Poll Time: Meta-conversations!
Added 2017-04-17 16:21:14 +0000 UTCThe chat is up and rambling and several people have mentioned missing the old Livejournal meta-conversations, where I talked to the characters and they talked back. (And sometimes some of you talked to them in comments, and they answered!) I admit, I assumed this to be something that only works for a very few people, because it can make the canonical narrative feel contrived or fake (if the character is off fighting a war elsewhere, how can he be hanging out with me, chatting?). Or if it did work, it worked only for some settings (like Kherishdar, where the conceit is that the characters are aware of us.)
But it seems more than a handful of the folks in the chat liked them, and wouldn't mind seeing them again, and for other settings like the Pelted one. And this is so startling that I felt I should ask if they are alone!
So! Meta-conversations: yes? No?
Comments
Having not read Mindhealers at all (I need to fix that) I could easily see these meta-conversations happening as an aside to therapy. Say, something like a pocket mental universe based on a snapshot of a given character such that we could interact with a given character knowing more about their future than they do... As a gross example, a chat with 'new ambassador to the Chatcaven Empire'...
Dain Unicorn
2017-04-18 20:41:37 +0000 UTCI have a few questions I would like to ask you, and will take answers from your characters. How does the G. body language work with all those extra limbs? Are there wing shrugs, and do they mean something different from arm shrugs or are they combined? Things like that
Godel Fishbreath
2017-04-18 14:17:45 +0000 UTCAnd thank You, Jaguar, for asking the question!
2017-04-18 11:15:16 +0000 UTCI <3 meta conversations and miss them. I especially want Kerishdar, but anything would be nifty. (I hope First Servant is well! <3 <3 )
2017-04-18 00:31:21 +0000 UTCThese are always fun to read!
2017-04-17 21:40:50 +0000 UTCLooking forward to what everyone has to say.
Tygepc
2017-04-17 19:53:26 +0000 UTCI would joyfully participate for PG, HI, Kherishdar, and BL. As a matter of fact, I would up my support level to participate for these settings. And I firmly believe time and space are irrelevant for meta discussions :-)
2017-04-17 19:30:46 +0000 UTC<waves> I see we're backing a lot of the same names :) We're at the Eastercon, which included an item on Vorkosigan's Law with a dramatisation of the court scene where Ivan is asking his cousin for a divorce.</waves>
Kate Barton
2017-04-17 19:21:43 +0000 UTCI love the meta-conversations . please more
2017-04-17 18:55:43 +0000 UTCHi! Fancy seeing you two here. Great minds enjoying alike? ;) --filkferengi
filkferengi
2017-04-17 18:33:17 +0000 UTCI had been reading some of the earlier of these on LJ, before they went away. I'd love more! --filkferengi
filkferengi
2017-04-17 18:32:29 +0000 UTCI hadn't realised this was a thing, but it sound fun.
Kate Barton
2017-04-17 17:50:46 +0000 UTCThis, also this.
Rabbit
2017-04-17 16:28:02 +0000 UTC
