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[osprey_archer]

Dagnabbit, I just got out of school a week ago. It’s summer vacation. I AM NOT SICK. The fatigue, the headache, the sore throat are figments of my imagination, I tell you.

Oh, heck. I’m so out of it that I slept through half of The Sting. (I woke up for the end but I can’t remember it, so the movie isn’t ruined. Small mercies.)

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Given that I’m otherwise incapacitated, I’ve been considering Clever Names for this journal.

Jin’s Library, perhaps, except that’s dull.

Jin’s Labyrinth, which sounds kind of like Pan’s Labyrinth (which I love, but still) and anyway there’s nothing particularly labyrinthine here, aside perhaps from sentence structure.

Jin’s Gate. Jin’s Stargate! Except I don’t watch that much Stargate. (I have a low tolerance for shows that involve saving the world on a weekly basis. You can imagine how that affects my Torchwood viewing. And if I ever get to watch Doctor Who—)

But I like the gate theme. I’ve always liked the idea of worldgates. Jin’s Moon Gate, except it reminds me of an unfortunate book I once read called The China Garden which ruined the otherwise wonderful idea of moon gates for me forever.

Moon gates are round gates in Chinese gardens. They’re moon-like only in their roundness; they don’t wax or wane, although that might be something cool to happen in a story. Somehow.

Jin’s Thaumaturgical Gateway: taglined, Where Anything Can Happen. So HIDE.

I’ll need to find a good tagline, too.

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Also, a miscellaneous link: Elizabeth Bear’s writing metaphor article thing, linked by goldjadeocean, because it’s really quite spot-on about writers. I would like to say I’m not that anal-retentive, but…

Comments

[anait.livejournal.com]

'Jin's Lamp: Phenomenal cosmic power in an itty-bitty living space'

(Bad pun! Disney! Sorry, sorry!)

Don't get sick! It's just not fun.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I did consider variations on Jin's lamp, but it went right through being so bad it's good to being so bad that it's just, well...cheesy.

I have been considering light-housely things, though. It combines the theme of light with the idea of gateways, which is a very appealing metaphor.

Is the quote from Aladdin? I haven't seen Aladdin in a very long time. If I do continue down this grim path of illness (I'm trying to ward it off with hot chocolate), maybe I'll watch it again.

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

If you don't remember Aladdin, you are ill indeed (I hate to break it to you). Remedy this at once!

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

I think you should find some way to work the word "teleological" in. Com'on, you know you want to.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

"Jin's Teleological Library: Designed for Interest and Insanity."

I dunno. I think that might just take my "obnoxiously pedantic" quotient through the roof.

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

hmmm. maybe later then. :)

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Thank you the link: made me smile and nod.