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ladybug_archiveThere are so many spammers and bot accounts getting on LJ lately. Why the sudden flood? I'm reporting multiple bot accounts daily because of garbage that's being posted in many comms that I'm in. I'm starting to dread looking at my Friends page.
And I really should have tried to find out about this before I ever started writing the thriller fic. I think I took it for granted that Fakir would not be arrested or charged for assisting the gang with robberies, considering that he's a minor (15, to be exact), a kidnap victim, and he's being forced to help them under the very real threat of his loved ones being killed. Now I'm not sure at all. To me, it really wouldn't seem fair that he would be arrested or charged under the circumstances, even if mildly (as I've just been told may likely be the case). But maybe there are really strict laws about that in Germany. I'm still hoping there's a way out of him being arrested and charged. I did not want that for this fic. Meanwhile, the characters have already been worrying wondering if that will happen. Now I'll have to worry along with them. Poor Fakir; I've gotten him into a terrible mess!
... Well, if it ends up looking like there isn't a way, maybe I can bring Charon's detective friend more into the plot and have him somehow pull some strings for Fakir. Slightly hand-wavey, I suppose, but something must be done.
Also, it looks like it may end up longer than I thought. I finally finished chapter 11 and they're not to the robbery yet. They might not get there by 12, even. Or if they do, it might only be at the end and then spill into 13.
And I want the final scene of the fic to take place on a dock at sunset. Munich has no docks. Therefore, the final scene will have to be somewhere else. I'm thinking now that they'll have to chase Fakir and the gang into Frankfurt and then into Hamburg. It would certainly fit better with the summary I've given the story. And a nation-wide chase was kind of the original idea.
Fakir is going to try desperately to stop someone from ending up killed during the first robbery. I wonder if I could get him out of an arrest by him actively conspiring against the gang from that point. It wouldn't contradict what I already have planned; he's supposed to be beaten and then wonder why nothing was said about his loved ones being killed as punishment. Then he realizes that the gang must have lost track of them. And with that as the case, it's very likely he would actively try to stop them!
Oh, I hope maybe I've just solved the problem.
And I've been trying an experiment: no emoticons (which I'm defining as keyboard-made faces) in journal entries and few to none in conversations. I've been realizing for a long time that I think I've vastly overused them. For a while now I've been decreasing their usage. Now I've wanted to see if I could get by without them altogether. It might last, it might not. At any rate I think I should try to use them more sparingly.
And I really should have tried to find out about this before I ever started writing the thriller fic. I think I took it for granted that Fakir would not be arrested or charged for assisting the gang with robberies, considering that he's a minor (15, to be exact), a kidnap victim, and he's being forced to help them under the very real threat of his loved ones being killed. Now I'm not sure at all. To me, it really wouldn't seem fair that he would be arrested or charged under the circumstances, even if mildly (as I've just been told may likely be the case). But maybe there are really strict laws about that in Germany. I'm still hoping there's a way out of him being arrested and charged. I did not want that for this fic. Meanwhile, the characters have already been worrying wondering if that will happen. Now I'll have to worry along with them. Poor Fakir; I've gotten him into a terrible mess!
... Well, if it ends up looking like there isn't a way, maybe I can bring Charon's detective friend more into the plot and have him somehow pull some strings for Fakir. Slightly hand-wavey, I suppose, but something must be done.
Also, it looks like it may end up longer than I thought. I finally finished chapter 11 and they're not to the robbery yet. They might not get there by 12, even. Or if they do, it might only be at the end and then spill into 13.
And I want the final scene of the fic to take place on a dock at sunset. Munich has no docks. Therefore, the final scene will have to be somewhere else. I'm thinking now that they'll have to chase Fakir and the gang into Frankfurt and then into Hamburg. It would certainly fit better with the summary I've given the story. And a nation-wide chase was kind of the original idea.
