Moar MEME. As though I have not posted enough!
So scdsam hit me up with this one and a redux of the last meme I did. So yeah.
Reply to this meme by yelling "MY COMMON SENSE IS TINGLING", and I will give you five words that remind me of you; then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. If I don't know you that well, your words might end up being a little odd.
-Chekov
Ahahahahaha oh you darling little Russian seventeen year old you. Why did you have to be so young?! Seriously, when did I suddenly become too old for the characters I used to love? And why are all of the characters I would pounce now still years and years my senior? WHY CAN'T I JUST FIND SOMEONE IN MY AGE GROUP TO SQUEAL OVER?!
I'm assuming it's the shared crazy cuteness factor that associates the two of us. XD;;; Buuuut I do love Chekov an awful lot (he was definitely one of my favorites of Nu!Canon, though I also loved Walter Koenig's Chekov too) and I CAN DO ZAT has totally become my mantra. Whenever people ask me if I can do something, I immediately grin, roll back on my heels, and shout, “I CAN DO ZAT” in the nearest approximation of Chekov’s accent as I can muster.
Most of them do not get it. And then I am sad.
-Drawing
Well, I am an art student. *puts on hat* But, really, this is one of my favorite pastimes. I love the feeling of a pencil in one hand and my eraser in the other, and of being able to put the images I see in my head onto paper. I love creating characters and seeing them come to life under my own efforts. I just love that feeling, and I get a fun high whenever I'm in an art store because of it.
I've been drawing since I was very small, and it's always been a favorite hobby of mine, though it's taken me a looooong time to even consider it as a career/means of making myself some moolah. I just wish I had the time to do it more. :/ I usually end up spending most of my time designing posters and doing other work than just drawing.
-Science
I was listening to Radiolab (I think it's Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters) a while back and Jad and Robert started talking about how there is a moment, for many people, when science ceases to be fun and becomes something intimidating. Usually, they said, this happens around third grade.
I guess, for me, science never stopped being that third-grader experience. I grew up watching and thriving on the Discovery Channel and Zoobooks and Bill Nye the Science Guy. I loved learning about the new things we were finding about our world, and loved being on top of all of the new innovations we were making. I am, essentially, a living embodiment of the Discovery Channel tag line: the world is just awesome. And I am hellbent and determined to know as much about that world as I can. It doesn't matter to me if I can't articulate the mathematics of the Drake Equation or the finer details of how genetics work, just as long as I have enough information to understand the basics.
I never wanted to be a scientist, because I felt that limiting myself to one field of study was too painful (and also: math. Which I am not so good at). But I never wanted to stop learning it, either. Honestly, if I could, I'd take science classes and keep learning and studying and never stop, because the world IS just awesome and I am so happy to be a part of it, especially now, when things are changing so much and so fast and we are standing on the brink of so many amazing, life-altering discoveries.
I get tingles just thinking about it. &hearts
-Comics
So a few years back (I'm not quite sure when or even why), I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever pick up an American comic and read it. Ever. Years later, I think I would realize exactly why I made that promise.
You see, I have a problem. When I get into a new fandom, I have to know the canon. I have to. If the fact is obscure and barely referenced, I still need to know it. If a character was in one episode, said one line, and died, I have to know everything Word of God said about that character. I analyze, I critique, I study, I absorb. And I become consumed.
My last fandom like this was Resident Evil. Which, mind, has only been around since 1998. There are around about ten or eleven games (not including cell phone games and ports/remakes), several comics, and one movie I consider canon. In short, there's a very limited canon to deal with. It still took me a few months to get through everything, and I have to go back for updates. And finish the games yet.
Now imagine what would happen to me if I did the same thing for a comic book fandom. Any of them. It would probably take me years. And then add in the reboots and the crossovers and the retcons, and I'm pretty sure my head would explode in the process.
Oh, and I would have to reconcile all of timelines, crossovers, reboots, and retcons into one cohesive universe. Errors - plot holes, continuity issues, those lovely retcons - all put a serious wrench in all of that for me, and I would obsess over them until I found a way of making them work in my head-canon (I did this with the Red Matter in Star Trek. Those aren't black holes! They aren't! Spock isn't so stupid that he'd release a matter consuming pit of despair with incredibly high gravity in a place where, while it would stop the star from destroying Romulus, would then go on and eventually eat the planet itself. So they had to be specially designed "black holes" that only consume a certain amount of matter before either eating themselves or fizzling out. Because to me that just makes more sense. *is perfectly aware that it does not, really, but it makes me feel better*)
And yet, here I am, on the slippery slope sliding down into comics fandom. And I can't seem to find a way to stop myself from getting ever closer, much less save myself from the madness.
