March 22, 2017 at 3:28 pm (Books, Fan Fiction, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: adaptations, Edward Gibbon, fan fiction, Katniss, Peeta, reading lists, The Hunger Games, YA
Aside from her Real Life, self writes a lot of fan fiction, all in The Hunger Games universe. In her AU, she has come to use the following characters over and over:
Hunger Games Plutarch is manipulative, a consummate politician. Hunger Games Seneca is a tool, pure and simple. Hunger Games Cato is a blonde, physically powerful type who ends up in a battle to the death with Katniss and Peeta. Guess who wins?
Now that she is reading The Decline and Fall, she is reminded that the above names actually belonged to real people.
In The Hunger Games, Cato is very much a bully.
In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon on p. 348 writes “we may learn from the example of Cato that a character of pure and inflexible virtue . . . ” In other words, RL Cato is a good guy.
#what
Self will stop here, as she’s having conniptions over some #APBreaking news about Paul Manafort and it is putting her in a very sullen state of mind.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 8, 2017 at 11:01 am (anthologies, Books, Filipino Writers, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, book lists, Calyx Press, Cassandra Clare, Doreen Fernandez, dystopia, Jane Austen, Lydia Davis, nonfiction, novel, poetry, science fiction, short story collections, Steampunk, The Hunger Games, The Infernal Devices, YA
Books that rocked self’s world:
- Break It Down, by Lydia Davis
- Empty Chairs, by Liu Xia
- The Charm Buyers, by Lillian Howan
- Yes (A screenplay), by Sally Potter
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
- Night Willow, by Luisa Igloria
- Palayok: Philippine Food Through Time, by Doreen Fernandez
- The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
- Bad Behavior, by Mary Gaitskill
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- Memories Flow In Our Veins: Forty Years of Women’s Writings from Calyx, edited by the Calyx Editorial Collective
- The Infernal Devices Trilogy, by Cassandra Clare
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- Going Home to a Landscape: a Filipino Women’s Anthology, edited by Virginia Cerenio and Marianne Villanueva
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December 23, 2016 at 3:29 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Women Writers)
Tags: Fridays, Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, The Hunger Games
- Having no work, grief buries me.
— Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, Chapter 25
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November 11, 2016 at 7:10 pm (Fan Fiction, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, Fridays, Katniss Everdeen, memories, Mendocino, museums, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, The Hunger Games, Wordpress
- I’ve always loved tiny versions of things: toys and collectibles, furry animals, even houses.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is TINY.
Last week, self saw a fabulous exhibit at the Asian Art Museum, on The Ramayana. Afterwards, she hung around on the front steps, taking pictures of the passing scene.
She loves how this whimsical sculpture of an animal of some kind seems to dwarf the passersby, making them look tiny.
Asian Art Museum, Larkin Street, San Francisco: November 2016
Wider View, from the Front Steps of the Asian Art Museum, Larkin Street, San Francisco
Final picture: self’s print of La Llorona, which she bought last year from the Mendocino Art Center:
Self bought the print because it reminded her of The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 12, 2016 at 5:11 pm (Fan Fiction, Recommended)
Tags: Battlestar Galactica, indulgences, Mondays, Peeta Mellark, science fiction, The Hunger Games
Six months after the destruction of the Twelve Districts, Viper pilot Peeta Mellark is training several rookies when they are ambushed by an enemy fighter patrol. Ordering the recruits to retreat, he engages the enemy patrol alone and destroys most of them but not before suffering critical damage to his own fighter and being dragged into a nearby moon’s gravity well.
DUN DUN DUN!
Stay tuned.
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July 22, 2016 at 1:19 am (Books, Conversations, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: AWP, elections, Events, Hillary Clinton, humor, postaday, postaweek, summer, The Hunger Games, Wordpress, writing conferences, YA
For this week’s challenge, try to look past the big picture and take a more intimate approach . . . zoom in on details in unexpected places.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Today:
Interesting Adornments for a Mercedes Benz!
At the 2015 AWP Conference in Minneapolis, The Loft had a kind of raffle: You wrote the name of your favorite book and dropped it into a big tumbler. Then you picked out a card to see a book someone else had recommended. Self wrote: Suzanne Collins’ THE HUNGER GAMES Trilogy. The card she picked out had this book recommendation.
