More Memeing

[seventhe]

owlmoose tagged me with 5 questions, for that meme I am too lazy to go find and copy paste, but basically if you reply to this with a cock joke I'll ask you 5 questions and it'll be awesome, I promise.

This started off with a good discussion on FF fandom and migration and keeping fandom alive, but --- I am going to save that for another post right now, as the melatonin is kicking in. *drool*

1. Speaking of migration to Internet services, what are your thoughts on Twitter? What do you like and dislike about it? Has it changed your online interactions at all?

I got a Twitter account (@sevdrag) expecting to either hate it or not use it or, realistically, hate it and then not use it. Surprisingly, I enjoy Twitter a lot. I am really only watching mostly friends (I don't bother with celebrities or 'inspirational quotes' or any of that), and it's a fun way to share little things that aren't worth an LJ post but are still worth sharing.

I like that it's easy, that it's short, that I can get it on my phone, and that I get a surprising amount of news from it just from retweeting. Things I don't like? - it still feels silly, you know, I'm going to Tweet this, like anyone really cares how many bottles of pills Marzy knocked over today or what I am eating for lunch. Self-conscious, maybe? Although I still post dumb things on it, so, lol.

As for online interactions -- I find I communicate with people on it more than LJ some days, because it's easy to @reply multiple people or carry on a short little chat. I have become increasingly... wary? jaded? sick? of Facebook (part of the problem being that I should have segregated my real name and my crazy cosplaying and boob-grabbing online identity from the start), which is the only other place I'd think of posting one or two line 'updates'. As it gets harder to justify solid internet time at work, I like Twitter more and more.

2. What's your favorite genre of cuisine?

MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME

My brain went: Chinese! Mexican! Japanese! Thai. Thai. *dreams about Thai curry for 15 minutes* sorry, what. Chinese! ITALIAN. TACOS. BREAD. ALCOHOL. ARGH

I am going to select Mexican, because I can pretty much always eat a burrito, although I reject most Mexican beer and many Mexican desserts.

3. What's the best thing about Being a Grown-UpTM? How about the worst?

I LOVE THIS QUESTION

The best thing is the day you realize you are actually in charge of your own life and if you want to save up your money and time and spend a weekend in your underwear eating nothing but tunamac&cheese and playing video games, you are allowed to.

The worst thing is the day you realize what that kind of weekend costs you, in terms of how much laundry you have to do and dishes you have to wash and how you really should be going for a run and then doing like a crossword puzzle or something instead.

More realistically: I love being 100% responsible for myself. I love being actually kind of good at that (some days). I love knowing things about things, and sharing the things I know with other grown-ups. I love the lessons I've learned.

The worst part is that adulthood contains a lot of crappy lessons, like the fact that you can't do everything, or the fact that every day has something that sucks, or the fact that you never really win and life doesn't owe you much of anything. It can be easy to get trapped in a circle of woe when you're on your own.

4. What got you started on playing music?

Actually, I was almost a music major! I auditioned for a music performance program when I was applying for colleges... oh god, 10 years ago. What.

My parents love music - mum's Lutheran (meaning we sing all 20 verses of every song) and dad just loves Queen, so we were always listening to music. I started on clarinet and then switched to flute when my music teacher told me "girls don't play the drums." I played flute for years and years and got better and better, until I was first chair in the advanced audition-only wind ensemble and soloing in the orchestra pit for school musicals. I taught myself how to play piano (entirely wrong, I will point out - I am actually not very good, although I learned how to comp jazz chords so I can fake a lot of pop songs that way) until like the last year of high school when I had a year of private lessons in which my teacher realized he wasn't gonna undo any of my terrible left-hand habits and decided to teach me jazz instead. Excellent life choice.

I started playing drums a few years ago because I wanted to - have wanted to since I was in 3rd grade - and I've always had a good sense of rhythm, so once you figure out how the hands and feet go, you can manage a lot of classic rock at least.

I like music -- more specifically, I like making music. I don't really like doing it by myself; I like playing with other people, in bands.

