Okay I had another weird dream, and this one is going to become a story. I know, I know. I need another story like a hole in the head. But it's too late because I have to know how it ends, and the only way to find out is to write it.

Okay, so there were these two girls who were best friends. One of them looked like Jessica Alba and the other one looked like Charlize Theron. I'm changing that because I don't like her as a blonde. The blonde had some kind of disability and was in a wheelchair that was kind of like Professor X. Well, apparently she was rich and the two girls spent all their time together since they were kids at some secret hideaway place of her father's because he was embarrassed that she had a disability or something. He treated her well though and gave her pretty much whatever she wanted. I assume it's either set in the future or on some other planet or something, because I'd really kill any character who had an attitude like that about a child with a disability in present-day America.

Well, then when they were like 18 they were falsely convicted of some crime and sent to prison but it wasn't a normal prison compound, it was like this huge camp with a compound at one end where the prisoners had to be taken when they came in but they never really spent time there. But the lady who ran the place worked for the rich father and she drugged the two of them and implanted them with some virus that altered their DNA and gave them superpowers. They could make this black stuff that was kind of liquid-like and kind of shadow-like flow out over their bodies like armor, and they were like really fast and had incredible reflexes.


I don't know if they could fly but they could like climb anywhere as long as the armor stuff was on them and the one girl was really strong. So, the prison people would let them out every night to do things as like secret agents or whatever, but to keep them from escaping they put this stuff in their bodies that would give them like the DTs if they didn't come back for a shot every few days.

So, the blonde girl apparently also had two brothers who didn't believe she was guilty of any crime, and one day they met the girls while they were trying to break into the office building that the father owned. They looked like Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki but I really have to get rid of at least one of them and it's probably going to be Jared because I have caps of Jensen Ackles with Jessica Alba in DA. I'd rather keep Jared, but it's not practical, unfortunately.

Please note, this is not your cue to start commenting with your thoughts about SPN, drooling and telling me I have to write this and you can't wait because you are a fan of the actor(s) and/or which of the two brothers from Supernatural that you find more attractive. If I know you, I probably already know your opinions on the subject. Thank you.

While they were in the office they all figured out that their father was behind everything and then I woke up so I have no idea what happens....

As the title says. Worldbuilding stuff.

These are both illustrations of the same moment in time, done to illustrate the way the timestream of Bloodkin's reality works.

The first is a close up picture of the timestream, showing how a single decision affects the timestream itself. The blue stuff in the middle area of the picture is the timestream. Time is fluid in Bloodkin; past, present and future co-exist in the stream. (Linear views of time are typical of humans, of course, since we can only see one moment at a time, but they're incomplete.) Present is the center part of the stream. Past and future are flowing around the sides, which means that there are multiple currents in the stream at once. It's very turbulent, hard to navigate, and hard to "see" through.

The top left represents the multiple avenues of decision and possibility that could lead to this particular moment (a point of divergence. Different possible outcomes of that decision are manifested in different universes. Not every universe is affected or has the relevant moment, depending on previous events.)

The bottom square of arrow things on the other side of the timestream represents the branching possibilites of future events resultant from this particular decision.

The blue stuff that stretches out from the timestream over the rest of the picture represents how time travel can occur. Those are probability currents. Travelling through time in your own universe means staying in a particular probability current, which is actually the easiest thing to do. Getting to alternate 'verses requires a way of moving from one probability current to another.

The picture gets darker as you move away from the stream because that's the more distant past or future, which is difficult to see/remember/travel to. Probability currents may not stretch that far, and if they do, they're weak.

The second picture is an overview of time as a whole, and it's shown affecting two possible realities. The timestream encircles reality, with tributaries and various flows of energy spreading from it into particular universes that are affected by this decisiosn.

There are three "layers" on the oval because I couldn't find another way of depicting the past present and future. Time moves clockwise outward from God and loops back to him, but this is not a cyclical time dynamic. It gets back to him when time is finished, not so that it can start repeating itself in funky new ways.

The event is pinpointed by the glowy stuff in the middle of the image. I'm not entirely satified with the way this wole picture looks, but it does get the point across, I think. So that's that.

