Aerecura
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 28, 2012 23:59:58 GMT 1
So a lot of people that I know had been asking me for the past few months if I had a personal website with all my creative writing on it. Enough people that now I've actually created one. And now that I've done so, I feel like I ought to start reconciling my fanfiction persona with my original-work persona. In my introduction thread a few months ago, I said my name was Helena. That's not true; it's simply another pen name I use. My real name is Elizabeth (although you all are still welcome to call me Aerecura). I'll still never post any fanfiction on this blog, but why go around using two different names when my real one is perfectly serviceable? So here's my blog full of original writing. I'm still trying to build up a reader base around it, as it's new at this point. (It's rather depressing when my least-popular works on fanfiction.net get more traffic than my original work...). I would love it if you all visited, commented, whatever, since I value your input and readership more than random Wordpress users.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jul 29, 2012 0:33:07 GMT 1
I read some of your work, the one I read so far was "Six Little Red Caps: Ginger" and I absolutely love your writing style! Love it! I will read more soon, and I know I will greatly enjoy it...
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Post by Mister Buch on Jul 29, 2012 0:42:16 GMT 1
I just had a glance at your poetry - want to read more carefully later -- but yeah. You're good. O.o
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Aerecura
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 29, 2012 1:08:16 GMT 1
Oh, you all are going to make me blush! Thank you!
Incidentally, I based all the Six Little Red Caps poems off of the horror game "The Path." I don't know if anyone here has played it - it's more like interactive art than a game - but I HIGHLY recommend it. Gorgeous work.
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Post by lieden on Jul 29, 2012 11:30:31 GMT 1
You have skill, no doubt! Keep writing & keep thinking.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jul 29, 2012 14:29:27 GMT 1
KArma ooint for awesomeness....
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Aerecura
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 29, 2012 22:40:54 GMT 1
Many thanks to you both! I'll be updating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I have both a fiction and a poetry series going right now, as well as whatever other odds and ends I dream up. So feel free to check back, if you should feel so inclined
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Post by Mister Buch on Jul 29, 2012 23:44:18 GMT 1
Got yourself a capital 'A', huh? Definitely deserved. Anyway I had a more in-depth look at the Six Little Red Caps and your flash pieces there, and I still like it. Very careful, very professional, and you make it look easy. I never played The Path, but somebody here, I think it was Cali, mentioned it and showed some videos. Looked creative.
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 31, 2012 1:25:28 GMT 1
...well. Funny story. I realized I had created this account with a lowercase 'a' and then tried in vain to figure out how to change it for about two months. (I thought maybe that it was a privilege conferred only on the most exalted of members.) Then, when I went to add my blog address to my signature, I finally realized that the little box had been there the whole time.
You may all giggle at me behind your hands now.
Thank you again, Buch! And once more, if you love folklore and fairy tales (as I do), and you've got a few hours on your hands, I'd play The Path. It changed the way I thought about video games.
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Post by Mister Buch on Jul 31, 2012 11:36:21 GMT 1
I do love folkloe and fairy tales. I'd better look this thing up.
Did you know that the first known version of the Red Riding Hood story was from ancient China? I have no evidence for that, but by writing teacher assures me.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jul 31, 2012 12:42:53 GMT 1
Really?! Huh, might have to check some sources on that...
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 31, 2012 16:13:50 GMT 1
I did, in fact, know that! My senior thesis presentation was on the history and significance of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, so I know all about it Like most fairy tales, there are several different versions that originated in a variety of locations, one of them being China. (I know, could I possibly have picked a more useless thing to talk about)
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jul 31, 2012 16:29:36 GMT 1
Not really because it shows how Asian influicnes are felt through Western Europe a lot earlier then expected.
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Post by Aerecura on Jul 31, 2012 19:17:11 GMT 1
Actually...it probably didn't make it all the way to Europe. Fairy tales are so universal that the same ones (or, well, the same themes but with different variations) pop up everywhere. For example, the story of the selkie can be found in Japan, but with tennyo (heavenly messengers). It can also be found in Africa with buffalo maidens and in Croatia with wolf maidens. It's unlikely that the paths of these cultures crossed, yet the archetypes show up again and again. So the story of a person being ambushed by a wolf/tiger/ogre/other fearsome creature and then being eaten by it is actually pretty common (ex. the story of Jonah). It doesn't indicate cross-cultural relations, necessarily. Just that some stories are universal. Anyway, I don't think it's useless, but most other people do, is all I meant And enough babbling from me.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jul 31, 2012 20:03:48 GMT 1
Dont care, karma point for enlightning us1 It;s all very Jungian there of you, so i like.
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