osprey_archer | Name, Rank, and Serial Number (Reply)

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