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

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

being barefoot
I love being barefoot! I also love my converse but I never ever wear shoes at home, and if my feet were tough enough to withstand sharp things, grime, and less shock absorption, I'd walk around barefoot in the city. I think I'd like to try being barefoot at school, although I'd probably get my toes stepped on in the hallway and the escalators might pose a bit of a problem.

cyberpunk
I find cyberpunk, as well as steampunk, SO COOL. The wiki article is really interesting. Basically, post-industrial dystopias, evil governments controlled by megacorporations, and small groups of rebels who have sweet-ass gadgets. I am a geek geek geeeeek >:)

demi lovato's queerness
I expound upon my interest in Demi Lovato quite frequently (that is why I linked to a tag, and not a post or two :P). I have a wee tinhat rooting for Demi being some degree of queer - she often (if not always) refers to abstract romantic partners as "they" rather than "he". The way she dresses also gives me the impression she enjoys a certain degree of fluidity in how she represents herself - she goes between dresses and boyish suit-type outfits. (Not that I necessarily think that means a person is queer, but this is just my tinhat glinting in the light.)

gay jews
It's really simple - it puts two of the kind of people I enjoy hanging out with together all in one. Of course, I know gay douchebags and Jewish douchebags. The gay Jews I heart are not douchebags :P Some of my favorite gay Jews include Simon Amstell of Never Mind The Buzzcocks fame, Leonard Bernstein, and a bunch of my friends and my friends' friends. :D

mucca pazza
BADASS AWESOME PUNK ROCK FOLK MARCHING BAND

red vs blue
It's an online animated series created using footage from Halo and voiceovers. I've never played Halo but I've watched the entire series multiple times (some episodes more than others) because it's just so fucking hilarious. As Wikipedia says: "The story centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon (Blood Gulch), in a parody of first-person shooter (FPS) games, military life, and science fiction films."

sleeping in
As I often mention on LJ, I'm an insomniac. It's incredibly difficult for me to fall asleep, unless of course I'm in the wrong place or at the wrong time. So naturally I prize any chance I get to extend my sleeping hours in the morning. Or afternoon. Haha.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Dude, sleeping in is the best thing ever. I'm not really an insomniac, except I invariably turn into one when i HAVE to get up the next morning. Which is not real insomnia, but, you know. I can sympathize. Also I like the rest of these a lot. ♥