Looking for a few good... amoeba moosen. (g'on, ignore post count, eh?)

[ClosetMonster]

Open - :)

The quick and dirty: Oh yes. Verra quick. Verra dirty.

What to expect:

* I like to collect good writers. Join the Monster Harem! Muahahahaha!
* I am fairly open to just about anything. I love open, wild ideas which allow us both to create a world with moose toting machine guns on their substantive racks, shape changing amoeba bankers, and horses that die only to be replaced by giant, sentient gennets. If not those, then realistic stories are okay too.
* I am somewhat very much not regular a poster for long spates of time in the year due to work taking over my life as well as my social and family life being given precedence. But I do remain constant and will come back time and time again so long as you want me. I have a very resilient muse.
*I do not do long posts for no reason, nor do I do one-liners with no purpose. A story has a rhythm which our different styles will set into place. This may be four paragraphs or it could be a ton of writing, but together we will find it.

Things I do do (heh - doodoo):

1. ALWAYS come back. No matter how long I've been gone. I've a good Muse Resuscitation Kit.
2. Romance, sometimes. Adventure always. Fantasy, science fiction, real life, fun writing, yes. Scary, horrific, happy endings, yep!
3. Play with multitudes of characters in multitudes of ways.
4. Go off the beaten path

Things I don't do:

1. Angst for the sake of angst. Romance for the sake of romance. Pain for the sake of pain. Etc, ad nauseum.
2. Stupidity as a plot device. If a character sees through that guilt trip or the oncoming trap door, there's nothing I will do to stop them. If we want an idiot as a character device, we'll discuss it and have it in place to begin with. I also won't make a character smarter than I am, or even smarter than we are collectively.
3. Slugs. Moose yes. Slugs - no. Just, no.

So. List of ideas, if we need some.

* C'mon, centaurs are awesome. Space centaurs and/or water dentists definitely rock.
* A dude ranch for over worked executives or aliens or disenfranchised cat people. Better yet, a sheep ranch.
* Some kinda Harry Potter (OMG, I'm totally NOT okay with this, and yet if it were the right treatment, I'd love to dabble in the world - but seriously, magical school and the differences in characterizations are just begging to be redone and made anew and amazing and.. and... Pick this one only if you like Rowlingphobitis)
* How's bout a random story thread? You pick a character, I pick a character, we play them until one of us says "switch!" and then we go on to the next? It could be fun just as a random brainstorming act. You might find you've got a Character One Must Make Into a Book Some Day and wouldn't that just be awesome?
* a retelling of a fairy tale, or a modern retelling of a fairy tale
* haven't done a post apocalypse story in a while - what happens if there is a town, far to the north, where the end of the world just didn't touch outside of the trucks stopped bringing in their tri-monthly shipments of Cheetos? What happens in that town?
* A research facility does DNA testing - creates something in a living, adult. Mermaids or a mutation or ... only to discover, that this isn't the first time such an anomaly has occurred in the world.
* It would be fun to have two people who HATE one another, be stuck together somehow. I'm not fixed on the idea of it becoming "love" in the end, but some kind of coming to terms with one another is fun.
* A woman/man is driving along the road and suddenly a knight in full armor upon a destrier appears in the middle of the road.
* Gender hiding is fun because it creates all kinds of mistakes and mistaken experiences. Think Viola or Millie/Willie, Tootsie - true gender not specific, even lack of gender would be interesting.
* C'mon, Seattle has an underside to it, the underground city isn't completely empty - and maybe there is something more down there, a reason folk don't come up top-level except as street performers or during the night.
*What about a science fiction which is fantastical? Much like any/all of Terry Gilliam's work? Turn a corner and there may be a party of airplane manufacturers who deny the possibility of flight - Sit in a cubicle and work on the gradation of the thread on a four hundred dollar bolt, then write a letter to management about why your gradation is better than the other fellows. Only to, a moment after, find that the veneer of strange life is nothing compared to what comes after when a strange fellow allows one to take a flight to a vacation island (on another planet).
** ^__^ Hell, anything we dream up together is fair game.