5. You're trapped on a desert island and can only bring five books along. Which are they? (No cheating with the Kindle!)

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Alright, so, instead of being lofty and noble, I'm just gonna bring my comfort reading, the books I read and re-read until the pages are all torn. So, in absolutely no order at all:

1. Sunshine by Robin McKinley*
2. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey**
3. either Komarr or A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold***
4. Iron Kissed or Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs****
5. whatever the latest Dresden Files book is by Jim Butcher*****

*all time favorite comfort read, ever
**not only is it fabulous, it's long, which means it would help keep me entertained on the desert island
***I want a Miles book, but I am not sure I can pick which one -- Komarr is more interesting in general, but A Civil Campaign fills me with squee because of the dumb romance (I like Ekaterin okay), but ... hell, I might want one of the more interesting ones like Mirror Dance if I'm stuck there forever...
****DON'T MAKE FUN, THIS IS COMFORT READING FOR ME OKAY, I CAN WRITE THE FANFIC IN MY HEAD WHILE I DIG FOR WATER OR WHATEVER
*****I have to keep up with the series while I am stranded!

Keep in mind, the backup version of this was 5 Robin McKinley books, I wish I were joking but I am not.

XD

Comments

[renay]

I am just going to link you to this twitter even though you've probably already seen it. It's the best cock joke on the internet and always will be. :D

[seventhe]

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ohmygod

YOU GET JUST ONE QUESTION, THEN: HOW ARE YOU AWESOME

[renay]

THAT IS NOT A FAIR QUESTION, HOW DO I EVEN ANSWER THAT. I FEEL CHEATED.

[seventhe]

CORRECT ANSWER: CAT PHOTOS? I AM NOT SURE.

here are 5 less cheater-y questions if you care :D

[seventhe]

1. 3 things you'd like to see more of in FF fandom!

2. Your favorite thing to eat.

3. What series or TV show would you recommend Sev watch if she were looking for things to download? >.>

4. What do all of your duties for the OTW entail? What's your favorite of the things you do for them? Has being involved with the OTW changed the way you look at fandom, and if so, how?

5. WHY IS ARTHUR/EAMES HOT, FOR REAL.

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[(Anonymous)]

Wow! That's a ralley neat answer!

[whitemage]

Corporate decided the Turks would get an office pet to use as a departmental mascot. Apathy led to a lapse of judgement in which Reno was charged with acquiring said pet. As a prank on Laney, he bought a talking, footless parrot, who held himself on his perch by wrapping his freakishly long dick around it.

The bird actually turned out to be relatively charming, with an extensive vocabulary and extraordinary powers of observation. Most of the office got in the habit of talking to him on their lunch breaks, delighting in the gossip they shared.

"Psst," the parrot said to Reno one day, "Hey, I think there's something up with Veld and Vincent."

"Yeah? And what's that, yo?"

"Well, the other day after everyone left, Vincent walked up and kissed Veld on the mouth and pulled down his pants."

Reno put down the mayo he was slathering on his sandwich and stared at the bird. There'd been rumors, but... really? "What happened then?"

"Veld pushed Vincent down on his knees and started yanking off his boxers. Vincent ripped his shirt off. Buttons went everywhere. Then he was licking Veld all the way down..." The bird trailed off, suddenly looking frustrated. He was silent for a long time, until Reno grew impatient.

"Then what!?"

"See, that's the thing. I'm pissed because about that time I got a hard on and fell off my fucking perch."

You said a cock joke. It was the first one I remembered. 8| Also, awesome answers.

[seventhe]

THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WAS AMAZING

Alright!

1. Tell me about your dream job! If it doesn't exist, combine close-to-dream-jobs and make it up!

2. Favorite adult beverage?

3. What's the most important thing you've learned as a parent?

4. Some favorite FF pairings of yours, both to write and to read.

5. 5 Great Movies, either that you've seen recently or that just pop into your head.

[novel_machinist]

there once was a rooster and a cat standing on a bridge, the cat lost balance and fell into the river below, and the rooster started to laugh. which just goes to prove; where ever there is a wet pussy there is a happy cock.

[seventhe]

1. What's so great about boobies?

2. One big challenge in your educational journey you've already defeated;

3. ... one you have yet to overcome.

4. Dream cosplay group. Who's in it? Which character are you?

5. One movie you'd like everyone in the world to watch (and then write porn with you for).

[ambersweet]

I DON'T LIKE COCK BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SPIN FEATHERS. I PREFER RAM.

[seventhe]

1. What do you think of Dreamwidth? Have you used any other journaling sites? When did you move here, and why, etc?

2. HEY, KNITTING. What was your last project!

3. Do you have a degree? If so, what in? Where'd you go to school? How was the experience?

4. Favorite FF pairing(s), and a bit about them?

5. You can only eat one thing for the next week. what is it?

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

I'm basically only commenting because I want to tell a cock joke. BUT HEY, QUESTIONS.

What's long and hard and full of semen?


