Pitra, 9999-9989 BC [ Completed ]

Wow thats clever how you connected it to real life, very whedonesque- little disappointed it wasn't england because i thought that was like your theory on how the watchers council ended up being in england but yours was still incredible!!!
 
nerd4hire
nerd4hire
Thanks. Here's one to think about. Where are the bones of the white woman?
nerd4hire said:
I know the feeling. I've only recently become interested in getting ahold of the Sandman series, but from what I hear Gaiman especially is a guy you'd want to ask questions of concerning subtext.
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I cannot recommend Neil Gaiman highly enough...Sandman is incredible, as are American Gods, the kids' books, short stories...you get the idea...I'm a big fan 😉 He is one of those writers who does seem very approachable (check out his web site - http://www.neilgaiman.com/ ) which is good, because you are right about wanting to ask the questions...😉 There's a lot going on in most of his tales...
 
I always think of him as a comic writer. You mean he writes other stuff? I'll check the library.

And what about Joss Whedon. Wouldn't you like to ask him subtext questions? Or almost any of the Buffy/Angel writers.

I'd love to ask Drew Goddard about Spike's symbol shaped scars in Never Leave Me.

Or do you remember that scene in Life Serial from Season 6 where Willow takes Buffy with her to class, and there's a lecture going on in the background? Try to get ahold of the transcript, and check that lecture out. It appears to be saying stuff about the nature of reality that applies to the episode.

I have this fantasy where Fury or Espenson get trapped in the seat next to me on a trans-atlantic flight, and I grill them about that bit, and others.
 
My fantasy involves Joss Whedon popping onto BB and setting us all straight in the whole "Who's the real slayer" question that's been plaguing us for so long 😀
 
That's a great idea. Sometimes I wonder whether if he actually comes on to boards like this, maybe he's here right now, if we somehow managed to let him know BB exists I bet he'd come on.
 
My general impression is they prefer the Blog style boards.

Goddard, Fury and a few others drop in on Bronze Beta. Is it still up? I don't know.

Joss has been doing surprise news visits on Whedonesque lately.

There's this Serenity blog board I can't remember the name of it right now, but all the Serenity people pop in there from time to time. They say Adam Baldwin is almost a regular. I've heard him refered to as an internet geek.

Tim Minear has a thread dedicated to him at Buffista, and can be found there from time to time.

I wouldn't expect to see any of them at a forum style message board though. For whatever reasons, it's just not their thing.
 
n4h - do you mean the official Serenity movie site?
http://www.serenitymovie.com/
It's got a blog (sadly not updated much now the shoot has finished) but the Browncoats section has boards which occasionally have posts from cast and crew - Nathan is the most recent one that I've seen - posting about the Indian Ocean tsunami.
 
Yeah that's the one. It was pretty lively there for awhile. I expect it will pick up again closer to September.

I'd always link into the conversations from external sites, and it always felt kind of bloggy to me.
 
n4h:

Sorry, I just got around to finishing your story...I got busy, so I didn't have the time I wanted to dedicate to reading it. I must say...I'm truly impressed. I got the conjoined twins thing, but missed the scythe connection. It is visible now that you've pointed to it. Your knowledge of the kind of things involved in native rituals is impressive, and set the tone for the story very nicely. It was cool to get some spells that didn't call on Hecate for once...and the reverence for nature was shown with the harvesting the golden lichens...very authentic sounding. The deaths were suitably messy and the faltering of the lines believeable, as was the contention amongst the combattants fighting the Turok Han. Thanks for sharing, my friend, you have talent. I'm waiting for more, so get rested and get to it!
 
nerd4hire
nerd4hire
Thanks. Just making it all the way to the end pleases me enough.
Thanks again KD. Want some sources for some of that stuff.

The idea of Sorcerers talking to the plants they use as they harvest them I got from a book about a Yaqui Indian Sorcerer called The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

The cliff of caves thing, I think that's Hopi.

The idea that hunting tribes would insult rather than compliment a fellow hunter on a good kill I got from a documentary film I saw in Anthropology class. Apparently they don't want any 1 member to get too proud, because it creates disharmony in the tribe.

Most of the implements they use I got from Anthropology class. I wanted to put the society somewhere on the border of Hunting and Gathering, and agricultural.

The hunting techniques I got from different books I've read, and movies I've seen.
 
I'm just going by snatches of memory and a quick visit to a website, but I believe the Hopi are the descendants of the Anasazi and Sinagua, who I believe built the cliff dwelling you linked to.

Anasazi is a Navajo word that can mean "enemy ancestors" or "ancient people who are not us", depending on its pronunciation.These early inhabitants of the Colorado Plateau were not the ancestors of the Navajo, but rather, as it seems, of the Hopi and Zuni Indians. The Anasazi are well-known for the cliff-dwellings they inhabited during the later years of their civilization.
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The Sinagua were named in the 1930's after the Spanish phrase sin" (="without") and "agua" (="water"). Living in a region that covered part of the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi, the Sinagua were influenced by these cultures. The Hopi Indians have no doubt that the Sinagua and the Anasazi are their ancestors.
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http://ask.nessie.free.fr/az/cultures.htm
 
killerdwarf said:
You did a good job of it in any case, since the first visual I got when I read the story was a Hopi-style cave dwelling. Cool links, Mr. P!
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Both places are very much worth visiting if you find youself in that neck of the woods. The web sites don't really do them full justice. One thing (among many) that the Yanks do brilliantly is the National/State Parks and Monuments. Well done America!🙂
 
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