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Miss Piggy >> Alexis; other things
11 years ago
I realized today, while watching the latest Muppets movie with my son, how much Miss Piggy has informed Alexis.
No, Alexis doesn't have Frank Oz's voice, and I don't think I've ever really thought in Miss Piggy in a vorish way, but I definitely was fascinated with her when I was younger. When I was watching the movie there was a moment where my eyes just kind of opened wide and I said, "Oh." Thank goodness the kiddo still takes "Nothing!" for an answer. I think Miss Piggy sort of became a category unto herself in my head. The obsession with appearance and glamor, her being larger than her partner in every dimension and physically overpowering (even violent), her half-unconscious narcissism verging on sociopathy... It was hard for me not to see the origin of the echo that's in Alexis. How strange!
On an only slightly related note, I've often moaned at people who will listen about how I keep coming up with story ideas that I'll never get a chance to write, because in the time it takes me to write a story, I've thought of three or four new ideas. Even if I manage to combine two ideas in one story, I still end up having my 'story seed bank' growing faster than it's getting emptied. But just this weekend I realized that most of my ideas (and really, many of the stories I've written) aren't really stories. They're character studies, maybe, or setting studies. They're the perfect elements for an RP idea, in other words.
So I've started the process of scraping out my story seed bank and putting the scrapings into my RP ideas folder instead. I feel guilty about not writing stories, but I've never felt guilty - maybe just a little bummed - about not RPing an idea I've had. So, yay! And since I'm starting to toy with the idea of maybe RPing a little bit again now, maybe some of them will actually get written. :)
No, Alexis doesn't have Frank Oz's voice, and I don't think I've ever really thought in Miss Piggy in a vorish way, but I definitely was fascinated with her when I was younger. When I was watching the movie there was a moment where my eyes just kind of opened wide and I said, "Oh." Thank goodness the kiddo still takes "Nothing!" for an answer. I think Miss Piggy sort of became a category unto herself in my head. The obsession with appearance and glamor, her being larger than her partner in every dimension and physically overpowering (even violent), her half-unconscious narcissism verging on sociopathy... It was hard for me not to see the origin of the echo that's in Alexis. How strange!
On an only slightly related note, I've often moaned at people who will listen about how I keep coming up with story ideas that I'll never get a chance to write, because in the time it takes me to write a story, I've thought of three or four new ideas. Even if I manage to combine two ideas in one story, I still end up having my 'story seed bank' growing faster than it's getting emptied. But just this weekend I realized that most of my ideas (and really, many of the stories I've written) aren't really stories. They're character studies, maybe, or setting studies. They're the perfect elements for an RP idea, in other words.
So I've started the process of scraping out my story seed bank and putting the scrapings into my RP ideas folder instead. I feel guilty about not writing stories, but I've never felt guilty - maybe just a little bummed - about not RPing an idea I've had. So, yay! And since I'm starting to toy with the idea of maybe RPing a little bit again now, maybe some of them will actually get written. :)
Also, this: "in the time it takes me to write a story, I've thought of three or four new ideas" a thousand times this! D: