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jadesfire ([personal profile] jadesfire) wrote2009-10-21 09:11 pm
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There's a double meaning in that

I am attempting to fill the bath using the shower. It's taking quite a while, and I kind of feel it should be a metaphor for or statement of something.

Mostly what it is a statement of is "I should put the hot water tank on earlier if I want a bath."

Nevertheless, I can't help feeling that it's the kind of thing that, if used in a story, would hold deep and meaningful significance.

*waits*

Nope. Still just boring...

[identity profile] travels-in-time.livejournal.com 2009-10-21 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a metaphor for the story I've been working on since April! Where I feel like it's evaporating faster than I'm writing it!

Whereas some people, once inspiration hits it's like filling a water glass with a firehose. *snorts* People that can toss off forty-seven drabbles in a week or so...
Edited 2009-10-21 20:39 (UTC)

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-10-21 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
To mix my metaphors, I find that drabble writing is photo taking, as against story-writing's painting. Right now, all I can find is my camera, and every time I pick up my paint-brushes, I drop them.

On the plus side, the shower DID fill the bath, and I am warm and relaxed, so maybe the metaphor works out okay after all ;)

[identity profile] justtheficsmaam.livejournal.com 2009-10-21 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Much Ado ref FTW!

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I wondered if anyone would get it *awards you small prize*
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[identity profile] fish-echo.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
This is clearly a metaphor in search of a meaning :)

I think I'll file this in my 'random little details of life, to maybe add to a story some day, because you know this happened to you so that you could make it happen to a character' list.

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Definitely! It worked fine, it just took a REALLY long time and didn't give impressive bubbles ;)

Ta Da!

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
And while you're here:

Download link for 'Mount Baden' by Brown Betty (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HICCIQD4)

Once you've had a chance to listen to it, I'll make it public, so please let me know!

Enjoy :)
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Re: Ta Da!

[identity profile] fish-echo.livejournal.com 2009-10-23 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Wheee!!! This is great! It makes me happy!!!! I love this reading :) :)

I made an [audioarchive page (http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/mount-badon)] for this, which is complete except for the 'comment to the reader' link as there isn't a public post yet. So that'll be very quick to update.

And here's my notes from whilst I was listening (sorry there's not more coherency, but I'm rather brain-dead at the moment):

Ooh! There's Latin at the beginning! I had forgotten that! *hearts Latin read aloud*

I love how, when I listen to your reading, I feel the uncertainty and danger of the war more.

Oooh, the 'death death death' bit (around 5min), ooooh, nicely done! I don't even remember reading that line and yet it's great in the podfic version.

I like how you get across the different personalities of Coveros and Tivel and Vedica.

I love your Arthur & Merlin interactions.

I chuckled at my computer at 'very useful at lambing time'!

And the humor in the second half is even better when read aloud. :)

'I do it to aggravate you' this particular section made me grin fit to split my face.

*hugs podfic*

[identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
The number of times I have had to do that...

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2009-10-22 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Normally, I just run out of hot halfway through the bath and have to top up in little increments once I'm in, but I did get a nice hot bath in one go, so at least it was worth the wait :)