Overdue Memeage
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tj_dragonbladeReply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
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sadieko:
writing
Writing is something I really enjoy, more than most anything else. It's fun, it's empowering, and it gives me so much satisfaction. I'd love to be able to make my living by writing. I find it unlikely, however, for reasons rambled about under 'Stories' below. Fanfic has been very good to me the past several years, though, and I'm heartened to be able to trace my progression from the drivel I first put out in Gundam Wing to wherever I'm at now. Growth is good, and may one day lead me to a point where I'd confidently attempt origi-fic. Assuming I can work around the whole 'let's take at least four years to write a 5000-word fic!' issue. ^_^;
school
School is something I've always been more fond of than not, though currently it's a little bit of a love-hate relationship. Of all the roles that I fill in my life, 'Student' has always been one of the most comfortable. I like to learn, and I do well in traditional classroom settings. But juggling full-time job and family with frenetically-paced part-time school and still trying to maintain some semblance of personal life also is really keeping my hands full. All for the greater good, though, and all that. Someday, I'd like to take up random classes just for fun. Foreign language, and such.
Hakuryuu
Pretty much, I've got just one thing to say:
♥
I love Hakuryuu. To absolute bits. The fact that he's a Jeep too is just all kinds of awesome. My attachment to the Jeep brand goes all the way back to early childhood and playing Matchbox cars with my older brother. My attachment to dragons in general is fairly lifelong, also, so the fact that Hakuryuu is both makes my love pretty inevitible, at least on superficial merits. ^_^ Going beneath the surface, though, there's lots that draws me to him. There's a cuddly factor, yes, in that he's so touchy-feely affectionate with Hakkai, but there's an undeniable and unshakeable loyalty/devotion in him also that's very appealing. His spotlight storyline (Lovely Babies) really brought out his nature as a guardian/caretaker, and that he sees himself in such a role with the guys on some level. It also underscored his personality and intelligence and the fact that they go beyond 'simple animal'. Even if I hadn't utterly loved him before that chapter, it absolutely would have sealed the deal.
From a writing perspective, he's very appealing to me because number one, I (pompously, perhaps) feel that have a very good understanding of and grasp on his character as displayed in canon and can work with/build on that, and number two...well, really, how many fanwriters treat Hakuryuu as a full-fledged character in his own right? It's a fairly-uncharted niche of fandom that I'm quite happy to stake out for 'my own', lol. I swear I don't mean that anywhere near as conceited and elitist as it probably sounds.
I'm always glad to see other people explore Hakuryuu as a character, whether or not I agree with where they go. I regret seeing him referred to as a pet, or Hakkai as his 'master', for example, because to my perception it's nowhere near that simple (even from a purely platonic standpoint). At the same time, I can't/won't criticize anyone for it because hey, they're entitled to their perceptions as much as I am to mine, and if I really take issue with their characterization it's better to walk away from the fic than to insult the author or pick a fight. I strive to be amiable and open-minded in my fandom dealings.
But yes, in my own ficcing, I'm incredibly...um, opinionated, we'll say, about Hakuryuu and who he is and how he's portrayed. Which is another reason that I so love writing him - if I want other people to see him the way I do, I kind of have to put it out there for the seeing.
Okay, so I had a lot more to say than just "♥"
snow
Ahh, snow. That cursed, world-deadening bane of my existence. To be all overly-dramatic about it. ^_^;
Truthfully, I don't much mind the snow itself; it's all the side-effects that put me out. I hate that it packs into tire treads and kills traction, that it packs down into ice on uncleared roads and makes driving altogether more dangerous; I hate cleaning the drive and the walk and having to clean off the car multiple times in a day to get to/from work. I hate that I have to allow time in my morning routine (read: lose 15-20 min sleep) for clearing off the car. I hate that people all seem to drive stupider when it snows. And yeah, I hate that it's so damn cold.
