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LaDarMoore
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[2016-06-01 14:39:02 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 153; Deviations: 87; Watchers: 10
Watching: 59; Pageviews: 7687; Comments Made: 564; Friends: 59
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Norman RockwellFavorite movies: Roadhouse
Favorite TV shows: The Dukes of Hazzard (the original)
Favorite bands / musical artists: The Guilty Bystanders (out of Tuscon, AZ)
Favorite books: For Bitter or Worse (It is about a man who becomes confined to a wheelchair and his bitterness nearly costs him the love of his life)
Favorite writers: James Patterson, Nora roberts, JD Robb (Who is Nora Roberts), Barbara Cartland, Debbie Macomber, and many other romance authors, too, numerous to mention
Favorite games: The Candy Crush games, Clash of Clans, most Match 3 games, Ludo (which is a Parchisi game), Speed (Which is a card game), Spades, Rook, and nuerous oher card and dice games
Favorite gaming platform: I can come closer to telling you my least favorite: ario Brothers and any game that has that type of platform...I suck at them lol
Tools of the Trade: Artist's painting supplies, I bought a wood burner so I can learn that, Beading supplies, wood carving knife, and possibly a mig welder that y husband owns (because I want to learn welding for making metal sculptures and other doodads with metals
Other Interests: I like fishing with my hubby and camping, going to vintage car shows, collecting antiques (tho I don't have much) I love reading and have a few books books (One of which is "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway. I think it is a 1956 edition.)
# About me
Please do not send me a LLama, if you do not want thanked, or just want a Llama in return. I was raised by my Grandma to say thank you if someone gives me something. Right now I can't afford to give one back. It makes me feel that the person is rude if they have, on their profiles, not to thank them and even more so if they have that comments thanking them will be ignored.I am an aspiring author, songwriter, poet, artist, nature photographer, and jewelry maker (All of them aspiring, as of now.) A lot of my creative talent I inherited from my Paternal grandmother...She could play, guitar, harmonica, mouthharp (Which was the thing that sounded like a tight rubberband being plucked), and she could play the piano...I am wanting to think she, also, knew how to play the banjo. She could sew clothing that looked like it came from the store, knit, crotchet, embroider (Which she taught me), and I am sure there are other talents that I am forgetting.
The gentleman in the photograph is John Bell Grimes (My gg or ggg-paternal grandfather on my dad's mother's side.)
I have no photos on the site that the link is posted below this information, but if anyone uses the link, I can earn credits or money from any purchases and/or sales made. I am hoping to be able to earn enough to get a few items for my photmanipulations with what I garner.
Thank you, LaDar
# Comments
Comments: 64
You seem to have gone v quiet. I do hope that all is well with you.........
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Hi, yes, all is well. I have just been on hiatus for a while getting my house in order. How are u?
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You asked me to remind you that you wanted to finsih reading this - which I believe you started then ran out of time.
Well, here it is again, as requested: omnivore7.deviantart.com/art/U…
I'll be interested to read your comment on it: in my view the writer has some serious talent.
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He does, but he needs to work on his proof-reading before he submits. I find that I go over my own stuff several ties just to find all the things that I have wrong. He also might want to add a glossary for some of the words...like the one that means foul smelling...I had to look that up. Also, truncated should be before the first limb and not after the second one. Also, when he is yanked off his feet might need to be reworded...it kind of made it seem that he was literally yanked from his feet...like his feet were still on the ground.
In the show, didn't Teela find out that Adam was He-Man? I was thinking her dad was the leader of the guards. It has been so long since I watched He-Man and Shera...however u spell her name (anyways...Adam's sister.)
I've been learning about filmmaking in an online course and I think it would be awesome if someone did some live-animation with He-Man, Shera, the Thundercats, and others from the 80's. They have done it with so many others, so why not them.
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So you found some errors? You have sharp eyes!
That slightly archaic style suits the fantasy subject matter, I think; it takes our mind to a world which is not out own prosaic one, and that matters, I think. But it does mean looking up some words too!
I'm not sure what you mean about truncated, though; in this context it's adverbial - with adjectival connotations: ie the limbs retreated having been truncated.