Just in time for the upcoming U.S.Presidential Elections, a book with a very rad picture of Hillary, doing a kind of Dirty Harry pose. ROFL!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 30, 2016 at 8:51 pm (Fan Fiction, Surprises)
Tags: Everlark, fan fiction, Katniss, Peeta, The Hunger Games
Twenty years after the demise of President Snow, Peeta starts having nightmares about the Games again. He’s re-called to the Capitol so Dr. Aurelius can help him figure out why. Turns out there is a mysterious Katniss look-alike named Melania who haunts his dreams . . . and who also happens to be on-staff in the hospital where Peeta is currently being treated.
Coincidence? Or evidence of a nefarious conspiracy? Self’s feeling is —
No! Peeta! Stop! Eeeeeeeeek! Go back to 12, pronto!
(To be continued)
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May 8, 2016 at 10:43 am (Fan Fiction, Sundays, Writing)
Tags: art, birthdays, indulgences, Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, born May 8
WIP, Hunger Games, Everlark:
Her boy believes she can walk on water. She smiles a little at that. She’s heard stories of the Old Days. There was a man who did walk on water. He was a fisherman.
He imagines he sees her walking the streets of the Capitol. The rare nights when he’s by himself, he’ll hear the whistle of an arrow as it grazes his ear. He knows it’s not just moonbeams and fakery.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 4, 2016 at 7:40 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday, Publishers, Recommended, short story collections, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Cork, Crab Orchard Review, discoveries, exhibits, Ireland, Katniss Everdeen, lists, Literary Magazines, London, museums, postaday, postaweek, praise, restaurants, teaching, The Hunger Games, travel, UCLA Extension, United Kingdom, Wordpress, YA
OH NO! SELF ACCIDENTALLY DELETED HER OWN POST.
It happened while she was trying to expand on her reasons for assembling this particular mosaic of images to represent the week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: ADMIRATION.
And she couldn’t find a previous saved version. Gaaaah! And in re-selecting images, she decided to stop at six instead of the eight she originally had. And she also substituted some images. Sorry for the confusion!
- Lady in Red: Ger, chef of Cork’s pre-eminent restaurant, Café Paradiso. Such a great chef, and also very direct and witty! Self loves Ger.
- Katniss Everdeen: Self-explanatory, really.
- Allison Joseph, co-editor with Jon Tribble of Crab Orchard Review. Fabulousness.
- The mother-daughter team who cook and manage Chez Mamie, 22 Hanway Street, London. They make London feel like home.
- SeaCity Museum, Southampton, England: Thank you to Joan McGavin, who took her here last year. What a great exhibit on the Titanic. While other cities lay claim to having the best exhibits on the tragedy, Southampton’s is so poignant because it focuses on the crew, most of whom were from this city. And therefore, the focus of the displays is on working-class people. Which makes this a much more layered story. In one gallery, there’s a map on the floor with red dots representing the houses of each of the victims. The dots are clustered around the poorer sections of the city.
- Last but not least: Nutschell Ann Windsor, Program Administrator for UCLA Extension’s on-line Writers Program. She is the best. She not only handles all requests with Zen calmness, she is a writer herself. And an editor. She’s holding an anthology she edited.
Ger in Front of Café Paradiso, Self’s Go-To Restaurant in Cork
Katniss, page from Costume Designer’s Sketch Book for The Hunger Games
Met the poet and Crab Orchard Review editor Allison Joseph at the AWP Book Fair in Minneapolis, April 2015.
Such a Team! This Mother and Daughter Own Chez Mamie, 22 Hanway Street, London: They’re originally from Belgium.
Further Areas of Southampton Showing Homes of the Titanic crew who drowned
Nutschell Ann Windsor is a graduate of the University of the Philippines, a UCLA Extension Program Administrator, and co-editor of an anthology called SPROUTS.
And now self will post before she accidentally deletes something again.
Stay tuned.
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April 21, 2016 at 4:36 pm (Conversations, Fan Fiction, Surprises)
Tags: adaptations, crossover, Everlark, Finnick, humor, indulgences, Katniss, Peeta, The Hunger Games
Her thoughts drifted back to the mysterious man that had saved her (from drowning) earlier that day. She really hadn’t stopped thinking about him at all since he’d run into the tropical forest like a mad man, wearing her orange sundress. The vision of it made Katniss’s laughter bubble up . . .
“You liked that one, Kitty?” Finnick asked, catching Katniss by surprise.
Her laughter subsided at the pet name he’d coined for her as soon as they’d met on the plane. She stared at him a moment, willing the scowl to stay behind the delicate mask of merriment. She had to play along, knowing she couldn’t tell any of the men about her savior. At least, not yet. Not until she knew more about him. Why was he on the island. Where he came from . . .
Can you believe anyone finding Finnick tiresome?
LOL.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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