DO I WANT A SEPARATE ASLAN FIGURE. Good question. HMM.
I wrote the beginning of IndoLWW about a week back, where they're at the airport and the parents are saying goodbye before they fly off to wherever. That's the one wot I was talking about was stiff-feeling, and also feels to me sort of like a vehicle for talking about Indonesia's economic problems, though I'm not sure yet if that's a writing quality thing or because it is... actually set in Indonesia so of course these things are gonna come up.
Softer and lighter! I'm going to plaguerize myself and take this idea from my Red Dragon fic. Wheresit. Here: "If you breathed, you died. If you're at rest, you float upwards instead of staying down. The water held such contradictions. These days Will swam more than he used to, trying to find in the water the opposite of whatever was inside him."
And maybe being in the sea is kind of like flying, because you can swim up and down. Maybe sort of like being in a dream because you can't run. Hmm. Maybe it is like walking on the moon? I am pretty hooked on the image of Gita (the Susan-ish character) walking on the ocean floor, and then she feels something watching her, so she looks around but sees nothing but a shadow on the sand. She looks directly upwards and is face to face with the Sea Queen, who is just hovering, her feet pointed at the sky. Before Gita can scream, the Queen clamps a hand over her mouth. (I think if this were a movie, this part could be like horror-film scary.)
One time when I was snorkeling I saw this motherfucker in the water (http://images.google.com.ph/images?hl=tl&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=6pa&q=sea%20krait&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). It was a good distance enough away from me, and it was swimming in the opposite direction anyway, but all I can think of is how sea snakes are like SUPER VENOMOUS. In the event of a stand-off, the sea krait has wound itself loosely around Arif's (Peter's) torso, its open mouth on Arif's neck. Nyai Roro Kidul asks Gita, "What is your choice?"
OH ACTUALLY PERFECT. I just went googling for a picture of Nyai Roro Kidul and it turns out that her symbol is A SNAKE. \o/! The pictures aren't that big (http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01235/Ilustration.htm), but oh well. Some rando's entry (http://bumimanusia.deviantart.com/art/Nyi-Roro-Kidul-81040197?offset=10) into an urban legend art contest is also really gorgeous, and I dig the Artist Comments. At first I was like, hmm, where does she keep those horses underwater AND THEN I FIGURE IT OUT. Sea foam! White horses come from the crests of waves, 'cos you know how if you squint at the crests of waves, it kind of looks like them? I dunno, I read it in a manga once (lol omg "I read it in a manga once", would you listen to me) and I used it in 'Sea Change', I can use it again in this. Wasn't that what happened in 'The Last Unicorn'? When the unicorns were driven into the sea, didn't they become the waves?
Oh man, so then I further googled if this horse wave stuff is actually legit from folklore AND THEN. It is actually the name of a wave (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/White+horse)! SO, to borrow from this and from the traditional Little Mermaid, instead of the Witch turning ppl to stone, maybe she turns them into foam?? Or to borrow from Disney Little Mermaid, maybe she turns them into ugly polyp creatures that she will sometimes eat. YIKES.
Actually I don't know how I feel about horses underwater, it's kinda too jarring. Hmm, I wonder what will play the part of Beavers? Come to me, knowledge of marine biologyyyyyy.
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I wrote the beginning of IndoLWW about a week back, where they're at the airport and the parents are saying goodbye before they fly off to wherever. That's the one wot I was talking about was stiff-feeling, and also feels to me sort of like a vehicle for talking about Indonesia's economic problems, though I'm not sure yet if that's a writing quality thing or because it is... actually set in Indonesia so of course these things are gonna come up.
Softer and lighter! I'm going to plaguerize myself and take this idea from my Red Dragon fic. Wheresit. Here: "If you breathed, you died. If you're at rest, you float upwards instead of staying down. The water held such contradictions. These days Will swam more than he used to, trying to find in the water the opposite of whatever was inside him."
And maybe being in the sea is kind of like flying, because you can swim up and down. Maybe sort of like being in a dream because you can't run. Hmm. Maybe it is like walking on the moon? I am pretty hooked on the image of Gita (the Susan-ish character) walking on the ocean floor, and then she feels something watching her, so she looks around but sees nothing but a shadow on the sand. She looks directly upwards and is face to face with the Sea Queen, who is just hovering, her feet pointed at the sky. Before Gita can scream, the Queen clamps a hand over her mouth. (I think if this were a movie, this part could be like horror-film scary.)
One time when I was snorkeling I saw this motherfucker in the water (http://images.google.com.ph/images?hl=tl&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=6pa&q=sea%20krait&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). It was a good distance enough away from me, and it was swimming in the opposite direction anyway, but all I can think of is how sea snakes are like SUPER VENOMOUS. In the event of a stand-off, the sea krait has wound itself loosely around Arif's (Peter's) torso, its open mouth on Arif's neck. Nyai Roro Kidul asks Gita, "What is your choice?"
OH ACTUALLY PERFECT. I just went googling for a picture of Nyai Roro Kidul and it turns out that her symbol is A SNAKE. \o/! The pictures aren't that big (http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01235/Ilustration.htm), but oh well. Some rando's entry (http://bumimanusia.deviantart.com/art/Nyi-Roro-Kidul-81040197?offset=10) into an urban legend art contest is also really gorgeous, and I dig the Artist Comments. At first I was like, hmm, where does she keep those horses underwater AND THEN I FIGURE IT OUT. Sea foam! White horses come from the crests of waves, 'cos you know how if you squint at the crests of waves, it kind of looks like them? I dunno, I read it in a manga once (lol omg "I read it in a manga once", would you listen to me) and I used it in 'Sea Change', I can use it again in this. Wasn't that what happened in 'The Last Unicorn'? When the unicorns were driven into the sea, didn't they become the waves?
Oh man, so then I further googled if this horse wave stuff is actually legit from folklore AND THEN. It is actually the name of a wave (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/White+horse)! SO, to borrow from this and from the traditional Little Mermaid, instead of the Witch turning ppl to stone, maybe she turns them into foam?? Or to borrow from Disney Little Mermaid, maybe she turns them into ugly polyp creatures that she will sometimes eat. YIKES.
Actually I don't know how I feel about horses underwater, it's kinda too jarring. Hmm, I wonder what will play the part of Beavers? Come to me, knowledge of marine biologyyyyyy.