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;

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

I would like to do the meme!

Cheesy entertainment is a coping mechanism of mine too. Cheeseball romantic comedies, silly superhero flicks, cartoons, ridiculous sf/f -- oh yeah.

I totally agree about Bunter.

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun! Pick some of mine? :)

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Me me me! :)

Also, ZOMBIES! I think I might go the cheap/easy route for Halloween this year and be a zombie. It would be fun!

[absenteye.livejournal.com]

I CAN GET BEHIND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE INTERESTS. &you;

What are your favorite bad shows/movies? O__O That is a hardcore coping mechanism for me too, and I am always looking for more terrible (yet not horrific) entertainment!

I wish to participate in this meme! :D

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Yes, he's better than Jeeves. BUNTER.

Really?

I don't think I can have read any of the good Bunter books yet. I barely noticed him.

Jeeves all the way, baby ;)

[softlyforgotten.livejournal.com]

Oh man, bad TV, yes please. I'm trying to decide what new series to throw myself into after I'm done with Buffy, and Gilmore Girls is pretty high on the list. Also, seriously, BAD MOVIES ARE THE BEST. I have this aunt who is kind of stunningly intellectual, and so knowledgeable about the Asian indie film industry that it's kind of amazing. We talk a lot about books and things and I think from those conversations she may have gotten the wrong impression that I'm not, um, incredibly shallow, because now we frequently have these conversations--

Me: So want to go see a movie tonight?
Aunt: Oh, yes! Let's see, *INSERT FAMOUS, TALENTED DIRECTOR HERE* has a brilliant new film out, it's actually been banned in China but it deals with the complexity of both sides in the *INSERT ASIAN WAR HERE*, and--
Me: .... orrrrr we could go see something with Hugh Grant in it. :D? :D?

Anyway, pretty much everything on this list makes me do little hearteyes at you. But especially Earthsea. Oh, Ged. (Also genderbending. And dystopias. And -- no, okay, I'm going to shut up.)

[rilee16.livejournal.com]

I wanna do it!

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

Bad TV is pretty excellent as far as coping mechanisms go. I'm definitely a very big fan, especially when accompanied by junk food. :)

Also, ZOMBIES! ♥

[erraticonstilts.livejournal.com]

bad tv is great to watch when you don't want to think. i've started watching the tv show ten things i hate about you (yes, based on the movie); it's total crap but great when you're in that mood.

i've never heard of earthsea before, but it sounds interesting so i think
i'll check it out!

I LOVE GENDERBENDING.