Non-Writing Creativity

It's been another week of not writing anything... sort of.

I finished beta-ing CartoonLover16's second chapter. It's longer than my Valentine's Day story. I actually had to split his chapter in half in order to send the edits back to him without crashing FanFiction's DocX Exchange. I find it amusing that he ended up doing something similar to another author I'm Beta reading for - plot-wise.

I also spent the past three days concentrating on a new character I'm creating for another fandom.

Hubby has been talking about it for a while, and he finally got around to starting up his game. It is a forum-based RPG in the X-Men universe. More specifically, it will be a continuation of the X-Men Evolution timeline with the main comic book canon spliced in.

Each player is the son or daughter of at least one X-Man or Brotherhood member. So far all of us  - through a random dice roll - are children of two mutants. Our characters are all ages 14-19 and we're "New Recruits" at The Institute... I THINK he finally decided to stay with the Xavier institute instead of updating to the Jean Grey institute.

He created a list of possible parent candidates and each player is allowed to chose one parent off the list. Once chosen, that character cannot be picked by another player as his/her parent. Hubby then uses dice rolls to randomly determine the other parent - this is the only way players can become siblings because he can roll a parent another player picked already. Other options include a non-mutant parent or Mr. Sinister genetically engineered your character by splicing together two mutants - possibly resulting in both parents being the same sex. Hubby himself was almost the engineered child of Gambit and Bishop... Gambishop. ^_^

Using a table, he then rolls to see if you inherited your powers from your father, mother, both, or not at all - it's more detailed than that, but you get the idea.

YAY, ROLLING FOR GENETICS!

My character is the daughter of Amara "Magma" Aquilla and Jamie "Multiple Man" Madrox. I chose Magma because... well... her name's Amara... which is also the name of my D&D character that I started developing back in like 2004...
The dice then decided on Multiple Man. I only inherited Magma's powers.

The next few days were spent coming up with a backstory and messing around in Photoshop to create a sprite characterization of my mutant. WHOOT!

So since I haven't really done any writing, I decided that this week I'll share with you the OTHER ways I've been creative.

Here is a list of music video ideas that I want to do using Hey Arnold! footage. I have the professional editing program; just not any way of copying the DVDs on to my computer.... Maybe I'll do that Walmart "Digitize your DVDs" thing....

Music Video Ideas - Fair Warning... nearly every song I hear ends up on this list... :P

• "Please Don't Leave Me" by Pink - Helga singing to Arnold.
• "James Bond Techno" by Moby - All of the "spy scenes" in the Hey Arnold! movie. I guess the MIB songs could work too.
• "Replay" by Iyaz - Arnold singing about Lila
• "So Damn Hot" by OK GO - Brainy singing about Helga
• "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" by REO Speedwagon - Helga leading up to her love confession in the movie
• "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga -  Helga as "It Girl" and stalking Arnold
• "Chemicals Between Us" by Bush - A darker "Stalker Video"
   -- Helga stalking Arnold
   -- Brainy stalking Helga
   -- Curly stalking Rhonda
• "Alejandro" by Lady Gaga - Helga-centric about her hiding her feelings
   -- Alejandro = Arnold
   -- Fernando = Stinky
   -- Roberto = Brainy or Arnie
• "The Mating Game" by Bitter:Sweet - Helga's male manipulation to get to Arnold
   -- Mostly the episodes "Helga's Boyfriend", "Arnold's Valentine" and "Dinner for Four"
• "Roll To Me" by Del Amitri - Brainy singing to Helga about Arnold
• "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera - Helga about hiding who she really is.
• "I'm The Only One" by Melissa Etheridge - Helga singing to Arnold about Lila
• "Layla" by Eric Clapton - Arnold singing to Lila... I mean you can almost HEAR Clapton sing Lila instead of Layla...
• "I Want Your Girlfriend to be My Girlfriend" by Reel Big Fish - Brainy singing to Arnold about Helga. A touch tricky since the song has the f-bomb in it...
• "White Flag" by Dido - Helga singing to Arnold
• "Mr. Saxobeat" by Alexandra Stan - Helga's strong attraction to Arnold and the stupid stuff she does because of it. Also works because it has a slight techno-jazz feel.
• "I'm Sexy and I Know it" by LMFAO - Probably the one I want to do the most right now. Arnold and Gerald as LMFAO and just being sexy.
• "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele - Everyone either does a "woe is me" or "I'm madly in love" or "Yes! We're finally together" type song for Helga. But no one ever seems to show the "I'm so pissed you don't love me" side of her! That's what I'd like to do for this video.
• "Don't Call Me Baby" by Madison Avenue - Lila singing to Arnold, because there aren't really any Lila-centric videos... especially none that show her as strong and independent. 
• "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction - Not sure yet if it's Brainy or Arnold "singing", but it's about Helga.
• "It's Not You" by Halestorm - Originally it would be Helga singing to Brainy, Arnie, and Stinky. However, depending on the footage I might make it a full Girls of Hillwood video.
   -- Helga to Brainy
   -- Helga to Arnie
   -- Helga to Stinky
   -- Rhonda to Curly
   -- Lila to Arnold

And now finally full circle back to writing - since this IS a blog about writing....

The first fifteen days of June hosted a drawing challenge. A new challenge was set up every day and the participants only had 24hrs to complete their drawing. Although I didn't participate - since I can barely draw a stick figure - I did get inspired by some of the art.

New Plot Bunnies

• Gerald and Phoebe V'day story within the same universe as "I Caught You A Star"
• OoC fic based off 30 Day Challenge pic of tough Arnold seducing meek Helga
• Strange Paring fic based off 30 Day Challenge pic of Agatha Caufield and Sheena's Uncle Earl