Overdue Memeage
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tj_dragonbladeFrom that 'Comment to shout 'Words!' and I'll give you 5 that I associate with you so you can talk about them in your own LJ' meme, from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Grammar
Grammar is important. Not so much in casual everyday conversation, and maybe not so much in casual written conversation, but definitely in any formal writing situation and definitely in creating a readable narrative. Structure is important to any construct, and language is no exception.
Adoption
My experience with adoption is pretty much of the unofficial online variety. I'm pretty happy with any and all net-adoptions I've made, though. ^_^
Arizona
Nnh. Mixed sorts of feelings - it's 'Home' to a large part of my mind, by now, but the fondness I feel for it as a place has all come about after leaving. Those old adages, 'Don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' and 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder', and all that. Realistically, I'd love to get back for visits far more frequently than I do, but I don't know that I'd want to live there again in all seriousness. Warm winters sound heavenly, especially as I approach another February in sub-arctic clime, and while I have a new appreciation for summer and sunshine and the desert in general, I don't think I'd handle triple-digit weather all that well anymore. 'Course, there are milder places to live in AZ besides Phoenix, but it's that sprawling metropolitan big-city environment that I prefer over any of the smaller places up north.
Curls
If I had a dollar for every time someone has gushed over my natural curl or asked me 'Do you know how much women pay to get hair like that??', I'd...well, I'd have had a few more dollars to my name over the years. ^_^; I'm lucky I like my hair curly, I guess - so many times those conversations involve a friend/acquaintance/relative of the speaker who also has naturally curly hair, but hates it. *shrug*
H.I.M.
HIM is one of those Finnish bands I stumbled across a few years ago - there's a handful of songs I really like, and I'm fond of their overall sound. They're pleasantly goth-flavored and easy to listen to. I'd rec. ^_^
And this meme:
* Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
* I'll respond by asking you four questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
Fromteru_bozu_ebi:
1. Obviously a dragon fetish thing going on. What draws you to them?
I've pondered this at length time and again, and I'm kind of afraid that a lot of it boils down to nothing more than 'Dragons are like the Coolest Thing Ever!!' leftover from childhood. It's hard to pinpoint anything specific. I could spout off about the nobility of the race in general, the appeal of sentient/intelligent 'beasts' and 'noble savage' tropes and what-not, but that's all really tied up in various interpretations and not really attached to the concept of 'dragon' by itself. Even if I narrow it down to dragons as presented in Saiyuki, most of what I'd attribute my fondness to is based on various fan-interpretations (including my own) of Goujun and his cultural background, and how some of those traits manifest in Hakuryuu as well. So...I guess maybe I owe my fetish to Saiyuki fandom? I mean, 'Dragons are cool!' is a life-long opinion, but my Saiyuki years have really brought it to the fore and fleshed it out.
The older I get, the more I find myself gravitating toward reptiles as favored animals over cute-and-furry things; I don't know if this is due to my dragon fondness or if it's perhaps a contributing factor to my dragon fondness - chicken or the egg, that sort of thing, but it's probably related somehow or other.
I...don't know that I actually answered the question all that well. ^_^;
2. Describe the process through which you create headcanon for your characters.
Never really thought about it. I suppose it's a matter of interpreting canon and filtering it with other fan-interpretations and meshing the various similarities that 'feel' right to get a sense of 'who this person is/has been'. Anything I'd regard as my own head-canon kind of stems off of that, what I think might mesh with that personality and/or circumstance...uhm. Sort of...interpreting all the various 'versions' I might encounter of a character and flavoring it with a little of my own opinion on top? Don't know that I'm making much sense, really. I mean, I obviously have head-canon - I just...it develops in little dribs and drabs along the way and it's hard to say how, sometimes. Lots of times someone else presents an idea that I'd never considered, but it sparks a lightbulb moment of 'OMG that makes so much sense!' or 'S/He's right, but I'd never realized that!' and then that often becomes 'real' in my view of a character, etc. Try not to plagiarize other people's ideas, of course, but often they'll provide threads in the fabric that makes up what I eventually see as the whole.
3. Choose one of each of the following pairings. What do you think your choices say about you? Ketchup/Mustard, Coke/Pepsi, Dog/Cat, Marvel/DC, Sun/Moon.
