Questions meme
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lokifanSo, um, rather a long time ago kc_anathema did this meme. And yay, I finally remembered I wanted to play!
If you want to play, leave a random inane comment and I will ask you five questions, which you will then post the answers to in your journal, along with these instructions.
For further clarification, if you make a post at the end of this entry, I will leave a comment asking you five questions. Take them to your journal and answer them there. Anyone who responds to your entry can be asked five questions by you - including me!
She asked me 1. Favorite Shakespeare play and why?
A Midsummer Night's Dream always gives me a wave of nostalgia and happy feelings. Comedy, love, and entirely awesome fairies - what's not to love? (Oberon/Puck OTP! Titania is too awesome for either of them.) And Hamlet will never stop being awesome. Incest, ghosts, a whiny philosophy student - oh yes!
But the grand winner is always going to be Othello.
I love Othello - he's brave, and he's noble, and unswervingly trusting and it's so tragic! Iago is brilliant - clever and ambiguous, even in his monologues, snarky and irreverent, retaining control even at the end, and such a good liar. Their relationship will never stop being interesting to me. I love Emilia - a snarky, clever, female-scream stand against the sexism of the play. Mostly, though, I love the frantic pace of it all, the sense that they're all careening so fast towards their doom and that frustrating sense that if they'd just stop it could all be OK.
2. Why are bad guys so much better than good guys?
They're often cleverer. They have vision and they think big. They're often smug and arrogant, but conscious of it in a way that stops me wanting to beat their heads in - arrogant heroes, on the other hand, will usually have me praying for a really unheroic, embarrassing death. You know that bit in Year of the Griffin with the assassin drowning in orange juice? I wish that death on every single arrogant hero I come across.
And it's for one reason only. The arrogance of heroes is almost invariably bound up in their unshakable confidence that they're doing the right thing. I hate that, with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Give me ambiguity that's acknowledged by the hero - or at the very least the text. If bad guys do bad things to achieve their goals, they do it with a smirk or angst that acknowledges the badness - either of which can win me over. If good guys do it, they tend to do without worrying, because the bad thing they're doing is only to the villain, after all. BLISTERING HATE, and my most long-standing beef with the Harry Potters.
3. You can buy a one way ticket to any land of your choosing, real or imagined. Where are you going?
I'd love to go to Sau Paulo. Or maybe the US - the Americas are the only continents I haven't visited (excluding Antarctica and the Arctic) so that would be fun. And there are a lot of lovely people in north America. Hi, flist! *waves*
But if it's 'real or imagined'... well. I have a long-standing love of certain imaginary lands. Narnia, Oz, Middle-Earth... Love 'em all. But Never-Never Land has to be my choice. Pirates, mermaids, lost boys and flying? Get me there! (Distressingly racist depiction of native Americans notwithstanding.)
4. What is your zombie plan?
I don't have one, I'm afraid. When the Zombie Apocalypse comes I'll be slowly shuffling through the streets with blank eyes, part of the crowd in the early morning -
You guys, uh, would tell me if it had already come, right?
5. A pirate vs. a ninja, who wins?
My instinct is to support the pirate - LONG-JOHN, LONG-JOHN, HE'S OUR GUY, POKE YOUR CUTLASS IN HIS EYE! But I have to admit that stealth and speed beat bravado and great outfits. The pirate would be a stinky heap on the deck before he could say 'Stinking landlubber!'
kc_anathema did this meme. And yay, I finally remembered I wanted to play!If you want to play, leave a random inane comment and I will ask you five questions, which you will then post the answers to in your journal, along with these instructions.
For further clarification, if you make a post at the end of this entry, I will leave a comment asking you five questions. Take them to your journal and answer them there. Anyone who responds to your entry can be asked five questions by you - including me!
She asked me 1. Favorite Shakespeare play and why?
A Midsummer Night's Dream always gives me a wave of nostalgia and happy feelings. Comedy, love, and entirely awesome fairies - what's not to love? (Oberon/Puck OTP! Titania is too awesome for either of them.) And Hamlet will never stop being awesome. Incest, ghosts, a whiny philosophy student - oh yes!
But the grand winner is always going to be Othello.
