Meme from homais

[faerykat]

So, Jon posted a meme in which he chooses 7 interests listed in a friend's profile, and said friend goes on to post with explanations of each interest. Here are mine, below. Feel free to comment here and I will be happy to talk about more interests from my profile, ask you about yours, or both.

Comments

[ladypimpernel]

So...why fleece and silver glitter? I never noticed, but you have the most poetic list of interests I've ever seen on an lj.

Ask me some?

[researcher]

I'd like your thoughts on night time, soft skin, woodsmoke, oberlin college, explo, the moon, and language.

(And yes, you have more sensory experiences in your interests than anyone I've ever seen. Though that makes a lot of sense, honestly.)

[faerykat]

Thoughts on more interests will come later, but in the mean time, I'm curious about your comment:
(And yes, you have more sensory experiences in your interests than anyone I've ever seen. Though that makes a lot of sense, honestly.)

Do tell?

[researcher]

From what I remember of you from Oberlin, you seem like the "sensual" sort; not in the normal sexual sense but in the sense of someone who really is present in themselves and savors their senses. (If that's not the most confusing sentence I've ever written, then perhaps I should have been a philospher after all.) This was most evident to me at Chris's wedding, when you were dancing, and really seemed to be in yourself enjoying the feeling of the movement.

So, it makes sense that your interests would include lots of (really nice) sensual experiences. (Smells, feels, etc.)

[homais]

And I thoroughly enjoyed reading your answers

[ladypimpernel]

Ooh, interesting question about the fanfic. I, too, have had my biggest fanfiction phases at the most lonely and left out times in my life. The first time I read a lot of it was when I first met the hall people, but still felt weird and left out. Becca and I both read tons of it in London, and I read a lot of it when I first moved to CA, had nobody but Mark, and was lonely all day. I always thought of it as just something mindless to pass the time and make me forget I was sad and lonely, but with this trend, I'm starting to wonder.

Maybe it has something to do with the participatory nature of the form? Anyone can contribute, anyone can comment. And I've always compared waiting for updates on a popular fic to being a reader of the serial novels of the Victorian era. You and a massive number of others, in a makeshift internet community, all waiting together for something exciting, and experiencing the story as it arrives in parts. I'm not sure of any of this for sure, but these are my vague, procrastinatory thoughts...