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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:24 pmPolice helicopter flying about tonight. Argh. They're determined to just disturb my "off-time", aren't they?
Some incredible infighting going on in furryland. One beginner artist copied/referenced a pose (depending on who you're talking to) OMG LIEK WITHOUG GIVING CREDIT and and it's all blown up into this monster spat. Sure, original artist should have cited her references (I mean, if I'd not done that in a science paper, I'd have been docked serious marks), but chrissake leave it ALONE now.
Been working a bit on my species - trying to work out how to "recreate" a species from my fiction that was heavily influenced by a pre-existing fictional one without losing everything that makes it what it is. I'm thinking of going more heavily on the cephalopod side and take more cues from earthly species, like elephants and weasels and OMG SQUID. Yay.
Reading up about bird anatomy again and found a nifty little idea to help explain why Ve-hei'ya is so hard to write and impossible for non-aves to speak - birds don't have vocal cords but a syrinx. A syrinx can produce two tones simultaneously, so Kiravai speech (which is essentially highly structured birdsong) is a mixture of harmonies as well as "words". Since the mammalian vocal cords of most Coalition species can't produce this dual-harmony, the Kiravai are happy to consider their "neighbours" to be idiots and a lower social order. While we're on the subject of referencing sources, mine's here. It also means I can write about a Kiravai singing a duet with itself. Ha!
...and I still haven't got my laundry done. :( I got up specially this morning, and some twattish little kids had emptied an entire box of Persil between the washing machines in the on-site laundrette. I wasn't going to spend £2 just to sluice all the soap out of the machines (they won't work unless you put money in - I could have begged some off the office, but it wasn't open at 6am when I went to do my laundry), so I gave up. I'm going to try again tomorrow. *grr*
Some incredible infighting going on in furryland. One beginner artist copied/referenced a pose (depending on who you're talking to) OMG LIEK WITHOUG GIVING CREDIT and and it's all blown up into this monster spat. Sure, original artist should have cited her references (I mean, if I'd not done that in a science paper, I'd have been docked serious marks), but chrissake leave it ALONE now.
Been working a bit on my species - trying to work out how to "recreate" a species from my fiction that was heavily influenced by a pre-existing fictional one without losing everything that makes it what it is. I'm thinking of going more heavily on the cephalopod side and take more cues from earthly species, like elephants and weasels and OMG SQUID. Yay.
Reading up about bird anatomy again and found a nifty little idea to help explain why Ve-hei'ya is so hard to write and impossible for non-aves to speak - birds don't have vocal cords but a syrinx. A syrinx can produce two tones simultaneously, so Kiravai speech (which is essentially highly structured birdsong) is a mixture of harmonies as well as "words". Since the mammalian vocal cords of most Coalition species can't produce this dual-harmony, the Kiravai are happy to consider their "neighbours" to be idiots and a lower social order. While we're on the subject of referencing sources, mine's here. It also means I can write about a Kiravai singing a duet with itself. Ha!
...and I still haven't got my laundry done. :( I got up specially this morning, and some twattish little kids had emptied an entire box of Persil between the washing machines in the on-site laundrette. I wasn't going to spend £2 just to sluice all the soap out of the machines (they won't work unless you put money in - I could have begged some off the office, but it wasn't open at 6am when I went to do my laundry), so I gave up. I'm going to try again tomorrow. *grr*