One last thing - I love to do brain storming with my partners. (I don't require it, we can just drop right in and start off too, but that's neither here nor there.) I do, however, tend to need some food for my brainstorming. When I toss four or five ideas out there and at least two of them aren't completely insane and involving hamsters with bright green ears, then get a one liner answer back with nothing, then my muse grumbles and starves. You don't have to live with her. She's not fun when she's hungry. Please don't starve my muse by giving her nothing. She might pack up and leave without us. This would maybe make you sad. Or maybe you're not feeding her because of the green eared hamsters and you're not sure how to sidle out the back door quietly, in which case that's okay then.

Nab me and let me know what would be fun!
Post here or PM me, I check both.

[Blue Demon]

Hello. Since I'm tracking down all my old RP partners. Were you theclosetmonster I was doing "Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers" with? If so, are you interested in continuing? If not, whelp XD.

[ClosetMonster]

Yep!!! Totally! I would love to continue.

Unfortunately, I'm one of the few who was so totally head down and do only the RPs I'm scheduled for, I lost all of my old stuff. Were you one of those who was aware and able to save it? or shall we start again or try and recap what we recall? We could start up a thread with that name and fill in the OOCly side of it. :) It's so good to see you again!

(BTW - beyond the sadness of no more bow tie'ness to the Doc, was Tom Baker's cameo not AWESOME? He still has it. Warmed me from the inside, like hot cocoa.)

[Blue Demon]

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to save any of the PM stories. I did save my character sheet, not that it does me much good. Luckily all my notes on the plot I scribbled down on a calendar page, so I have those. I can totally pop up a thread for us.

(I am sad to see Smith go. But I like Capaldi in other shows, so I still have high hopes. And the Day of the Doctor was amazing. I like that they had Baker and all of the other old doctors in there, even the ones who were dead. That warmed me. ^^)

[ClosetMonster]

Capaldi is going to be a nice change. They'd gone younger and younger, and I think Matt Smith had to grow into his role some, just based on age more than anything. I am really looking forward to what Mr. Capaldi does with it.

And this is driving me nuts. I thought I had it on a doc... I could have sworn I did. I don't seem to even have NOTES! Grah... That's okay, though. So long as you've got them, we're good.

Let me know when the thread's up and I will run over there and help rebuild, restart, revitalize... etc. (And in the meantime, I will continue looking.)

[Guardj]

I can't even.... I don't know how to begin to describe how ridiculously, hilariously, awesome that all sounded up there. Just complete randomness for it's own sake. I love it. World building with you would be a hell of an experience I'm certain.

[ClosetMonster]

BD: I may have found it! Gwen... the P.I.. I had it under another name! Ah haaaa! I shall post that in our thread. (Doin' a leetle dance, cause is sick, but some small dancing is manageable.)

[ClosetMonster]

Guardj: Hee hee... it's all very Cheshire kitty-like, somewhat. Though it needn't be at all. I can do realism just as easily and too much oddity can drive a RP into the ground, so - moosen in moderation. ;)

It would be fun to drag one more person into the BLACK ABYS- :erm:

It would be fun to invite one more into a world building escapade. Please do, if you'd care to! If you are looking for something not quite of the usual (or even the usual) and don't mind some left hooks thrown in now and again, I might be a good fit. (I'm selling myself here. Please, put the poor writer out of their misery.)

[Foster]

Depends on what a tree-hugger is.

Do I cry when a tree falls? No.
-Well, maybe a little 'miffed that 'Wash just 'plum chop'd down my cherry-tree just ot prove he had a sharp axe... not the sharpest bit in the woodshed...

[ClosetMonster]

I think I'd get a tear or two depending on where it fell, truth be told.

Or rather what it fell ON. Like my dog... or my foot. Don't know if that'd be crying or not. But there would be tears.

