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harborshore) wrote2009-09-20 11:23 pm
harborshore) wrote2009-09-20 11:23 pm
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there lies your love
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.
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erraticonstilts gave me the following:
bad tv:
This is a reference to a coping mechanism and an inside joke, all at once. I had a friend in college, let's call her Anita, who used to drag me into watching everything from Gilmore Girls to the most awful romantic comedies we could find at the video store. When she went abroad, we mostly corresponded through making each other watch different tv shows, sometimes quite terrible ones. And bad tv remains a coping mechanism of mine (one I will totally accept recs for).
dystopias:
I love stories that have authoritarian governments and people fighting against them. Bonus points if the powers of ART and MUSIC are involved. I'm also very fond of stories where the world ends, only not really, because people keep going and persevere in the face of hardship and take care of each other...
earthsea:
Earthsea is one of the best fantasy trilogies ever. Ever ever ever. Ursula K. LeGuin is more known for her sci fi work, but I love these so much more. They have magic, a non-white fantasy hero, a great female heroine, interracial romance, several genuinely scary villains, and they're so goddamn well-written I beam happily every time I reread them. And they feel real, not in the way where you think magic is real, but in the way where all the characters feel like real people.
genderbending:
Norms are dumb, but bending norms and fucking around with them? Really, really interesting, both in rl and in fiction.
intersectionality:
I added it to my interests during RaceFail, because dude, one kind of oppression is not like another. I'm a white girl from a European country, which means A LOT of privilege; I'm also a bisexual smart woman, which means I deal with a set of prejudices against me. All of these things are true. And I'm certainly not the most complicated case out there.
lord peter wimsey:
Favorite fictional detective. FAVORITE. ETA: EXCEPT MISS MARPLE. Smart, hilarious, empathetic, and with the best manservant ever. Yes, he's better than Jeeves. BUNTER.
zombies:
ZOMBIES. BRAAAAIIIIIINS. *shuffles forth*
erraticonstilts gave me the following:bad tv:
This is a reference to a coping mechanism and an inside joke, all at once. I had a friend in college, let's call her Anita, who used to drag me into watching everything from Gilmore Girls to the most awful romantic comedies we could find at the video store. When she went abroad, we mostly corresponded through making each other watch different tv shows, sometimes quite terrible ones. And bad tv remains a coping mechanism of mine (one I will totally accept recs for).
dystopias:
I love stories that have authoritarian governments and people fighting against them. Bonus points if the powers of ART and MUSIC are involved. I'm also very fond of stories where the world ends, only not really, because people keep going and persevere in the face of hardship and take care of each other...
earthsea:
Earthsea is one of the best fantasy trilogies ever. Ever ever ever. Ursula K. LeGuin is more known for her sci fi work, but I love these so much more. They have magic, a non-white fantasy hero, a great female heroine, interracial romance, several genuinely scary villains, and they're so goddamn well-written I beam happily every time I reread them. And they feel real, not in the way where you think magic is real, but in the way where all the characters feel like real people.
genderbending:
Norms are dumb, but bending norms and fucking around with them? Really, really interesting, both in rl and in fiction.
intersectionality:
I added it to my interests during RaceFail, because dude, one kind of oppression is not like another. I'm a white girl from a European country, which means A LOT of privilege; I'm also a bisexual smart woman, which means I deal with a set of prejudices against me. All of these things are true. And I'm certainly not the most complicated case out there.
lord peter wimsey:
Favorite fictional detective. FAVORITE. ETA: EXCEPT MISS MARPLE. Smart, hilarious, empathetic, and with the best manservant ever. Yes, he's better than Jeeves. BUNTER.
zombies:
ZOMBIES. BRAAAAIIIIIINS. *shuffles forth*
no subject
2nd sopranos are clearly awesome! And were incidentally most of my friends when my main social group was my uni's student choir!
Bump of Chicken is my favourite j-pop band! Of the, um, two that I know! Most cringy name in the world of ever but so happy-haunting-awesome and ... possibly intelligent lyrics? Bit hard for me to tell.
Directional open endings are my literary drug of choice. Endings that slam down an "ever after" with no wiggle room are the most frustrating thing in the world, whether they're ecstatic or tragic, and aimless open endings, where anything could happen, or f***ing hidden endings where the author won't tell you what's happened (Villette I am looking at you) are even worse. Endings with a direction and a new expanse and a face towards the future are the bomb.
Hot water bottles! It is spring and should be way too late in the year for them, but I got miserably rained on today and I am hugging a hot water bottle as I type. *pets it*
Obernewtyn was my first fandom! It was a non-fic-reading fandom, but I met cool people ON THE INTERNET, which was pretty new to me. The Obernewtyn Chronicles is an Australian YA post-nuclear-apocalypse sf/fantasy epic with psychic powers and snippy talking cats and a Chosen One, and it's still not finished but it's kind of awesome.
One Night Jam were my favourite completely unknown Australian indie band! And then they broke up and the lead singer/songwriter released a solo album and it was kind of boring, which, :'(
The Spooky Men's Chorale, oh man, also broken up I think, but the most hilarious gregorian chant group with somber black suits and weird hats who sang about their beards a lot. And also mastadons.
La la la.