Ketchup - I like my spice with a bit of sweet mixed in
Coke - ...I'm picky? Pepsi tastes too much like the smell of a sneeze, imo
Cat - ...I'm more drawn to reserve and 'elegance' than boundless enthusiasm? (I'm miserably allergic to cats, tho)
Marvel - Between the characters I know from either 'house', there are more from Marvel who resonate with me on a deeper level. I don't know what this says about me - maybe a gravitation toward forward-thinking more than tradition?
Moon - Uh, simplest answer probably speaks to my desire to be 'known' or have power on a scaled-back by-proxy level - not the main focus/person, but a supporting, equally-vital sort of role. Like being the bass-player instead of the lead singer. Or maybe just that I'd get on better with Koumyou Sanzo than Genjyo Sanzo. *dork*
4. How close to the mark was Northern Exposure?
Ah, well. Having never seen it, I can't really say. ^_^; My husband, however, reports that from what he recalls, it wasn't grossly off the mark but it wasn't really spot-on, either. Of course, he's always lived in the 'big' city, here, and I understand the show was set in a more remote community, so take the vague answer with a grain of equally vague salt. ^_^;
Fromattiqah_gensui:
1. If you were a superhero, what would be your superpower and what is your majestically heroic name?
I'm going to be completely selfish and say that being amphibious is my superpower. Not likely to be much help in a bettering-or-saving-the-world sense, but I would enjoy it to no end. And my name would be...Amphibia? >_<; Yeah, lemme think a little more on that.
2. If you had to spend your day with a fictional character you hate, what would you do and who would it be?
Hate's a strong word for it, but. It would probably be Sasuke from Naruto. I'd probably spend the day trying to have enough of a conversation to hopefully gain a better understanding of him and more sympathy for his situation. I don't know how successful I'd be - he'd probably kill or incapacitate me for being annoying and useless before an hour had passed and be on his way, but...well, I'd try. ^_^;
3. I know you like Saiyuki and Star Trek. What other fandoms do you obsess about? Tell me! ♥
Umm...Naruto. There's a lot that I like about Naruto, a lot of really fun characters to work with. Haven't done much fic over there, but there's a lot of potential. Gaara is...hyngh. *_* And Lee is so much huggable love. ♥ Lots of other people and personalities, too. Gundam Wing was my obsessive fandom before Saiyuki; I look back at the series now and find that the plot is rather slow-moving and a bit boring, but my favorite characters still get me fired up. I have unfinished fics that need writing for them, and one or two new ideas that beg attention also. ^_^
I also like Pet Shop of Horrors (or rather, I like the interplay and chemistry between D and Leon), and Avatar: The Last Airbender, and there's a pairing (and a couple other characters) that I'm very fond of in X-Men. I don't know if I'd call any of them obsessive, but they're definitely worth mentioning. ^_^
4. What's the perfect lunch outing? XD Who would be there, and what's on the menu? :D
Hee. My favorite lunch dates have been in the summer-time, on sunny days, when my husband and my kid pick me up from work for an hour and we go to the park. AJ gets to play, and we usually have something from one of the fast-food sandwich franchise chains - Subway or Quizno's or something. It's simple, but it's very nice. ^_^
entitys: Grammar
Grammar is important. Not so much in casual everyday conversation, and maybe not so much in casual written conversation, but definitely in any formal writing situation and definitely in creating a readable narrative. Structure is important to any construct, and language is no exception.
Adoption
My experience with adoption is pretty much of the unofficial online variety. I'm pretty happy with any and all net-adoptions I've made, though. ^_^
Arizona
Nnh. Mixed sorts of feelings - it's 'Home' to a large part of my mind, by now, but the fondness I feel for it as a place has all come about after leaving. Those old adages, 'Don't know what you've got 'til it's gone' and 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder', and all that. Realistically, I'd love to get back for visits far more frequently than I do, but I don't know that I'd want to live there again in all seriousness. Warm winters sound heavenly, especially as I approach another February in sub-arctic clime, and while I have a new appreciation for summer and sunshine and the desert in general, I don't think I'd handle triple-digit weather all that well anymore. 'Course, there are milder places to live in AZ besides Phoenix, but it's that sprawling metropolitan big-city environment that I prefer over any of the smaller places up north.
