Alright. It has been brought to my attention by a certain someone that the name Shin-ti could be interpreted as Shi'ite, and that it could be seen as me taking sides of something that I probably don't want to take sides on.
So, I'm trying thinking up new names for the Shin-ti. That's where you come in.
What name would you give a band of the best H'carian warriors, the ones that guard the queen, and serve her and only her? The very best of the best, her personal little army to do her dirty work for her? These warriors kill entire villages, sneak into places, kill innocents in the name of H'car and war.
Well?
Please note that at best, Shin-ti was a working title for them, and if you and I cannot think of a good name, I shall simply keep on using Shin-ti. There really is no pressure.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Quotes of the day
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I bring to you four quotes of his.
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.
"Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963.
"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.
"Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963.
"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
Monday, January 11, 2010
2010 and other things . . .
Ah, the smell of a new year. I guess I expected to feel different, now that it's 2010, and in a way, I do and I don't. Strange.
To those of you who were able to see the moon New Year's Eve, I envy you. Do you have any idea how rare an actual blue moon on New Year's eve is? All I could see were clouds that night. T_T
On to the next order of business.
I have been spending waaay more time than is probably healthy hanging around the website http://www.etsy.com/ *nervous laugh* I'm not old enough to buy anything, but I love looking at all the designs, they really do inspire me. It's kind of what inspired me to add some steampunk themes to my novels, so I'm figuring out lots of little technical details and getting to know the characters better as I go.
Resolutions have been made and broken, as usual. The only one that I'm guaranteed to completely succeed with is "Expand horizons and stretch to live beyond the box." That's right, live beyond that dreaded box, not just in thought.
How have all of you been?
To those of you who were able to see the moon New Year's Eve, I envy you. Do you have any idea how rare an actual blue moon on New Year's eve is? All I could see were clouds that night. T_T
On to the next order of business.
I have been spending waaay more time than is probably healthy hanging around the website http://www.etsy.com/ *nervous laugh* I'm not old enough to buy anything, but I love looking at all the designs, they really do inspire me. It's kind of what inspired me to add some steampunk themes to my novels, so I'm figuring out lots of little technical details and getting to know the characters better as I go.
Resolutions have been made and broken, as usual. The only one that I'm guaranteed to completely succeed with is "Expand horizons and stretch to live beyond the box." That's right, live beyond that dreaded box, not just in thought.
How have all of you been?
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