I love those sandals.
Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Jan 29, 2011 9:53:23 am PST #14258 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Strix - Jan 29, 2011 10:02:48 am PST #14259 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hey, all, need to pick the hive-mind.
I'm making (heh, heh) my students write a compare/contrast essay, selecting an epic hero or a modern superhero to whom to contrast/compare Beowulf to.
I want to give my student a good starting-off list of hero/ines to brainstorm from. They can select who they want, but some of them might need a little inspiration.
So far, I have:
Odysseus Gilgamesh Luke Skywalker Frodo Neo (The Matrix) Blade Batman Superman Spiderman Wonder Woman King Arthur Xena Frodo Aragorn Harry Potter Hercules Aeneas Percy Jackson Simba (The Lion King) Dean or Sam Winchester
The hero/ines need to hit most of the characteristics for epic heros:
1. Represent their culture's ideal of what qualities a hero needs to possess.
2. Have superhuman qualities (strength, skill, powers, determination, etc)
3. Have some kind of divine/supernatural parentage or history.
4. Be on some type quest for something -- an extrinsic quest, or an intrinsic quest.
5. Oppose larger-than-life or superhuman/supernatural villans.
6. The story contains elements of the divine or supernatural.
Any additions you can make would be great, especially ones from pop culture than 16-18 year old African-American kids would be familiar with.
- Buffy's not on the list, because I am using her as my example to model all of the steps of the writing process. :)
(x-post with Natter)
beekaytee - Jan 29, 2011 10:06:19 am PST #14260 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Ginger, insent!
beekaytee - Jan 29, 2011 10:07:50 am PST #14261 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Erin, I was all excited to add Wolverine, but he doesn't have any divine aspects. Eh.
sj - Jan 29, 2011 10:11:58 am PST #14262 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Deena, you know how I used to joke that Kara is the younger version of me? Perhaps it's not a joke. I need to send her a letter telling her that if she ever thinks about not doing her math homework for a year, just to see what happens, IT'S A BAD IDEA.
I'll second this suggestion, since I also did that experiment as a kid.
§ ita § - Jan 29, 2011 10:13:19 am PST #14263 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, maths homework was my favourite. What's with you people?
beekaytee - Jan 29, 2011 10:15:12 am PST #14264 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
maths homework was my favourite
I was definitely not you, that's for sure.
Strix - Jan 29, 2011 10:19:31 am PST #14265 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
They don't have to hit ALL the characteristics.
Wolverine has "other" powers -- he's def superhuman.
His quest would be...finding out who changed him? I can't quite remember the X-Men reading I did in the 80's.
A student who was familiar with his mythos could do a pretty good comparision/contrast on him, esp. since Beowulf wanted to (a) protect people but mainly (b) establish his own rep as a mighty warrior.
beekaytee - Jan 29, 2011 10:22:44 am PST #14266 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
finding out who changed him
This was my thinking. Finding who 'cursed' him is more to the point of what popped into my mind. It's a quest for revenge/redemption.
Strix - Jan 29, 2011 10:25:09 am PST #14267 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Coolio; he's on the list.