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valarltdNano is coming!
That means the Ten in One is open!
This is your chance to tell me I'm doing it wrong, before I raise hackles and offend the hell out of people.
All comments will be given the utmost consideration, and corrections made accordingly.
The Amazing Marvello and his assistant Hannah! (A handsome intense black man in full black-tie and top hat takes the stage. His assistant is a shapely pale brunette, with green eyes, whose handle-bar mustache and van-dyke beard match his. He does a series of illusions including the guillotine, the sword basket and the mummy into living woman.)
Nagina, the Punjab snake goddess! (a medium-toned woman slithers out, half snake from the waist down, wearing a classical headdress from the old temple carvings. Her wings flutter a bit in the evening breeze) She does a snake charming routine
Elijah, the Carolina Giant and his lovely wife, Tabitha, graceful as the gazelle which gives her her name. (He is a white man, black hair and dark eyes, of about 8' tall. She is about 2' with blonde hair and brown eyes. Both are perfectly proportioned.) He has one hand dressed in a top-hand and tailcoat, and knocks at the door of her dollhouse. She and his hand go "out on the town" in a Fred and Ginger-esque routine. Then she stands on his hand as they tour the audience answering questions.
Wolfgang, captured in the forests of Austria, yet an educated man! (He is covered with dark brown hair, and comes out in a straight jacket, which he promptly escapes in order to play "Moonlight Sonata." He then does Houdini's famous trunk escape, followed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Mingxia, as beautiful her name, as lovely as the glow through the clouds at dawn. (She is about 5' tall, her black hair in a tight knot on her head. She wears a gold bodysuit and gold wrist and ankle bracelets. She starts the act by resting on her forearms and picking a goldfish bowl off her head with her feet and not spilling any. She ends it by placing her rear on her head, her legs forward and balancing on her chin on a rotating wineglass.)
Dinah and Alice! Joined at the hip, they make their way through life.
(a pair of stunning red-headed women, joined at a 120 degree angle and sharing a central leg stand half-facing each other. They sing "evening Prayer" from Hansel and Gretel, a duet for two sporanos. Wolfgang accompanies them)
Gene or Jean! Half man, half woman and the most accomplished fire-artist living. (Gene is a handsome brown-haired man with a cookie-duster mustache and close-trimmed beard. Jean is a lovely woman, with curly hair. Ze wears a one-shoulder leotard, and is spinning fire. Ze progresses to fire-eating and sword swallowing)
Torturo, the Pain King! Physical pain is nothing to him. He sleeps on nails, eats razor blades and perforates himself for your amusement and edification! (A very handsome brown haired man with a pencil thin mustache and a wicked smile, wearing an old-fashioned gym outfit) He lies on a bed of nails, geeks a chicken, does the razor-blade swallowing and regurgitating, and lifts heavy objects with body piercings.
A side note. Will people go through the roof if I depict a physically and mentally handicapped man as a pedophile? Because, well, he IS. (he's a relative)
That means the Ten in One is open!
This is your chance to tell me I'm doing it wrong, before I raise hackles and offend the hell out of people.
All comments will be given the utmost consideration, and corrections made accordingly.
The Amazing Marvello and his assistant Hannah! (A handsome intense black man in full black-tie and top hat takes the stage. His assistant is a shapely pale brunette, with green eyes, whose handle-bar mustache and van-dyke beard match his. He does a series of illusions including the guillotine, the sword basket and the mummy into living woman.)
Nagina, the Punjab snake goddess! (a medium-toned woman slithers out, half snake from the waist down, wearing a classical headdress from the old temple carvings. Her wings flutter a bit in the evening breeze) She does a snake charming routine
Elijah, the Carolina Giant and his lovely wife, Tabitha, graceful as the gazelle which gives her her name. (He is a white man, black hair and dark eyes, of about 8' tall. She is about 2' with blonde hair and brown eyes. Both are perfectly proportioned.) He has one hand dressed in a top-hand and tailcoat, and knocks at the door of her dollhouse. She and his hand go "out on the town" in a Fred and Ginger-esque routine. Then she stands on his hand as they tour the audience answering questions.