I think he IS yanked from his feet - the tentacle grabs both ankles and fells him and then drags him along the ground. That's how I read it, anyway.
No, Teela didn't ever know that Adam is He-Man in secret (though her father did.) So the tragedy here is the inability to explain (he's under oath to keep the secret) or to understand (she doesn't know why he acts so oddly, where he vanishes to, why he comes back exhausted and injured and won't tell her.) And it's clear that they love one another - but Adam can't admit it, because of his higher duty, and Teela can't tell him because he's heir to the throne and above her - but she can't quite hide how she feels about him, nor he about her.....
I thought the way the author handled that mismatch, those telling silences, that unspoken feeling, her shift from anger to pity and worry for him was really well done. I've never ever seen MOTU treated as serious literature like this - and it works too, because he can genuinely write and understands character so well.
The full length story is just amazing - I can't recommend it enough - and it has a LOT of fans.
Do you mean live animation like Ralph Bakshi and Rotoscoping?
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When I'm reading, I stumble over errors, they are like roadblocks when I'm trying to read. I found one book, that had so many errors that I almost quit reading it, because I have to stop reading and figure out what the error is supposed to be. Most times it's easy to discern, but there are a lot that it's not that easy to. Then there are the missing words lol...I have that happen to me a lot in my own writings and I don't see how people can send their works to be published without making sure each and every word is there and spelled correctly. I bet by the time I finally get my first book published I will have gone over it several hundred times.
Well...try reading the passage about the truncated limbs both with truncated where it currently is and then with it as "truncated limbs". For example if the passage was:
"The blade was swift in its descent and sent the limbs truncated away."
Try it this way:
"The blade was swift in its descent and sent the truncated limbs away."
Yes, I know, but I think it would have been a bit better if he would have perhaps said he was yanked from the ground by his feet. Then maybe the reader could see the tentacle snaking around his ankles and yanking his feet from underneath him.
Oh, ok, well...as I said it has been several years, idk how many really, since I have seen He-Man. The way you just explained it had tears forming in my eyes and I never got that from the story. I think Omni needs to add a few thoughts for Adam to have, where he is telling Teela in his mind why he can't tell her, so that the audience can experience his anguish with him. the reader can see and hear teela's anguish, but they can only see that Adam is physically drained. they get a sense of how emotionally drained he is, but not to what extent.
I agree, it is very well done and if I had a book in my hands that Omni had published, I probably wouldn't be able to put it down.
Uhmmm, I have no idea, who or what those 2 are, but I wrote them down so I can google them. I think I mean as in when they made the cartoon "Fat albert" into a live movie. They first had them as cartoon characters who then became real people.
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Well, that's a good habit to have - albeit somewhat time consuming. Still, it's the right thing to do and I wish my undergraduates would adopt such virtuous habits! I've just been grading the Year-end examination Lit. papers and some of them look like they were written by middle rank primates on speed......
I guess that the adjectival placing in that sentence is a matter of personal preference. Nowadays your version would be the norm; of old it was the more archaic form he adopts which would have been the usual placement. He appears to be aiming at an otherworld tone, which may explain his choice.
But I agree with you about the ankles.
Your reaction to the story's emotional impact really interests me. You see, I actually much prefer that Adam is inarticulate in his helpless inability to explain his dilemma to the girl he loves - but can't admit it; that all the expression lies with Teela - who does not know the truth. It's (to me) that imbalance which makes the poignancy of the short story and lends it such impact. I like the spareness of the tone and the way emotive depth is implied rather than stated openly - at least on the side of the wretched prince, rendered silent by his oath. It's a cruel situation - and to my mind he handles it with delicacy and crafts a subtle and nuanced view for the reader to share.
Of course - and you make this point well - it assumes that the reader is fully aware of the realities of their situation and that Teela is the lead in the dramatic irony of her ignorance. A reader less familiar with MOTU would find it less harrowing - as you did. Which is a valid criticism, of course, but I am supposing that he was writing based on certain assumptions of knowledge about the canon he employs here.
Interesting, though.
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I would probably had been like that with my homework, if I hadn't had the teachers that I did and my Grandmother, who helped my dad raise me. My teachers would make every student re-write their homework and essays, if the handwriting was sloppy. We learned to do it right the first time or pay the consequences.
