thessalian | We want ... information. (Reply)

dryaunda asks the questions this time around. Some fairly interesting ones, as well.

1) What is your opinion of James Bowman, aka Cincgreen?

On general terms, I don't hate him. The man's entitled to his opinion, he's expressed it well, and while he wasn't particularly interested in taking on board any opinion bar his own, you have to admire someone who will stand up and YAWP from the rooftops in such a way. He backed up his opinions with reasonably solid (if somewhat subjective) reasoning, so he comes in a fair sigut above some of your standard flamers and trolls, and he knows how to use the English language, which is a bonus. That said, anyone who spends that amount of time and effort attacking fan fiction -- any fan fiction -- has a few issues that really need some work, but at the moment, I'm content with not bothering him if he doesn't bother me.

2) Where did your ideas for Lynn Cullen come from?

Someone pointed me in the direction of Daria with the words, "There's this girl in this cartoon and she is you, I swear!" I didn't really think so. I wrote "I Am (NOT) Daria!" (the fic, not the site, which is pretty much dead at the minute). I thought it was crap, but there were some scenes I wanted to salvage. I couldn't see canon Daria doing any of those things and it's always annoyed me when people have written Daria doing something quite that overt and off-canon without some serious plot nudging, so I wasn't going to simply have her do that. Plus I wondered what would happen if she met someone who was just like her except for being more overt. Thus, Lynn Cullen was born. (Later, I got prodded to post IA(N)D anyway, but never mind.)

3) Where, within the Good:Evil spectrum, would you place the Technocracy (from MtA)?

Either right in the middle or off to one side a bit -- they're only doing what they feel is right, even if they're stepping all over individualism and free will to do it.

4) You create an alternate history, one that's as original and novel as can possibly be; what would it be like?

Disregarding any limitations of what does and does not exist? Hmm. 1947, an unidentified flying object lands -- not crashes; lands -- at Roswell. Those who come to investigate the landing are greeted by a small band of hyperintelligent Siamese-twinned chinchillas, who bond to the visitors as furry earmuffs. The five men who were assimilated by the chinchilla visitors spread to the various continents and use their chinchilla-given intellect to take over. Vegetarianism becomes global law, cities are torn down to create forests and Ewok-style villages for the humans, and all cats are universally destroyed. Three years later, the remnants of the chinchilla race, who abandoned their own planet due to an influx of conquering were-chickens, land on earth and some two million individuals are given the opportunity to bond with the hyper-intelligent race. By 2005, humans are living in tree-villages and the humans themselves are ruled by the symbiotes in a town meeting style of democracy.

5) You are a Swiss Army metamorph. While you're limited by mass and humanoid morphology, you can change from 'yourself' to 'yourself, plus something useful'. "Something useful" means anything advantage that is biologically possible. You're limited to seven useful traits at a time, which "body setting" would you favor?

Not touching that one with a barge pole. I'm weird enough without the ability to develop polydactyly or something. Besides, I seriously can't think of anything I'd want as an added feature.

It's warm and sunny, and I have migraine. Arse.