Marie's Posts - Wild Minds network2024-03-28T09:32:32ZMariehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/MarieNhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3145233923?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://wildminds.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1ruc8s87ca6xw&xn_auth=noA storytag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-05-17:4661400:BlogPost:256262011-05-17T22:30:00.000ZMariehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/MarieN
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Hmmm... I thought I might post a bit of a story description/summary that I've had written down for a while... I've had many new stories in the time since I've written this, but I've been pretty bad about recording stuff lately...</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><br></br><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Well, I also though this story might appeal to a lot of people on this…</span></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Hmmm... I thought I might post a bit of a story description/summary that I've had written down for a while... I've had many new stories in the time since I've written this, but I've been pretty bad about recording stuff lately...</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><br/><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Well, I also though this story might appeal to a lot of people on this site, since I sort of had MD in mind when I was thinking of it. </span></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Also... my writing is not the best when writing out these things, since I don't try to make it sound good. And many things are unsure.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">A group of kids wander/are taken into a world that is a world made up of (abandoned¿) ideas. One idea can run into the next and a powerful imagination can immediately effect the world, it just has to be stronger than the imagination of all surrounding things. The inhabitants of whatever area are, alive, they have free will, and grown and change on their own over time. The overall world is actually made of millions of world that support ideas, the kids can pass through the world-areas where an when the boundaries are thin, they can also take inhabitants with them though inhabitants can not go on there own.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The story starts as the kids trying to find there way back to the real world, while also trying to solve the mystery of why it was them that were taken and for what purpose.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">They eventually figure out that they could go into the world because they have very strong creativity, though it isn't obvious in all of them.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">They might find or are told that changing an idea in the idea world also changes it in the person's head, if that person is still alive. Though the person can still have a memory of what the idea was.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Characters: Not in any order.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Tessa Von Bargen- 16 years. She is a published fantasy/steam-punk/drama writer, who's popularity is rising fast. She has had some troubles adapting to the stress of a public life, or it more that her mother has had trouble getting used to it and this spills over on to Tessa. She tries hard to take on as much responsibility as she can, because she feels guilty about putting so much stress onto her mother, one of the ways she copes is by trying to take responsibility for anything she can, to make her mother's life easer. The aspect of taking on responsibility spills over into other aspects of her life, particularly in the idea-worlds, also partly because she is the oldest of the group, so she feels more responsible. She becomes a little bit like a team-mom. But I think at some point Sen might tell her that she needs to think about herself more (a tad hypocritical of him), her own needs and her own personality, rather than one that is just suited for being a leader.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Leila Sonia Jenkins- 13 years. A very quite, introverted girl. She prefers the world and characters she creates to the real thing. Her fantasies started as and escape from abusive parents and bullying, but it grew into a habit after she was taken in by her foster mother, whom she has a good, though distant, relationship with. She is very happy when she is pulled into the idea-worlds. She is the first one to directly change the world around them, though she isn't aware of it at first, and even after she becomes aware she keep it a secret from the others. She doesn't really see people as proper companions, but more as things that she can use to help her get what she wants, in the most quite, innocent way possible. She feels this way about her step-mother. Though this is mostly just her way of avoiding caring about people. She becomes friends/acquaintances with Tessa first, because Tessa is a published author Leila wants to learn from her and get connected to the business. She is rather calculating for her age, but this is mostly a product of her powerful imagination. She longs for her dreams to come to life, and would give up almost anything to live in a world of her own fantasies.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Sen Ayala- 15 years. Because he has had an illness for most of his life and spent a lot of time in and out of hospitals he was homeschooled. His mother also made the family move around a lot, because she was convinced that the hospitals were not do a good enough job. This put a lot of stress on Sen's father, and he eventually divorced Sen's mother. For a while Sen lived with his mother, but recently moved in with his father who began to give him a lot more freedom, and sends Sen to normal school. While in the idea-worlds Sen keeps his weakness a secret from the others because he doesn't want to hold them back, like he feels he did to his father, or have the treat him like an incompetent, like his mother did. Because he grew up with no long-term friends he has grown to have trouble making friends or talking openly to people, which can be frustrating for him. But people tend to see him as a cool, quite, loner.