words with friends just denied me shoop. haters.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Oct 07, 2012 12:54:31 pm PDT #24825 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Zenkitty - Oct 07, 2012 1:44:57 pm PDT #24826 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I have a question about how to resolve something that's been dogging me for years.
My dear friend Melisa, who was a writer and an artist, died in 1994. (We lived together for 10 years and she would have probably been my wife if laws had allowed it.) I've been carrying around her papers ever since. A lot of writing, all stories that were good but never finished, and a lot of drawings, all very good, mostly to illustrate those stories, and some of my stories. I've culled the collection a couple times, and it's down to two (maybe three) plastic storage bins now. They are very heavy. I've moved 11 times since then and carried it all with me, and I'm tired of the burden, both literal and emotional. Thursday I pulled the bins out of the storage room to put down the new floor, and the thought of shoving them back in there again is finally more exhausting than the thought of doing something about them.
Finally to the question: what do I do with them? I cannot bear to throw them away; they're all that's left of her, and really, they are good, it would be a shame. I can throw away the doodles and half-finished drawings; she would have herself by now, but the finished stuff, I'd like to put on deviantArt. She would LOVED deviantArt. The writing, I don't even know. I doubt I'll ever finish her stories, as I once planned to do. Obviously I can't really publish them, but I could put them on deviantArt, but I'm sure there's a copyright, and I REALLY don't want to involve her family in anyway, especially in a legal way. (They didn't like me. I corrupted her, you see.)
Thoughts, ideas, anyone?
Consuela - Oct 07, 2012 1:56:29 pm PDT #24827 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Scan them, and send the originals back to her family?
Or scan them and upload them to Deviantart or one of the websites for original fiction? Not sure what to do with the originals, but a portable hard drive is easier to carry around than three boxes of papers -- on the other hand, it's much more fragile format, and might go obsolete.
sj - Oct 07, 2012 2:26:55 pm PDT #24828 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
but with a PO only a block away it does make the process easier
Mine is down the street, and a pass it every day. Yet, my paid bills were still in my purse for five days before I managed to actually drop them off.
Zenkitty - Oct 07, 2012 2:45:21 pm PDT #24829 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I do plan to scan the art, and once done, if they look good enough, I'll be able to throw away the originals. Or maybe I'll cull it all down to a few really good pieces that I can fit into a portfolio, which my heirs can throw away in 50 years.
It's the writing I really don't know what to do with. I don't know if I can or should put it on deviantArt, and I'm not sure I can take on the task of transcribing all of it.
Her family never indicated that they wanted any of them or even gave a shit that she was an artist. (Her mom did, but she died a couple months after her daughter. Her father and brother surely do not want to hear from me again, any more than I want to contact them. Besides, they came to our house and took everything they thought was hers a week after the funeral - which I was asked not to attend - so AFAIC they've got everything they wanted and they're not getting more.)
Amy - Oct 07, 2012 2:48:15 pm PDT #24830 of 30001
Because books.
Maybe frame a few of your favorite pieces of art? And you could probably post the writing, as long as you made it clear it was a friend's who'd passed away. Otherwise, take your three favorite stories and keep those.
Connie Neil - Oct 07, 2012 2:58:01 pm PDT #24831 of 30001
brillig
My first thought was "pyre", but if you really want to share the stuff, everyone else has better ideas than I. I tend to go Viking on things that I can't keep but respect too much to dump in the trash. A pyre sends things off to the gods.
§ ita § - Oct 07, 2012 3:07:00 pm PDT #24832 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And if you don't want to give it to god(s), there's always recycling, once you've taken what you want in physical form.
If you can afford to get the whole thing scanned (I have no idea what that would run, though), I'd totally do that and have it burnt to optical in a good hi res. And then you have all the time in the world to decide how to share them digitally, if you want.
I am so not feeling better, and I know everyone's going to be massively mad at me if I don't go into work tomorrow. But a week more isn't looking practical.
Dana - Oct 07, 2012 3:10:06 pm PDT #24833 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Homemade grape juice is a success.
le nubian - Oct 07, 2012 3:11:17 pm PDT #24834 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think I met a buffista mom today.
I was walking downtown wearing my Firefly t-shirt and an elderly woman said to me: "Oh Firefly! My daughter loves that show. God Bless You."
So apparently wearing memorabilia from a dead tv show will get me blessings from God.
1. I can die happy
2. Why didn't anyone tell me this sooner? I may actually have gone to church.