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April 27th, 2016 1:32 PMWinterIdiots tend to have lots of carnal knowledge.
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April 27th, 2016 11:54 AMJayHa! Unfortunately for you my dragons an idiot!
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April 26th, 2016 2:33 PMWinterDon't make me steal the carnal knowledge of your dragon.
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April 26th, 2016 11:56 AMJayI refuse good sir! Tis my destiny!
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April 26th, 2016 5:32 AMWinterI DEMAND YOU STOP MAKING GOOD ROLEPLAYS
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May 3rd, 2015 3:22 AMWinterTrue that, it'd take an immense amount of effort anyway. Ah, perspectives. It's like putting an object in the middle of a room and standing at different spots to view it.
Well that is natural, I suppose, and I doubt it'd be any poet's intention to impose their ideals onto readers that know nary or enough. Humanity was the word I had in mind too; cursed thing I'd like to shed.
I can see the Spirited Away and all the mystery influences. I find it innovative how you utilized a static setting (arguably, but the interior of a moving train is, well, immobile). It gives me a bit of a Baccano! atmosphere (Not sure if you've heard of that anime; most of its scenes occur on a lengthy train ride). It does look quite grand and eloquently put. -
May 2nd, 2015 7:17 AMJayOh the future of Science isn't for me anyway, I value science highly and enjoy learning and keeping up with it. But I'm not planning on making any advances, philosophy or no. Now knowledge... that doesn't sound too shabby.
I do love varying perspective for this reason. If we change our view even slightly we can come to see things in extremely varying ways. For better or for worse, that is.
I understand completely, I empathize with Plath a great deal. Well... not so much with the themes of motherhood and such. I am not a female so perhaps I am incapable of relating as extremely to those specific ideals, biologically speaking, than thee and thine of my opposing gender might be.
Despite that I still understand what she feels when she writes about self-imagery, love and the state and place of people in the World. The connection between the writer and their art and the ever looming judgment of society. Those stirring are there for me as well, while not pleasant they are in some ways a nice reminder, I feel, of my own humanity.
Railways is born from my wanting something a little different yet still suitable and exciting enough to be an RP. I turned to other RPs and their inspirations...
Adventures, journeys, mystery, action.
All usually taking the form of some kind of combat or danger.
I saw this and I thought. What way can these emotions be conveyed without a direct focus on "action" or "fighting, or even "direct conflict". I realized that all of these were at some point necessary, but I wanted a way to include them while not having them as the focus. So I looked to Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Spirited Away, Sherlock Holmes... and various other adventures that were incredibly engaging, yet not in the conventional way that RPs would tend to follow.
I tried to adapt that into an RP format and Railways was the result of such I suppose. I make it sound more grandiose than it is. But I'm still quite proud of it.
Even if I'm tired of waiting for people to post. >.>
Also, if you want walls of text, well here you go then. XD -
May 2nd, 2015 6:53 AMWinterPhilosophy has this modern stigma of being boring, dead and 'uncool', though if we were in ancient Grecian times, you'd be hailed as the future of science and knowledge. I love discussing philosophy though I'm not as well-read as I am with literature. I admire the lengthy discourse philosophers have. I feel like a selfish vain person when my poetry doesn't impact the world the way philosophy does.
I never saw it that way... I guess the idea never occurred to me that it would be such...
Ah I see. Her biography is quite disconcerting. I really sympathize her and some of her poems do stir up some emotions in me that I would rather not feel.
Oh I doubt I'll regret it. X3 Btw may I ask what were your inspirations for your ongoing roleplays? Railways seem like an interesting gem. -
May 2nd, 2015 6:29 AMJayAhh don't apologize. I don't tend to get bothered about such things at all. I of course also entertained the notion that you had simply forgotten, or made the small forgivable blunder that you did. There's no harm done. ^.^
If I was without poetry then I would turn to philosophy. In terms of my usage of my words and language, these two outlets are my favorites. Many people find a distaste in them. The majority tends to prefer steering away from thoughts of such a grand nature as what we are defined as "orderly and chaotic". Believe me when I tell you that I could speak on such matters for hours and hours had I the chance to...
I suppose it's fear. Existential crisis' tend to spawn from that line of thought. The greater scale of things. I'd be lying if I didn't suffer from such things myself. XD However, I feel that if by entering that state of mind that I could discover something greater about myself or my purpose? Well that makes it worth it. Even if other people think that that line of thought is, well, somewhat psychotic. ^.^''
I admit I didn't always like Plath. I read to a poem or two, by her, about her father... I then learned of the circumstances of her death and was turned off. Still I'm reading her other work now and I feel much better about her as a poet.
Also if you welcome my rambling then you are braver than many others around here, haha, you may come to regret the decision. Oh and don't worry about it, I too know the grief that is a dying battery. -
May 1st, 2015 10:42 PMWinterMy apologies for making you feel that way >.<
I agree with you; Poetry is a manifestation of nature, one's real emotions, and nature itself is a state of chaos (sounds a bit philosophical xD).