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Maya Holland- 14 years. In the same class as Victor, Elliot, Sen, and Addie. A very out-going preppy sort of girl. She does modeling jobs and enters beauty pageants. Her mother and father died, and left her with an inheritance big enough to live comfortably for the rest of her life. She acts dumb during school, in order to make herself more approachable, partly because she believes if she was smart and rich no one would talk to her. This is mostly subconscious however. She is used to comfortable lifestyle with lots of friends surrounding her, because of this she is rather unhappy at first in the idea-world. But eventually she makes friends with the others in the group and begins to show her hidden intelligence and creativity.</font></font></font></p>
<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">She actually knew Sen from a time in her childhood. She had broken her leg playing and Sen was in the hospital at that time and the two became friends, but never saw each other again after Maya left the hospital.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Elliot Farmer- 15 years. He lies, a lot. For little reason, other that he can and it makes life more interesting. This is reflective of a rather arrogant personality. He understands consequences, but isn't really affected by them. He sometimes manipulates people into getting or doing something he wants, but only if that is more challenging then getting it himself. He is very competitive, but not necessarily against another person, it's more like a competition between himself and his lies.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">Victor Grey- 13 years. He has a brilliant scientific and mathematical mind because he is able to “imagine” the situation very clearly and solve any math or science problem.</font></font></font></p>
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<p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">If you have any name</font> <font color="#000000">suggestions</font><font color="#000000">, or other</font> <font color="#000000">suggestions for that matter, don't be shy about sharing them.</font></font></font></p>
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<p> </p>Odd quirks¿tag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-04-11:4661400:BlogPost:184772011-04-11T02:20:14.000ZMariehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/MarieN
<p>The upside down question mark seems to fit really well with that title...</p>
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<p>Anyways... This could sort of be considered an extension of my introduction, but I have several things about me that I think or wonder come from my maladaptive daydreaming. And I was wondering if any one else shared that same quirks.</p>
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<p>-I am utterly terrible at spelling, and writing by hand has always been a bit of a struggle for me, I just really hate doing it and I feel like I would like…</p>
<p>The upside down question mark seems to fit really well with that title...</p>
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<p>Anyways... This could sort of be considered an extension of my introduction, but I have several things about me that I think or wonder come from my maladaptive daydreaming. And I was wondering if any one else shared that same quirks.</p>
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<p>-I am utterly terrible at spelling, and writing by hand has always been a bit of a struggle for me, I just really hate doing it and I feel like I would like school work a lot more if I didn't have to write. I also confuse certain letter sometimes, b and d, j and g, and v and x. The last one is really bad when I'm dealing with physics. This has led me to wonder if I'm dyslexic but I am a very strong reader, so I don't think that that is it.</p>
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<p>-The time when I daydream the most is when I am falling asleep at night or waking up in the morning. It's pretty much a ritual that I have been doing since I was a kid. However there are ocasionally times when I'm having so much fun day dreaming that I don't want to fall asleep, so I don't.</p>
<p>-Related to this are also the times when I feel like my head is so full of ideas that I can't fall asleep, this isn't much fun though, since I often end up lying awake while my brian jumps around frantically and gets things mixed up. These times are often accompanied by bad headaches. They usually last 1-2.5 weeks. It makes it a little easier if I organize my idea on paper, then I'm not frantically trying to remember everything at once and worrying I'm going to forget something. But I still end up being awake at night.</p>
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<p>-I have the bad habit that I am trying really hard to stop of biting my hang-nails to the point where my finger bleed. This most happens when I'm doing something that only involves my mind, like watching anime, daydreaming or sitting in class.</p>
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<p>If you have any of these quirks or similar ones, or if you have any other odd quirks post them in the comments section.</p>A rather late introduction.tag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-04-11:4661400:BlogPost:188112011-04-11T01:41:28.000ZMariehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/MarieN
<p>I've been lurking around and posting hear and there for a while. But I never did any kind of formal introduction, so I figured I might as well.</p>
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<p>My name is Marie. I am currently a junior in high-school, right now it is my dearest ambition to go to art school and become a graphic novel artist. I enjoy manga and anime, and the occasional American cartoon. I like action adventure manga and I have a particular fondness for really old cheesy space animes. And Gundam. I like Gundam…</p>
