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

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

NO NO NO. It's--bad tv isn't necessarily bad, or at least not the way we saw it. I mean, One Tree Hill is terrible but entertaining, but season 1 of Veronica Mars is incredibly well-written and I LOVE IT. And Firefly is amazing, so amazing.

It's so terrifying, oh my god. You know, I think I'm going to reread them this week, that's a good idea. Thoroughly engaging and great stories that are scary enough to make you really care.

And if I didn't already love you--that's it, yes. The way people knowingly or unknowingly flout the norms to find their own way to be. Also, on a shallow level, I find it ridiculously hot. Just as a side note.

Hee, that's hilarious. Brothers are fun.

[softlyforgotten.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, I see what you mean, yes. :D I recently made my dad watch Firefly actually, and he started out all "bah, is this by the same guy who did that crappy vampire show you like? bah!" (I should note that my dad doesn't hate Buffy as much as he hates any and all form of vampires in pop culture) and then by the end more starry-eyed over Mal Reynolds than I've ever been.

Man, I am so cross, I just went on a big hunt for them and I think my copy might be in one of the (many) boxes we've yet to unpack. Well, guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow.

OH I FORGOT "HOT". YEAH, PUT "HOT" RIGHT UP AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.