Twilight: funny

[aroraborealis]

A friend's recent post reminded me of this survey I wanted to do:

If you were designing a clan for Twilight, what would the animal be, and what would you do?

Active suggestions (some serious, some not, obviously):

Magpie: flitter around stealing people's shiny things
Coyote: among other things, go through the rituals in ritual headspace but breaking all the unspoken rules otherwise
Cuckoo: attend meetings of other clans and attempt to displace actual members ("Oh, yeah, today we're doing a solo walk. Someone will come get you when you're done.")

Others?

Comments

[dpolicar]

It is indicative of where my head is at that all the examples I can think of are of clans that, once identified, should be politely invited to spend the night at the local Marriot watching television instead:

Ant: volunteer to clean up and set up and do all the prep work and never quite get around to participating in the rituals

Anteater: spend all your time exhorting Ants to stop working so hard, without actually doing anything yourself

Armadillo: sit through the entire Covening superficially participating in everything while carefully making sure nothing touches you where you're vulnerable

Butterfly: really dress up for the occasion and flit from one group to another so everyone can admire you, distracting everyone's concentration in the process

Chimpanzee: wander around poking sticks into things, asking questions, taking things apart to see how they work, intellectualize everything

OK, OK, I'll stop.
Lord I'm in a bad mood this morning.

If this sort of thing interests you; years and years ago I started writing up my version of "personalities as animal totems" for some project or other.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Ant: volunteer to clean up and set up and do all the prep work

We were calling that the Schleprechaun clan.

Chimpanzee: wander around poking sticks into things
... like anthills, as has been observed in the wild...

[dpolicar]

Cool! I knew about termite-trunks, didn't know about ant-hills... though I suppose it's the same principle. (There's actually been some really interesting work done on how "good tricks" spread socially through chimp communities... I remember reading an article years ago on the subject that reminded me quite a lot of similar studies done about how information travels through offices.)

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

If this sort of thing interests you; years and years ago I started writing up my version of "personalities as animal totems" for some project or other.

I would love to see this!

[dpolicar]

heh. I don't seem to have your email address?
I'm my LJ-name at gmail, drop me a buzz?