<p>I've been lurking around and posting hear and there for a while. But I never did any kind of formal introduction, so I figured I might as well.</p>
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<p>My name is Marie. I am currently a junior in high-school, right now it is my dearest ambition to go to art school and become a graphic novel artist. I enjoy manga and anime, and the occasional American cartoon. I like action adventure manga and I have a particular fondness for really old cheesy space animes. And Gundam. I like Gundam a lot. Anything with giant robots flailing about in space with lots of lasers and pretty boys is alright in my books. I also like the complex political element. I like stories with complex political elements.</p>
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<p>I also have a tendency to ramble and get very off track from my original topic. Like right up there. I was talking about my interests, and then I started rambling about Gundam.</p>
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<p>Anyways, I also enjoy reading books, which I go through with astonishing speed. But I have a tendancy to re-read the same book many times over, something that angers my brother because he thinks I am not trying enough new things. Is anyone else like this¿ Sorry about the upside down question marks. I can't figure out how to get my mac to do them the right way.</p>
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<p>I enjoy a number of other things as well, going for walks, video games, I'm not very good at video games though, and I can't manage to beat most of them, or find the time to play them.</p>
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<p>And then there is writing and drawing/art and story-crafting. I consider these to more then interests. I hate using the phrase "they are my life" because it makes me feel like an angsty teenage girl. But it's pretty close to the truth. I'm not all that good at drawing/art, it often ends up that the things I see in my head are far better than what I am capable of producing which causes a lot of frustration. And for writing... I'm not great at it, I think because when I envision a story, it is in comic format, which doesn't always transfer well to writing. If I start a story as writing it comes out better, but I'm never totally satisfied with anything for more than a day. Story-crafting is the only thing I have almost total confidence in. There are sometimes doubts that the story has some cliched elements, but I usually I feel like I can over come it with the characters or some twist. For me story-crafting and day-dreaming are pretty much the same thing. I make discoveries about the story at the same time my characters do.</p>
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<p>My memories about when exactly this started are sort of vague. When I was little I daydreamed about characters in whatever anime or book I happened to be watching/reading at the time. And I also played these games with my friends, where we would go on long multi-session adventures, that were usually based of what ever anime, game or book we happened to be into at that time. Part of it was also that we made a game out of our own lives, except it wasn't really a game. We made our lives into something that would be in a game, we became faries or other powerful creatures and deafened our school from demons, except to us it was totally real, or to me at least, I think it was probably the most real to me. And a pretty big part of me still likes to believe it was real. And that it maybe still could be.</p>
<p>But when I went to middle school these games pretty much stopped, and the friends I had gone on adventures with either changed for the worse and became jerks, or I never saw them because of my middle school's idiotic system of dividing kids. I looks at this time in middle school as one of the lowest point of my short life. I think it matches up a little bit with the time my daydreams began to be a more about my own characters, and there was one that had a full enough story and characters that I wanted to actually do something with. I think there were actually two of them... Looking back, neither were very good, but they still hold a special place in my heart.</p>
<p>Then when I got to the high school I was convinced by a friend I had recently started growing closer to, to join the manga club with him. At this point I had only a juvenile interest in drawing, but the manga club gave me the inspiration to grow better, and as my stories grew stronger I began to realize that I what I wanted more than anything was to spend the rest of my life telling stories with my art. It's something I feel very strongly about, maybe too strongly... My dad was really opposed to the idea at first, so I think it might have partially driven me to the desperation and perfectionist attitude I have now. But my dad has taken an almost unsettling 180 after seeing the facilities at MassArt, now when ever we talk about collage he is pretty much like, "Marie is going to MassArt. No need to even bother applying to other schools."</p>
<p>It's weird but I'm not complaining.</p>
<p>No one I know knows about Maladaptive daydreaming. Some people I am close to (my boyfriend, my mom, some close friends) know the way stories are for me, though I'm not sure they fully grasp how deep it goes, with is why I hesitate to tell anyone.</p>
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<p>Anyways, that is a small part of my life story. Sorry for the ranting, rambling wall of text. I tend to do that.</p>
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<p>I will eventually get around to posting some writing or art.</p>
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<p>Oh I also recently started playing neopets again after a long hiatus. My user name is Crystalanthemums if you have an account and want to friend me.</p>