Joysweepers Incoherent Idea Bank - Revision history

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-This is Joy's Idea Bank.  It isn't a story.  It isn't an article.  It is a list, and a list without organization, at that.  To get ridiculously metaphorical, this is a garden of story-seeds, fertilized with things that supercharge me with enthusiasm, and populated by agressive plot gizka.  Joysweeper is easy to inspire, but for various reasons can't act on everything.  This is a backup - her computer is crashy, and she doesn't want to lose all of these.  Why is she typing in third person?
+This is Joy's Idea Bank.  It isn't a story.  It isn't an article.  It is a list, and a list without organization, at that.  To get ridiculously metaphorical, this is a garden of story-seeds, fertilized with things that supercharge me with enthusiasm, and populated by aggressive plot gizka.  Joysweeper is easy to inspire, but for various reasons can't act on everything.  This is a backup - her computer is crashy, and she doesn't want to lose all of these.  Why is she typing in third person?
 You can look through it, but it isn't for you.  By which I don't mean that you can't use bits and pieces of it - I mean that I picked things out for me, and I haven't reformatted it, explained the in-jokes, or anything like that.  To go back to the garden metaphor, I haven't hewn a path, and although I know where everything is and what is or isn't pleasing to touch, smell, or eat, you're likely to be lost.  Here we have definitions, a couple of links, and some story concepts and fragments.    Oh, and I repeatedly express a juvenile love for Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America.  Why?  Because he is the straightforward, good-natured, usually-confident, idealistic, stoic, goal-driven, responsible leader type.  And awesome.
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 Oh, WOW. There goes the mature eagle. If I thought having the juvenile eagle fly toward the house was impressive...oh. my. god. It's like having a deity turn up in your dishwasher, or something.
 Why should the sight of a bird move me to tears? It is just a prettily feathered North American vulture, really. In the most blazing white and depthless black.
-But oh, such magnificence on wings. This world is too beautiful and we'd better work damned hard to preserve it, because we are not the only beings who matter.
+But oh, such magnificence on wings. This world is too beautiful and we'd better work damned hard to preserve it, because we are not the only beings who matter.  it just soared over this megaconsumer development looking supernaturally beautiful and utterly out of place.
 No, really. I'm not being sarcastic. I take the little ferry over to the city as a commuting method, but most of the people on it during the summer are tourists, and they're so happy and excited and smiling and taking photos and oohing and aahing over Seattle's considerable natural beauty, over which I am still not jaded after 18 (!!!) years. Then some of them take the little shuttle 'round Alki Point and there's more oohing and aahing when the view opens up to the beach.
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 I am a woman, not a pod babies grow in.  I'm not the life support system for a womb and ovaries.
-http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=936
+[http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=936]
 Presume not that I am the thing I was, for I have turned away from what I once was.  Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength!  But it is tyrannous to use it.  (PLOT GIZKA.  Yay TSSM!)

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			Lagniappe: an unexpected bonus or extra

			[http://summer-jackel.livejournal.com/tag/writing] "On the third day away from all people, I became silent. It began to happen almost immediately; now, I said nothing, calling my dogs only when needed, with a short whistle or a movement of my hand. Even the written word seemed obtrusive."

			"[http://baratron.livejournal.com/597493.html I have] a virtually complete copy of everything I missed. However, the DVR picks up all sounds and seems to favour things like paper rustling, overhead projector whirring, and air conditioning over the human voice, even though I can't imagine anyone wanting to record any of those noises. Despite using both the low cut filter (which is supposed to remove low frequency machine noise) and the playback noise filter, there's still an awful lot of distracting extra sound. And because the playback noise filter cuts out some human voice frequencies along with the noise, the speaker sounds somewhat robotic and some words are inaudible."

			"Tell me about Rovac."
			"It's a place where the ground's the ground and the sky's the sky. The people there are born of women, some nine months after their parents couple. To live they eat and drink; at the end of living they find they die."

			I am a woman, not a pod babies grow in. I'm not the life support system for a womb and ovaries.

			http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=936

			Presume not that I am the thing I was, for I have turned away from what I once was. Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous to use it. (PLOT GIZKA. Yay TSSM!)

			Informatio-Scope

			[http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/53170.html FESTIVAL OF STUPID!]

			My name comes from Greek for "rational"! That or it's derived from "Alice", which is derived from French "Adelais" which is in turn derived from old Germanic "Adalheidis", "of nobility". "Alexander" and its derivatives mean "Defender/protector/savior of mankind." ARGH STOP WITH THE PLOT GIZKA.

			I had an aunt who believed that the world would end in 1978; Apocalypse and riders and all.

			Everyone who knew me before thinks I'm dead.

	Leyolet! Why didn't I think of that before?! See, "Level Up", said really quickly and with my weird inflection, sounds like "Leh vyol yup", and at some point I just started using Leyolet. Okay then.		Leyolet! Why didn't I think of that before?! See, "Level Up", said really quickly and with my weird inflection, sounds like "Leh vyol yup", and at some point I just started using Leyolet. Okay then.

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-Some whispering poem was calling us home, to a place we know never existed.
+Leyolet!  Why didn't I think of that before?!  See, "Level Up", said really quickly and with my weird inflection, sounds like "Leh vyol yup", and at some point I just started using Leyolet.  Okay then.
 Chris texted from DC that his plane crashed and he was dead, but thought he'd be okay. I wrote back and told him to stay out of the sun.

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			Some whispering poem was calling us home, to a place we know never existed.

			Chris texted from DC that his plane crashed and he was dead, but thought he'd be okay. I wrote back and told him to stay out of the sun.

			You have destroyed me utterly.

			Do it again.

			What's love? This sense of freezing-bitter loss, the pit of anguish whose eyes I can't quite bring myself to fully meet yet, and which I am becoming heartily sick of? Or the way the sunlight catches briefly on a strand of your hair and the world collapses itself into a
			breathless and giddy moment of beauty, as piercing and pure-tasting as ice water? The moment in which I catch a breath of your scent by accident and, before I check myself, am moved to bliss?

			It's November, and I can feel myself dying again. I'm starting to forget how many times it's been, but then I've never been fantastic with numbers. I wonder what new thing will rise from my compost heap this time?

			FDR: "A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command — of his head."

			Siren (ginger, jasmine, vanilla and apricot)

			He is a lovely, lovely singer. His acting skills are on par with a certain Captain James "The T Stands For Manwhore, What Do You Mean I Failed Spelling?" Kirk portrayer.

			'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !'

			'Be yourself. Everyone else is taken!'

			Fainting: "I was walking, and then I was asleep with silent blackness all around me, and then I heard music and people talking and dishes clinking like at a party, and then I woke up and I was sitting in a chair with worried people all around me and my vision was clouded with little silver-edged black sparkles. I felt like I had been asleep for hours, but everyone said it was only a few seconds. I kept asking "Where am I?" but I knew where I was, I just couldn't comprehend what was going on. I felt like I must have traveled some enormous distance, I must have passed out and been unconscious for hours, surely they would have taken me to a hospital, so why would I still be at the doctor's office? It was completely disorienting. Being passed out felt ''just'' like being asleep."

			Let me insert a slightly more annoyed rant about what it's like to be a non-traditional bio-female in the army. Judging from what other people say, every female (I think we're still at less than 10% of the total military population) has this same rocky reef to navigate, so my own personal set of grievances is just the way that this institution manifested in my case. I have heard it summed up like this:
			- If you don't sleep with any of the army guys, you must be a lesbian.
			- If you sleep with one army guy, then you're probably okay, or at least normal.
			- If you sleep with more than one army guy, then you're a total slut and deserve no respect.
			- (And if you watch enough Powerpoint briefings, bullet points really start to grow on you.)

			Dantooine - dorian passion fruit

			"Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String"

			Breathe easy?! I'm trapped inside a psychopathic corpse! I can't get out!

			I am the boomstick.

			I have needs now - dirty, horrible needs.

			I, for one, think it's pretty awesome that a god-tier space lord with phenomenal cosmic powers can just kick back every so often and have a brew with his dad, talking about all the wicked cool shit he's been doing.

	I'm happy, hope you're happy too.		I'm happy, hope you're happy too.

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 "humans are actually very weak for animals their size, due to a difference in muscle protein structures. A typical adult chimpanzee could rip the arms off an Olympic weight lifter."  "Chimps have a lot of dense quick-burst muscle, but they can't swim and they have very poor endurance."  "Humans have great long-term endurance, though."  "Yeah. We're built for chasing gazelles. For miles. Until the damn thing falls over from exhaustion and we beat its head in with whatever's handy. (See Niven's "Folk Tale.")  Lions can't do that. They're sprinters."  "The average office worker (ie, unfit sod who walks at most a mile a day) can train themselves up within a month to run 4-5 miles in one go, and then you have this thing called a 'marathon'. I don't think anyone even contemplates asking a horse to do that. That's not even counting how long someone can row or cycle for."
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 ==Fangirling.==
 [http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/swinging-on-star.html Swinging on a Star]

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			"humans are actually very weak for animals their size, due to a difference in muscle protein structures. A typical adult chimpanzee could rip the arms off an Olympic weight lifter." "Chimps have a lot of dense quick-burst muscle, but they can't swim and they have very poor endurance." "Humans have great long-term endurance, though." "Yeah. We're built for chasing gazelles. For miles. Until the damn thing falls over from exhaustion and we beat its head in with whatever's handy. (See Niven's "Folk Tale.") Lions can't do that. They're sprinters." "The average office worker (ie, unfit sod who walks at most a mile a day) can train themselves up within a month to run 4-5 miles in one go, and then you have this thing called a 'marathon'. I don't think anyone even contemplates asking a horse to do that. That's not even counting how long someone can row or cycle for."

			Human endurance running ability has been inadequately appreciated because of a failure to recognize that "high speed is not always important," [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041123163757.htm Bramble says.] "What is important is combining reasonable speed with exceptional endurance." Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology Professor Daniel Lieberman said Thursday (April 12). “Humans are terrible athletes in terms of power and speed, but we’re phenomenal at slow and steady. We’re the tortoises of the animal kingdom,” [http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html Lieberman said.] [http://barista.media2.org/?p=3080] While animals get rid of excess heat by panting, they can’t pant when they gallop, Lieberman said. That means that to run a prey animal into the ground, ancient humans didn’t have to run further than the animal could trot and didn’t have to run faster than the animal could gallop. All they had to do is to run faster, for longer periods of time, than the slowest speed at which the animal started to gallop. [http://www.google.com/search?q=persistence+hunting&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS234US234]

			I love being human.

	Everyone assumes that if you're trying to get into someplace you shouldn't be, the answer is to remain unseen. No one ever thinks to make it look like you belong there.		Everyone assumes that if you're trying to get into someplace you shouldn't be, the answer is to remain unseen. No one ever thinks to make it look like you belong there.
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	==Links==		==Links==

			[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHbo4hBZBc Has he lost his mind, dare he see or is he blind/ can he walk at all or if he moves will he fall/ Is he live or dead, has he thoughts within his head. We'll just pass him there, why should we even care?]

	[http://www.veryfunnyads.com/ads/25502.html] Isn't it beautiful what hands can do?		[http://www.veryfunnyads.com/ads/25502.html] Isn't it beautiful what hands can do?
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	[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK00DMcDygs]. I love the world		[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK00DMcDygs]. I love the world

			[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXOa5bWFRKw Birth of Sandman]

	[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNGK3y5Ypg Free speech does not equal scientific theory!] This is a good one. Have a little respect for the [http://youtube.com/watch?v=iPuKoEYCs2o "scientific minority".] Exactly what that has to do with inspiring me is unknown. But it gives me happy shivers, so it can't be all bad.		[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNGK3y5Ypg Free speech does not equal scientific theory!] This is a good one. Have a little respect for the [http://youtube.com/watch?v=iPuKoEYCs2o "scientific minority".] Exactly what that has to do with inspiring me is unknown. But it gives me happy shivers, so it can't be all bad.