stunt_muppet

Even though I should really go to bed.

1. So I finally watched the opening cinematic to the I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream PC game, and...I've got to say I'm not crazy about Harlan Ellison's voice as AM. It's not bad, it's just so different than the way I imagined AM sounding. Maybe it's because I've become accustomed to text-to-speech programs, and HAL 9000 and all his cinematic successors and knock-offs, but I always imagined AM as having...not quite a monotone. It's hard to describe, but when I read the "hate" speech I always heard it in a very even tone, with very little inflection - but still intense, fervid, shaking with rage. Like he had only basic vocal processors, not accustomed to conveying emotion, but the sheer intensity of his hatred was straining their capacity, quavering that basic voice.

If I thought I could do it any kind of justice I'd make a voice post about it. Maybe I'll do it anyway, under flock and key so I'm not a complete embarrassment. to the people around me.

A note: Really, if you liked the short story (for a given value of "liked", of course), I do highly recommend at least looking up a Let's Play of the game (as a copy of the game itself is somewhat difficult to procure). Ellison, who is about as curmudgeonly and video-games-cannot-be-art as it gets, wrote the game himself in order to answer the repeated questions he got about why AM chose to torture those five specific humans. Grim, atmospheric, and really good.

2. I've asked this question before, but it's been a while so I might as well go another round: in books, fic, or other printed media, what scares you? 

I think I've figured out why it's so difficult for me to write something scary (which, if you haven't guessed, I really really really want to do) - fear, for me, is intimately tied to auditory cues. Sounds with unknown sources, the usual "something behind you/beside you that you can't see", noises in the dark, distorted speech, things like that are what strike me as scary. Not that visual and text cues can't scare me, but when I try to think of scary things I always go back to sounds. Or sensations (like the "bugs in the skin" associated with withdrawal), but those are hard to convey in textual form without looking over-the-top and silly.

So...what about you? What do you find scary? What sticks with you after you read it?

3. So there was this fic idea I had, and it technically goes against canon but I want to talk it out anyway.

( Cut for TFA natter but no spoilers. )

I really must go to bed now, mustn't I. Good night, good night.

But then I went and wanted a drabble from bodyline  so now I have to put this here. Move along, move along, nothing here to see, just doing another meme in the vain hope that one day I'll write something.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble ficlet (because I laugh at word limits) of any pairing/character with a prompt. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.)

Fandoms same as last go-round: Doctor Who, CSIs, Bones, NCIS, Pirates of the Caribbean, NuTrek, Final Fantasy X, The Brave and the Bold, Transformers Animated

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Also, dammit "Bad Romance" has been stuck in my head for the past five days. It's still not quite as bad as when I got "There's No Such Thing as Aliens" stuck in my head for months on end, but it is somewhat embarrassing to catch myself humming "roma, roma-ma" apropos of absolutely nothing.