And you know, I was just throwing random things out - so tree-hugger could be anything anyone wanted it to be. Of course, so could a "totally opposite tree-hugger status" persona.

[ClosetMonster]

Okay - bumped with some real ideas thrown into the top post. Feel free to PM me or post here to indicate interest.

[Foster]

ClosetMonster said
And you know, I was just throwing random things out - so tree-hugger could be anything anyone wanted it to be. Of course, so could a "totally opposite tree-hugger status" persona.

Depends on what this qualifies as.

Nature is a tool, like a woodcipper that is always on. Immense fun, but get too cocky and stupid and it will chew you up and scatter your ashes.

[ClosetMonster]

Foster said
Nature is a tool, like a woodcipper that is always on. Immense fun, but get too cocky and stupid and it will chew you up and scatter your ashes.

I'm sure there is a spectrum of Tree-Hugger. Everything from those who would be better off slapping a sticker on their SUV about being a nature conservationist, right beside their MLP sticker and under the Transformer emblem, to the Trapper who will suck your soul if you so much as LOOK at his chosen tree wrong. It's all about the tree's feelings, right? We should REALLY be asking if the tree wanted to be hugged in the first place.

[Foster]

I guess... Most of the time I've followed the literary ideologies of American Rationalism (Poor Richard's almanak, 'Summer solder and sunshine patriot' [Crisis]) Transcendentalism, and Realism (Pretty much the 19th century version of the gritty '80s, and included such writers as Mark Twain).

I generally don't preach, but I practice... in a blue-orange morality sort of way.
-Killing, totes alright. But you better thank them first, and apologize afterwards to next of kin.

Nature is like a wood-chipper.
One could call me a naturalist, but a post-modern natralist would punch you in the face for lumping him in my boat; and I, his.

[Glaw]

It's Closet! Hullo Closet! I knew it was you as soon as a mention of moose. Mmm, moose.

Hey-ho, I have no idea what we were doing before to be honest (werewolves I think!) but I've been pining for something along the lines of a rather cliche get-on-a-magical-ship-and-end-up-random-places sort of ridiculously episodic and diverse rp (connected behind the curtain by an epic and sinister plot, as is the custom). If you like, that is! In either case -- hullo!

[ClosetMonster]

GLAWWWWWW! Oh my goodness! I hadn't hoped to find you! And personally, I haven't a clue what we were doing either, other than it was something to do with an abominable caravan and a multitude of characters... or was that YOU TOOK MY CHARACTER'S EYE!!!!! And it was cool. :)

Shall we? You were missed! Oh so missed! And I would go on any half-cocked, cliche about to become anything but, episodic/diverse RP. You know all you need do is crook your finger and I follow wherever you lead. :)

oh. Hallo, theah!!! What a pip you've been. Oh let's go, captain! :)

[ClosetMonster]

Foster said I guess... Most of the time I've followed the literary ideologies of American Rationalism (Poor Richard's almanak, 'Summer solder and sunshine patriot' [Crisis]) Transcendentalism, and Realism (Pretty much the 19th century version of the gritty '80s, and included such writers as Mark Twain).I generally don't preach, but I practice... in a blue-orange morality sort of way.-Killing, totes alright. One could call me a naturalist, but a post-modern natralist would punch you in the face for lumping him in my boat; and I, his.

You have captured my attention. There are a great deal of literary references here, some of which I've read without thinking one moment about naturalism, but now I have to go off and look at it all again with new eyes. And in doing so, (even the little taste you've given) it puts a whole new eye on a book I've been reading (of no consequence, it is a minister's account of his dogs in Canada during the 1870's) and the mindset of the man who, while mentioning Providence a time or two, is really not interested in nature beyond its striking beauty a time or two (in particular the Northern Lights while in a fight with native dogs off the bow of his sled) and more so, it's incredible danger. Thank you for the insight!

Though, you do need to explain to me the "blue-orange" reference, as that makes me think of opposing religions as well as how you, beyond literary choices, personally exercise your naturalistic tendencies.