But my kid loves to ski, wants to take up snowboarding, and it's hard for him to do either without snow. And sometimes, a frosted-over world is rather pretty. Ask me mid-winter and I'll firmly deny it, however. ^_^;
cosplay
Cosplay is one of those things that I really love to see done and done well. I love checking out other people's cosplay pics, especially when it's cosplay of a character/series that I know, and like. It's something I wish I could be more involved in. The idea--sewing and dressing in costumes, re-creating something from a favorite fictional world in the real one, the whole thing--is terribly appealing. But it requires so much investment (time, effort, patience, skill, and--yes--money), on average, that I don't feel qualified/justified to let myself go down that road, however much I'd like to.My (admittedly-skewed) view of myself and my relationships to those around me wants to label it Selfish. Tenpou is sort of my halfway concession - no sewing (or thus time) required, as it's all off-the-rack/shelf provided I do my own hair, and most of it can be worn elsewise so it's not 'wasted' money on something only worn once every couple years or less. There's also a certain self-consciousness about inaccurate body-type for most of the characters I'd want to do.
Assuming I could get past all that crap and insecurity, though, and afford to hit cons more often than I do, I'd love to get seriously into it. Especially with the idea of being partnered or in a group. I'd still love to do Kanzeon Bosatsu, though I'm nowhere near bold enough to pull hir off, I don't think. ^_^; I really want to do Goujun, though that's probably a dreadfully ambitious idea for such an amateur. I'd love to do Dokugakuji, especially if I had a Kougaiji to pair with. I'd like to do Sally Po. I want to do Gaara, in both Kazekage robes and that Matrix-inspired makeover he got for Shippuuden. *_* But most of all, lately, I'd really really like to do (pre-Shippuuden) Chouji, particularly in that my body type would be appropriate to the character. To the point where I find myself thinking along the lines of 'If I was going to do this, how would I go about it?' and devising ways to do the wrappings that cover the hands as a cleverly-disguised glove for the sake of easy removal (because hands will inevitably require washing throughout the day), and fruitlessly pondering the best way to mock up those damned ninja sandals. ^_^;
Fromthefacelessevil:
stories
I love reading them. I love writing them. Mostly with other people's characters, as I'm sort of crap at coming up with stories and characters of my own. I tend to come up with random overly-dramatic disconnected scenes more than anything resembling a cohesive plot. Too many holes to fill to string them all together, no sense of how they really fit together. Then again, it's not like I've seriously tried for anything original in well over a decade, not since that Mary-Sue vampire fantasy I started writing down shortly after high school. ^_^; Back in the day my brother and I were inventing an epic fantasy novel world and setting, though; mostly I invented characters by drawing them and naming them, and my brother drew/had me draw and named his own, and we combined them, and he came up with 'action' scenes that I helped him write and I fleshed out the 'boring' stuff in between. I'm quite sure I've still got dot-matrix printed reams of our collaborative effort somewhere - probably in storage with my Dad in AZ. It was all crap, sure - I had no real sense of personality for most of the characters, only a vague idea of where we were going with the story and even less cohesive idea of how we were going to get there, but it was fun and would be awesome to read again and laugh over, even if it is just me now. Damn, now I'm all nostalgic. *grin* We were creating a large-cast superhero team, also, with more thought toward character and such. He had some very good ideas; it might be worth salvaging some of those into something original someday on my own. Someday. Perhaps having an established origi-character to work with might help with finding the plot/point of a story, also.
glasses
Glasses are sexy! In most cases - there are some people that not even glasses can help. But, generally, they tend to be sexy. I am mightily predisposed toward attraction to people/characters with glasses. I've never really considered contacts because - aside from quailing at the whole sticking-something-on-my-eyeball thing - I like wearing glasses. I like what it adds to my face. Though there are situations where admittedly, contacts would be helpful. Cosplay of a non-bespectacled character, for instance.
Alaska
Succinctly put, it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here. Having lived in Anchorage for nearly a decade, I've formed the following opinions and observations:
Pros: Awesome scenery, great for outdoorsy shit like camping and hiking and 4-wheeling and such, great for getting away from civilization, and interesting history what with gold mining and the Iditarod and all the Native cultures and such. The long summer daylight is great too, and I love the proximity-to-ocean and abundance of other bodies of water that I didn't have in the desert.
