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[lookingland]

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:

• 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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Comments

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well i think there's many a man to admire on both sides of the mason-dixon. dunno that i could do any justice trying to draw any of them, but i'll see what i can do with having a couple pass on by.

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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[nextian.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course there is, and it was a multifacted multifarious display of the principle that war is made up of individuals, (and, at the same time, utterly inevitable if you look at the numbers/technologies), and I'm very afraid that if I try to say anything more to convince you that I am a sane, rational appreciator of the historical time period in which you work you will find out very rapidly that I am mostly just in it for the period costumes, so this sentence is ending now. But what I was going to say was that though I may admire many a fine Confederate specimen of a man, only Sherman (and, as a sort of corollary, Grant) could take me in a manly fashion without shaving and bathing first.

Doesn't it? Maybe because it turns him into a statistic.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahaahahahahaahahahaha ~

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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