TELL ME THINGS ABOUT YOU!
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beccatoriaI have been wanting to post for like a week but everything I want to post sort of fizzles in my head, and then I saw this via carawj and thought it looked lovely.
I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here’s a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: “Ah, there’s Parker… she likes money and cereal.” I’d love it if everyone who’s friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal. In return, ask me anything you’d like to know about me and I’ll give you an answer.
I actually found the instructions slightly confusing (where do I post what where?), so how I'm reading it is basically:
1) Tell me something about you! Anything!
2) If you want, ask me a question! Anything! I will answer!
3) If you want, post this to your journal!
carawj and thought it looked lovely. I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here’s a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: “Ah, there’s Parker… she likes money and cereal.” I’d love it if everyone who’s friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal. In return, ask me anything you’d like to know about me and I’ll give you an answer.
I actually found the instructions slightly confusing (where do I post what where?), so how I'm reading it is basically:
1) Tell me something about you! Anything!
2) If you want, ask me a question! Anything! I will answer!
3) If you want, post this to your journal!
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Date: 2013-01-25 10:05 pm (UTC)What does your desk look like? Do you have a desk? Have you actually ever written anything in a coffee shop, because I feel this is a thing a lot of people do? idk. Do you vid in coffee shops?
oooh do you vid on a laptop or a stationary?duh nm.I don't have the required brains to come up with anything, sorry! But I love that you're posting :p
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Date: 2013-01-26 07:21 pm (UTC)My desk? I actually don't HAVE a desk at home. I'm in an unfortunate domestic situation right now where K and I live with my parents still so most of the space isn't really mine. I tend to sit on the couch or on my bed with my laptop. But ROOM though, is endless piles of books and comics and computer paraphenalia and boxes and shelves that I don't really have room for because, again, I sort of thought a few years ago, I'd be staying here for six months and circumstances changed the plan. Soon, though, I will totally have my life back on track, and...I will probably still not have a desk, but I will have SHELVES. Beautiful, beautiful SHELVES.
(I assume you deleted the question about what I vid on because I've mentioned my laptop before? I didn't think it was a daft question! But yeah, laptop; I've never actually owned my own desktop computer!)
I've also never written or vidded in a coffee shop. Two reasons, I think - 1) I'm cripplingly self-conscious sometimes, and I just can't imagine doing something as personal as writing or vidding in a place where someone can glance over my shoulder and go "what's that, then?" 2) I'm not a big coffee drinker so I don't tend to hang out in coffee shops anyway?
And it's fine, if you don't tell me anything about you, I will just make stuff up and believe it's true. Like how at night, you and your husky, Laila, patrol the arctic circle rescuing ice-fisherman, and visiting the undersea creatures that live in the submerged portions of glaciers, for tea and to read poetry.
(This is fun. Maybe I should make this a meme too...)
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Date: 2013-01-27 11:00 pm (UTC)This sounds like the best meme . . .
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Date: 2013-01-29 12:27 am (UTC)I've also never written or vidded in a coffee shop. Two reasons, I think - 1) I'm cripplingly self-conscious sometimes, and I just can't imagine doing something as personal as writing or vidding in a place where someone can glance over my shoulder and go "what's that, then?" 2) I'm not a big coffee drinker so I don't tend to hang out in coffee shops anyway?
lol yes, this. This is exactly how I feel. When I'm in a public place I'm usually not that relaxed, would certainly not feel comfortable trying to write/vid with a potential audience, and the moments that I do get absorbed into something - well, I'm pretty sure my face does weird stuff :p
Your made-up version of me sounds way cool. If I get to go to vidukon, that's totally going on my nametag. Arctic circle patrolwoman/Ambassador to Undersea Creatures and Merpeople. Can be called upon to read poetry underwater.
lol and yes, awesome meme! I did see one on tumblr, where the question was, "What kind of murder could you see me committing?" *g*
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Date: 2013-01-26 04:53 pm (UTC)...I am the worst at the "Tell me about yourself!" job interview question. :D?
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Date: 2013-01-26 05:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-26 07:26 pm (UTC)(But seriously, cereal for dinner, how would that ever become unhealthy? It's not only delicious, it's cereal that's like...automatic health. ...I am the worst at rationing myself at anything delicious ever.)
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Date: 2013-01-26 05:56 pm (UTC)As for your question: what brought you into fandom? I love hearing people's fannish origin stories.
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Date: 2013-01-26 07:41 pm (UTC)That sounds really nice. The notion of home being the part of the world that's yours is very true. I tend to be a little more self-conscious about hosting because I'm always worried about not being a good host, but that sort of wars with my desire to stay in my safe world-place while not being lonely so I wish I had more of a hosting impulse...
As to bringing me into fandom? I'm honestly not sure I could ever place it. Or if I ever...wasn't in it?
