{"id":1160,"date":"2021-12-02T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:25:28","slug":"updating-characters-as-im-re-writing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2021\/12\/02\/updating-characters-as-im-re-writing-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Characters as I&#8217;m re-writing here &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 &#8212;&gt; +1\u02daC \/ +33\u02daF &amp; the weather app thinks we&#8217;re experiencing ice pellets \/sleet &#8211; but I don&#8217;t see that &#8211; @ 2:32 pm Atlantic Time.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1057\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/Journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-02_1335PM_ShelleyInHerElement-x1280.png?resize=1000%2C568\" alt=\"Shelley Got Dressed\" width=\"1000\" height=\"568\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&#8211; &#8220;Shelley at Seventeen&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Her comment? &#8220;The Green light makes my red hair look weird &#8211; But I like the glasses.&#8221; { &amp; she got to choose her own clothes after a &#8216;nicer&#8217; person got a hold of the game world software and let her make her own choices. &#8211; but that would fall under &#8216;spoiler alert&#8217; -;) &#8211; } &#8211;<br \/><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; Yeah, I wanted to find a more &#8216;character friendly&#8217; &#8216;photo&#8217; for the beginning of the story line &#8211; { Shelley didn&#8217;t have a say in what her avatar wore when her manipulating cousin scanned her in to the software at his university when she was fifteen &#8211; Then her cousin uploaded screen shots from the game and posted them &#8211; and back at her own school &#8211; the bullying &#8216;popular girls&#8217; found the screen shots and added ammunition to their character assassination plot and wrote &#8216;Slut&#8217; in very red lipstick on her locker with a printout of the original sexy screen-shot taped below that. }<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1058\" style=\"width: 1160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1058\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/Journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-02_1206pm_Draeydan-x1150.png?resize=1000%2C736\" alt=\"Draeydan at seventeen\" width=\"1000\" height=\"736\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&#8211; &#8220;Draeydan at seventeen&#8221; { Shelley&#8217;s idea &#8211; after she found out she didn&#8217;t have to run around in the game world looking like she&#8217;d freeze to death at the slightest breeze &#8211; she had somebody help her scan Draeydan into the system and then she got to pick what he wore. \ud83d\ude42 } His hair is darker than that &#8211; The computer guy admitted the software has a couple &#8216;glitches&#8217;. &#8211;<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; Draeydan is not her manipulative cousin. He&#8217;s a supportive friend { maybe more than friends? &#8211; } &amp; He probably wouldn&#8217;t want to be caught dead dressed like that &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1059\" style=\"width: 1690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1059\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerendel.ca\/Journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-01_1620pm_Shelly_Closer_-In_Faer_Kingdom_Zed-Brigadoon-psx1680-copy-2.png?resize=1000%2C561\" alt=\"Shelley in Faery Land\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&#8211; &#8220;Shelley in Faery Land&#8221; { When her older cousin was controlling the backgrounds and not letting her pick her wardrobe. ) &#8211;<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8212; The story begins in a &#8216;parallel word&#8217; where the geography is pretty much the same as it is here &#8211; but a lot of names are different &#8211; History is slightly different &#8211; Benedict Arnold was revered as a hero and George Washington was hung as a traitor. The Capital of New York state is in the same place as Albany is here &#8211; but the city&#8217;s name is Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; And a lot of names are spelled differently &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; But bullies are still bullies and all these two sensitive kids want to do is survive high school &#8211; finding love along the way might help.<\/p>\n<p><em>~~~~~ Jim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 &#8212;&gt; +1\u02daC \/ +33\u02daF &amp; the weather app thinks we&#8217;re experiencing ice pellets \/sleet &#8211; but I don&#8217;t see that &#8211; @ 2:32 pm Atlantic Time. &#8212; Yeah, I wanted to find a more &#8216;character friendly&#8217; &#8216;photo&#8217; for the beginning of the story line &#8211; {&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/2021\/12\/02\/updating-characters-as-im-re-writing-here\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,19,20,77,65,78,69,66,54,16,35,22,45,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-give-me-the-truth","category-life-should-be-more-fun","category-life-should-be-more-relaxed","category-progress-in-game-building-and-or-novel-writing","category-schnarr-is-my-favourite-nonsensical-universal-euphemism","category-we-dont-want-to-be-allowed-to-vote-for-anyone-elses-agenda-we-want-to-change-the-agenda-germaine-greer","category-we-need-more-positive-news","category-barbara-marciniak-said-that-our-computers-were-designed-with-the-help-of-evil-aliens-she-might-be-right","category-hopeful-optimism","category-philosophy","category-planned-obsolescence-is-a-crime-in-france","category-progress","category-quantum-theory-and-parallel-dimensions","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xoJi-iI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp05\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}