Wolfgang, captured in the forests of Austria, yet an educated man! (He is covered with dark brown hair, and comes out in a straight jacket, which he promptly escapes in order to play "Moonlight Sonata." He then does Houdini's famous trunk escape, followed by "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Mingxia, as beautiful her name, as lovely as the glow through the clouds at dawn. (She is about 5' tall, her black hair in a tight knot on her head. She wears a gold bodysuit and gold wrist and ankle bracelets. She starts the act by resting on her forearms and picking a goldfish bowl off her head with her feet and not spilling any. She ends it by placing her rear on her head, her legs forward and balancing on her chin on a rotating wineglass.)
Dinah and Alice! Joined at the hip, they make their way through life.
(a pair of stunning red-headed women, joined at a 120 degree angle and sharing a central leg stand half-facing each other. They sing "evening Prayer" from Hansel and Gretel, a duet for two sporanos. Wolfgang accompanies them)
Gene or Jean! Half man, half woman and the most accomplished fire-artist living. (Gene is a handsome brown-haired man with a cookie-duster mustache and close-trimmed beard. Jean is a lovely woman, with curly hair. Ze wears a one-shoulder leotard, and is spinning fire. Ze progresses to fire-eating and sword swallowing)
Torturo, the Pain King! Physical pain is nothing to him. He sleeps on nails, eats razor blades and perforates himself for your amusement and edification! (A very handsome brown haired man with a pencil thin mustache and a wicked smile, wearing an old-fashioned gym outfit) He lies on a bed of nails, geeks a chicken, does the razor-blade swallowing and regurgitating, and lifts heavy objects with body piercings.
A side note. Will people go through the roof if I depict a physically and mentally handicapped man as a pedophile? Because, well, he IS. (he's a relative)
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Re: Den of Debauchery's Subannex
Date: 2007-10-28 08:59 pm (UTC)not literary license. actually lifts heavy objects. Like Mr. Lifto...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfP31EiiEaI
The pedophile is not hunchbacked. He's got several physical deformities, including elephantitis of legs and feet, a sway-back and red and white skin mottling. One of his hands has ring and pinky fingers the size of yours, and thumb, first and middle fingers easily twice as thick.
(and he's messed with kids since he was in his teens) I'm not afraid of backlash from him. he's permanently incarcerated. But Mom is going to have kittens if I write him in. It would be dishonest not to, though.
Re: Den of Debauchery's Subannex
Date: 2007-10-31 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: Den of Debauchery's Subannex
Date: 2007-11-01 12:38 am (UTC)Re: trying to be less confused about what's up
Date: 2007-11-01 12:42 am (UTC)Re: trying to be less confused about what's up
Date: 2007-11-01 01:24 am (UTC)My uncle's more an example of how secrets are kept and the obvious is overlooked in a small town. The carnival guy sees him looking inappropriately at small children, but six family members around him don't. And in the next paragraph, it moves on to another local with something going on that's obvious to anyone looking, but no one notices.
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:43 am (UTC)<--- [ PING! Goes the Lightbulb ]
"The -freaks- in your own backyard." Kind of deal. And you have a real life experience to draw on for sake of the story. Ok. Ok. It makes sense now. I get where you're coming from and what you were trying to say.
I think my mother would sue me for defamation if I ever included anything in any work of fiction that could be traced back to her or her family.
(sidenote: The Circus folk have flaws, right? They're not perfect because they've accepted their unusual selves?)
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Date: 2007-11-01 03:11 am (UTC)Torturo is an abusive, racist drunk with a taste for underaged girls (15-17). he runs solely on too much caffeine, nicotine and alcohol.
The twins are mildly psychotic and sometimes damage their toys beyond repair.
Gene/Jean can be a high-iron bitch when the mood strikes them, and always refers to themself in plural.
The Carolina Giant and His One-Cubit Wife are hyper-religious.
Marvello and Hannah have their own marital difficulties (some of which are named Torturo, who objects to an interracial marriage) starting with the picayune stuff of who gets the mustache groomer first and building up.
I don't have a very solid grasp on Wolfgang or Nagina or Mingxia yet. Wolfgang is pretty well adjusted, even if he is living/married to with Gene/Jean. Nagina and Mingxia just haven't spoken up much.
My mom is tickled that she gets to be in the book. She wants to snuggle the cyclops kitty at the Nature's Mistakes Petting Zoo