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February shitposting, day 7
Feb. 7th, 2019 08:56 pmToday's randomly chosen theme is: accordions
The terminology in this story is going to be a little messy because Nick and I still haven't had our phone call to hash out how to talk about our childhood. (That is scheduled for this coming Wednesday. Coordinating schedules to make sure we each have an hour or two free is kind of a pain.)
[ETA 2/13/19: Terminology has now been edited according to Nick's preferences!]
Anyway, when we were younger, every year or two Nick and I would decide we should collaborate on a story. None of these efforts ever came to much of anything, because we're both terrible at relinquishing narrative control and we also have fundamentally different focuses as storytellers, but they were fun to discuss and bicker about. They have also helped make us each other's best editors, since we know exactly where each of us tends to cut corners. *wry*
So at one point we were trying to hash out this really long and complicated fantasy epic involving... well, it had long-lost heirs (yes, more than one), an evil sorceress queen, exiled princes, empires of conquest, family tensions, moral dilemmas, arguments over whether to reinstate a rightful monarchy or create a democracy instead, urban civil war, standard fantasy swords-and-horses set-piece battles in great river valleys against a background of mountains, etc. All that good stuff.
I laid out the bones of the thing, Nick added a few elements (mostly the romances) and made me chop out a few others (mostly some excessive layers of ethical complication because there just wasn't any narrative space), and then we divvied up characters and story threads.
Which is all a long lead-in to explaining to you that one of the characters (the father of the Brothers A, as we called them -- Ardrivigon, Arjelivron, Ashemarion, Azyunilon, and Arilasperon) was originally named Aligordion.
Here is the relevant quote from my background worldbuilding file, written on 19 July 2001:
I was going to call Zemruk's wife Maniskali (Iska), but Nick pointed out that that sounds like manicotti; he may be right. Therefore, I changed her name to Jinogriska (Iska). I was going to call the old king Aligordion, but Nick said that sounded like accordion, which made me wince, so I changed his name, too. It was easier than picturing him as an accordion!
Aside from that, I have no particular opinion on accordions.
The terminology in this story is going to be a little messy because Nick and I still haven't had our phone call to hash out how to talk about our childhood. (That is scheduled for this coming Wednesday. Coordinating schedules to make sure we each have an hour or two free is kind of a pain.)
[ETA 2/13/19: Terminology has now been edited according to Nick's preferences!]
Anyway, when we were younger, every year or two Nick and I would decide we should collaborate on a story. None of these efforts ever came to much of anything, because we're both terrible at relinquishing narrative control and we also have fundamentally different focuses as storytellers, but they were fun to discuss and bicker about. They have also helped make us each other's best editors, since we know exactly where each of us tends to cut corners. *wry*
So at one point we were trying to hash out this really long and complicated fantasy epic involving... well, it had long-lost heirs (yes, more than one), an evil sorceress queen, exiled princes, empires of conquest, family tensions, moral dilemmas, arguments over whether to reinstate a rightful monarchy or create a democracy instead, urban civil war, standard fantasy swords-and-horses set-piece battles in great river valleys against a background of mountains, etc. All that good stuff.
I laid out the bones of the thing, Nick added a few elements (mostly the romances) and made me chop out a few others (mostly some excessive layers of ethical complication because there just wasn't any narrative space), and then we divvied up characters and story threads.
Which is all a long lead-in to explaining to you that one of the characters (the father of the Brothers A, as we called them -- Ardrivigon, Arjelivron, Ashemarion, Azyunilon, and Arilasperon) was originally named Aligordion.
Here is the relevant quote from my background worldbuilding file, written on 19 July 2001:
I was going to call Zemruk's wife Maniskali (Iska), but Nick pointed out that that sounds like manicotti; he may be right. Therefore, I changed her name to Jinogriska (Iska). I was going to call the old king Aligordion, but Nick said that sounded like accordion, which made me wince, so I changed his name, too. It was easier than picturing him as an accordion!
Aside from that, I have no particular opinion on accordions.