I fear for myself. I really do.
-Snow XD
OH GOD DON'T REMIND ME. We're supposed to get some again tomorrow, too. :/
But really, for one reason or another this year has just been the year of snow for me. I ended up being stuck in my house for a few days over winter break (and in my state that actually is saying something) and there are still piles of snow that haven't melted off. It snowed for probably three days straight - or damn near straight - over break. My brakes froze so my car wouldn't drive, I've all but mastered the art of escaping a skid, and I've discovered that the city I attend school in is far far better at dealing with snow than the city my family lives in.
I love snow, but I am so sick of it right now I could scream. The snow that's left is completely solid. It's like ice, but still looks like fallen snow. I've stood on it and had almost a foot of solid ice-snow support my weight. Also the cold that comes with it. Though the snow tomorrow means that it is supposed to be WARMER than it has been.
How sad is it that I'm looking forward to 32º temps because they will feel so so warm?
Aaaand now for this one, which you have seen before but with different fandoms:
Leave a comment on this post and I will pick three of your fandoms. Then you get to answer the following questions:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
11. Favorite character
12. My five favorite characters
13. My five least favorite characters
14. Which character I am most like
15. My deep, dark fandom secret
X-men
01. The first character I fell in love with: Oh, jeez. Well, I’m not really sure. I’ve been marginally familiar with X-Men since I was a kid (and really, who hasn’t been?) and watched at least a few episodes of the 90s cartoon with my cousin (before he started terrorizing me with his Wolverine toy, scarring me for many years to come and putting me off the whole canon until Evolution came out…) and then I fell in love with Kurt. Because, really, what’s not to love?
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Logan. I ENTIRELY BLAME HUGH JACKMAN AND SCOTT MCNEIL. But mostly Scott McNeil, because he started it. No, seriously, anecdata time: virtually every character I have ever been fond of (in any form at all) since I was five has been voiced by Scott McNeil. I don’t even need to hear the voice first. It just happens. And I didn’t realize it until a few years back. So there I am, squeeing over a show I loved in high school and giggling at the whole Xavier = Patrick Stewart = Captain Picard, and suddenly I hear a voice. A voice I know, and know well. My face when I heard that voice comin’ outta Logan’s mouth? Horrified and embarrassed. I knew what was coming. And oh boy did it come. D: D: D: (seriously guys this is me begging for help. Please save me. I live in fear of the day I finally go to a con because chances are he will be there and I will probably die. That’s just how this is gonna go, I know it.)
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Emma Frost. Admittedly, I’m still only marginally familiar with her, but what I’ve been hearing doesn’t paint her as an awesome person to me. I might still find her to be an awesome character, though.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Sometimes Jean. Sometimes no one. I’m not wholly sure.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: I hate this question.
06. The character I would shag anytime: Oh god don’t make me say it.
07. The character I'd want to be like: Storm, omg.
08. The character I'd slap: …Scott. Repeatedly. Followed by a series of swift kicks in the ass, shins, and whatever the hell else my non-awesome person could attempt to injure.
09. A pairing that I love: …I will ship damn near anything if you can provide me a good reason. Yes, even the most insane crack!ships. I think TV Tropes made me d’awwwww at the idea of Wolverine/Storm though, so possibly that. If I had to name one.
10. A pairing that I hate: I rarely hate ships. Generally I can understand them, or why people ship them.
11. Favorite character: Oh god don’t make me answer this. Also Charles Xavier, Beast, and Kitty. Especially Evolution!verse Kitty, though itty bitty Ellen Page did make me smile (until I started thinking about Juno and my brain decided to play the “let’s crossover actors and other characters and pretty much scar you for life, shall we?” game).
12. My five favorite characters: Storm, Professor X, Kitty, Rogue (especially 90s!Rogue), Wolverine, Kurt, Beast…
13. My five least favorite characters: My list so far starts and stops at Emma Frost, but again I can be persuaded otherwise. SO QUITE POSSIBLY NO ONE.
14. Which character I am most like: ……I do not know.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: I do believe this entire entry qualifies. My poor n00b is showing so much. D:
Avatar:The Last Airbender
01. The first character I fell in love with: Aang. <3
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Iroh. Started off as just the kooky old uncle. BECAME THE MOST AWESOME PERSON EVER.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Jet. I was never, ever fond of him.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Suki - though that depends on what part of the fandom you walk in.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: No one, really? I still pretty much love the whole cast.
