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golden-girl-globe · 7 years

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Coit Tower

I remember sitting in the break room frantically going through the details of this movie I had planned to take Golden Girl to. It was a movie about feral cats roaming among a city somewhat resembling rome I don't quite remember but I do remember thinking "oh yeah a movie about cats, got it" I thought it was all lined up for me. I checked my stopwatch because I was nervous of over staying my break and making a bad impression, it was time to go. I was walking out the door still looking at my phone just seeing the movie starts at 4 and I realised I get out at 4:30 there was no way I was going to make the time so I know I had to come up with something different. Thinking back on the situation I'm so glad the original plan didn't fall through because coit tower became a magnificent day that is forever stained in my memory as of the most bueatiful days I've lived. I didn't think much of the next step during work but after I was off because it was so busy I couldn't think. I had no idea what to do-I think I do recall being short on money and feeling lousy about that- but I knew it had to be a quick decision. I thought of nice places with a view and coit tower came to mind. I had to call her and update her, I thought this would be an honest way of telling her the change of plans so it didnt sound like I was just blowing it off. It was weird how anxious I was to call with the thought of her judgment of my voice alone would be. Of course my phone was glitching and I had to restart it but I called her and everything was fine, when I heard her voice I knew it would be a fantastic day. [Why am I crying right now] We met at the bus stop. I arrived before she did and waited for a bit, this became a reoccurring event and was also something golden girl warned me about. We sat apart not very close, I kept up with the questions and she followed through with answers that would lead to other questions. Awesome, she knows how to have a conversation. But it was still a bit tense, I would often look away to the opposite side of traffic and I remember being really thankful she wasn't on her phone. The bus ride went by pretty quick, it was onto Bart. I remember stumbling down to the platform and being amazed buy the new Bart line "WARM SPRINGS" as if it was a line to a summer camp. We ran into a friend we'll call OG. I remember standing really close to each other on the platform I think I was even holding her by her pants belt loops. The Bart ride felt as if it took 12 hours. It felt as if there were different stages. The ride itself was separate journey. I remember getting on the wrong train and having to turn around standing at some points and sitting in the rest. I felt bad for not talking buy justifying myself with that its really loud. She was bueatiful. In a Bart train, who the fuck- how?!! We were sitting close and it was really mesmerising how comfortable I could feel with her, she was truly something else, in those situations you would think I would be so uncomfortable on the ride. We arrived in San Francisco and we were smiling ever since we stepped off the Bart train. We were joking walking by the piers sharing stories, talking about periods! I knew we were cool with each other then. We stop and stare at certain plants and flowers then at a mountain side filled with flowers I can see it in my mind now and that image in my head is also meshed together with Golden Girl's heart stopping smile. We reach the stairs and we climb I remember looking down and getting shakey knees. She goes in telling me about the disappearance of parrots near coit tower and I listen-it's often she teaches me new things and its something I'm so appreciative for- we get to the spot I had in mine for showing her a view and sure enough there are a dozen parrots flocking around. We climb some more ridiculing some tourists and we take a beaten off path. We get to the top of the tower and we stand in the sunlight, which I took advantage of so I could see her brown eyes shimmer in the golden sun set. We talked about her professionally done tattoos and roller skating, derby, cigarettes, family, and skate shops. The conversations were fluid and just poured out it was great, she was a fun person to talk to and she was so shockingly bueatiful. We walked down but I still made sure to admire every bit of it. We reached the bottom of the tower and I took a picture of the sunset, she moved out the way but I wish she didn't. The pictures didn't turn out so well, some pictures are just better in memory. Again getting off the bus too early we stumbled across the streets into the Levi stores and some others to then reach the mall. We walked around for a few talked a whole bunch, we were in some kitchen appliance& accessories stores and I just felt so comfortable with her in there, I really just wanted to hold her hand. We made our way down to Bart which didn't take too long, we got on and her some guy spreading his knowledge of fruits and vegetables origins and facts. I remember it being really dark, I walked her home she said it was okay if I didn't, I truly thought she was crazy of she thought I was gunna let her walk home alone. I picked her a flower and she told me her encounter with a burglar and how she held a knife to his wrist while I admired how the moonlight hit her face and how she glowed. We got to her corner and didn't stay too long, I remember worrying about ending the day wrong but now realized it was all perfect as how it was. And that was the first time I really got to be with my golden girl

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christine-thinks · 3 years

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Character naming, pt. 2

Imogene! I’ve had Imogene as a character in my writing for about as long as Sloan, but each iteration of her has held its own more; each version of Imogene I write belongs more to each individual story than Sloan has.

For example: Imogene’s character first appeared in a historical fanfiction piece I wrote for fun but never finished or published anywhere. There, her name was ‘Saturn’ (because she wore a lot of rings on her fingers), and it has stayed that way for the whole of that project (several years, at least).

Additionally, Imogene, like Sloan, also appeared in Cape Luna. In that iteration, her name was Holly Blue (after the butterfly, not the gemstone), which I think fits her character in that setting as well.

Imogene��s character actually got shelved (in favor of her girlfriend, who caused more personality-based tension between characters (better for the story i was trying to tell at the time)) in the initial iteration of my current project. Eventually I brought her back, and called her ‘Saturn’ because she most resembled the same ‘Saturn’ from my historical fanfiction project. I was pretty sure I was going to change that name, but since most of the characters went by nicknames anyway, it worked for quite awhile.

As she gained a more central role, I focused more on narrowing down a name for her. For awhile, her first name was Summer, and she went by the nickname ‘Hotshot’ (did I mention this was a roller derby-based project?). I wasn’t completely sold on the name Summer (’Hotshot’ stuck around for quite awhile), so I tried out Cheyenne for a bit. At that point, Sloan’s name was ‘Sissy’, and I liked the way ‘Sissy’ and ‘Chey’ (pronounced ‘shy’) sounded together. I also liked that while they sounded similar, the names themselves looked different.

Cheyenne didn’t last for too long though, and I started looking into names again. Imogene has two sisters, and I liked the idea of them being some kind of set. I tried flowers/herbs and astrology/astronomy, but nothing I found quite fit.

I can’t remember exactly when I made this decision, BUT around this same time I was reading some Zits comic strips (trying out a different drawing style, maybe?) and remembered that there are a group of three girls in the comic who are named after beaches in California: Zuma, Redondo, and La Jolla. I instantly remembered loving those names when I first saw them, and wondered if they would work somewhere else. I loved the name (or the concept of the name) La Jolla: it looks pretty, it sounds pretty, and like I mentioned in Sloan’s character naming, I love the idea of a name that looks different from how it sounds.

I took La Jolla for myself and used that for Imogene for a little while (I named her sisters Solana and Delmar to complete the set—I wasn’t about to completely steal from Zits, and I wanted the sisters’ names to match a bit more than the girls from the comic), but I eventually dropped it because at the end of the day it’s fake Spanish created by white people.

After La Jolla, I played around with a ‘sweet’ theme, and tried out names like Cavity, Candy, and Cherry. I also threw in the name Inez, which felt close to what I wanted (I like the way it looks, and I like how the first syllable sounds), but wasn’t quite it. It didn’t take long from there to remember the name Imogene, and almost as soon as I remembered it, I settled on it.

Imogene as a name has a bounce to it—it’s sweet, but unusual. You’re gonna remember the name and the woman.

#writing process #writeblr #can't believe this one ended up being LONGER than sloan's but hey what can you do

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