I think perhaps that my view of the emotional impact is due to my being female, as I have a husband who doesn't share his feelings that often and I often find myself wishing he would. So, I think that also impacted how I viewed it, but thinking back on it, I find that you are right. It does add an air of mystery to the story; a mystery that Teela has to solve.
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That's good training and discipline and in your case it certainly seems to have paid dividends. Quality teaching is so important at the early stages, or so much gets omitted that will be needed later.
Yes, that's another good point; that the story is told from the point of view of a girl, and one who does not know what the boy is thinking, any more than she does the secret he must hide from her and which explains why he is so inarticulate about what he feels for her. Yes. And if you have analogous experience then that will colour your reaction as well as fellow female feeling; it's certain to. But I agree that the sense of mystery here is important - and the source of the tension between them, which cannot be ignored, though neither wish it.
I thought it very moving when, all else having failed, she knows she should just walk away - but instead reaches out and strokes his hair. Sometimes a gesture like that tells us more than a long and detailed analysis of their relationship, wouldn't you agree?
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I agree and I never contemplated that until I saw it in writing
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Given your thoughts about how Adam didn't express his inner turmoil, then you might find this short story more to your taste. The dilemma and the tension it creates make for a fascinating character study in a claustrophobic situation.
omnivore7.deviantart.com/art/T…
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I read it and commented on the deviation.
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You're welcome and have a nice day yourself.
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Ahhhh thank you so much for the watch bby I really appreciate it <333
If you like my art feel free to check me out on YouTube , Tumblr , or Facebook //shamelessly advertises LOL
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Thanks for favouring some of my Golden Oldies. Appreciated.
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You're welcome, I'm just sorry that I could not comment on them. But I understand, why you have comments disabled so no hard feelings, there are a lot of people, imo, that just comment for the sake of commenting and it can make it appear messy. I saw, on your gallery that comments was still open, but then I noticed that the 4-5 that had been there were hidden, so I decided to not comment there.
As for your artwork, you have a rare gift, a talent that lets the mind see every minute detail and sends the image it sees to your hand. I often find myself wishing that my hands could create like that, without use o a photograph to use as a guideline. Without the photograph, to let me see the shadows and highlights, my artwork appears 1-dimensional. So, viewing your artwork, was a great pleasure for me.
I want to say thank you for thanking me and giving me this opportunity to tell you.
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Sorry , but I have to thank you again !! I really appreciate your kind comments on my work. As for your mention of photographs, I would be lost without them. From a photo I can create my version in pencil or paint and , of course, I can tweak the results, but I do need that photo !!
I am glad you understand about comments. Folks can be very kind , but it is only polite to reply to comments , so I don't encourage them, as I am much happier drawing or painting , than answering comments. BUT, I think I have just gone and answered your comments, so I can't be all bad. Cheers.
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You're welcome and it is so good to know that I am not the only one that relies on photographs in order to get the details right. No, you're not all bad. Well, you keep right up with not answering, because seeing your lovely portraits is well worth not commenting.
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Thanks, hope you continue to enjoy my work.
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You're welcome, I am sure I will.
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Thank you so much for the watch! I really appreciate it and I'm glad you like my artwork
If you'd like, feel free to check out my YouTube , Tumblr , Twitter , or Facebook .
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You're welcome and thank you.
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Hi!
Thank you with all
my heart for fave!!
I wish ya a nice day!!
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You're very welcome and you have a nice day, as well.
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Hello there! Thank you so, so much for the watch! It means really a lot to me!
I hope you have a wonderfully amazing day!
And I just realized you were on here for only a week! Big welcome to this little wonderland!!!! I hope you're having a great time here!!
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You're welcome and I hope you have a wonderful day, as well... and thank you...I would have been on DA a long time ago if I had known it existed and I am quite enjoying myself. There are a lot of nice people on here. When I can get my hubby talked into setting up a paypal account, then I will try to start selling stuff.
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Haha, I'm glad you're enjoying yourself! And that sounds like a nice idea! I hope everything turns out well!
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Thanks a lot for the watch and the favs! I really appreciate it 
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