there lies your love

[harborshore]

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.

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*

Comments

[kickingrad.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there on bad tv as a coping mechanism: my favourite thing to do when I'm feeling really down and dribbly is to watch no-brainer american teen shows. They're comforting because they're so obvious.

&genderbending;

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I know! Especially after taking playwriting at an American college, man--they were predictable before, and now I can name every single plot twists. T'is excellent for wiping the mind blank. (Using the icon I used for this entry is a little unfair--the first season of Veronica Mars was certainly better than average.)

YES. *uses appropriate icon*

In case you feel like doing the meme, I'd like to hear about: cooking with kuldeep, i'm glad you're alive, naked, newspaper cuttings, schparkle schparkle, water, we make our heroes.

[kickingrad.livejournal.com]

Cooking with kuldeep:

I once went on a weekend trip to Leicester and while sitting around in our ridiculous Fawlty Towers-esque B&B we discovered the local Indian TV channel. It played Bollywood musical, a deeply strange and faintly perverted kids show and Cooking with Kuldeep, a cooking show hosted by a very elderly man. Every other step of his recipes would be to "add juuuust a little more cream," at which point he would empty the pot and open a new one. I'd say Kuldeep's curries were about 89% cream. It was most entertaining

I'm glad you're alive:

The one-time slogan of the Mae-Shi, one of the most exhilarating bands out there. Their shows are completely demented. The last one I went to involved a parachute and the bassist rocking out so hard he lost a shoe and became hopelessl;y entangled in some fairylights. I have a t-shirt that says this, and whenever I wear it strangers stop me to say that they're glad I'm alive too. It's a very feelgood shirt.

naked:

I'm a closet nudist. If I'm at home, I'm probabaly naked. I also love life drawing and studying the naked form. It's endlessly fascinating.

newspaper cuttings:

I have an antique suitcase stuffed full of newspaper cuttings, photographs and odds and ends, like a gigantic scrapbook. It's a hoppy and a huge source of inspiration for my artwork.

schparkle schparkle:

Or sparkle sparkle; I'm a magpie of the worst kind.

Water:

I love anything and everything to do with it. I was born by the sea and I have the sea-longing. I sail and I used to swim competitively, dive, canoe, all of it. A great deal of my artwork is water-based. The beach and the ocean is my favourite place on earth.

We make our heroes:

I had a dream once that I ran a record company called We Are The Vertebrae. Our slogan in the dream was We Are The Vertebrae: We Make Our Own Heroes. In real life I made a limited run of t-shirts with this print because I didn't want to lose that idea.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

This: Water: I love anything and everything to do with it. I was born by the sea and I have the sea-longing, yes. I told softlyforgotten that my parents were always fairly sure I'd been a mermaid in a previous lifetime. I once bought a book because it was called The Sea, the Sea, and so many of my poems are about water, it's ridiculous.

I also want both those t-shirts. Life-affirming slogans that are not trite are wonderful things.