For anyone interested, I made this illustration of the "reality" in which the universes of my fiction exist. Reality is actually shaped like an egg; this is a cross-section because I couldn't figure out how to do layers of multicolored stuff on a 3D sphere or elipse or whatever it is.

Each item labeled a "verse" is a universe. Universes exist within the larger shell of reality. Regions like heaven, the aether region, nether region, and hell are present and relevant to more than one universe, so they comprise the layers of the shell, or layers of reality. Hell, however, is less part of the shell than something that exists at the edges of reality, because ultimately hell will simply cease to be.

This is fiction, of course. I have no way of knowing what the nature of reality is, and I don't claim to. This model just happens to fit with what I need for my story. I'm also going to figure out how time operates within this framework, but that will be a separate diagram. I didn't want to blow anybody's brain up, including mine.

Update Notices

Fiction:

Stuff related to Bloodkin is now linked here

Check out This Post if you care what Bloodkin is.

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There is a new One Path chapter up on shipper_asylum.

Title: One Path
Chapter Title: Chapter 156
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: The future of the Jedi Order hinges on decisions made now.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/General
Pairings/Characters: Kenobis; lots of em.
A/N:Takes place during an alternate The Empire Strikes Back. Written for fic101: Prompt #20: Brother; mission_insane Unthemed Table 5 #6 Breathless

here

This will be the last update until Aruna is back online.

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Icons:
I've decided that link tables for icon posts take too long given current time constraints. I might start doing them again this summer. Of course I still have to break my icons into multiple posts by episode, so I'm going to list them by episode name. Apologies to anyone who isn't familiar with the ep names. It's the only practical way I can think of.



Posts contain an average of 160 icons apiece

Absolute Power Post 1
Absolute Power Post 2
Absolute Power Post 3

Abyss Post 1
Abyss Post 2

Alliegance

Descent

Frozen Post 1
Frozen Post 2

Grace Post 1
Grace Post 2

Shadow Play

Smoke and Mirrors Post 1
Smoke and Mirrors Post 2

The Changeling Post 1
The Changeling Post 2

The Cure

Nightwalkers

Prometheus



Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
The Schizoid Man
Loud As A Whisper
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Royale
The Icarus Factor Post 1
The Icarus Factor Post 2
Q Who
The Samaritan Snare



All Our Yesterdays
Is There In Truth No Beauty
Journey To Babel Post 1
Journey To Babel Post 2

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Other stuff

Reading committee now consists of:

nekkidchick who doesn't have to read it but is on the list in case she wants to since she's been reading my stuff since the stone age. :P
aruna7
ladybeth
thrace_adams
cha_aka
literarylitany
nicole9514
alterangirl
stargatefangirl
lucil_luzzu
nrgbunny
polgarawolf
texasgent
janetlin
profsilverback
telana_kiarr

Okay. Some of you may have read my recent posts in reference to the original novel series that I began last year called Bloodkin. Others of you may simply know about it from outside LJ. It's the story of a vampire named Gurad Fayne, his family, friends, and ultimately (one hopes) the story of how redemption lands on his head and knocks him unconscious.

Anyway. Last week, I finally finished getting all the major plot points in order for the re-write of the entire thing from scratch. After Christmas, I plan to begin working on the Bloodkin Outline v 3.0. (already outlined it twice...which might be a slight indication of how problematic this story has been from its outset) My goal is to have the outline complete in early February. Starting in late March/April I will be looking for a small committee of individuals willing to read the chapters as I produce them.

I am not asking for a beta, just people who would be willing to read my drafts and assorted ramblings about the process of writing them. I would probably be posting them here for a custom friend's group or something. I have found that an audience is helpful to me in breaking through blocks *cough* Most of the time anyway, so I'm hoping that this will help me avoid some of the pitfalls I fell into with the last version of Bloodkin which tended to stall about once a week. For anyone who hasn't figured this out yet, I am a Christian, and my faith tends to be present in my original work, so the story deals with themes of grace and redemption in a manner consistent with my belief system. If that will bother/offend you, please don't feel obligated to read it. Any takers please comment here so that I can add you to the custom group.