I love Othello - he's brave, and he's noble, and unswervingly trusting and it's so tragic! Iago is brilliant - clever and ambiguous, even in his monologues, snarky and irreverent, retaining control even at the end, and such a good liar. Their relationship will never stop being interesting to me. I love Emilia - a snarky, clever, female-scream stand against the sexism of the play. Mostly, though, I love the frantic pace of it all, the sense that they're all careening so fast towards their doom and that frustrating sense that if they'd just stop it could all be OK.
2. Why are bad guys so much better than good guys?
They're often cleverer. They have vision and they think big. They're often smug and arrogant, but conscious of it in a way that stops me wanting to beat their heads in - arrogant heroes, on the other hand, will usually have me praying for a really unheroic, embarrassing death. You know that bit in Year of the Griffin with the assassin drowning in orange juice? I wish that death on every single arrogant hero I come across.
And it's for one reason only. The arrogance of heroes is almost invariably bound up in their unshakable confidence that they're doing the right thing. I hate that, with the fire of a thousand burning suns. Give me ambiguity that's acknowledged by the hero - or at the very least the text. If bad guys do bad things to achieve their goals, they do it with a smirk or angst that acknowledges the badness - either of which can win me over. If good guys do it, they tend to do without worrying, because the bad thing they're doing is only to the villain, after all. BLISTERING HATE, and my most long-standing beef with the Harry Potters.
3. You can buy a one way ticket to any land of your choosing, real or imagined. Where are you going?
I'd love to go to Sau Paulo. Or maybe the US - the Americas are the only continents I haven't visited (excluding Antarctica and the Arctic) so that would be fun. And there are a lot of lovely people in north America. Hi, flist! *waves*
But if it's 'real or imagined'... well. I have a long-standing love of certain imaginary lands. Narnia, Oz, Middle-Earth... Love 'em all. But Never-Never Land has to be my choice. Pirates, mermaids, lost boys and flying? Get me there! (Distressingly racist depiction of native Americans notwithstanding.)
4. What is your zombie plan?
I don't have one, I'm afraid. When the Zombie Apocalypse comes I'll be slowly shuffling through the streets with blank eyes, part of the crowd in the early morning -
You guys, uh, would tell me if it had already come, right?
5. A pirate vs. a ninja, who wins?
My instinct is to support the pirate - LONG-JOHN, LONG-JOHN, HE'S OUR GUY, POKE YOUR CUTLASS IN HIS EYE! But I have to admit that stealth and speed beat bravado and great outfits. The pirate would be a stinky heap on the deck before he could say 'Stinking landlubber!'
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Date: 2008-06-28 12:42 am (UTC)Ask me questions! :D
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Date: 2008-06-28 02:45 am (UTC)This pleases me. Villains are often way more awesome than heroes, and people should accept it! /soapbox My family, who aren't exactly into talking about pop culture, were all shocked and horrified to discover I preferred Draco to Neville!
Go to some place like Chicago.
Chicago would be fun! But I'd want to at least try to meet some of you lovely people. Lonely Lokifan is lonely.
Have some questions:
1. What are your plans for your birthday?
2. Why is Draco a bottom?
3. Why did you choose anthropology to study?
4. Your house is on fire. Which three things do you save?
5. Kisuke or Ichigo?
Happy birthday, honey! I hope it's amazing. *sends happy thoughts* I'm really, really behind on my deadlines so your fic won't be up for a bit - but I'll keep sending happy thoughts until it is! *cheers*
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Date: 2008-06-28 03:54 am (UTC)I'd post something more coherent, but I went out drinking after work with my co-workers and I'm just a bit tipsy
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Date: 2008-06-28 04:03 am (UTC)*shocked face* Chrissy!
1. When did you first see Rent?
2. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
3. Vampires or werewolves?
4. Riku and Draco shag - who's on top?
5. Tell me why your area is the place to be.
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Date: 2008-06-29 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-29 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-30 02:33 am (UTC)Exactly. I think maybe it's do with how being a villain has to be explained. I mean, the urge to save the world or whatever is pretty obvious, but a villain's motives are complicated - or sometimes, not there, so you get the "World domination! World Domination!" types.