Copyright 2007 Absolute VanillaTalking about inspiration...
No, no, let me talk about inspiration - you've done quite enough quasi creative-meaning of life-wittering for the past few days. Shove over. You remember the deal - your blog, but I get a chance to butt in.
Oh, what, like you haven't already done enough butting in?
You got a problem?
Me? Do I dare?
I wouldn't if I were you...
Okay, this is Atyllah posting - so pay attention!
As some of you may well be aware, prior to my departure from Planet Earth I was involved in a campaign to save some trees - very old trees many of them - oaks of various species, eucalypts, pines, poplars, willows... (did I ever mention that some of my bestest friends are trees?) - and not only that, I was trying, though the Corncob alone knows why, to save the shaded recreational space of the Mugger City - the place where my spacepod crash landed - damned thing. Since my actions came to the notice of the Draconians, nasty reptilian aliens who humans refuse to believe have infiltrated Earth, it became necessary for me to adopt a low profile and hand over matters to those in a better position to actually do something about trees and related schtuff. (And the Corncob knows, there is a bundle of related schtuff - enough to give any local politician damp dreams...)
However, talking of inspiration and thinking of trees and the various characters who popped up on the stage, I'm thinking of penning my own little parody... See, you just never know what sort of fodder can be turned into a tale...
At the moment I'm putting together the cast of characters...
The Evil Ones:
Brat Meerkat - an Evil Overseer
The Idiot Bluster Von Hot Aire - an infamous bottomist
Ding Dong Bell - oh yeah, that cat should really be in a well...
The Good Guys - mostly:
The Four Immortals - a group of brave and brilliant minds (and yes, I know in the feng shui folk say there are only three)
YT - aka Yours Truly - Atyllah the Hen, chicken with ΓΌber-attitude
The Tree Doctor - a passionate human intent on saving the trees come bellowing Hot Aire or Draconians
Raving Rob Treebeard - he means well (I think...) but constantly forgets to take his medication...
The assorted and self appointed egos of several causes:
Wily Coyote - a supposed leader, who wouldn't know a lead if it strangled him
Dumcluck McPhuck - a Novapulsian meddler or the worst kind
The Ugly Phuckling - Dumphuck's brother and self proclaimed legal genius
Dennis le Menace - an old fart who thinks he knows best
Queen Deen - another fart of indeterminate age and with several personal agendas.
I'm thinking of calling it "Stupid is as Stupid Does"; "The Misadventures of Trees" or; "Fuckwittage Flows where anything Grows".
Now all I need to do is work on the plot. Any ideas and further inspiration would be welcome.
(My Corncob! I don't actually believe this, I'm asking humans for assistance! What is the multiverse coming to!?!)
11 comments:
I was going to suggest that you let the characters tell you their needs and desires...but you seem to be having enough trouble in that department already! :-)
An evil meerkat? An evil meerkat? Is such a thing possible? I thought that meerkats were amongst the friendliest of creatures!
Nice to have you back, by the way!
Richard (from undeadflowers.com)
Jon - you are so right - characters way out of control. Have been working on an edit of a manuscript today, I think the character has taken over... Of course, I could just be suffering from multiple personality disorder...
Hi Richard - oh yes, this is one evil meerkat - a mutant probably. Though that said, have you seen what meerkats do to cobras? Scary stuff!
I don't know about the multiple personality disorder...what do you all think?
We're not saying anything else an argument might break out and you have no idea how much it hurts hitting ourselves.
How about two heads is better than one, although I think Douglas Adams already covered that with Zaephod Beeblebrox.... but three headed dogs were all the rage in Greece once upon a time. A dodecahedric, oh pardon me, dog...? chicklet?
Looks grand as it is. Huzzah I say!
Now wait a minute, I may be an alien that prefers to eat little animals but don't mess with my buds, the trees!!
If hear of any evil meerkats messing with my trees I will be brought to action. Our trees bring us a knowledge that most of us can't understand. Imagine standing still for 400 years. Yea, didn't think you could. A good bud of mine has a Hickory and a Walnut growing together on his farm. How cool is that?
OK, I'll shut up now.
Ha, but you see, Barbara JKRowling's also recently been doing three headed dogs... But a three headed chicken, now I like that - a lot! I think you're onto something. So does the uber-chicken... Granny Were likes it even more.
Thanks, OT!
Brian, standing still for 400 years! Nope, don't think I could manage that, though I do believe that's what Atyllah's late Aunt Aggie is currently doing as she evolves into still higher levels of super-consciousness.
As for those evil meerkats, best you gird your loins to tackle them and the infamous, myopic and truly stupid bottomists.
A hickory and a walnut? I am so green that I'm all a flutter!
Hi Atyllah....
Pretty interesting characters you thought up here, would love to see them in action :)
I saw your comments about my Lion Odin at Seamus' blog...I'm a big fan of Odin,as a God, and the whole Norse mythology...if you'd like to discuss something or just bounce off some ideas, I'd love to get a mail from you :)
My mail id is in my blog :)
Cheers!
N
A Story A Day
Hi Nothingman - trust me, I didn't have to think up those characters, they're all out there in the real world... scary, isn't it?
Thanks for the offer - I may well contact you about Odin - I'm doing some research at the moment to see how appropriate understanding his role as a "death god" may be to the new manuscript that's currently composting in my brain :-)
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