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Discussion in 'Fan Fiction and Writing Resource' started by mavjade , Mar 14, 2014.

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  1. Ewok Poet

    Ewok Poet Force Ghost star 6

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    1, 2, 3. No. Unless Strange Days counts. But nah, that's cyberpunk.

    What Annia Piet said about extreme violence is my problem with the genre as well.

    Sorry that my answers have been so blunt this week.
     
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  2. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    Catching up...
    1. I don't believe that such experiments are related at all to the desired effect, but if it makes the people performing them feel that they're doing something good/useful, there's no harm, is there?

    2. It's a great source of inspiration for works of fiction.

    3. I had to look that up, so obviously I've never used one. I wouldn't mind having an ancient Chinese one for decoration though, they're pretty:

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    1. I had a big horror movie period in my teens -- Mr Chyntuckopoulos and I would invite friends to watch all sorts of stuff and spook ourselves as much as we could. I've become less tolerant to adrenaline with age though, so the answer now would be no.

    2. N/A

    3. One movie (or rather film series) I still enjoy and I believe it qualifies as horror is Alien and its sequels.
     
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  3. leiamoody

    leiamoody Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Someone else besides me saw that movie? Wow. :p

    1. I've watched a lot of horror movies over the years, and I like the genre as long as there is a reason for the level of violence and gore in the movie. Torture porn (Saw, Hostel, etc.) is not a favorite because it's pointless. Even the initial idea for Saw gets warped when you go into the sequels (and the actual premise wasn't that fantastic anyway. It boils down to a cliche revenge plot).

    2. Thrillers (think Hitchcock), ghost stories, any kind of horror movie that takes a hackneyed plot device and turns it around (Zombieland is the best example of this particular method). Also J-Horror (just originals like Ringu, not its drunken American cousin).

    3. Alien (just the first one), the first two Halloween films (originals, not the Rob Zombie remakes), The Fog (again, original, no remake), Hellraiser (okay, that one is very gory, but the origin story of Pinhead is fascinating and goes a long way toward explaining the nature of that universe), Poltergeist (Zelda Rubenstein as Tangina the psychic was an awesome take-off on Lorraine Warren). Hausu counts more as horror comedy, but I don't care, it's great.
     
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  4. Goodwood

    Goodwood Jedi Master star 5

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    I'm not a horror movie fan.
     
  5. Annia Piet

    Annia Piet Jedi Knight star 2

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    1. I have a strange relationship with the horror genre. I greatly like the idea of many horror stories, but I dislike extreme violence in films (to the point that I cover my eyes till it's over) and I get scared easily. A horror film has to have excellent story telling for me to like it. If it does, I'll love it. (This is weird considering I LOVE love craft/hammer horror inspired larp events, where we go stay in creepy old houses and let our friends scare us witless for the weekend. I think the difference is that at a larp I have agency to do something about the scary stuff, whereas a film you just passively watch)

    2. Old fashioned ghost stories. I think it's because they usually have good story telling with a strong human angle, no just gratuitous violence.

    3. The Others, Sixth Sense, and Cabin in the Woods.
     
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  6. Briannakin

    Briannakin Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I hate to be a party pooper like almost everyone else, but...

    No, they aren't really something I'll seek out to watch. I have friends who like them so if I'm bored and they want to hang out and watch horror movies, I may join them.
    There is really no one type of horror genre I prefer over another, but I'll watch some comedy horror (see below)
    I enjoyed Cabin in the Woods (mostly for it's comedic satirical nature) and I enjoy the classic 1958 Dracula with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but that's about it.
     
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  7. amidalachick

    amidalachick FFoF Hostess Extraordinaire star 5 VIP - Game Host

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    Depends on my mood.

    I like the so-bad-it's-awesome kind of horror, the cheesier the better. Fictional gore and violence doesn't bother me, and I'm usually too busy mocking the characters for their poor decision-making skills to be scared. So I actually find most so-called horror movies either unintentionally funny or just boring.

    The Friday the 13th series (originals, not the new rebooted ones). I am especially fond of Parts 3, 6, and 8.
     
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  8. Jedi_Lover

    Jedi_Lover Chosen One star 5

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    1. Pointless. It is a coincidence.

