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I noticed a lot of folks mentioning in the card requests that they are new, so I figured that maybe it's time for another chatter post!

How are you all doing? I know that here in the US there's been some serious weather going on, so I hope that everyone is healthy and happy and safe.

For the ice breaker topic, how about: weather! What's the weather like where your characters live? What's their favorite (or least favorite) type of weather?

Also, new folks! Feel free to pull up a chair and introduce yourselves and your muses. As we haven't been doing any advertising about for a long while, I'm curious how you all got here. How did you hear about our challenge?

Have fun, and happy writing, everyone!

Date: 2011-05-07 03:25 am (UTC)
recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
Hi! I'm Bob. I mean, M. *solemn*

. . . .and I seem to have a thing for weather Extremes, in terms of writing, except for Without Accident which I have yet to accurately geographically place, except that it's not the Wet Coast, and it is somewhere near where, in our world, the Canada/US border is (in there world, there's no longer separate countries.)

Otherwise, we have Castalin, which is north and up mountains and thus at home to all kinds of Fucking Cold and Full of Snow, which shapes pretty much every aspect of their lives and culture, and then there's the world for Empress in Iron, where An-garat is situated in the middle of a desert, making water the premium piece of wealth.

Date: 2011-05-07 03:51 am (UTC)
recessional: cameo necklace with two kissing swans, pink necklace background, lace other background (writing; left my heart in snowy castalin)
From: [personal profile] recessional
;)

Castalin arose from my constant frustration with the way 95% of stories and tv-shows and movies and so on portray cold, and living with cold, and acting around cold. I come from a place with -40C winters, and almost all depictions of cold environments I've ever come across are just . . . wrong. Sometimes in the main, almost always in the details. (I love Avatar: The Last Airbender, but it is so very, very guilty of this; every time we visit a Water Tribe, I end up going "why is her mitt off? HER HAND IS FREEZING. Oh, god, they're WET, they're going to start dying of hypothermia in about thirty seconds, and also, her eyelashes have frozen shut, and - ")

And always miss the little wonderful things, like how the air sparkles on a really cold, clear, still day, because of every single ice-crystal in the air catching the sun. Etc, etc.

Thus, Castalin.


. . . my desert ones are pretty much enterprises in me trying to make sure I don't fall victim to the opposite, but I have actually lived in deserts, and a lot more (accurate) stuff gets written about them.

Date: 2011-05-07 04:26 am (UTC)
recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
It's like, there are ways to deal with these things (one of them is that the outside of your clothing is SEAL FUR, which sheds water, not pretty-blue-cloth (which I'm . . . well, I suppose they could trade for it with the Earth Kingdom, but Sokka and Katara's tribe seemed pretty isolated) which, um, does not.

It's just people don't think of it. Or how whatever it is that's around your face needs to be able to shed the ice from your breath. Or else it'll just melt and refreeze against your skin, chafing the shit out of it (again: fur is useful, here.)

Date: 2011-05-07 04:19 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
One of the only things I've ever seen portray cold correctly was Stargate: Continuum, which was filmed in the Arctic. Daniel stepped in water for five seconds and did not get medical help for a few hours; he ended up losing his leg. (The blase manner in which he informs his teammates of this expresses just how potent his painkillers are, and how cynical and world-weary Daniel is after over a decade with the SGC.)
Edited Date: 2011-05-07 04:19 am (UTC)

Date: 2011-05-07 04:42 am (UTC)
recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
Pullman does pretty well in HDM, actually, although sometimes it feels a little "LOOK, I did my RESEARCH about COLD!" rather than natural and lived in.

Date: 2011-05-07 04:16 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
I'm Lis! I... just spent an hour picking two garbage bags worth of trash off my lawn. The snow only melted two weeks ago, and when it goes it always reveals a blanket of litter. This is exacerbated by the fact that bottlepickers in my alley rip open bags to see if they have recyclables, and trash spills out.

But spring is just late, here, every year. The trees are just putting out green buds that will form leaves, and the crocuses I planted last year sent up spears last weekend.

Date: 2011-05-07 04:29 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
I feel kind of pissy about it because I always separate my bottles and put them in a shopping bag on top of my garbage.

Date: 2011-05-07 04:43 am (UTC)
recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
Maybe leave a note? "All the bottles are in this bag; please stop ripping open my garbage bags."

Date: 2011-05-07 04:44 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
The bottles always disappear within the hour, but maybe something permanent on the fence...

Date: 2011-05-09 10:28 pm (UTC)
crystal: (asami)
From: [personal profile] crystal
I'm Crystal! XD

The weather's been very wet lately, despite the fact that this is supposed to be Hawaii, the paradise state. Lies, lies, lies.

I have misplaced my umbrella. Am doomed to walk in the rain to bus stop again tonight.

Bingo card not even close to being done, ahaha.

Date: 2011-05-07 07:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nathanialroyale
There are a few different kinds of weather depending on the places for my setting, Desert in the north (Although this geographically/geologically) does not make sense, but the God of the sun got a little angry at those living there.

Camar'a is pretty temperate, shoreline is really nice for temperatures, even in in winter, it's where most of my fruit grows such as oranges, pears and such.

Royale in the south is a great plains, very cold winters (-30 to -40) but lots of snow and good rain so much of my crop comes from there.

And on a different note it's supposed to be a warmer then normal dry summer here in Alberta again >.< I do not like!

Date: 2011-05-07 09:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nathanialroyale
And I always forget to introduce myself :P Name is Nathanial ^^

Summer is going to suck and I will be loving on my fan.

Date: 2011-05-07 07:55 am (UTC)
yoshitsune: white tea set in a sunny spot (sankou; college house)
From: [personal profile] yoshitsune
Hmm, well the weather in the north-west and on the Inland Sea is fairly temperate. But in the capital, the humidity and high temperature in summer get pretty oppressive so those who can afford it spend those months in the provinces/at the seaside.
I think most of the characters at Third Higher prefer autumn and spring (winter is the worst when you have to spend your days in classrooms and dorms without central heating).

Date: 2011-05-07 01:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] birgitriddle
I've been having trouble writing more than one story for my bingo card to the point that if I don't write another by the end of the month for that card, I'm just going to post the one for amnesty and maybe get a new card.

As for my characters and weather, one of my universes takes place in a tropical type climate, but the rest are not.

I do have one character who loathes the rain and flails whenever he's rained on, but water is a weakness of his, so it's understandable.

Date: 2011-05-09 01:49 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tinmouse
Hola!

I'm Mouse, another new face. I've lived on the Wet Coast and a little in the tropics, so most of my settings have weather parallels to either of these locales. :'D

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