Because we all like talking about ourselves....

[knightmusic]

And quite frankly, some of you have things that I really wonder about:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

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[elmyraemilie]

1. Because I have adored emotionally disconnected men with black hair and big noses since I knew what it meant to have a crush. Really. And his hands. And his voice. The voice. And the power and the intelligence. Yes.
2. It concerns me that the Religious Right has established as part of its overt agenda a breaking down of the barriers between church and state. There are segments of that group that would like very much to make this a theocracy, about which more in number 3 below. The freedoms that we take for granted--speech, the press, worship (or lack thereof), assembly, personal privacy, among others--would all be seriously threatened if the separation of church and state is in any way defeated. The very thought scares me to death.
3. Christian dominionists are a species of fundamentalist Christian that want to take over the government of the United States and impose Biblical law in its place. This is no joke--not nearly as farfetched as you might imagine. Google "dominionism" or look it up on Wikipedia. There are folks in this movement who openly espouse burning pagans and homosexuals at the stake. They may be the fringe, but if they're the fringe, imagine what the center's like.
4. Ah--a happier topic. Since I was a kid (see #1, above) many of my fantasies have revolved around sexual slavery. Of course, they're fantasies, and it's a tidy, clean, semi-consensual kind of slavery, not the real, ugly, dehumanizing kind that actually occurs in reality. So when I discovered slave!fic (and it didn't take me long, once I found slash, to find it) I was over the moon. Love it. Hot, hotter, hottest. Well written, and with sufficient motivations and character validity, it's the best there is.
5. My husband turned me on to oriental rugs, and I've learned a lot about them. They're infinitely fascinating; the different styles and types that originate in different parts of the world are all beautiful, each in its own way. If I could afford it, I'd have them three deep on the floors in my house, and change them around to suit my mood.
6. Highlander was my First Fandom. I started watching it on whatever Spike was called before it was called Spike, and of course I fell in love with Methos (see #1 again). Initially, though, it was all about the swords and the terrific writing on some of the episodes, which I have since discovered were written by David Abramowitz, who is one of the best people in television, IMO. The idea--immortality, and what does it cost? That's potent stuff. Sadly, with the exception of the first movie and much of the series, no project in the Highlander universe has done the premise justice.
7. The arts and crafts movement produced some of the most wonderful, quirky, accessible art, furniture, domestic architecture and decorative objects to be found in the last 200 years. William Morris's beautiful textile designs can be seen in lots of the wallpapers that appear on the internet. The ideas behind the movement--that objects should reflect their makers, that what is useful should also be beautiful, and vice versa, and that art and craft are noble pursuits, not to be rushed or trivialized--really ring true for me. Most arts and crafts style items, from 1920's bungalows to Gustav Stickley furniture, just draws me in like a magnet. I wonder if there isn't some past-life thing there, because if I could live in any time other than this one, the period from 1890 to 1940 would be right at the top of my list.

You had to ask! *g*