BlackDove42

My username is saathiray and I will probably start posting more stuff in both places (here and there). Obviously, much of the fandom-related stuff will go over there. If you have an account, drop by my space! I'm also hoping to register as a beta-reader and I hope my work reflects well on my potential as such.

FF.net space: www.fanfiction.net/~saathiray


Also check out the RP guides!

The RP Etiquette guides.
The Primer: fav.me/d2xpvo7 and the Companion: fav.me/d2xyg1g

This is rather short.

So, you'll notice that I posted two guides which I wrote concerning roleplay etiquette. I've decided to turn this into a project, writing and codifying the guidelines and standards of behavior many people expect in these circles. My hope is to ultimately write a whole series of guides to which people can refer easily and quickly. What I'd ultimately like is for this stuff to become the standard. A lofty goal, but a goal.

Here are the guides. The Primer: fav.me/d2xpvo7 and the Companion: fav.me/d2xyg1g

The guides that I have seen are not user-friendly. They often sneer at the reader and are very proscriptive with a lot of "do not" language and very little positive language. I can't stand this.

I will need a bit of help. In addition to linking people to both pieces where you think it's appropriate, I would like some constructive remarks regarding what should be included and how.

I have ideas for a game-master's guide, a style guide, and possibly extra sections of the companion.

Thanks in advance! And I'll try to submit some more stories and such soon.

As you can see, I'm submitting stuff again. But it probably won't be the sort of fun and exciting original fiction that many of you have come to like.

I've decided that really, this is probably the best place to put the stuff I may or may not like. This is a place for me to put up my dabblings while I keep the stuff I prize stashed away. This sounds irrational and weird, but there is a reason. There are times where it's better to not have something floating around the Internet if you want it published. Copyright laws keep changing, and you can get screwed on a technicality.

I know that I have probably disappointed quite a few people with this decision. I have been doing a bit of art on the side for a while, and I will probably put up pictures of the things I've made. There's a bunch of them I keep forgetting to put on dA. There will be up soon enough.

I apologize to everyone for being sparse and not posting anything as of late. With luck, I can start posting a little more regularly.

At the moment, I'll be doing a spring-cleaning of everything around here. That includes the deviations that have been piling up, people's journals, watchers' lists, and possibly even my gallery. Let me know what you'd like for me to take a look at or if you want me to keep watching you.

Sorry this isn't a longer journal. Hopefully, I'll have something a little more interesting to say next time I write.

I suppose that I could have something cool about the New Year and whatnot, but I've been having weird as hell dreams. I felt the need to post these three dreams that I've had over the past two days. I enjoy having strange dreams but these are so baffling and bizarre that I don't know what to make of them.

I DARE any of you to even try analyzing the first two. At least the last one seems like one that can be applied to me.

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1st Dream:
Anyways, it's Nolanverse Batman, which means Ledger's Joker. (Just to clarify, I'm referring to the Batman movies starring Christian Bale in case there's any confusion) The crazy train is in the station and ready to go. The part that I remember, however, turns into a weird mixture between Lovecraft and old Salvador Dali paintings. There was some other stuff that happened beforehand. However, I remember that somehow the Joker had caught me, and I was just in a bed without any PJs because I don't wear them when I go to sleep. I was covered up enough so I didn't feel exposed, and I decide that I'm not going to be a wussie and be afraid of the Joker. He sticks a needle in me near my collarbone and draws some blood, but since it doesn't hurt I'm starting to feel pretty confident. He squirts the blood into his mouth for reasons I don't understand (maybe for effect). Then he tells me that someone else is gonna come by. That's when I say, "Well, you're not going to use the same needle, right?" He gets confused and we start having this matter-of-fact conversation.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, that's a little unsanitary. Don't you have another needle?--I'd just appreciate if you used another needle."
"I might."
"I'm just saying. It'd be nice if you could use another needle. I can get you one if you want."
The he snaps at me because he's getting a little pissy, and tells me that it's not gonna be one of his cronies coming by to do the same sort of weird shit. Apparently, it's Batman. This is the part where the crazy train just jumps the rails into a pit of insanity. The scene cuts to outside where it's dark and away from this house. It's not Batman. It's a really creepy Living Bat Train. See, there is Batman in his full gear at the front of this train thing. He has his arms and legs, but somehow attached to his back and extending away is this solid mass of black tissue. It's probably two feet or so and massive. Attached to that are more legs and appendanges, and attached to that is some mass of a tar-like mess. Also, the underside of his big bat-cape is blood red, containing many eyes and sharp-toothed mouths which shriek a lot. He's crashing through some trees and trying to pull himself away from the evil thing attached to him as part of his amazing inner battle with this creepy tar-beast that is trying to eat him. Also, at this point it suddenly went from real-life to Batman Series animation. I remember there had been some sort of scene where the tar-beast attached to Batman and he was crashing through the city trying to just pull away. For some reason, he couldn't just cut it off.