Curls
If I had a dollar for every time someone has gushed over my natural curl or asked me 'Do you know how much women pay to get hair like that??', I'd...well, I'd have had a few more dollars to my name over the years. ^_^; I'm lucky I like my hair curly, I guess - so many times those conversations involve a friend/acquaintance/relative of the speaker who also has naturally curly hair, but hates it. *shrug*
H.I.M.
HIM is one of those Finnish bands I stumbled across a few years ago - there's a handful of songs I really like, and I'm fond of their overall sound. They're pleasantly goth-flavored and easy to listen to. I'd rec. ^_^
And this meme:
* Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
* I'll respond by asking you four questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
From
teru_bozu_ebi:1. Obviously a dragon fetish thing going on. What draws you to them?
I've pondered this at length time and again, and I'm kind of afraid that a lot of it boils down to nothing more than 'Dragons are like the Coolest Thing Ever!!' leftover from childhood. It's hard to pinpoint anything specific. I could spout off about the nobility of the race in general, the appeal of sentient/intelligent 'beasts' and 'noble savage' tropes and what-not, but that's all really tied up in various interpretations and not really attached to the concept of 'dragon' by itself. Even if I narrow it down to dragons as presented in Saiyuki, most of what I'd attribute my fondness to is based on various fan-interpretations (including my own) of Goujun and his cultural background, and how some of those traits manifest in Hakuryuu as well. So...I guess maybe I owe my fetish to Saiyuki fandom? I mean, 'Dragons are cool!' is a life-long opinion, but my Saiyuki years have really brought it to the fore and fleshed it out.
The older I get, the more I find myself gravitating toward reptiles as favored animals over cute-and-furry things; I don't know if this is due to my dragon fondness or if it's perhaps a contributing factor to my dragon fondness - chicken or the egg, that sort of thing, but it's probably related somehow or other.
I...don't know that I actually answered the question all that well. ^_^;
2. Describe the process through which you create headcanon for your characters.
Never really thought about it. I suppose it's a matter of interpreting canon and filtering it with other fan-interpretations and meshing the various similarities that 'feel' right to get a sense of 'who this person is/has been'. Anything I'd regard as my own head-canon kind of stems off of that, what I think might mesh with that personality and/or circumstance...uhm. Sort of...interpreting all the various 'versions' I might encounter of a character and flavoring it with a little of my own opinion on top? Don't know that I'm making much sense, really. I mean, I obviously have head-canon - I just...it develops in little dribs and drabs along the way and it's hard to say how, sometimes. Lots of times someone else presents an idea that I'd never considered, but it sparks a lightbulb moment of 'OMG that makes so much sense!' or 'S/He's right, but I'd never realized that!' and then that often becomes 'real' in my view of a character, etc. Try not to plagiarize other people's ideas, of course, but often they'll provide threads in the fabric that makes up what I eventually see as the whole.
3. Choose one of each of the following pairings. What do you think your choices say about you? Ketchup/Mustard, Coke/Pepsi, Dog/Cat, Marvel/DC, Sun/Moon.
Ketchup - I like my spice with a bit of sweet mixed in
Coke - ...I'm picky? Pepsi tastes too much like the smell of a sneeze, imo
Cat - ...I'm more drawn to reserve and 'elegance' than boundless enthusiasm? (I'm miserably allergic to cats, tho)
Marvel - Between the characters I know from either 'house', there are more from Marvel who resonate with me on a deeper level. I don't know what this says about me - maybe a gravitation toward forward-thinking more than tradition?
Moon - Uh, simplest answer probably speaks to my desire to be 'known' or have power on a scaled-back by-proxy level - not the main focus/person, but a supporting, equally-vital sort of role. Like being the bass-player instead of the lead singer. Or maybe just that I'd get on better with Koumyou Sanzo than Genjyo Sanzo. *dork*
4. How close to the mark was Northern Exposure?
Ah, well. Having never seen it, I can't really say. ^_^; My husband, however, reports that from what he recalls, it wasn't grossly off the mark but it wasn't really spot-on, either. Of course, he's always lived in the 'big' city, here, and I understand the show was set in a more remote community, so take the vague answer with a grain of equally vague salt. ^_^;
From
attiqah_gensui:1. If you were a superhero, what would be your superpower and what is your majestically heroic name?
