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Sep. 10th, 2009 07:22 amAs it turns out, I went to the wrong classroom for Psychology this past Tuesday. The right room was 311; the classroom for Marketing yesterday was 309, but I misread the card and went to 309. Good thing Mom had the receipt for my textbooks in her car, or else I would've sold back the right books and bought the wrong one online. Good thing even more, because the teacher there assigned us to take notes on something over the following two weeks, on one or two fixed times a day.
I went to my first day at workstudy since last winter, and someone was supposed to be in the office with me. However, he couldn't come because he got in a motorcycle accident, so Vincent had to come instead. I didn't have a whole lot of work to do, actually, and after I got done with what little I had, Vincent and Patty led me outside where the welcome-back fair was taking place. I only had a Sprite and read some brochure about sex and alcohol. Vincent said he was surprised I didn't get a burger, but I told him that whenever I make one for myself, I cut a slice of cheddar cheese to melt on it. Those always taste better than cheese singles.
So anyway, now that I was off of work, Vinnie offered to drive me home, and I called Mom to let her know not to come to the school.
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On the way home, Vinnie asked me if I could tell people apart just by looking at them, such as a Harvard professor from someone who watches wrestling. I told him that, to me, people are just people until you get to know them better. He said that that's good that I don't have the biases that most people have. It's called "labeling", which I've read about in several self-help books years ago. I told him that this is a lot more blatantly glaring in certain works of fiction than it is in real life. For example, in The Simpsons, most of the adults have a theme, and most of the kids have an archetype: Bart's the naughty boy, Lisa's the genius, Nelson's the bully, Milhouse is the dork and Bart's best friend, there are the twins whose names I don't remember, and so on and so forth.
There's also this movie called The Breakfast Club, where we have one Princess, one Criminal, one Brain, one Jock, and one Basket Case, all in detention on the same day. Vinnie says that he has heard of that movie, and even heard that the author of said movie died about a month ago. He said that the situation is more contrived than the actual archetypes themselves, but the author's whole point was that to some extent, we're all of these and other types.
One example I didn't cite? Sailor Moon. To quote someone who created an anti-SM site:
Ever character with a personality (ie not people like Molly) is a stereotype. Serena herself is the silly & stupid, but giggly girl, irresponsible and whiny but cute (supposed to be cute...). Rei is the more serious one who makes fun of the main character. Melvin is the geek. Amy is the smart one who spends her time in the library. Lita is the tough tomboy. And so on and so forth; NONE of the characters are really original. And did I mention Darien, the "pretty-boy?"
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/antism/why.html
You get what I'm saying with this whole section of this entry, right?
Y'know, that whole thing used to piss me off, and it's still something I'd prefer to steer clear of. That, my friend, is exactly why I hardly ever got started exploring the characters' personalities for Monster Collection Chronicles. For that ficseries, there are 24 Knights altogether (25 if you count someone who might replace Katsuo after he ditches them), and most of them are based on kids I used to know, even if just superficially. The furthest I got with their character is going to .Hack New World and finding some biographies there, except with Drake (whom Jake wrote up a bio for).
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I know what you're probably thinking now: Isn't 24 kinda redundant? Well, let's put it this way: Mondo would represent the Sun; Rockna would represent the Moon; Kasumi, the highest of the Supporting Knights, has the element Time; and 24 is the number of hours in a day. Katsuo, Rockna's brother who has the element Darkness, could represent one of two things:
1) The eerie, pitch-black night sky and the full or new moon (in which case, Rockna would represent the beautiful, star-filled night sky and the crescent moon), or
2) A black hole. While the sun gives light and heat for life to prosper, and the Moon stabilizes the Earth to life's benefit, a black hole would do nothing but threaten its existence. If a real black hole was in Earth's vicinity, it would look like a black orb in the sky, as opposed to the golden orb known as the Sun and the silver orb known as the Moon.
I went to my first day at workstudy since last winter, and someone was supposed to be in the office with me. However, he couldn't come because he got in a motorcycle accident, so Vincent had to come instead. I didn't have a whole lot of work to do, actually, and after I got done with what little I had, Vincent and Patty led me outside where the welcome-back fair was taking place. I only had a Sprite and read some brochure about sex and alcohol. Vincent said he was surprised I didn't get a burger, but I told him that whenever I make one for myself, I cut a slice of cheddar cheese to melt on it. Those always taste better than cheese singles.
So anyway, now that I was off of work, Vinnie offered to drive me home, and I called Mom to let her know not to come to the school.
-----
On the way home, Vinnie asked me if I could tell people apart just by looking at them, such as a Harvard professor from someone who watches wrestling. I told him that, to me, people are just people until you get to know them better. He said that that's good that I don't have the biases that most people have. It's called "labeling", which I've read about in several self-help books years ago. I told him that this is a lot more blatantly glaring in certain works of fiction than it is in real life. For example, in The Simpsons, most of the adults have a theme, and most of the kids have an archetype: Bart's the naughty boy, Lisa's the genius, Nelson's the bully, Milhouse is the dork and Bart's best friend, there are the twins whose names I don't remember, and so on and so forth.
There's also this movie called The Breakfast Club, where we have one Princess, one Criminal, one Brain, one Jock, and one Basket Case, all in detention on the same day. Vinnie says that he has heard of that movie, and even heard that the author of said movie died about a month ago. He said that the situation is more contrived than the actual archetypes themselves, but the author's whole point was that to some extent, we're all of these and other types.
One example I didn't cite? Sailor Moon. To quote someone who created an anti-SM site:
Ever character with a personality (ie not people like Molly) is a stereotype. Serena herself is the silly & stupid, but giggly girl, irresponsible and whiny but cute (supposed to be cute...). Rei is the more serious one who makes fun of the main character. Melvin is the geek. Amy is the smart one who spends her time in the library. Lita is the tough tomboy. And so on and so forth; NONE of the characters are really original. And did I mention Darien, the "pretty-boy?"
http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/antism/why.html
You get what I'm saying with this whole section of this entry, right?
Y'know, that whole thing used to piss me off, and it's still something I'd prefer to steer clear of. That, my friend, is exactly why I hardly ever got started exploring the characters' personalities for Monster Collection Chronicles. For that ficseries, there are 24 Knights altogether (25 if you count someone who might replace Katsuo after he ditches them), and most of them are based on kids I used to know, even if just superficially. The furthest I got with their character is going to .Hack New World and finding some biographies there, except with Drake (whom Jake wrote up a bio for).
-----
I know what you're probably thinking now: Isn't 24 kinda redundant? Well, let's put it this way: Mondo would represent the Sun; Rockna would represent the Moon; Kasumi, the highest of the Supporting Knights, has the element Time; and 24 is the number of hours in a day. Katsuo, Rockna's brother who has the element Darkness, could represent one of two things:
1) The eerie, pitch-black night sky and the full or new moon (in which case, Rockna would represent the beautiful, star-filled night sky and the crescent moon), or
2) A black hole. While the sun gives light and heat for life to prosper, and the Moon stabilizes the Earth to life's benefit, a black hole would do nothing but threaten its existence. If a real black hole was in Earth's vicinity, it would look like a black orb in the sky, as opposed to the golden orb known as the Sun and the silver orb known as the Moon.