2nd Dream:

This is the Twilight Zone one where everything started out in black and white. There were a bunch of cars to choose from at some lake in the middle of nowhere, and there was this SUV that my mom told me not to choose because it was evil. The guy who owned it didn't seem to happy with that. After all the cars were driven except that one, it becomes third-person. The guy with the white SUV turns out to be the devil and he drives away. He's pissed off, so he starts a tornado. I think at some point, my mom says, "See, this is where the tornado starts" as if we're watching this on TV. It gets muddled here. I remember being in a hotel room where we were watching the storm warning and getting ready to leave. I kinda forgot how Pokemon got in, but it was sometime during this point. I think this is where a Lickitung was madly in love with something like a Gyarados. They liked each other about as much as my two male cats like each other (to clarify for people: my two male cats will sometimes try to have sex with each other. That's how much they like each other).

3rd Dream:

Unfortunately, only a few of you will understand this one. That makes telling the dream that much more embarrassing. Pester me for details.

4th Dream:

I remember more of this one than the others, and it is probably my favorite because it's something I would like to do. I remember there was some serious problems in this beautiful forest and animals were getting hurt. I came across this abandomed barn in a clearing surrounded by trees, and a lot of vegetation was growing in and on the barn. This was a safe place for me to put some birds, so I placed them there and fed them until I could move them elsewhere. I have to leave to get more food. Some time has passed and when I come back, there are more birds. Different kinds like pigeons and sparrows, and then there are also these beautiful gipsy chickens like from Key West that are taking up residence here too. They're building nests which is good, and they're raising their little babies and generally being pretty happy. The only bad thing is that the menagerie starts getting a little larger. The chickens get spooked by some of the cats I've rescued, so I have to put the cats in another part of the barn where they won't try to eat any of the baby chicks. At some point someone starts walking a small version of those four-legged battle droids from Star Wars through the forest. They're not malicious; they just don't give a shit about the wildlife. They're about to plough into my sanctuary and I run over frantically motioning for them to go around. I think that it's not going to work, but they see me and they actually go away. It turns out that much of the forest I'm in--which by the is beautiful because it extends up the side of a mountain--is in danger due to humans. Anyways, I'm now at a point where I either need to start finding places for these animals or building another place. I'm not really rescuing them anymore because they just wander into the barn and take up residence, but the problem is that the carnivores and herbivores aren't getting along. I remember had to separate a fox from some hounds and again had to take care of the birds. Somewhere in here, I'm forced to leave the barn-sanctuary and hang out with my ex-boyfriend (he dumped me in early June) even though I really have no reason or desire to see him. He seems nice enough, although I distinctly remember that he either didn't care about my barn-sanctuary or finds a way to completely screw up my system. The last thing I remember is using my words to tear him a new one. I woke up wishing that I had a barn-sanctuary where I could help animals and give them a safe place.

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The last one seems like something I could actually do, although I doubt it would be as harmonious or pastoral as