06. The character I would shag anytime: …none of em. I’m too old. XD
07. The character I'd want to be like: Irrrooooohhhhh
08. The character I'd slap: Zuko. Also Zhao. And Jet.
09. A pairing that I love: I have none. And stating which ones I lean toward would probably get me lynched.
10. A pairing that I hate: See above.
11. Favorite character: Iroh
12. My five favorite characters: Iroh, Toph, Sokka, Aang, Suki
13. My five least favorite characters: Mai……. And that’s it, really. And I don’t particularly dislike Mai, I just don’t think that she was given enough development. Also I hate that they changed the pronunciation of her name.
14. Which character I am most like: …Most people would probably peg me as Katara, because I can be that caring, motherly sort, but I’d probably say Aang. I really am just a twelve year old boy girl.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: My ships.
Cowboy Bebop!
01. The first character I fell in love with: Spiiiike. And Ed.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Faye. Didn’t like her much at first, but then her character development happened and…wow.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: None of them. I think I love everyone. Though…possibly Julia. I’d need to rewatch the series to see if my grasp on her at the moment is still true.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Not sure. It’s gotta be someone, though.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: No one! I think all the main chast are pretty fab.
06. The character I would shag anytime: Hrm. :/ Andy, the Cowboy (tee heeeeee) and possibly Spike. But maybe not, ‘cause he has some serious issues.
07. The character I'd want to be like: Spiiiike
08. The character I'd slap: Julia.
09. A pairing that I love: I ship NOTHING in this fandom. Not even canon pairings.
10. A pairing that I hate: I ship nothing, therefore hate nothing.
11. Favorite character: Ein~
12. My five favorite characters: Spike, Ein, Ed, Jet, the three kooky old men that cameo in, like, every episode.
13. My five least favorite characters: like 'em all. /cops out of answering
14. Which character I am most like: ...Ed.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: I believe Spike died at the end of the series.
Whew! That only took me ages to do. Time for bed! Thankfully I get to sleep in tomorrow. Yayyyy 2:30 PM class~
Reply to this meme by yelling "MY COMMON SENSE IS TINGLING", and I will give you five words that remind me of you; then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. If I don't know you that well, your words might end up being a little odd.
-Chekov
Ahahahahaha oh you darling little Russian seventeen year old you. Why did you have to be so young?! Seriously, when did I suddenly become too old for the characters I used to love? And why are all of the characters I would pounce now still years and years my senior? WHY CAN'T I JUST FIND SOMEONE IN MY AGE GROUP TO SQUEAL OVER?!
I'm assuming it's the shared crazy cuteness factor that associates the two of us. XD;;; Buuuut I do love Chekov an awful lot (he was definitely one of my favorites of Nu!Canon, though I also loved Walter Koenig's Chekov too) and I CAN DO ZAT has totally become my mantra. Whenever people ask me if I can do something, I immediately grin, roll back on my heels, and shout, “I CAN DO ZAT” in the nearest approximation of Chekov’s accent as I can muster.
Most of them do not get it. And then I am sad.
-Drawing
Well, I am an art student. *puts on hat* But, really, this is one of my favorite pastimes. I love the feeling of a pencil in one hand and my eraser in the other, and of being able to put the images I see in my head onto paper. I love creating characters and seeing them come to life under my own efforts. I just love that feeling, and I get a fun high whenever I'm in an art store because of it.
I've been drawing since I was very small, and it's always been a favorite hobby of mine, though it's taken me a looooong time to even consider it as a career/means of making myself some moolah. I just wish I had the time to do it more. :/ I usually end up spending most of my time designing posters and doing other work than just drawing.
-Science
I was listening to Radiolab (I think it's Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters) a while back and Jad and Robert started talking about how there is a moment, for many people, when science ceases to be fun and becomes something intimidating. Usually, they said, this happens around third grade.
I guess, for me, science never stopped being that third-grader experience. I grew up watching and thriving on the Discovery Channel and Zoobooks and Bill Nye the Science Guy. I loved learning about the new things we were finding about our world, and loved being on top of all of the new innovations we were making. I am, essentially, a living embodiment of the Discovery Channel tag line: the world is just awesome. And I am hellbent and determined to know as much about that world as I can. It doesn't matter to me if I can't articulate the mathematics of the Drake Equation or the finer details of how genetics work, just as long as I have enough information to understand the basics.
