Bach Canon Played as a Moebius Strip

Every so often, the topic of music comes up around the DN fandom, or around people who RP as L, or etc. Suggestions are made about what various characters would like, fans agree or disagree... it's harmless speculation.

After a lot of thought, I came to the conclusion that canon!L probably doesn't like music at all: we think he must because we like it, but he really doesn't seem to want to be distracted from his work. We see him sitting in silence and requesting quiet.

I've seen a few good suggestions, though, for music he might like if he did listen to it at all, and my own vote always goes in for J.S. Bach, based on elements that aren't easy to explain (the mathematical qualities of counterpoint, for example). This video is a fantastic demonstration of what I mean; also, it doesn't require a fandom connection to be fascinating.

[I have been making posts to this journal here and there, but I felt odd about cluttering up people's friends pages with them, so I've been backdating them. There's some stuff I've been meaning to post. When I do, I won't backdate it.]

This is something I want to get together for myself, because I've been having problems with it while trying to icon for quarter_english, so I will put it under the cut and work on it as I have the chance.

I already expect that I'll be changing some of the categories, because, for example, L has little use for a "flirty" icon, but frequently uses a "fake innocent" one (well, at least as I play him, he does). He needs a pile of "staring" "walking around" and "inquisitive/curious" ones, too.

( look out! there's a giant icon table under here. )

I'm actually posting this in late July, but anyway: in late June, I wrote a fic for dn_contest, and I actually won the popular vote. The theme was alternate ownership of the Death Note, and what grabbed me was what might have happened if it had gone to Soichiro rather than his son Light.

Title: Choices
Author: Eru-dition
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Soichiro
Warnings: Allusions to sex and violent death; nothing too explicit
Word Count: 2440
Note: Thanks to everyone who encouraged me, and to darkluna who has given me feedback as this was in progress.



( You will see him, his suit and glasses and watch, and you will think, Here is a man who does the right thing. The world could use more like him. )

I'm behind the times: Sims 3 is out, but I just got Sims 2.

W/R/T making Death Note Sims, piles of custom content exist out there, some of the customizations better than the rest. I've scrolled through dn_sims and also looked at posts on other communities, as well as at least three different lists of suggestions, and I've poked the brains of nardaviel and metalgeergirl, too. This post will keep track of what I find. At this writing I've made L and Misa, mainly because I found good packages for them; my next project is Light, who will be more of a challenge.

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A home for links to comment_fic prompts, assuming I fill any more of them.

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I've been meaning to post this for a while, now; it's a list of movies, television shows, books, and so on that I think will appeal to Death Note fans based on some element of the story's content. Most of the time, the recommendations I've seen in the fandom extend only as far as Monster and Code Geass.

You can bookmark this entry, or add it to your memories, and I'll update it as I think of more things to list on it.

Movies

Breach: A famous, recent espionage case presented as a suspenseful drama.
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Another murder mystery with a villain protagonist, in which the question is not who the murderer is, but whether or not he'll get away with it.
Real Genius: Super-smart teenagers, at a school modeled on Cal Tech, compete under heavy academic pressure for on-campus positions and post-collegiate jobs... until they learn that someone has been lying to them about the purpose of their lab work.


Television

Life: A charismatic and quirky LAPD detective serves a decade in prison for a triple murder he didn't commit. When he is released, he gets a huge financial settlement, and his job is restored to him. He immediately sets about investigating the case in which he was framed.
Criminal Minds: FBI profiling procedural with great characters, for everyone who can't get enough of the NPA Task Force, or all the profiling of Kira that both L and Near engage in.
Leverage: A team of con artists and criminals with various skills address the balance of power when rich people injure or take advantage of the less fortunate.

No chapter on walking could be complete without a nod to the private detective, who started to appear in the nineteenth century. He is an attractive character precisely because he is essentially an idler, as Walter Benjamin wrote in Arcades:
The truth of Benjamin's observation is embodied in that great literary loafer Sherlock Holmes, who, we conjecture, became a detective because he liked to loaf in his fictional world; to watch, to think, to walk. Like the poet, the detective does his work by walking and by sitting. He is not a victim of society; instead, he watches it, he stands outside it, he enjoys it, he smiles at its foibles.

-- Tom Hodgkinson

We want to believe that things last for ever, whether it is love, life, God, or the laws of nature. But death, as Freud continually reminds us, is what certainty looks like. Perhaps the best we can hope for is to live in uncertainty for as long as we can bear it.

-- Christopher Potter

This post is part "What I'm like as a player," part "What my likes and dislikes are." I wrote this up weeks ago, then left it sitting around. This is all subject to change at any time.

Under the cut: Why I only play one character right now, a little bit of my history as a player, some writing standards, things to remember when stalking other games, ways to drive me crazy when we play together, and things in the RP scene that bug me.

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I'm really far behind on a few things. Consider this my to-do list:

- I still haven't finished my fic for the dn_contest Secret Santa! My partner is her_victory and she wrote something stunning and amazing for me, which was posted on 12/20.

- I need to launch Colors L ASAP, as soon as I have the energy, and can work on that fic.

- I have a mix to post. I've been working on it for months, and finished it a few weeks ago, but wanted to get the other things settled before I go about posting it.

Unfortunately, about two weeks ago, I wiped out on some ice on the concrete steps of my back porch, and my back has been killing both me and my ability to concentrate. (Anyone who has been getting RP tags since then: I'm phoning them in, for the most part -- sorry about that.)

OOC INFORMATION

NAME; E.
JOURNAL; eru_dition
AIM; firm detective
EMAIL; [censored]
CHARACTERS; None, as yet.


IC INFORMATION

NAME; L Lawliet (aliases: Ryuuzaki, Hideki Ryuuga, Eraldo Coil, Deneuve, etc.)
SERIES/FANDOM; Death Note

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Title: Birthday
Rating: PG
Pairings/Characters: L, Beyond Birthday, cameo appearances by the rest of the NPA task force
Warnings: Does a ghost merit a warning?
Word Count: 2941
Notes: This is my first fanfic in almost 15 years. I think I owe part of the concept of ghost!B to knights_say_nih. The idea to write about B haunting L on his last birthday (the only birthday when it would have been possible) comes from some free association (Halloween, L's Birthday, Beyond Birthday, etc). Also, L'Osier is a real restaurant, considered one of the top French restaurants in Tokyo -- which makes it one of the best in the world.

Written for dn_contest Week #31 - Halloween. Cross-posted to eru_dition.

( I could have stopped your breathing in your sleep. )

I've had this journal for months without using it, but I have been intending to use it as a place for fandom works and as a hub for RP stuff. So, here we are. New layout, no icons yet.