I'm going to be completely selfish and say that being amphibious is my superpower. Not likely to be much help in a bettering-or-saving-the-world sense, but I would enjoy it to no end. And my name would be...Amphibia? >_<; Yeah, lemme think a little more on that.
2. If you had to spend your day with a fictional character you hate, what would you do and who would it be?
Hate's a strong word for it, but. It would probably be Sasuke from Naruto. I'd probably spend the day trying to have enough of a conversation to hopefully gain a better understanding of him and more sympathy for his situation. I don't know how successful I'd be - he'd probably kill or incapacitate me for being annoying and useless before an hour had passed and be on his way, but...well, I'd try. ^_^;
3. I know you like Saiyuki and Star Trek. What other fandoms do you obsess about? Tell me! ♥
Umm...Naruto. There's a lot that I like about Naruto, a lot of really fun characters to work with. Haven't done much fic over there, but there's a lot of potential. Gaara is...hyngh. *_* And Lee is so much huggable love. ♥ Lots of other people and personalities, too. Gundam Wing was my obsessive fandom before Saiyuki; I look back at the series now and find that the plot is rather slow-moving and a bit boring, but my favorite characters still get me fired up. I have unfinished fics that need writing for them, and one or two new ideas that beg attention also. ^_^
I also like Pet Shop of Horrors (or rather, I like the interplay and chemistry between D and Leon), and Avatar: The Last Airbender, and there's a pairing (and a couple other characters) that I'm very fond of in X-Men. I don't know if I'd call any of them obsessive, but they're definitely worth mentioning. ^_^
4. What's the perfect lunch outing? XD Who would be there, and what's on the menu? :D
Hee. My favorite lunch dates have been in the summer-time, on sunny days, when my husband and my kid pick me up from work for an hour and we go to the park. AJ gets to play, and we usually have something from one of the fast-food sandwich franchise chains - Subway or Quizno's or something. It's simple, but it's very nice. ^_^
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Date: 2010-01-26 07:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 04:25 am (UTC)Uhm...lessee. DJ, roleplay, pharmacy, multi-racial heritage, and...kappa. ^_^
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Date: 2010-01-27 04:26 am (UTC)Which, if I want to extrapolate on the whole 'dragons as creatures of the rivers/oceans' angle, could be considered somewhat dragon-related, eh? ^_^;
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Date: 2010-01-26 08:47 pm (UTC)^___^
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Date: 2010-01-27 04:26 am (UTC)Was fun to answer these, though it definitely takes some thought to come up with questions in return.
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Date: 2010-01-26 11:44 pm (UTC)Resistance is Futile. (When you give this as a button, honestly. It's not like I can help myself. XD)
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Date: 2010-01-27 04:27 am (UTC)Questions, then. Uhm...
1. Who's your favorite character in Saiyuki, and why?
2. How did you get started in the world of writing fanfic?
3. How much of a 'culture-shock' factor is there in moving between Singapore and the UK?
4. What are five of your favorite songs, whether at-the-moment or all-time?
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Date: 2010-01-27 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 04:30 am (UTC):D
1. What are five of your favorite songs, whether at-the-moment or all-time?
2. How did you get started in the world of writing fanfic?
3. Out of all the Gundam series you've seen, which would be your favorite and why?
4. LJ/Dreamwidth etc or the old YahooGroups and ML formats - which in your opinion provides a more useful/in-depth/enjoyable forum for fandom interaction?
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Date: 2010-01-31 09:15 pm (UTC)and . . . sure i'll bite. Resistance is Futile.
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Date: 2010-03-05 02:35 am (UTC)Sooo. Four questions:
1. How did the two of you meet?
2. What are five of your favorite songs, whether of-the-moment or of-all-time?
3. What was your first fandom, and how much of a place does it still hold in your heart?
4. How long have you been working with your Realms, and how many stories are there (or are there going to be)?