I never wanted to be a scientist, because I felt that limiting myself to one field of study was too painful (and also: math. Which I am not so good at). But I never wanted to stop learning it, either. Honestly, if I could, I'd take science classes and keep learning and studying and never stop, because the world IS just awesome and I am so happy to be a part of it, especially now, when things are changing so much and so fast and we are standing on the brink of so many amazing, life-altering discoveries.
I get tingles just thinking about it. &hearts
-Comics
So a few years back (I'm not quite sure when or even why), I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever pick up an American comic and read it. Ever. Years later, I think I would realize exactly why I made that promise.
You see, I have a problem. When I get into a new fandom, I have to know the canon. I have to. If the fact is obscure and barely referenced, I still need to know it. If a character was in one episode, said one line, and died, I have to know everything Word of God said about that character. I analyze, I critique, I study, I absorb. And I become consumed.
My last fandom like this was Resident Evil. Which, mind, has only been around since 1998. There are around about ten or eleven games (not including cell phone games and ports/remakes), several comics, and one movie I consider canon. In short, there's a very limited canon to deal with. It still took me a few months to get through everything, and I have to go back for updates. And finish the games yet.
Now imagine what would happen to me if I did the same thing for a comic book fandom. Any of them. It would probably take me years. And then add in the reboots and the crossovers and the retcons, and I'm pretty sure my head would explode in the process.
Oh, and I would have to reconcile all of timelines, crossovers, reboots, and retcons into one cohesive universe. Errors - plot holes, continuity issues, those lovely retcons - all put a serious wrench in all of that for me, and I would obsess over them until I found a way of making them work in my head-canon (I did this with the Red Matter in Star Trek. Those aren't black holes! They aren't! Spock isn't so stupid that he'd release a matter consuming pit of despair with incredibly high gravity in a place where, while it would stop the star from destroying Romulus, would then go on and eventually eat the planet itself. So they had to be specially designed "black holes" that only consume a certain amount of matter before either eating themselves or fizzling out. Because to me that just makes more sense. *is perfectly aware that it does not, really, but it makes me feel better*)
And yet, here I am, on the slippery slope sliding down into comics fandom. And I can't seem to find a way to stop myself from getting ever closer, much less save myself from the madness.
I fear for myself. I really do.
-Snow XD
OH GOD DON'T REMIND ME. We're supposed to get some again tomorrow, too. :/
But really, for one reason or another this year has just been the year of snow for me. I ended up being stuck in my house for a few days over winter break (and in my state that actually is saying something) and there are still piles of snow that haven't melted off. It snowed for probably three days straight - or damn near straight - over break. My brakes froze so my car wouldn't drive, I've all but mastered the art of escaping a skid, and I've discovered that the city I attend school in is far far better at dealing with snow than the city my family lives in.
I love snow, but I am so sick of it right now I could scream. The snow that's left is completely solid. It's like ice, but still looks like fallen snow. I've stood on it and had almost a foot of solid ice-snow support my weight. Also the cold that comes with it. Though the snow tomorrow means that it is supposed to be WARMER than it has been.
How sad is it that I'm looking forward to 32º temps because they will feel so so warm?
Aaaand now for this one, which you have seen before but with different fandoms:
Leave a comment on this post and I will pick three of your fandoms. Then you get to answer the following questions:
1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character I would shag anytime
7. The character I'd want to be like
8. The character I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise
11. Favorite character
12. My five favorite characters
13. My five least favorite characters
14. Which character I am most like
15. My deep, dark fandom secret
X-men
01. The first character I fell in love with: Oh, jeez. Well, I’m not really sure. I’ve been marginally familiar with X-Men since I was a kid (and really, who hasn’t been?) and watched at least a few episodes of the 90s cartoon with my cousin (before he started terrorizing me with his Wolverine toy, scarring me for many years to come and putting me off the whole canon until Evolution came out…) and then I fell in love with Kurt. Because, really, what’s not to love?
