in conjunction with it for some reason. So... here it is!
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and i can use brethen too!
thank you!
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doo doo da doot da doo~
A Snowman (it's snowing where you are, isn't it?)
A book with something hidden inside it
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and i have just the thing for the book with something hidden in it.
yay!
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dang slippery comment
moo
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suspicious coils of rope
stenography books
jokes about Andrew Johnson
and of course
notorious indolence.
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i'm going to have to come up with something clever for Andy. it may or or may not involve a false moustache.
thank you!
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sorry. that's typical of me. feel free to ignore. whenever anybody asks me for ideas the first thing I'll blurt out is "monkeys!"
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