Fakir is going to try desperately to stop someone from ending up killed during the first robbery. I wonder if I could get him out of an arrest by him actively conspiring against the gang from that point. It wouldn't contradict what I already have planned; he's supposed to be beaten and then wonder why nothing was said about his loved ones being killed as punishment. Then he realizes that the gang must have lost track of them. And with that as the case, it's very likely he would actively try to stop them!
Oh, I hope maybe I've just solved the problem.
And I've been trying an experiment: no emoticons (which I'm defining as keyboard-made faces) in journal entries and few to none in conversations. I've been realizing for a long time that I think I've vastly overused them. For a while now I've been decreasing their usage. Now I've wanted to see if I could get by without them altogether. It might last, it might not. At any rate I think I should try to use them more sparingly.
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Date: 2011-01-10 01:00 am (UTC)It's a New Year, so people resolved to be a troll?
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:36 am (UTC)LOL!
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:21 am (UTC)Yeah, I've actually been thinking about that too: if the police don't have solid proof, then under Fakir's circumstances I think they would have to charge him with something, maybe accessory to a crime or obstruction of justice. But I'm the very last person you're going to want to ask about that, especially since I know diddly squat about Germany's laws.
Nation-wide chase is funzies. ...For us, not them. And if he helped bring them down, I'm sure that if they were operating under US laws then the charge would at least be much lighter. And I think I've heard of people being charged but not having to serve their sentence under the condition that they never appear in court again, but I really, really, really would doubt that's true. Makes for fun cop-outs, though.
Yay for the crooks losing track of the gang! X3
Since voice inflection and body language are a very important part of communication that can't be imparted through text, I think using emoticons is a way to try and make up for it. But I can understand why you would be wary of using them too much. Good luck! X3
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Date: 2011-01-10 02:36 am (UTC)If Fakir ended up not helping the gang during the robberies at all, even during the first one, and was trying to fight against them, surely he wouldn't be charged for just being with the gang, since he's a kidnap victim. At least, this is what I'm hoping now. Arresting a poor kidnap victim? That just seems so unfair on so many levels! I think I can very easily work things so he never helps them with any of the robberies. And I have a scene in my mind of where he's trying to get information to the police about where the second robbery is going to be. Then I'd just need to make sure there is some proof of what Fakir's saying. I refuse to let him be arrested or charged! I'll do something hand-wavey if I have to, but I'll try hard to come up with something else first.
Aurgh, I think this problem has been bothering me so badly that I haven't been able to sleep. I don't know why I was so stupid to not try to research it before I started this story. It was so ridiculous and foolish.
Yeah, that's why I like emoticons. But I definitely think I should cut down on them. Thanks!
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Date: 2011-01-10 03:37 pm (UTC)Okay, you might want to try a few things here, even without knowing much about the law in another country:
a) Once today, I saw you mention The Ransom of Red Chief. There is a similar incident in (relatively) early Bruno the Bandit comics.
b) "Um. Yes, Officer/Your Honor, they kidnapped me and threatened to kill my friends and family if I didn't write a story for them, because they thought anything I'd write would come true. No, sir, aside from that they were sane, and I never found a chance to escape. They did, in fact, try to kill my family. No, sir, I have no idea why anyone would think that, nor how he would persuade anyone else to think that. No, sir, I can't actually demonstrate, can I? That would be silly. All I could do was record what they'd planned and try to leave a copy where the authorities would find it."
c) If he can get around Anton, all he'd need would be a few minutes with pen and paper... or similar. (dunh dunh DUNH, as some people put it.)
Amazing, the things one thinks of around three a.m. The difference is, that's when I'm supposed to be awake. And I have no New Year's resolutions (except to get the SS story done this week.) So, };P
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Date: 2011-01-10 03:51 pm (UTC)LOL! Option B is hilarious. I've wondered about that, too: how widespread the idea of Story-Spinning would be throughout Germany. Drosselmeyer even wrote for the king (I'm assuming the king of Bavaria, since it was probably still under a king when Drosselmeyer was alive), so at least at that time it was probably common knowledge. In the current day and age, however, it's hard to say. Who knows, I might end up going with that option.