Thank you, Brain. Thain.

[minervasolo]

Here's a random little thing from yesterday (yes, I'm spamming a bit, but my brain is frazzled):

So, it's not an uncommon thing for Toast to ask me what I'm thinking. Generally, my response is 'nothing', even though that's not always true. Hence, I started making an effort to squash that as an automatic response.

Yesterday, he askes 'what are you thinking?' There's this whole mess of barely connected events going on in my head, my usual neuroses and 'ooh, shiny' and so on, so I try to pick one thread out of the tangle. My brain decides for me that none of these are appropriate, and pouts a new thought in my head instead.

Tomatoes.

Just tomatoes. I boggle a second, and relay this to Toast (with explanation, of course!). Only, while I'm doing so, my brain presents me with an image of a tomato. With a hypodermic needle injecting stuff into it.


...Yeah, that's what I thought you'd think.

You know, I'd worry, but I really do quite like living in my head. I am constantly entertained.

Comments

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

::masterfully resists urge to make Freudian comments::

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Freudian, but when my brain wants to do stuff like that, it doesn't bother with euphemism. Just 'Men in positions of power in your life want to do sexual things to you'. Two wonderful, wonderful dreams as my brain hammered that neurosis home [/sarcasm].

I like tomatoes better ^_^

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

Me too. Tomatoes are definitely better than disturbing dreams. (Sex part optional, because disturbing dreams are disturbing whether or not sex is included.)

Maybe your subconscious is trying to inform you that what you're really lacking in nutrients is a heroin-soaked tomato? (It could work. Really. :P) ^___^

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. And I've bought the tomatoes, so now all i've got to do is find some heroin...

(random thought: doesn't it bother you when posters get heroin and heroine mixed up? At GHS there were CU posters that read 'Be a Heroin', and I've seen anti-drug adverts that warn against 'heroine'.

... ther more times you type heroin the less it look like a real word)

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember a very bad 1970s horror film with exactly that image. The tomatoes grew to humungous sizes, but unfortunately so did everything that ate them.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I know there's a film called 'Attack of teh Killer Toatoes' that has huge maneating tomatoes in it, I think, but I've never seen it. It might be the same one.

[ultharkitty.livejournal.com]

Definitely a different film. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes in silly fun, the one with the giant tomatoes has giant rats too and odd sex-dream scenes and is really, really crap, oh and the tomatoes are the only thing that don't attack :P

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

the more times you type heroin the less it look like a real word

If only that were true with the drug itself.

And considering that the job of a heroine is stereotypically to sit around and scream helplessly while some buff idiot saves the day, I think adverts warning against them are a thoroughly good idea. Confine all the heroines to one area, and put up signs around it saying "Beware - teeth-grindingly stupid bints within!" It would save on a lot of dentist's bills. ^___^ (Silliness aside, it really does irritate me. They should at least know what they're warning you against/encouraging you to be.)

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the difference in genre, but most of the heroines I find are irritating for exactly the opposite reason: they're too gung-ho. It's 'spunky serving girl saves princess, swaps places with her and introduces feminism to the kingdom' heroines that really get on my nerves. And it's not just fantasy either, though I do wish authors would remember the cultural specifics of their world. And the author seems so convinced a brave and bold heroine is brand new and their own original idea and everyone will see their book as a great feminist novel, except she's still desperately seeking True Love and pines for the guy that's bad for her, to show she has 'emotional depth'.

I've been reading too much Romantic (era, not genre) fiction recently. There comes a point when I'm spitting 'Faint, you silly thing! You're a romantic heroine! Faint and this hideously embarrassing situation will be gone before you know it!' They never do, though.

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

Heh. Note to self: start practising fainting for use in times of extreme need, such as when a tutor asks me if I've done the homework.

I don't know why, but when it comes to the sort of heroine who's all gung-ho, as you say, I just don't think of them as heroines. To me, heroine indicates a drippy idiot with more boobs than sense who constantly needs to be rescued. The gung-ho type of heroine is just as irritating, though - particularly as they seem to be infecting the market more than the drippy sort.

Why do people seem to find it impossible to write characters who are just people? I know I'm guilty of that, on occasions, but at least I realise it.