Cons: Too isolated and too damn far from civilization, I miss major metropolitan settings, too damn cold most of the year, poor urban planning, too much of a conservative political atmosphere, bottom-of-the-barrel public schooling in national rankings, high cost of living, bear attacks in city parks, fucking BEARS, the summer is far too short and quite often miserably wet...I could probably go on. But I'll stop there. ^_^
dragons
Nnnnnnnh, dragons. *_* They've always been 'cool', and something that resonates with me on a fairly deep level. I get frustrated still in Western fantasy running into dragon stereotypes (evil, fearsome, beastly monster images and the tiresome slay-the-dragon-for-glory! motif), though it's admittedly not as bad as it used to be. Dragons to me have always been a noble species, honorable and awe-inspiring, certainly capable of being terrifying but generally not simply for the sake of it. In recent years I've gravitated more toward a preference for Eastern dragons, probably because the Eastern view of dragons seems more in line with my own perceptions. Also, they're incredibly sexy. There's great appeal in the predatory, other-than-human nature, especially when lined up alongside the noble-and-honorable thing (instinct and primal ferocity held firmly under the elegant civilized veneer is quite hot); scales, talons, reptilian anatomy, variable form, tail - these things feed my xenokink. And that's not just my Goujun fixation talking. ^_^; I tend to see dragons as blood-drinkers for bonding, which feeds another of my top kinks. Also, I see dragons as self-aware and highly intelligent, even without human language capabilities; they're a vastly different but equal species and in no way lower, less, or mere animals despite non-humanoid forms.
green
Over the past several years, green has sort of moved up from the middle ranks to become my favorite (or co-favorite, perhaps) color. I still like purple, absolutely, but I'm honestly hard-pressed at any given moment to say which I like better. But. Green.
Perhaps the shift has something to do with moving to Alaska, where the world is so very cold/dead for so much of the year and the brief explosion of green (life) in Spring/Summer is far more...precious, for lack of a less melodramatic word, than when I took it for granted growing up in long Arizona summers.
Perhaps it's tied in to the natural psychology and personality evolution of growing older - there are schools of thought that claim various commonalities among people who choose a certain color favorite, and all, and growing older could well mean growing into a different 'color' than what dominated in one's youth.
Fandom might have some bearing on this, also, but I think it's more a case of various characters who wear green being liked just that much more because of it rather than those characters influencing my opinion on the color.
Overall, though, green to me is a color of warmth and life, of comfort more often than not.
From
sadieko: writing
Writing is something I really enjoy, more than most anything else. It's fun, it's empowering, and it gives me so much satisfaction. I'd love to be able to make my living by writing. I find it unlikely, however, for reasons rambled about under 'Stories' below. Fanfic has been very good to me the past several years, though, and I'm heartened to be able to trace my progression from the drivel I first put out in Gundam Wing to wherever I'm at now. Growth is good, and may one day lead me to a point where I'd confidently attempt origi-fic. Assuming I can work around the whole 'let's take at least four years to write a 5000-word fic!' issue. ^_^;
school
School is something I've always been more fond of than not, though currently it's a little bit of a love-hate relationship. Of all the roles that I fill in my life, 'Student' has always been one of the most comfortable. I like to learn, and I do well in traditional classroom settings. But juggling full-time job and family with frenetically-paced part-time school and still trying to maintain some semblance of personal life also is really keeping my hands full. All for the greater good, though, and all that. Someday, I'd like to take up random classes just for fun. Foreign language, and such.
Hakuryuu
Pretty much, I've got just one thing to say:
♥
I love Hakuryuu. To absolute bits. The fact that he's a Jeep too is just all kinds of awesome. My attachment to the Jeep brand goes all the way back to early childhood and playing Matchbox cars with my older brother. My attachment to dragons in general is fairly lifelong, also, so the fact that Hakuryuu is both makes my love pretty inevitible, at least on superficial merits. ^_^ Going beneath the surface, though, there's lots that draws me to him. There's a cuddly factor, yes, in that he's so touchy-feely affectionate with Hakkai, but there's an undeniable and unshakeable loyalty/devotion in him also that's very appealing. His spotlight storyline (Lovely Babies) really brought out his nature as a guardian/caretaker, and that he sees himself in such a role with the guys on some level. It also underscored his personality and intelligence and the fact that they go beyond 'simple animal'. Even if I hadn't utterly loved him before that chapter, it absolutely would have sealed the deal.
