Work Room - Week 6

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I invited a Mentor this week, and then I completely forgot to remind her.

She *is* coming - in Part 2 of the Work Room.

For Part 1, I'll remind you that there is a Sudden Death Write-Off: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/970905.html

and that the new topic is posted: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/971359.html

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I will also let you know about some exciting news in the Idol-verse.

Friend of Idol Jason Franks SixSmiths was picked up by Caliber Comics and they have reissued the first volume: The Sixsmiths - Volume 1

"The Sixsmiths are a family of suburban Satanists who've fallen prey to the global recession. Now their life is in turmoil: the father Ralf needs to find a new job; the twins, Cain and Lilith, need to survive the horrors of the public school system; and wife Annie needs to keep them all sane and under budget. Meanwhile, their estranged elder daughter Jezabelle is having her own crisis of faith. Will the Devil rise to smite their enemies, or will he damn them with hellfire, wrath and underwater mortgage payment? Collects issues 1-4. A light hearted comedy satire for adults. Its The Simpsons meets The Osbournes. "


and closer to home, our own fourzoas now has an excuse that she byed-out in Week 5. She had work in this book that was just released

Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education

"With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a demographic category and recount instances of racialized violence as well as an increased sensitivity to expressions of racial unrest. Clearly, American society isn’t as color-blind as people would like to believe. In Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education, contributors reveal how identifications with racialized whiteness continue to manifest themselves in American culture."

One of the things that I've loved seeing, over the years, is Idol writers (and "Idol-adjacent" in the case of Jason) putting their work out there!

So please, go and support your fellow Idol writers in this, and anything else that we have in the Idol store! http://astore.amazon.com/li0cd-20 (and if there is something I've forgotten, or you want to see added - of your own, an Idol-adjacent friend, or just something you really love and you think other people should check it out too). Be sure to mention it to me!

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While we are waiting for the Mentor post though, first thoughts on the topic?

(and don't forget, those of you who are Patrons, you have the chance to *send me topics to use this season*. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=70027 )

Comments

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

I have feels about the topic.

One. I now finally know what a "heel" is, hehe, or rather, "feeling like a heel" (like you did something wrong, perhaps unintentionally, and are a bad person because of it). This second expression may not be linked to wrestling, but it sort of explains why the bad guy is called a "heel". (The sports meaning is so far down in the dictionary I never read as far as it <3).

And two, I will never like wrestling. A sport where you go and use underhanded methods to cater to spectators? That is not an honest sport. Well, none of them currently really are, but I am still disappointed.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

And finally, this is another topic that needs to be turned on its head, but not obviously, not the heel-face turn, like ellakite suggested, because it would still be a reference to this dishonest sport.

Hmm, an interesting challenge.

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

Well, you have the right to interpret the phrase any way you wish to -- another person has already indicated that the phrase could be used to describe an actual sudden turn of the body on the heel of one foot, which can be done in certain martial arts or forms of dance.

As for me... well, a critical character in my saga is someone who underwent a "Heel-Face" turn: In their early life they were an utterly vicious and self-serving son-of-a-bitch, but after a critical event they spent the rest of their life trying to destroy the main villain of my saga. I recently realized that the character who did the "heel-face turn" would occasionally do some *VERY* unpleasant things in his fight against the "big bad" of the saga... and I'm considering posting a tale where this "hero" does something very nasty in order to advance his cause against the main villain...