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⌈ Secret Post #3552 ⌋

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Re: Inspired by #3

[herpymcderp]

Just dumb little things. Mainly things about the state of their workstations. Like, are they messy? Are they neat? Do they make their beds? Do they habitually need to have a cup of tea or coffee to hand if they're working/writing/coding/etc?

Just the sort of things I'd notice about someone; like my supervisor in undergrad was the literal worst about making his (black, no sugar) tea and getting it everywhere. He'd make it straight in the kettle and somehow manage to still splatter the entire wall and microwave and counter and shelves with it. Everything in the lab within a metre radius of where he had his setup was tea-stained, and the sink was actually dead brown with about half a millimetre of dumped out remains of tea that has just... caked on. Never rinsed.

Me being the way I am, I spent like 40 minutes scrubbing everything as soon as I saw it and was utterly horrified by the state of it. Those little details though, they go a long way to describing a character's personality.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

If you're a writer of any kind, you should let one of your characters have that kind of tea habit. That's an awesome detail about any person (real or fictional).

Re: Inspired by #3

[herpymcderp]

Well, yes. That is more or less the kind of thing I try to put into my own work (and there's definitely a character I have who I'll be using it for just because it fits so, so perfectly lol). My old supervisor was a grizzled old mountain man who never gave a single fuck about anything but good, real results; I have a character for whom that also pretty much rings true.

I guess I would just appreciate it more if there was more of it in other people's writing, you know?

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but if I ever read your book, I will appreciate it. :P

You just wait, you're supervisor will be the new Snape.

Re: Inspired by #3

[herpymcderp]

You joke, but actually...

If Snape were a really hard left pro-animal rights vegetarian ecologist who studied proximal factors in population genetics and believed the only way to results was decades of remote northern/arctic field research...

What I'm saying is, he's a fucking hardcore guy and routinely makes his students incredibly salty about how difficult his tests are in an "easy" subject (which actually isn't easy if you don't dumb it down). He's also a brilliant researcher. Academically speaking, he probably has more in common with Snape than I would have thought lol.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not really joking actually. I would love this kind of character (yes, of course, you're going to change things here and there, but the spirit of the man would probably still be in your character). I'm definitely not Snape bashing either, he's my second favourite HP character.

What kind of story would your supervisor's fictional counterpart be in?

Sorry, I just get so excited about stories and characters. And, of course, I'm convinced that everyone on FS is either a wannabe or a failed writer.

Re: Inspired by #3

[herpymcderp]

Well, I'm thinking of what I'm working on right now, which is a military sci-fi/fantasy set on...well, basically modern day earth.

Before you go "what", the military part of it isn't really the focus. It's no Tom Clancy-esque ordeal where every character is basically their name, rank, marriage status, and weapon choice lol. It's more like a backdrop to the events of the story, which sort of trend more toward the supernatural.

The character with the habits taken from my supervisor is one of the main characters; a captain who eventually winds up becoming the base commander. Pretty much your quintessential no-nonsense man's man, who very much has a "results first, everything else second" outlook on life. So... not exactly Snape, per se, but also probably the character most likely to make someone cry, so maybe it fits haha.

Re: Inspired by #3

[(Anonymous)]

Not what I would normally go for, but sounds interesting enough. But you have to keep the tea thing, the tea thing is awesome. Especially in this military manly man 'people would expect me to drink nothing but ethanol and acidlike coffe' context.

Re: Inspired by #3

[herpymcderp]

Oh, he's only a stereotype on the outside. I pretty much love fucking with reader's expectations so there are also a bunch of other "typical military blokes" who wind up being... not exactly as straightforward as they appear.

Re: Inspired by #3

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

If you go look at something British - the thing that comes to mind for me is Doctor Who Third Doctor Unit era - then drinking strong tea would be perhaps a stereotype for British military. Maybe a Brit military man would be a total coffee snob with his own espresso machine.