....a submarine, you perv.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

COCK JOKES RULE >.>

I gotcher five questions right here:

1. You can only eat one thing for a week. What do you pick?

2. Where's your favorite place to read?

3. 5 songs you've got on your iPod/MP3 player/computer that you're kind of embarrassed about but still love.

4. Tea or coffee?

5. What's the last dream you remember?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such awesome answers. :) I especially love your answer to the Grown Up question. It is so, so true, all of it.

I had no idea about the extent of your musical past! That's really awesome, both that you've been able to learn and do so much, and that you had teachers who were willing and able to play to your strengths.

You know if you want to talk more about fandom participation, I am so there.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

My original comment didn't go through! But it is something that has definitely been on my mind, especially thinking about stuff like the capslock activities and future DOINK/Chocobo Down events -- it's funny because every Tuesday when I compile ff_press it seems busy and active as usual, but I feel like the corners of fandom I'm used to are slowing down/

[sissyhiyah.livejournal.com]

Same here. I'm only commenting to leave behind a cock joke. Problem is, I don't have a good cock joke tonight, but I DO have a bone joke. (which is kind of a cock joke, right?) Ready?

What's the most sacrilegious bone in the body?

The blas-femur!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OH HO HO HO

1. What's your dream cosplay group? Who would you be in it?

2. Favorite job you've ever worked and why.

3. Do you sing in your car? Talk to yourself? Talk on the phone? Yell at other drivers?

4. 3 movies you bet I haven't seen but I should see.

5. Favorite FF8 ships, and why!

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

Heh...My favorite Patricia Briggs books are Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood. Which is why I invited her as my Guest of Honor when I chaired a convention a couple of years ago. (Another benefit of being an adult! Win!)

I told her that those two books were my favorites right up there with Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory...and she turned Pink :-) Turns out that is also one of her favorite Authors :-) Hee :-)

So, aside from those three...Jim Butcher would be a given, though I'd be hard torn between the Dresden Files or the Furies series. That absolutely rocked the house!

My fifth book would probably be Phule's Company by Robert Aspirin. First book I ever read from cover to cover and immediately turned to the first page and read a second time. It is just that fun.

I love seeing other people's favorites :-)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I am EXCITED to see this comment because, for both Briggs and Butcher, I haven't yet ventured out of my "entry series" (Mercy and Dresden) -- so I am happy to know that their other works are just as good!

Have you read Robin McKinley's Sunshine? If not, I am going to need to send it to you. It's what I do. It's an amazing book.

[perkyandproud.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Sunshine yet, no. I think I may have to now!

Have you read Bujold's fantasy novels? The Chalion series or the Sharing Knife series? The woman is simply amazing!

Another lesser known series by an well-known author: David Weber's Hradani series. I love it more than his Honor books. It's just...fabulous!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I have read the Chalion series -- they are SO GOOD. I love that series SO MUCH, yesssssssssssssss.

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

I WOULD LIKE SOME QUESTIONS, BUT I WILL NOT STOOP TO YOUR LEVEL OF CHILDISH INDECENCY BY TELLING A COCK JOKE



HOWEVER:
TITS

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO SCROLL ACROSS THE SCREEN BUT W/E, YOU CAN IMAGINE IT

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

1. What's your favorite adult beverage, ever, in the history of drinks?

2. What's with Amano and the eyeliner and the beads?

3. You've been to a lot of countries. What's one thing you really like / value / think is important about the United States of America?

4. You've got a dream photoshoot tomorrow. What is it?

5. Dream cosplay group. What fandom? Who's in it? Who are you? What are the costumes like?

6. BONUS QUESTION: WAX POETIC ON SOME FF PAIRINGS YOU LIKE AND DON'T SEE ENOUGH OF.

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

ALSO I APPROVE OF 'BREAD' AS A GENRE OF FOOD, ALONG THE LIKES OF MEXICAN AND CHINESE

[salarta.livejournal.com]

I got a Twitter account myself expecting to never use it. Now I use it daily. I'll avoid pestering you to add me though so you don't have to put up with my bitching about things, which does happen regularly. :P Going to add you though!

Also your hyperlink is messed up. It says htpp instead of http.

I suppose I'm a little... fortunate, in a way? Because my decision to write adult fanfic and create a pseudonym for it that I keep secret from people I know offline has allowed me to keep my crazy fanfic-writing side separate from my more reasonable real life side. Though it does have some drawbacks, since I feel like I'm limiting my real life opportunities by segregating my opinions and fanfic writing to this name.