Avoiding cranky, posting meme

[chantico]

Yeah . . . a meme. I haven't done one in ages, and thought this was fun. Plus, i played on somebody else's journal.

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

1. enforcer love-- My adoration for the Enforcers form Jackie Chan Adventures knows no bounds. I like them because I have always adored secondary characters, I have always adored bad guys, and for two-bit cartoon villains, they were a lot more fleshed out than most. Yeah, when I choose a fandom, I go for the obscure and ridiculous.

2.glowysnatch-- The nickname for my longest running RP character ever, Liza. Named such by my current beau, deadmanwade32. Refers to her magically-delicious vagina.

3. gypsy knife fighting -- Stabbing bitches . . . with flair. I'm not sure where I picked this one up.

4. inara's interior design-- I used to love Inara from Firefly, until I realized that, in truth, I actually despised both the character and her fangirls. What I *really* enjoyed was her gorgeous interior design and fashion sense.

5. small town domination -- World domination is a pretty lofty goal. One step at a time . . .

6. spontaneous massage-- There's nothing better than just hanging out with friends and one of them decides (or you do) to start absently rubbing shoulders/feet/whatever. I find this a true measure of bonding and friendship.

7. sayid/jack/sawyer ot3-- Three hot guys have hot guy sex in a sweaty, sexy jungle. That's all.

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[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

I think i know who you are-- yuki_onna's SO, right?

a softer world, mythpunk, "bob", philosophers with clubs, technochocolate, reality bubbles, sapiosexuality

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

I am yuki's, yeah. (Though that's not why I said I shall comment with impunity, I was just being random)

Ok!

1) A Softer World (http://www.asofterworld.com/) is a webcomic, a good one. If you see one strip, you'll recognize them all -- they're all of that format -- one (fairly beautiful) photograph chopped into three panels, with text. It deals with longing, quiet madness and insanity, sometimes with really sincere/mushy love and the celebration of the world. Hint: Just like with XKCD and other comics, you have to hold your mouse over the image to get a small part of the message -- there's often more writing in the image's alt text.

2) mythpunk - a word coined (http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/263738.html) by yuki_onna to refer to a particular kind of postmodernist fantasy, usually with a feminist or generally badass attitude. See also Literary Punk Genres (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_punk_genres).

3) "bob" refers to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dobbs), a holy figurehead to the Church of the Subgenius. Pretty much all you need to know about him is his image:

It is said that holy insight can be gained from staring at his face, but if you want to cheat, I'll share some of what I see in him, stripped of Subgenius dogma (I am one, though not a very good one).
He represents a particular way of dealing with the world, like a Taoist sage mixed with pure Americana. Gentle, slackful, eternally surprised but eternally content, slightly predatory (in the capitalist sense), he represents a way of dealing with reality that's almost erotic in nature -- everything that comes up is essentially good and attractive; he believes, no, he /knows/ in his bones that luck is with him and all is well.
If you're at all familiar with the concept of one's own attitude and beliefs rearranging one's reality (I think sort of like the principles of attraction and manifestation in The Secret (though I haven't read it), if more subtle and less lame), he is a good model to emulate -- he is pretty much in lust with the world (but has a sense of humor about it).

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

4) philosophers with clubs is technically a term from Planescape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape) - the warring philosophical factions in that setting are referred to as that, philosophers because they organize themselves around particular schools of belief, with clubs because they wield very real political and military power.
But I take that term very much to heart. I think more people should live like that (if tempered with a live-and-let-live baseline), should have strong (philosophical if not religious) beliefs, and act on them. I want people to be more strongly aligned. To be more careful of their beliefs, and more active. Because at its worst, you get holy wars and crusades and the current Christian Right strongly affecting US politics (although it illustrates what a relatively small and dedicated and careful group can do). But if /more/ people were strongly aligned and active, you would have the good guys too, in the fight, the ACLUs and Electronic Frontier Foundations of the world. And every other flavor. Anyways, I aspire to be one.

5) technochocolate -- Let's see what the dictionary says about this:
n. - "Ancient and mystical delicacy favored by the Aztecs, claimed by Strong Bad (http://www.homestarrunner.com/) to sound a-prettypretty good. Known to induce lightswitch-raves."
It's from a Strong Bad email #97 (also apparently now there is a Club Technochocolate (http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Club_Technochocolate) there.
But there's more to it, too. It's like a superlative form, like SpaceChocolate or HyperChocolate. When I was little, and made up superheroes in my head (what I now understand to be superheroes -- we didn't havethe concept back in the USSR) that adventured in space and fought the Lunar Empire (of evil space squid), I had a dream that I was in a space lounge with them, and this chocolate was served there (chilled by the cold of space, naturally).
It is what they're eating while driving their AI-controlled flying cars and piloting their jetpacks in the Future that you do not have (but should by now, goddammit).

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

6) reality bubbles -- There are moments, usually late at night and between very small groups of close people (lovers, covens, random old friends), when the laws of physics seem temporarily suspended, in a small local area. Like when you're sitting in an abandoned school building with somebody at 3am, and all of a sudden it strikes you that there's a nontrivial chance that you two are the last people on earth, and there's a bubblearound you, so tangible that you could almost reach out and feel its walls. And that within it, reality has temporarily loosened and relaxed and strong focused belief can make absolutely anything happen. I think this is what most ceremonial magic strives to achieve, to bring about-- but these states are slippery and hard to get into, voluntarily, without practice and luck. There's a weaker version of these bubbles that sometimes forms around some relationships -- again, the rules of reality, and especially of luck, seem suspended (to good effect) within a bubble, and while within it, the people are invincible (see also Slack (http://khiron1416.livejournal.com/10773.html), and Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Jeux Sont Faits), to the point where good things just happen to them out of the blue.

7) sapiosexuality - the state of being aroused/attracted to, intelligence and its use. I waivered a lot over this one, kept adding and removing it from my interests, but it's staying. To put it simply, some people are so smart (in just those right breathtaking ways) that it's incredibly hot, crossing over boundaries of preference of age and physique and personality and body type (and even gender, sometimes).