    2. I am open to the possibilities. I have seen some really weird things that I cannot explain.

    3. As I kid I used a Ouija board just about every day...but I didn't use it for its intended purposes. A Ouija board makes a great drawing board. It is light, strong, smooth and fits in your lap when you want to draw while sitting on the couch. If I could find another one at a garage sale I would snatch it up for the same purpose. I am not shelling out $40 for a new one.

    I don't think I would ever use one to contact the spirit world, because I always want to error on the side of caution. Okay, it might not open a portal to Hell...but every movie with an Ouija board in it ends badly. Teenagers using the board never contact friendly spirits that tell them next week's lotto numbers. No! It is always a demon, a poltergeist or some other nasty thing that comes to haunt them. I really don't want to take the chance in using it and then find some pasty white eight-year-old Japanese kid haunting my bathtub!

    I guess the real reason I won't use it is because the first time something bad happens after using a Ouija board I will be totally freaked out and then I will be expecting more trouble. My brain will be saying, "It is just a coincidence", but my heart will be screaming, "Get out of the house before Pinhead shows up!"

    Part 2

    1. Yes, I like horror movies. My friends and I would pack into my car and go to the drive-in. I remember seeing Friday The 13th at the drive in. At the end of the movie where the heroine is floating in a canoe and is all relieved that it is over one of the guys in the backseat of my car was like, "Oh that wasn't so scary." Right then Jason Voorhees jumps out of the water and grabs the girl. It was so unexpected that this guy jumped up and his head dented the ceiling of my car. The next day my father was looking at the lump on the top of my car all confused. I don't think I told him what happened because my friends and I weren't old enough to see Rated R movies.

    2. I prefer science fiction horror. I do not like pure slasher movies like Saw, Texas Chainsaw Murders or Hostel. I want a monster or suspense and not just crazy people mutilating others. I also don't like watching movies like The Hills Have Eyes because I live in a creepy backwoods place.

    3. Aliens, The Thing (the one with Kurt Russell), Halloween (with Jamie Lee Curtis), & Silence of the Lambs. If you want to see a really funny slasher movie see Dale and Tucker VS Evil. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/ Normally I do not like slasher movies but this had me covering my eyes while laughing at the situations.
     
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  9. mavjade

    mavjade Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    1. California has been experiencing a terrible drought. Darkness Radio had started intention experiments and even conducted a large one at Ouijacon for people to send rain to California. During that experiment, it started raining and a listener called in saying how shocked they were. What do you think about such experiments? Helpful? Pointless?
    I think it was a complete coincidence. Like Bri said, correlation doesn't mean causation.

    2. What do you think about the paranormal?
    I don't really believe in anything like that, though I swear my friend had a poltergeist. I don't really think that, I think it was other explainable things, but it was more fun to think she had one. Do I think there are things we don't understand yet? Sure! But I don't think there are spirits or ghosts in the way we think of them now.

    3. Have you ever used a talking board (Ouija board and similar)?
    Nope, but not because I think there is something wrong with them or anything, just never had access to one. I don't know that I would do it now, had I had access to one when I was younger I certainly would, but knowing how they work kinda takes the fun out of it.

    1. Do you like horror movies?
    Some of them. I get in moods where I really want to watch them and then I don't for a long time. Two of my best friends in high school were HUGE horror fans so I used to watch a lot then. I think I like them because I'm an adrenaline junky and then do sometimes get the adrenaline pumping. I don't like the gross factor movies, not because they gross me out, but because I'm just not interested.

    2. What types of horror genres do you prefer?
    I like a lot of older horror and some psychological horror. Strangely, I can't stand reading Stephen King, but his books make really good movies.

    3. Favorite horror movies?
    Flat Liners is probably my favorite, I know its terrible, but I love it. The Shining - but strangely the made for TV version with Steven Weber. (I like the Jack Nicholson version too, but I like this one better), Pet Cemetery, Poltergeist.
     
  10. Jedi_Lover

    Jedi_Lover Chosen One star 5

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    I am the exact opposite. If I read the book first I didn't like the movie. If I never read the book I loved the movie. lol!
     
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  11. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    My answers:

    1. I love horror movies.

    2. I like psychological horror. Stuff that messes with your head. Also classic ghost and monster flicks.

    3. The Conjuring, Aliens, the third Nightmare on Elm Street, Acacia, the list goes on because I've watched a lot of horror.
     