From a writing perspective, he's very appealing to me because number one, I (pompously, perhaps) feel that have a very good understanding of and grasp on his character as displayed in canon and can work with/build on that, and number two...well, really, how many fanwriters treat Hakuryuu as a full-fledged character in his own right? It's a fairly-uncharted niche of fandom that I'm quite happy to stake out for 'my own', lol. I swear I don't mean that anywhere near as conceited and elitist as it probably sounds.
I'm always glad to see other people explore Hakuryuu as a character, whether or not I agree with where they go. I regret seeing him referred to as a pet, or Hakkai as his 'master', for example, because to my perception it's nowhere near that simple (even from a purely platonic standpoint). At the same time, I can't/won't criticize anyone for it because hey, they're entitled to their perceptions as much as I am to mine, and if I really take issue with their characterization it's better to walk away from the fic than to insult the author or pick a fight. I strive to be amiable and open-minded in my fandom dealings.
But yes, in my own ficcing, I'm incredibly...um, opinionated, we'll say, about Hakuryuu and who he is and how he's portrayed. Which is another reason that I so love writing him - if I want other people to see him the way I do, I kind of have to put it out there for the seeing.
Okay, so I had a lot more to say than just "♥"
snow
Ahh, snow. That cursed, world-deadening bane of my existence. To be all overly-dramatic about it. ^_^;
Truthfully, I don't much mind the snow itself; it's all the side-effects that put me out. I hate that it packs into tire treads and kills traction, that it packs down into ice on uncleared roads and makes driving altogether more dangerous; I hate cleaning the drive and the walk and having to clean off the car multiple times in a day to get to/from work. I hate that I have to allow time in my morning routine (read: lose 15-20 min sleep) for clearing off the car. I hate that people all seem to drive stupider when it snows. And yeah, I hate that it's so damn cold.
But my kid loves to ski, wants to take up snowboarding, and it's hard for him to do either without snow. And sometimes, a frosted-over world is rather pretty. Ask me mid-winter and I'll firmly deny it, however. ^_^;
cosplay
Cosplay is one of those things that I really love to see done and done well. I love checking out other people's cosplay pics, especially when it's cosplay of a character/series that I know, and like. It's something I wish I could be more involved in. The idea--sewing and dressing in costumes, re-creating something from a favorite fictional world in the real one, the whole thing--is terribly appealing. But it requires so much investment (time, effort, patience, skill, and--yes--money), on average, that I don't feel qualified/justified to let myself go down that road, however much I'd like to.
Assuming I could get past all that crap and insecurity, though, and afford to hit cons more often than I do, I'd love to get seriously into it. Especially with the idea of being partnered or in a group. I'd still love to do Kanzeon Bosatsu, though I'm nowhere near bold enough to pull hir off, I don't think. ^_^; I really want to do Goujun, though that's probably a dreadfully ambitious idea for such an amateur. I'd love to do Dokugakuji, especially if I had a Kougaiji to pair with. I'd like to do Sally Po. I want to do Gaara, in both Kazekage robes and that Matrix-inspired makeover he got for Shippuuden. *_* But most of all, lately, I'd really really like to do (pre-Shippuuden) Chouji, particularly in that my body type would be appropriate to the character. To the point where I find myself thinking along the lines of 'If I was going to do this, how would I go about it?' and devising ways to do the wrappings that cover the hands as a cleverly-disguised glove for the sake of easy removal (because hands will inevitably require washing throughout the day), and fruitlessly pondering the best way to mock up those damned ninja sandals. ^_^;
From
thefacelessevil: stories
I love reading them. I love writing them. Mostly with other people's characters, as I'm sort of crap at coming up with stories and characters of my own. I tend to come up with random overly-dramatic disconnected scenes more than anything resembling a cohesive plot. Too many holes to fill to string them all together, no sense of how they really fit together. Then again, it's not like I've seriously tried for anything original in well over a decade, not since that Mary-Sue vampire fantasy I started writing down shortly after high school. ^_^; Back in the day my brother and I were inventing an epic fantasy novel world and setting, though; mostly I invented characters by drawing them and naming them, and my brother drew/had me draw and named his own, and we combined them, and he came up with 'action' scenes that I helped him write and I fleshed out the 'boring' stuff in between. I'm quite sure I've still got dot-matrix printed reams of our collaborative effort somewhere - probably in storage with my Dad in AZ. It was all crap, sure - I had no real sense of personality for most of the characters, only a vague idea of where we were going with the story and even less cohesive idea of how we were going to get there, but it was fun and would be awesome to read again and laugh over, even if it is just me now. Damn, now I'm all nostalgic. *grin* We were creating a large-cast superhero team, also, with more thought toward character and such. He had some very good ideas; it might be worth salvaging some of those into something original someday on my own. Someday. Perhaps having an established origi-character to work with might help with finding the plot/point of a story, also.
