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.

Comments

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

glowysnatch. Ah yes, Liza was made the of the Awesome, Glittery, Tasty Awesome.

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

angel, civil liberties, reenactment, unitarianism, fanfiction, make-up, computers.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Don't get enough massage.

[vampirenaomi.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. And wow, you certainly have some... interesting interests.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

This is always a fun meme!

[justbeast.livejournal.com]

Though a stranger to you, I shall comment with impunity! :)

[squishymeister.livejournal.com]

"comment"

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

You can't play if you don't have any interests listed!

[squishymeister.livejournal.com]

lol!!!

I forgot that LJ didn't have them, all my other sites have the list. They're up now!!! :P

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

angel - Because I really really really love that TV show. And for the record: Angel and Buffy should be TOGETHER!

civil liberties - 'cause I love my country and I love my civil liberties. You know, speaking, organizing, gun owning, voting, all the good if arrested you still have rights stuff. I mean, it's all about being an American for me.

reenactment - This is my homage to SCA and going to ren faires. Hubby and I work at a ren faire in Illinois every summer in June. 'Tis fun! Oh and I love the clothes!

unitarianism - 'Tis my religion. I'm kinda rare actually as my grandfather was and my uncle is a Unitarian minister. That makes me third generation Unitarian and we are hard to find. I can also express my pagan feelings and thoughts and my church does not bat an eye. After all, Unitarianism is all about the asking and the wondering and the tolerating, along with coffee hour. ;) In our 400+ years of existence we have never burned, pillaged, murdered, raped, or persecuted in the name of God or Secular Humanism. In fact, we don't do things like that. I be proud.

fanfiction - 'Cause I love knowing about what people write about their favorite character. Plus I've got some fanfic up my sleeve that I so need to write some day....

make-up - 'Cause I have a funny face and it is hard to make me up using techniques that people use on themselves normally (I have heavy lidded eyes and huge cheekbones to start with.) Plus I like knowing what is good. I've actually started throwing out and minimizing my make-up collection which I am glad about.

computers - Oh goodness but I love computers!! I really really do!

[oddsboy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure gypsy knife fighting is where you lash two people's left wrists together seperated by a length of rope and give them each a knife. Or, my personal favorite, gypsy molotav cocktail fighting.

-RC

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

contra dance, epicureanism, goodlife, juuni kukki, lois mcmaster bujold, vernor vinge, filk.

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

I try. ;)

arcadia, cheese balls, dreamfall, the longest journey, day of the tentacle, killigan, revolution software

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

Indeed!
harold ramis comedies, hospitallers, lng late conversations, subedei, teutonic knights, dressage, muscovy

[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

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

adrian belew, moon, stuff, black 47, water, jawas, cups

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

bamboo, monkeys doing people things, good people, post it notes, buchanans, deaf community, shamanism

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

I'm game.

[earthgoat.livejournal.com]

harold ramis comedies- one word: Ghostbusters. Not enough? Stripes, Groundhog Day, Analyze This. He's one of the funniest writers and directors out there. I've watched Ghostbusters many more times than I care to admit, and it hasn't gotten old yet!

long late conversations- I love talking with my friends, and I find it interesting, as well as informative, how, once the sun goes down, people become a little freer with their private lives, sometimes with people they hardly know.

dressage- I had an Arabian horse for years and we competed with a bit of success in amature dressage. It's something I never got as good at as I could (mostly because I never devoted the necessary time to it) and something I miss desperately. I love reading about other people's experiences with it. It's horse ballet, poetry in motion, dancing with a four-legged partner, as close and connected as you can get to another being outside sex.

hospitallers/ teutonic knights- really these two are intimately connected for me, along with the Templars. As a historian, I'm fascinated by the Crusades, the Latin Kingdoms, and the events that instigated the tensions and trouble in the Middle East today. The Hospitallers contributed so much to the European half of the Crusades and the Teutonic Knights built on that legacy in the Baltic States.

Subedei/Muscovy- again the historian. I have a fascination with the Mongols and how they were able to conquer basically all of the known world. Subedei made it all possible. In grad school I took a Russian history class and wrote a paper on the Mongol incursion into Rus'. Because of the cultural and monetary drain the Mongols exercised on their vassal states, particularly Rus', we have the development of Muscovy, the tsars and ultimately the Soviet Union/Russia of today. The interconnectedness and developmental influence sparks my curiousity.

[oddsboy.livejournal.com]

adrian belew-A fantastic musician and guitarist, I know him from his Mr. Music Man (I think that's the title) album. In addition to doing solo stuff he's been, well, everywhere and played with everyone.

Moon- always had a fascination with the moon even before I met, er, Moon. *grin*

Stuff - n' things

Black 47 - an irish rock band who have some great songs and some terrible/awesome signing. Funky Ceiliegh (sp) is one of my favorites

water - I've also always liked water. Stuff of life and all that. in addition, for the longest time, I couldn't decide if I was more of an air or water person.

jawas - "Ooooktini!"

cups - not really sure why I have this on here. maybe there was some now defunct in joke with myself.

[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).

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

contra dance -- called line and square dancing to Celtic/Appalachian music. I did a bit in San Francisco, got introduced to the Harmony dance here by a girlfriend. Like the music, though as a dance I like swing more.

Epicureanism -- almost atheist, atomist, no-absolute-morality Greek philosophy circa 300 BC, with roots to Democritus even earlier. Very modern-seeming and very old, a fascinating combination to me. And itself "right" seeming and appealing to me, though I suspect too apolitical.

goodlife -- I don't remember adding that. Joke reference to Saberhagen's Berserkers, self-replicating machines programmed to wipe out all organic life besides their creators. (presumably) They distinguished between 'badlife' (to be killed now) and 'goodlife' (to be killed later, because it's collaborating to help kill badlife.) Someone online years ago joked about running across huge construction machinery and shouting "I am goodlife" (as in "please don't kill me")

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Juuni Kokki -- my favorite anime at the moment. Girl from modern Japan gets abducted away to a fantasy knockoff -- literally, probably -- of classical China. Lots of psychology and politics, no romance, realisticish animation. I've read all the translated novels.

Bujold -- one of my favorite science fiction (and now fantasy) authors, who's written the Miles Vorkosigan books and the Curse of Chalion series. Grey characters and dialogue, often very funny without seeming to try hard.

Vinge -- originator of "the Singularity", author of science fiction novels small in number but generally increasing in quality, exploring either "make one change" science fiction or themes of intelligence improvement or libertarian anarchy.

filk (http://mindstalk.net/me/filk.html) -- the folk music of science fiction fandom.

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

autosuperheroism, semiotics, i hope not, does anyone read these, vampires who like elvis, baconpunk, tybalt