  12. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Just got back from the Fairie Festival!

    1. Your thoughts on the Fae Folk?

    2. Does your region have similar festivals, and would you go to one?

    3. Have you been to a Faerie Festival (or Renn Faire) and what did you think of it?
     
  13. Goodwood

    Goodwood Jedi Master star 5

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    1. Ahahaha, no. :p

    2. The closest thing would be the Detroit Renaissance Festival, which is a pretty big deal in this region.

    3. Been to a couple of Renaissance festivals here and there, and they're fairly interesting for the most part. Back when I was in high school, a bunch of actual armorsmiths lived in the house next door, and the spring and summer was full of the sounds of the blacksmith's trade.
     
  14. Jedi_Lover

    Jedi_Lover Chosen One star 5

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    1. The only Fae Folk I am familiar with is Sookie Stackhouse and I found her annoying.

    2. I don't think so. I doubt I would go.

    3. No. I've been to a renaissance festival. It was okay to go to once, but I doubt I would go again unless my sons wanted to experience it.
     
  15. JediMaster_Jen

    JediMaster_Jen Force Ghost star 4

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    1. On occasion, I'll watch a horror movie with my husband, who is a huge fan.
    2. I don't have a preference.
    3. I honestly don't have a favorite.

    1. Can't say I really have any.
    2. If they do, I've never heard of it. But, sure I'd go. Sounds like fun.
    3. No, I have not.
     
  16. Findswoman

    Findswoman Fanfic and Pancakes and Waffles Mod (in Pink) star 5 Staff Member Manager

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    1. I think they are very interesting and picturesque folkloric characters. I had a beautifully illustrated faerie pop-up book as a kid that I enjoyed very much.

    2. I don't know if there are any such festivals around here, though probably so.

    3. I have never been to one, though I wouldn't mind going to one if I got the chance. Still, it's not the sort of thing that I would be able to do on any kind of regular basis (and in general I lack the correct clothes).
     
  17. mavjade

    mavjade Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Thanks for asking questions, Trak!

    This week our Question Master is... Chyntuck
     
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  18. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    :eek: That'll teach me for procrastinating, I missed Trak's last questions (although now that I looked up "fae folk", the truth is that I don't have answers to those :confused: )

    Okay, let's go for a list-based approach this week. Today's about food, tomorrow will be about drinks, and then I'll make it up as we go along.

    1. List up to five foods that you eat every day or nearly every day.

    2. List up to five foods that you only ever ate once in your life.

    3. List up to five foods that you would never, ever eat.
     
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  19. TrakNar

    TrakNar Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Pasta, chicken, pizza, bread, peppers. Gand's diet is the fail.

    Escargot (ate it twice, actually, but still not often enough), rhubarb (more than once, but not often enough to remember), shoo-fly pie (same), alligator (I want to eat more because alligator is delicious), emu (had it once or twice).

    That's going to be tough to do and I may have to come back to this one. Keep in mind that I've eaten insects. If you offered me that maggot cheese, I would eat it. If I was at a place that made fugu, I would try it, provided it's prepared properly. I've eaten jellyfish.

    For me to not try it, it would have to be something I'm allergic to, and even then, I'd still have to think about it.

    I won't drink tequila, though. Mainly because my folks are alcoholics and they used to get schnockered on the stuff, so I'm turned off from it. That and Goldschläger.
     
  20. Findswoman

    Findswoman Fanfic and Pancakes and Waffles Mod (in Pink) star 5 Staff Member Manager

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    1. Three are my breakfast standards: Cheerios, orange juice, homemade chocolate milk (I can put the recipe in the foodies' thread if desired). And for two more, most things I fix for dinner include onions, garlic, or both.

    2. Roast goose (at a grad school professor's house). Quail (for Thanksgiving at a friend's house). Slivovitz (at temple, during Passover). Steak and kidney pie (in London at age 16). Steak tartare (last November at a super-fancy restaurant in Milwaukee). I would be glad to have any of them again except the slivovitz, which was just too bitter for my tastes.

    3. I don't know this is done anywhere anymore (I hope not), but I once heard of a restaurant where you could have a live crab brought to your table; it would then walk around the table and everyone would pull a limb off it as it passed and eat it. Well, I would never eat that or any other thing involving meat pulled from an animal that was still alive. Nor would I eat any blood-based sauce, shark fin soup, foie gras (those last two because of the inhumane animal treatment involved), or fugu (because I just would not want to take the risk).
     
  21. Jedi_Lover

    Jedi_Lover Chosen One star 5

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    1. Granola bar, soup, rice, juice, diet coke.

    2. Haggis, alligator, escargot, frog legs, sucker fish.

    3. Brains, bugs, spiders, dogs and cats.
     
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  22. Briannakin

    Briannakin Former Manager star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I'm going with food here, not drinks. Cereal (usually either corn flakes or Cheerios), oranges, salad, a wrap of some sort (I have this thing against bread) and CHEESE!
    Dragon fruit (not bad, just kind of bland), starfruit (again, very bland), mangoes (I. HATE. MANGOS), salmon roe (I loved it, but not in my budget)and green olives (not worth the aftertaste).
    Spiders, insects of any kind, cat, dog, monkey brains. I'm usually open to try stuff, but no creepy crawlies, or things I used to own as pets (says the person who owned hermit crabs), or brains.
     
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  23. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    My answers!
    Olive oil, feta cheese and oregano always find their way on at least one of my plates every day, unless I'm travelling abroad and they're not available. Plus bread, with every single meal -- if there's no bread, it's not food.
    Caviar -- my father travelled once to Russia (then the USSR) and brought some real caviar. I must be a real snob, because I didn't like it.

    Oysters -- I had them once, just to find out that I'm badly allergic to them (and all clams). And no, you don't want to know the details.

    Passion fruit -- I never saw it here, I tried it once in London and I can't say I was super-excited about it.

    Boulette d'Avène -- the most unbelievably stinky French cheese you can imagine. I adored it, but unfortunately it's not available in your average grocery.
    I don't have five items on this one, because I'm pretty open to trying anything, but one thing that makes me sick just at the thought of it is eating insects and other creepy crawlies (actually the thought of insects makes me sick, even if I don't have to eat them.) I don't count worms in there, I had the maggot cheese Trak mentioned and I actually liked it.
     
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  24. Chyntuck

    Chyntuck Force Ghost star 5

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    Today's questions: drinks!

    1. List up to five drinks that you have every day or nearly every day.

    2. List up to five drinks that you only ever had once in your life.

    3. List up to five drinks that you never had but would like to try.
     
  25. Ewok Poet

    Ewok Poet Force Ghost star 6

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    DAY ONE

    1. List up to five foods that you eat every day or nearly every day.
    Pepsi Max, water, metformin?! I don't have any sort of a breakfast, lunch or dinner supper rituals and most of my patterns are odd - e.g. cereals are a rare occurence and they happen for supper, breakfast may be the strongest meal of the day (because Balkans cc Chyntuck) and so on.

    2. List up to five foods that you only ever ate once in your life.
    - Tartar steak (dad made it at home, but I dared to try only the most recent time), liked it and want to eat it again.
    - Yellow beans in their pods. I don't react well to that.
    - Raw spinach. I turn into Angelina Jolie from that.
    - Đuveč. That thing is vile. NO.

    I see people mention caviar a lot. Had it more than once, we got a huge bunch for cheap from Russian smugglers in the 1990s, as weird as this may sound. The taste is kinda mild, but I would try again. Not during the allergy season, though, as one does not waste money on something they cannot feel the taste of.

    3. List up to five foods that you would never, ever eat.
    Goat (except for the cheese), wild animals (other than some birds), pets, insects, that Japanese pufferfish you can die from.

    DAY TWO

    1. List up to five drinks that you have every day or nearly every day.
    I accidentally responded to that already, though my insulin-regulating medicine is not really a drink. So, what I said plus cow milk at 1.6 %.

    2. List up to five drinks that you only ever had once in your life.
    No idea. Probably those rare times I had alcohol, because I kriffin hated it each time. Also, rasol, aka the liquid remain of sauerkrout-esque thing we make here. NO, NO, NO.

    3. List up to five drinks that you never had but would like to try.
    Virgin-insertnamehere cocktails. I only tried virgin Mojito and virgin Pina Collada.
     
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