[Foster]

I think Heinlein summed it up most concisely, but the short form was from Krane:
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me, A sense of obligation."
-In short, nature is Cthulhu. Just be glad it isn't trying to kill us; it still does, in very horriffic ways.

Heinlein's thesis regarding the clash of intellegent animals to create a post-scarcity population-inversion:

But it was interesting. I caught one of those master's thesis assignments he chucked around so casually; I had suggested that the Crusades were different from most wars. I got sawed off and handed this: Required: to prove that war and moral perfection derive from the same genetic inheritance.

Briefly, thus: All wars arise from population pressure. (Yes, even the Crusades, though you have to dig into trade routes and birth rate and several other things to prove it.) Morals - all correct moral rules derive from the instinct to survive; moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level - as in a father who dies to save his children. But since population pressure results from the process of surviving through others, then war, because it results from population pressure, derives from the same inherited instinct which produces all moral rules suitable for human beings.
. . .
Nevertheless, let's assume that the human race manages to balance birth and death, just right to fit its own planets, and thereby becomes peaceful. What happens?

Soon (about next Wednesday) the Bugs move in, kill off this breed which "ain'ta gonna study war no more" and the universe forgets us. Which still may happen. Either we spread and wipe out the Bugs, or they spread and wipe us out - because both races are tough and smart and want the same real estate.

Do you know how fast population pressure could cause us to fill the entire universe shoulder to shoulder? The answer will astound you, just the flicker of an eye in terms of the age of our race.

Try it - it's a compound-interest expansion.

But does Man have any "right" to spread through the universe?

Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics - you name it - is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what Man is - not what do gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.

The universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

I'm not quite to the point of murding all horses and ponies, just to get rid of horse-flies, but I'm pretty close to it.

[Glaw]

ClosetMonster said
GLAWWWWWW! Oh my goodness! I hadn't hoped to find you! And personally, I haven't a clue what we were doing either, other than it was something to do with an abominable caravan and a multitude of characters... or was that YOU TOOK MY CHARACTER'S EYE!!!!! And it was cool. :) Shall we? You were missed! Oh so missed! And I would go on any half-cocked, cliche about to become anything but, episodic/diverse RP. You know all you need do is crook your finger and I follow wherever you lead. :) oh. Hallo, theah!!! What a pip you've been. Oh let's go, captain! :)

Ah yes, Jamison! I miss poor Jamison, and Dr. Fell, and that sassy woman whose red hair and strangle-hold on werewolves stand out now more than her name. You've been sorely missed! Nobody catches and weaves the ridiculous and the magical into brilliant stories like you do. But now I have an old woman with a secret that is ripe to be told, and no one yet to tell it to. What do you think? Fill in plot as we go? Any particular time period and/or setting you fancy? Past, present or future!

[ClosetMonster]

Foster said -In short, nature is Cthulhu. Just be glad it isn't to kill us; it still does, in very horriffic ways.

So War has been declared, by sheer apathy (can it be considered apathy when Nature doesn't even recognize Man as anything more worthy of note than said horse-fly?) and our dominating need to be counted. :) I can go with that.

But all joking aside, it never ceases to amaze me the multitude of ways to approach any one subject. This is a common enough thread in evolutionary psychology of which I am a huge fan. Namely, mankind is but one more cog in the great wheel of Nature and to think otherwise, is just a tad bit spoiled rotten and a little egocentric of us (us, being mankind). And actually, no evolutionary psychologist would actually SAY that. What is said, instead, is that we are, on an evolutionary clock, not so far removed from the rest of the natural world. In fact, it is this truth which binds and directs much of our behaviors, and just because we can symbolize things (put them into words) doesn't necessarily make reality any more complex than our reaction to our root biology.

In other words, I think we've as much chance making it through Nature's gauntlets as does an amoeba or a cockroach, provided we have the needed dna for survival.