UNCONVENTIONAL COURTSHIP 2017
Jun. 20th, 2017 06:15 pm
I have signed up to write a Thunderheart AU for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
unconventionalcourtship 2017. For this ficathon, you write a story based on the summary of a Mills Boon harlequin romance novel, altered slightly to accommodate your fandom. My story will be inspired by In Debt to the Earl by Elizabeth Rolls:
I will be posting my story on September 1st, for any of you interested in this totally ridiculous AU.
unconventionalcourtship 2017. For this ficathon, you write a story based on the summary of a Mills Boon harlequin romance novel, altered slightly to accommodate your fandom. My story will be inspired by In Debt to the Earl by Elizabeth Rolls:In his quest for revenge against a disreputable crime lord, Walter Crow Horse discovers the man’s innocent son. While his surroundings are impoverished, Ray’s dignity and refinement are unmistakable, and Walter faces an unsettling question—what will be his fate if he brings Ray’s father to justice? Although yearning for love and comfort, Ray resists Walter’s surprising offer of protection. That is until a price is made on his virginity, and Walter is the only man who can save him!
I will be posting my story on September 1st, for any of you interested in this totally ridiculous AU.
ray levoi appreciation society
Jun. 14th, 2017 12:05 amCounting Crows' "Colorblind" and Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" give me so many Ray Levoi feels and I can't deal.
they said, "i bet they'll never make it"
May. 26th, 2017 01:56 pmThis is the latest of a rash of articles talking about how sad it is to be in a fandom that isn't universally beloved, and how that's often impetus to withdraw not only from the fandom aspect, but also the medium itself. To that I say: I wrote my first Thunderheart story in 2011. This is a fandom that, at its peak, had like five members. And now it's pretty much just me creating content, but I love you Thunderheart, and I'm gonna stand by you. I'm sorry, whiny op ed writers of the Internet, if you can't make your relationships work, but some of us are very happy with our true loves. Would I love it if suddenly there was MCU level interest and participation in my tiny fandom? Of course. Do I enjoy more the work I do for and the time I spend in massive fandom? Nope. It can be frustrating, not having anyone to squee with, but I've got my boys, so I'm not exactly lonely.
IMPORTANT THUNDERHEART THINGS
May. 20th, 2017 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hollyslowly I need you come immediately OMG, so this is a thing I just noticed. In the movie, there are a couple instances of these little quill work talismans, the circle with the cross inside that for some reason I don't have a picture of just now when I need one. Walter has one tucked into the band of his hat, and Maggie's grandmother gives one to Ray.
These are representations of the Sioux medicine/prayer wheel. The wheel is broken into four quadrants; each represents different elements and attributes, and each is related to a color and a direction.
Ray's wheel is red and white. Walter's is blue and yellow. Neither has the entire wheel represented, but together they do. (At this point, please note that I am dead of feels.)
It's also interesting which attributes are ascribed to which character. Walter's wheel represents the physical and the spiritual, earth and fire, autumn and spring, the healer and the visionary. Ray's represents the emotional and the intellectual, water and air, summer and winter, the teacher and the warrior. Ray is at war; he is neck deep in cognitive dissonance, trying to resolve what he has been taught to think with the feelings he can't control. His elements, water and air, are constantly in flux. Walter, meanwhile, is earth--tangible and steady, literally "grounded." He acts as Ray's anchor, his tether, and--the visionary--shows Ray what to see.
You must go as two.
Reading a linguistics approach to a subject is more confusing to me than reading from a theoretical physics POV (on a different subject, one assumes), and I write for a living and had to take Physics II twice.
Today I buckled and paid $9.99 for the New Lakota Dictionary app, which I need for perfectly normal reasons. I have never paid more than $2.99 for anything from the app store, but I am in no way regretting my purchase because I am learning things like the literal translation of love (verb) is to take (as with the hand) into one's heart, and I am dyyyyyyiiiiiing.
Today I buckled and paid $9.99 for the New Lakota Dictionary app, which I need for perfectly normal reasons. I have never paid more than $2.99 for anything from the app store, but I am in no way regretting my purchase because I am learning things like the literal translation of love (verb) is to take (as with the hand) into one's heart, and I am dyyyyyyiiiiiing.
