>(Another thing I have a hard time with is overdetailing scenery, which
>is a consequence of the fact that my imagination is much, much more
>visual than the only medium I have any real ability to work in.
>This is something of a "whom gods destroy"-level curse at times. I
>"see" animation, but can only produce text. :)
>

Given that the majority of source material drawn into the ever-growing katamari was visual to begin with I'd say that inclination serves you well. I'm sure it gives you some fits when editing time comes, but the results don't come out lacking anyway.

>Eh, I get what you mean. Some characters are just like that. Meiling
>is like the Dude, except not a stoner. Meiling abides. :)
>

I think that, along with her default color scheme and dress, might be why she keeps pinging as 'earth bender' in my head. Calm, solid, yet able to utterly ruin a mofo who deserves it.

>Oh yeah, that's right. It had slipped my mind where the phrase came
>from. Man, I tell you what—I liked the Kyle Rayner Green
>Lantern, and I always thought he got a raw deal from the backlash
>against him just because he came out of a lousy storyline, but that
>particular detail was egregious with a capital egious. It
>deserved to become a Term of Art.
>

At this point people who've never read a page of any Green Lantern story, let alone that one, still understand what it means for a character to be fridged. There is some part of me that almost hopes the writers wanted to create something so mythical in its terribleness, because to have unleashed something like that unintentionally is the sort of mistake that can crush a man's soul.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "And yet, writers keep stocking that fridge."