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So, the theme for this week's 
Thursday_Prompt was 'disposition' (with a 365-word challenge)... and I decided, as I sometimes do, to go with one of the less common definitions. 'Disposition' may mostly be used to refer to someone' fundamental character at an emotional level, in the form of 'cheerful disposition' or 'sunny disposition'. But in financial situations it can also refer to a pre-arrangement of how funds are distributed, and in a particular legal context of that it can refer to how assets are distributed as a business is dissolved... or in a will.
And while I was running that over in my head, I ended up talking with an old friend about an old character of mine, Springbok, who I'd originally created just for the joke in the name. But my friend was basically trying to walk me through some world-building with her by asking questions, and so I thought of how that would go, given that she's obviously a construct of some sort, meaning she was made and presumably owned by someone, and so might have been one of the things about to be handed out in a will...
And somewhere along the line I remembered a sequence in the old comic 'Supernatural Law' (a.k.a. Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre) in which the two title characters get the ghost of a judge to stop haunting his old chambers with his attempt to write the perfect will that he never quite finished in life... by bringing up case law showing that in his jurisdiction, post-mortem modifications to a will are considered invalid no matter how much proof there is that the person who wrote the will actually wanted those changes. If they weren't notarized before the time of death, they didn't count.
Just a little scene, really, but trying to set up a little more backstory for her. (The 'odd accent' is probably Afrikaans.)
Thursday_Prompt was 'disposition' (with a 365-word challenge)... and I decided, as I sometimes do, to go with one of the less common definitions. 'Disposition' may mostly be used to refer to someone' fundamental character at an emotional level, in the form of 'cheerful disposition' or 'sunny disposition'. But in financial situations it can also refer to a pre-arrangement of how funds are distributed, and in a particular legal context of that it can refer to how assets are distributed as a business is dissolved... or in a will.And while I was running that over in my head, I ended up talking with an old friend about an old character of mine, Springbok, who I'd originally created just for the joke in the name. But my friend was basically trying to walk me through some world-building with her by asking questions, and so I thought of how that would go, given that she's obviously a construct of some sort, meaning she was made and presumably owned by someone, and so might have been one of the things about to be handed out in a will...
And somewhere along the line I remembered a sequence in the old comic 'Supernatural Law' (a.k.a. Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre) in which the two title characters get the ghost of a judge to stop haunting his old chambers with his attempt to write the perfect will that he never quite finished in life... by bringing up case law showing that in his jurisdiction, post-mortem modifications to a will are considered invalid no matter how much proof there is that the person who wrote the will actually wanted those changes. If they weren't notarized before the time of death, they didn't count.
Just a little scene, really, but trying to set up a little more backstory for her. (The 'odd accent' is probably Afrikaans.)
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Yeah, the character was literally created just for the springbok joke with the clockwork, but an old friend convinced me to try to do a bit more with her.
Full autonomy may not be possible for her as she does still need to be wound up occasionally. Though now I'm suddenly remembering the old story The Mouse and his Child, which was a story about a pair of toy mice and, among other things, their quest to become self-winding. I haven't thought about that story in years.
Full autonomy may not be possible for her as she does still need to be wound up occasionally. Though now I'm suddenly remembering the old story The Mouse and his Child, which was a story about a pair of toy mice and, among other things, their quest to become self-winding. I haven't thought about that story in years.
Heh. Well, that's part of why the Prompt sometimes does a 365-word challenge: sets it up so you have to think about every word.
It's more space than other versions of the idea: a 'drabble' is exactly 100 words, for example. And I've seen cases where someone managed to do a drabble (exactly 100 words) that was also a feghoot (ends on an extended bad pun) at the same time.
It's more space than other versions of the idea: a 'drabble' is exactly 100 words, for example. And I've seen cases where someone managed to do a drabble (exactly 100 words) that was also a feghoot (ends on an extended bad pun) at the same time.
So the story of Hugh the lumberjack going out to save the local woodlands from a group of vile druids where the story ends with 'Only Hugh can prevent florist friars' is a feghoot?
Is this also where Springbok is from the world of SavingsTime and her antagonist is Fallsforward?
Is this also where Springbok is from the world of SavingsTime and her antagonist is Fallsforward?
Yes, that would be a feghoot. Or the story about the small black hole that was going to hit the earth, causing everybody to say their farewells, except that the trajectory changed and the Earth was saved... and one of the people on the tracking team said he was going to write a book about the events called Much Adieu About Nothing.
And Fallsforward sounds like the name for someone who shows up out of nowhere to declare themselves as your as your greatest rival, to much disbelief and facepalming from everybody else in the vicinity.
And Fallsforward sounds like the name for someone who shows up out of nowhere to declare themselves as your as your greatest rival, to much disbelief and facepalming from everybody else in the vicinity.
Thanks!
As I mentioned, sometimes I like taking less common definitions of words for this, like when I responded to the prompt of 'lift' by using the fact that it's a common British term for an elevator. Part showing off vocabulary, part challenge, and part just trying to avoid what the greatest number of other people may be doing.
As I mentioned, sometimes I like taking less common definitions of words for this, like when I responded to the prompt of 'lift' by using the fact that it's a common British term for an elevator. Part showing off vocabulary, part challenge, and part just trying to avoid what the greatest number of other people may be doing.
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