I mean, I remember, vividly, building giant maps of Middle Earth with my dad on the beach when I was 7 and he was reading me Lord of the Rings (it took us a year, a few pages every night before bed). I have memories of being 12 and getting sunburned on the same beach because I spent the whole day hunched over The Silmarillion. I wrote and put on a play based on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when I was a kid and made all my friends join in and made our parents pay to see it to raise money for some Blue Peter appeal, but really I just wanted to put on a Narnia play. I started watching The X-Files because the other kids at my school bus stop did and the first thing I did when my friend from drama club took me to an internet cafe when I was 13, was look up The X-Files; that was the same year my godfather took me to see Star Wars, looked at how blown my mind was, and gave me my first tie-in novel and said, "here, read, there's more..." At 14 I found out about tabletop RPGs because my friend's boyfriend played them at lunchtime and I tried and tried to get them to let me join in but they were ~boys~ and wouldn't, so I went to the shop on my own and bough books - Changeling: the Dreaming - a game I will always, always love. We didn't have the internet at home, so I used to rent anime from the Library for £1 a week, and Vertigo graphic novels that confused me because they were the sixth in a set of ten. When I was 15 we got the internet at home and probably the forums for Changeling: the Dreaming was where I really learned about online communities and fan fiction (well, game-setting fiction in this case, I suppose) and forums and stuff. I also hung out in X-Files forums and then fell in love with Farscape because it had muppets and I STILL watched my old TV tapes of The Muppet Show. Farscape taught me about vidding and was where I fell in love with it, although it wasn't until years later I'd have a computer that let me try it for myself. I fell in love with BSG as Farscape was ending, and it was the lack of a decent BSG forum that led me to discover the biggest vidding communities and, well, any communities were on LJ, and I stuck around there until the diaspora of the BSG fandom which sort of happened around the time of the diaspora of journals as a main hub of fandom, so now I have a sort of fractured presence on twitter and tumblr and both DW and LJ too, which I suppose mirrors my fractured fannish existence as a woman - at the moment - without a primary fandom.
...wow, okay that was long, sorry. But it's hard for me to pick a moment when I joined fandom, because it was a sort of long, continuous process. What about you, though? Now I want to hear yours!
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Date: 2013-01-29 06:09 pm (UTC)(Though it sucks that those boys wouldn't let you play RPG! Horrifyingly enough, I actually have a similar story with D&D, except it was just one boy who didn't want me to play (an ex) and we were in our early 20's. *Headdesk*. I still have never played! Obviously I haven't tried very hard. I live in Seattle. I could totally find people to play D&D with if I tried a little.)
Anyway, my story is nearly the opposite of yours. Besides lurking on an X-Files forum once or twice in high school and reading the Wikipedia entries for Gilmore Girls when it was airing, I didn't do anything remotely fannish until I started watching Buffy. That was less than 5 years ago, in my late 20's.
I like that you talk about your godfather telling you that "there's more". Even with stories that I adored, I never really tried to seek out *more* of them that what the original creator made until I watched Buffy, and even then I was more looking for meta and analysis than fic -- and I didn't even know vids were a thing. But I was so fascinated by this show, and so emotionally invested in the characters -- it wasn't so much that I wanted to read or write more new stories about them as that I just wanted to talk about them with people.
So after I had watched and rewatched the series (and a little while I was watching, though I tried to avoid spoilers), I started just googling random things about the show that interested me. One day at work I stumbled upon Critically Touched, which hosts reviews of Buffyverse TV shows (and now Freaks and Geeks; they're expanding). I voraciously read the reviews, joined the forum, discovered a wonderful little group of people who had some fantastic discussions, ranging from intense intellectual debates and criticism to squee and general silliness. Through that forum I discovered vids and eventually the LJ/DW world, which has become the new center of fannish activity for me. That's coincided (caused? been caused by?) my shift from primarily focusing on Buffyverse as my fandom to vidding as my fandom. It's not because I love Buffy any less -- if anything I love it more than when I started -- but because vidding is creative and I get to learn and produce new things and I'm all around very excited about it. Plus, outside my little corner of it, the Buffy fandom can be a little scary, IMO.
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Date: 2013-01-26 09:05 pm (UTC)Which I guess makes the logical question, what are your feelings on bagpipes?
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Date: 2013-01-27 11:01 am (UTC)Sometimes I'd watch funerals from the tree in his backyard, but there were never any bagpipes!
My exposure to bagpipes is actually pretty minimal, and my feelings are somewhat neutral. I don't find them unpleasant - I actually quite like the droning quality and enjoy minimalist music, but it's not an instrument I have particular love for either? I do think that it manages to capture something wonderfully bare and baleful, like the landscape that spawned them, though, so they are...onomatopaeic?