Oh, I forgot about this one.
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fernwithy is doing that meme where you say you'll answer any question (within reason).I forgot how much I like this meme. So go ahead. Ask me a question. Er, I feel the need to qualify this with: I don't know how much time I have tonight, so only ten questions please and thank you; and I might be circumspect in my answers, so as not to give out identifying details.
And behold the new really gold Lion icon.
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Date: 2006-03-29 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-29 11:58 pm (UTC)Part one of the answer:
I'm going to cheat and reply with something I wrote before:
The lion has to do with a trip I took to Italy several years ago. I
ended up photographing several lion statues, and I wrote a poem about photographing lion statues, and it just sort of stuck. I don't care about *real* lions at all, honestly, but a lion statue...they intrigue
me. After I wrote that poem I just kept seeing lion statues. People
make symbols out of lions.
I'm not making much sense, but I guess it has to do with all sorts of
feelings I experienced in Italy, thoughts of being a stranger in my
own 'culture' and then being a stranger in an entirely different
culture. There I was, not wanting to do 'tourist'-like things, yet I
couldn't stop myself from taking these pictures of lions (the lion is
the unofficial symbol of Venice & St. Mark's).
Icons on LJ tend to fall into two groups; fandom and non-fandom.
People who are into fandom use lots of fandom-related icons. My
non-fandom friends tend to use pictures of themselves or pop culture
icons. Icon-use fascinates me.
I just wanted to use pictures that I had taken myself. I'm rather
stubborn that way. I didn't want to have to mess around with figuring
out how to credit and such. I just wanted a nice set of icons with a
common theme. I started with the lion and with some grave marker
icons, and then I phased out the grave marker icons when I took more
pics of lion statues and scanned in those pics.
Part Two:
Lion poem I wrote after I came back from Venice (http://valis2.livejournal.com/131916.html)
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Date: 2006-03-30 12:14 am (UTC)For me it's arches. I always end up taking lots and lots of pictures of arches wherever I travel. Natural arches, architectural arches...I'm fascinated by the shape, and by the fact that each culture and each era has a different sort of arch. And arches are so liminal; they're almost mystical to me, a doorway between here and there. (Whether "there" is another place or another time or another state of mind.)
Anyway, so I totally relate to the fascination (and compulsive picture taking) of a particular image.
Maybe I need some arch icons.
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Date: 2006-03-30 12:33 am (UTC)I think I've been drawn to bridges since reading The Bridge to Terabithia, even though there is no actual bridge in the book. Just the whole demarcation concept is surreal.
Glad you asked about the lions...I'm certain that one or two people were curious as well.
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 01:16 am (UTC)I'd definitely date Sirius Black...he'd be one hell of a ride, I think.
And I'd marry Lupin, hells yes. Absolutely. Sweet, strong, smart, clever, funny...
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 01:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 01:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 02:44 pm (UTC)I would probably date and marry Lupin. I'm a sucker for sweet and quiet book-learnin' guys, and have never developed the taste for bad boys.
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Date: 2006-03-30 07:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-29 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 12:20 am (UTC)Hmm.
This is a really hard one. I think I would have to say that technically, it would be
I think the first one I really, really loved was The Downside (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/436511/1/), which is a completely non-Sueish Ardeth Bay/OFC story by Arwen Lune (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/88187/). It was simple, yet well-written, full of excellent details and emotional complications.
As for HP...well, I must admit that I tried reading many different SS/OFC fics, and I'm just not that into that pairing, I think. I read mostly het at first, and I remember being blown away by Abby's (http://www.witchfics.org/abby/) fanfics, especially Rondo Veneziano (http://www.witchfics.org/abby/rondo.html) and The Other Side of Darkness (http://www.witchfics.org/abby/tosod.html), even though I should say I normally completely avoid SS/HG.
For slash, there were two things I read that changed my mind. First was anything by
Whew! I hope all the links work.
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Date: 2006-03-30 12:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 12:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 12:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 01:04 am (UTC)Well...let me think. I'm not certain what the definition of sexual is to you, but I'll give it a shot.
Sex isn't extremely important in my life. It's fun, yes, but it's not the incredible rapture so often described in romance novels. Whether or not people love each other, it can be loving or hot, or both, or neither.