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Logan. I ENTIRELY BLAME HUGH JACKMAN AND SCOTT MCNEIL. But mostly Scott McNeil, because he started it. No, seriously, anecdata time: virtually every character I have ever been fond of (in any form at all) since I was five has been voiced by Scott McNeil. I don’t even need to hear the voice first. It just happens. And I didn’t realize it until a few years back. So there I am, squeeing over a show I loved in high school and giggling at the whole Xavier = Patrick Stewart = Captain Picard, and suddenly I hear a voice. A voice I know, and know well. My face when I heard that voice comin’ outta Logan’s mouth? Horrified and embarrassed. I knew what was coming. And oh boy did it come. D: D: D: (seriously guys this is me begging for help. Please save me. I live in fear of the day I finally go to a con because chances are he will be there and I will probably die. That’s just how this is gonna go, I know it.)
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Emma Frost. Admittedly, I’m still only marginally familiar with her, but what I’ve been hearing doesn’t paint her as an awesome person to me. I might still find her to be an awesome character, though.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Sometimes Jean. Sometimes no one. I’m not wholly sure.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: I hate this question.
06. The character I would shag anytime: Oh god don’t make me say it.
07. The character I'd want to be like: Storm, omg.
08. The character I'd slap: …Scott. Repeatedly. Followed by a series of swift kicks in the ass, shins, and whatever the hell else my non-awesome person could attempt to injure.
09. A pairing that I love: …I will ship damn near anything if you can provide me a good reason. Yes, even the most insane crack!ships. I think TV Tropes made me d’awwwww at the idea of Wolverine/Storm though, so possibly that. If I had to name one.
10. A pairing that I hate: I rarely hate ships. Generally I can understand them, or why people ship them.
11. Favorite character: Oh god don’t make me answer this. Also Charles Xavier, Beast, and Kitty. Especially Evolution!verse Kitty, though itty bitty Ellen Page did make me smile (until I started thinking about Juno and my brain decided to play the “let’s crossover actors and other characters and pretty much scar you for life, shall we?” game).
12. My five favorite characters: Storm, Professor X, Kitty, Rogue (especially 90s!Rogue), Wolverine, Kurt, Beast…
13. My five least favorite characters: My list so far starts and stops at Emma Frost, but again I can be persuaded otherwise. SO QUITE POSSIBLY NO ONE.
14. Which character I am most like: ……I do not know.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: I do believe this entire entry qualifies. My poor n00b is showing so much. D:
Avatar:The Last Airbender
01. The first character I fell in love with: Aang. <3
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Iroh. Started off as just the kooky old uncle. BECAME THE MOST AWESOME PERSON EVER.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: Jet. I was never, ever fond of him.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Suki - though that depends on what part of the fandom you walk in.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: No one, really? I still pretty much love the whole cast.
06. The character I would shag anytime: …none of em. I’m too old. XD
07. The character I'd want to be like: Irrrooooohhhhh
08. The character I'd slap: Zuko. Also Zhao. And Jet.
09. A pairing that I love: I have none. And stating which ones I lean toward would probably get me lynched.
10. A pairing that I hate: See above.
11. Favorite character: Iroh
12. My five favorite characters: Iroh, Toph, Sokka, Aang, Suki
13. My five least favorite characters: Mai……. And that’s it, really. And I don’t particularly dislike Mai, I just don’t think that she was given enough development. Also I hate that they changed the pronunciation of her name.
14. Which character I am most like: …Most people would probably peg me as Katara, because I can be that caring, motherly sort, but I’d probably say Aang. I really am just a twelve year old boy girl.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: My ships.
Cowboy Bebop!
01. The first character I fell in love with: Spiiiike. And Ed.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Faye. Didn’t like her much at first, but then her character development happened and…wow.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't: None of them. I think I love everyone. Though…possibly Julia. I’d need to rewatch the series to see if my grasp on her at the moment is still true.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Not sure. It’s gotta be someone, though.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer: No one! I think all the main chast are pretty fab.
06. The character I would shag anytime: Hrm. :/ Andy, the Cowboy (tee heeeeee) and possibly Spike. But maybe not, ‘cause he has some serious issues.
07. The character I'd want to be like: Spiiiike
08. The character I'd slap: Julia.
09. A pairing that I love: I ship NOTHING in this fandom. Not even canon pairings.
10. A pairing that I hate: I ship nothing, therefore hate nothing.
11. Favorite character: Ein~
12. My five favorite characters: Spike, Ein, Ed, Jet, the three kooky old men that cameo in, like, every episode.
13. My five least favorite characters: like 'em all. /cops out of answering
14. Which character I am most like: ...Ed.
15. My deep, dark fandom secret: I believe Spike died at the end of the series.
Whew! That only took me ages to do. Time for bed! Thankfully I get to sleep in tomorrow. Yayyyy 2:30 PM class~