glasses
Glasses are sexy! In most cases - there are some people that not even glasses can help. But, generally, they tend to be sexy. I am mightily predisposed toward attraction to people/characters with glasses. I've never really considered contacts because - aside from quailing at the whole sticking-something-on-my-eyeball thing - I like wearing glasses. I like what it adds to my face. Though there are situations where admittedly, contacts would be helpful. Cosplay of a non-bespectacled character, for instance.
Alaska
Succinctly put, it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here. Having lived in Anchorage for nearly a decade, I've formed the following opinions and observations:
Pros: Awesome scenery, great for outdoorsy shit like camping and hiking and 4-wheeling and such, great for getting away from civilization, and interesting history what with gold mining and the Iditarod and all the Native cultures and such. The long summer daylight is great too, and I love the proximity-to-ocean and abundance of other bodies of water that I didn't have in the desert.
Cons: Too isolated and too damn far from civilization, I miss major metropolitan settings, too damn cold most of the year, poor urban planning, too much of a conservative political atmosphere, bottom-of-the-barrel public schooling in national rankings, high cost of living, bear attacks in city parks, fucking BEARS, the summer is far too short and quite often miserably wet...I could probably go on. But I'll stop there. ^_^
dragons
Nnnnnnnh, dragons. *_* They've always been 'cool', and something that resonates with me on a fairly deep level. I get frustrated still in Western fantasy running into dragon stereotypes (evil, fearsome, beastly monster images and the tiresome slay-the-dragon-for-glory! motif), though it's admittedly not as bad as it used to be. Dragons to me have always been a noble species, honorable and awe-inspiring, certainly capable of being terrifying but generally not simply for the sake of it. In recent years I've gravitated more toward a preference for Eastern dragons, probably because the Eastern view of dragons seems more in line with my own perceptions. Also, they're incredibly sexy. There's great appeal in the predatory, other-than-human nature, especially when lined up alongside the noble-and-honorable thing (instinct and primal ferocity held firmly under the elegant civilized veneer is quite hot); scales, talons, reptilian anatomy, variable form, tail - these things feed my xenokink. And that's not just my Goujun fixation talking. ^_^; I tend to see dragons as blood-drinkers for bonding, which feeds another of my top kinks. Also, I see dragons as self-aware and highly intelligent, even without human language capabilities; they're a vastly different but equal species and in no way lower, less, or mere animals despite non-humanoid forms.
green
Over the past several years, green has sort of moved up from the middle ranks to become my favorite (or co-favorite, perhaps) color. I still like purple, absolutely, but I'm honestly hard-pressed at any given moment to say which I like better. But. Green.
Perhaps the shift has something to do with moving to Alaska, where the world is so very cold/dead for so much of the year and the brief explosion of green (life) in Spring/Summer is far more...precious, for lack of a less melodramatic word, than when I took it for granted growing up in long Arizona summers.
Perhaps it's tied in to the natural psychology and personality evolution of growing older - there are schools of thought that claim various commonalities among people who choose a certain color favorite, and all, and growing older could well mean growing into a different 'color' than what dominated in one's youth.
Fandom might have some bearing on this, also, but I think it's more a case of various characters who wear green being liked just that much more because of it rather than those characters influencing my opinion on the color.
Overall, though, green to me is a color of warmth and life, of comfort more often than not.