I consider myself to be perhaps a bit below average in some ways, because I'm much more of a goofball in a relationship usually, more than a sexually charged person. I remember that I had a relationship with a guy years ago where I got so sick of him hugging me and immediately grabbing whatever naughty bits were near that it made me not want to hug him.
I have this desire, sometimes, for relationships to be fun and goofy and sweet, without the underlying adult themes of power and/or desire that sometimes accompany sexual moments.
Er, does this answer it? Let me know if I can clarify it.
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:17 am (UTC)My relationships are almost always fun and goofy and sweet because... well, if someone didn't want that, they wouldn't date me. *big grin* I think laughing during sex situations is a great, good thing.
Anyway, since you've answered one but it looks like there are still quesitons to be asked (I admit I haven't looked), how about this: Do you consider yourself a sensual person? Do you think you're very in-touch with your senses, and do you find yourself really enjoying them, or do you consider yourself a more "internal" or conceptual person?
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:24 am (UTC)Do you consider yourself a sensual person? Do you think you're very in-touch with your senses, and do you find yourself really enjoying them, or do you consider yourself a more "internal" or conceptual person?
I'm much more of a thinker than a doer, and have always been like that. I'm kind of detached sometimes, and I do tend to overthink things. But I have a strong emotional side, as well, and a bit of a temper sometimes, though that has relaxed a lot over the years. I can be very stubborn. So I have this basic left brain/right brain split, though I do find myself in tune with both sides sometimes.
I find it hard to enjoy some things that other people seem to like very much. I don't like to be outdoors; it's always either too hot or too cold, though of course I do go to Renfests and do things outside occasionally.
I love to eat, and I love to eat yummy food, and especially really tart apples and great blue cheese, and for me it's a very strong pleasure. I like to listen to music very much, and I get into it more than some people I know. So there are things that engage my senses, that's true. But I don't know if I would call myself a sensual person.
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:46 am (UTC)I think you answered the question, but just to be clear, I mean the kind of sensuality that will have you closing your eyes to taste the melting chocolate, or feeling a breeze against your skin, or find an overwhelming feeling when you hear a perfect vocal harmony. :)
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:50 am (UTC)Then, yes, I am a sensual person. But I doubt there are many who don't enjoy most enjoyable sensations. ;)
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 01:53 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-03-30 01:55 am (UTC)*hugs*
Thank you for your answers! :D
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Date: 2006-03-30 04:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-30 12:11 pm (UTC)One big mistake I made was not cashing in my stock options at Waldenbooks before I was fired. I even had a moment where I wanted to. I had just been vested in some of them and I could have made some money, and instead they disappeared.
But that's not really horrible, I suppose. I had two situations where I lied about a little thing, and it turned out to be a big mistake, and I would say that one would have to be defined as horrible. I was working for a really terrible person, and after two years, I had started to pick up on some of her nastier habits. Anyway, I lied to her about returning a $5 item, and implicated a friend. It had the seed of truth, because I had asked the friend to remind me to return it to the place she worked, and all eight times I stopped at her store we both forgot about it. Then I'd call the friend and we'd both laugh and say, okay, next time. Finally, as I was heading out of town to Colorado, I came in and returned it, telling the friend to tell the woman (if she called) some story...I can't remember what it was, but the owner of the store heard it, and immediately called my boss, and my friend was hurt. All in all a bunch of horribleness from a $5 mistake.
It was one of those moments where you think, jeebus, what exactly am I doing? Usually I'm not like that, I'm pretty honest, and my first impulse in the situation was to come clean, but the boss was such a horror that I knew it would be a long and awful torture that I'd be subjected to, and I wanted to avoid it. I should have just followed my first impulse and it wouldn't have been anywhere near as horrible, because I felt so awful about hurting my friend, though she said it wasn't a big deal and didn't seem to care.
Whew! That was a bit of a babble.
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Date: 2006-04-02 03:41 pm (UTC)A question? Okay, thongs or big knickers?
:D
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:36 pm (UTC)Big knickers, definitely.
Recently, though, I discovered boy shorts, so I bought a package to wear with my low-rise jeans. They ride up like crazy, though!