Five questions
Because LJ is like a ghost town and nobody cares what anybody says here, lilfluff was kind enough to offer me five questions for me to answer, meme-style. (Because on LJ, "meme" is pronounced "me! me!")
What's your favorite thing to do musically for fun? Screwing around with glitchy/abstract sounds on various instruments and loop pedals and whatever. It ( Read more... )
Of the G1 Ponies, I definitely liked Windwhistler the best. She was a pegasus, highly intelligent and socially awkward, so I saw myself in her to some degree.
Of the current FiM characters (who have so much more personality and backstory than the G1s ever had) my favourite is Gilda Griffin. She appears as an antagonist (not really a villain) in only one episode, but judging from the amount of fan art and stories, I'm not the only one with whom she clicked. Basically we have a lot of the same character faults, and I can see myself in her. Interesting, the author wrote another episode with a similar theme about conflict being caused by insecurity, so I'm guessing it's personal for her. I've got a fairly detailed explanation of why I like Gilda that I posted on a Pony board, but on reading it over you really need to have watched the episode to get much out of it.
2. What is the etymology/origin of "xolo?"
It's from 'Kolo', an old lioness RP character from Lion King MUCK. Her name came from a (Bantu?) phrase 'busa no kolo' (I make no guarantees whatsoever on the spelling) that you can hear in the Lion King soundtrack album. It possibly means 'rule with love', but I chose it because I like the sound of it. I changed it to 'x' from 'k' as it's not really a hard 'k' sound, but somewhere between an English 'k' and a German 'ch'. The reason I used 'X' for that is that I had a minor obsession with the Xhosa cattle killing at the time (the topic still fascinates me, honestly), and in 19th century accounts, the tribal name was often rendered 'Hausa' (used in modern times for another people altogether), while the modern spelling is 'Xhosa', with the 'Xh' standing for a super-hard 'k', almost a clicking sound. It made sense to me at the time. There's a certain degree of free association in my reasoning, and I often have trouble completely reconstructing it afterward.
3. What's your favorite dessert?
Not really a dessert eater, honestly. I always did like vanilla tapioca pudding, but I tend to have it as a snack instead of a dessert. I like vanilla, and I like the texture of tapioca, so that's always a winner for me.
4. When are you going to draw more stuff?
Do you want me to draw more? I'm flattered. I keep thinking that I will, and I don't.
5. And, repeating the repeated question from above, please share a personal victory. Okay, that technically isn't a question.
My most recent one was getting control of the Spindizzy website, I think. I'm convinced that the late mayor/webmaster was doing her level best to recruit newbies who had no set expectations for the MUCK, so that she might build a cadre supportive of the sort of 'dark' roleplay that she favoured. Wiping away the traces of the MUCK's history and culture from the website was an important element in this. I'm pleased to put all that stuff back.
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