Diction is such a key building block to expression; every word has its place and role to play. One word can cause so much change, and have so much influence over the world. Evidently, we can see that in the power of books. It's because I place great importance on words that when I try to come up with a line, it takes a long while to ponder on word choice and syntax.
Plath! Love her! I bought Ariel as a birthday treat for myself a few years back~ I did "I Am Vertical" in one of my literature assignments last year and I was so overjoyed at analyzing a poem from one of my favourite poets.
(Oh don't be sorry! I tend to ramble on too. I don't think it's a negative thing to have tldr-worthy thoughts. It's better to have lots of ideas than none. :3)
P.S. I actually wrote out a long reply on my mobile but the battery dead so I lost everything. x/ -
May 1st, 2015 1:37 PMJayHaha, I had thought I was forgotten about. ^^'' Still, don't worry about it. I've made that same mistake many times in my own time here.
And indeed. I doubt I would have discovered it, to be honest, if I had not required it for that exact role.
I do enjoy taking the classical formats and refurbishing them, so to speak. Though as I may (I'm literally too lazy to scroll down) have mentioned already. I am not one who favors grander structure generally. The theme of chaos is one of my favorites and it is chaos I feel that gives birth to poetry in the first place. I always feel a little bit more awkward when I try to transcribe something like chaos in a method defined by order.
A lovely metaphor for it. The small musings are those that grow the largest. If something, even minor, demands to be written down immediately as the smaller verses tend to do for me... well it is in those cases that I truly feel I understand the magnitude and meaning that can be contained in the smallest strings of words. Perhaps a droplet alone can be grander than any lake, or so I like to think I suppose. XD
I've been revising some of Sylvia Plath's work. A poet I feel I underestimated due to minimal experience with her creations. The poem "Mirror" is particularly striking to me at the moment.
(Also, apologies for the constant walls of text. -.- I've become rather known for it around here now, and when speaking of a subject I so adore it can be hard for me to condense my thoughts, even in VMs.) -
May 1st, 2015 4:47 AMWinterOmg I thought I replied to this and then I was wondering why you didn't reply back x/
Poetry definitely helps in the cathartic process.
Ah that really is a unique take on the traditional elegy style. I've never seen it that way before.
I do the same too, sometimes~ Just a line or so, a scribble down in my notebook (in which is also filled with sketches that represent thoughts that randomly swim into my mind) and it's like a droplet of thought every now and then, in which one hopes that they grow into an inspired pond or lake in the future. :3
So what have you been reading lately? I rediscovered an old collection of Emily Dickinson in the library. -
April 8th, 2015 3:48 AMJayIt's a wonderful poem. A fine choice for a favorite most definitely.
It is a wonderful outlet for dealing with such things. I try to channel any cynicism and pessimism I have left into certain poems to clear it from my system. If anything I like to call myself a realist however.
As a very metaphoric poet I used death mostly metaphorically. However I also take the approach of emotional death and betrayal and transfer it into an elegy-like format. For example if someone is "dead to me" for something they have done, I would transcribe that as an elegy, however this is only an example.
I tend to write two to four line verses and little quotes when I feel the itch to write but lack grander inspiration. My favorite example of this is when I wrote a three line verse based on the theme of silence, it's very short but it's probably one of my favorite works that I myself created. -
April 8th, 2015 3:09 AMWinterYes. It's my most favourite as well~
Poetry helped me get through it therapeutically, too. I'm still quite cynical, heh. At least not so pessimistic.
Form is quite tough as well as abstract. I really admire poets who can pull off villanelles, sonnets, etc naturally. Free verse just feels, well, freer to me. XD Oh wow, are your elegies based off real people? Or do you take the subject of death metaphorically? I've never tried one before.
True, true. I like writing haikus, and in the same vein, senryus. They give me filler space when I'm dry but itching to write something. Short yet sweet. -
April 7th, 2015 7:52 AMJayHis most famous work for a reason, definitely. ^-^
I know that sort of feeling, I also suffered with problems of self-worth... among other things. But I'm finished with that dark period for now, I hope, so I try to focus on brighter tomorrows. It's important to focus on the light of a new days to give you strength enough to press through the night.
And I don't often follow a particular form or pattern. Not intentionally anyway. Form is something I like to let flow openly when I write the poem. I let the words take shape and once it's finished I'll read it over and see that I've written the poem in a certain way just by writing it at all. I also write a lot of free verse to be honest, especially more recently.
Though a few of my favorite poems that I've written have been very short free verse works... and I'm also quite fond of elegies on occasion. Apart from that however I don't actually believe in trying to base my work around a specific form.
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Oh and I forgot to mention, I think haikus can be just as pleasant in English as they are in Japanese. It's just more difficult since Japanese is such a beautiful language.


