Here There Be Memes
This is a meme. It works like this: If you'd like to play, leave a comment. I'll give you a letter. Then you post ten words beginning with that letter and explain why they're important enough to make the cut.
I got the letter C from veilingofthesun.
C is for college! Why? Because it got me out of my parents' house. And lordie loo is it glorious. Not gonna lie, I am dreading coming back here. Which is why one of my projects for the coming term is to find a job somewhere, anywhere, as long as it gets me the fuck out of this house. And is preferably north of the Mason-Dixon Line. And hopefully has identifiable seasons, rather than Vancouver's "Cool and Wet, Cold and Wet, Cool and Wet, Warm and sunny".
C is also for communication. Because it is the blood and spirit of any relationship, be it with a friend or lover or family member. Also because it is something I'm working on and trying to get better with. Because it pisses me off when I don't say what I mean. Which I do a lot. Either way, the point is that (in my opinion) 9/10 of problems can be solved by talking them out, laying out viewpoints, establishing a compromise, or agreeing to disagree, or being swayed by logic.
C is even for common sense. Heh, who am I kidding, this isn't important. There'll be an extra one at the end to make up for this.
C is (actually) for cocks. Because the penis is an inherently funny organ, and anyone who doubts me should check out this. ...okay, that is actually more terrifying than funny. Apologies for anyone scarred by that. In my defense, you can't blame me. I fucking warned you. Okay, I didn't, but you knew there were dicks behind that link. So don't bitch if they look horrifying.
C is for cowbell. Because you always need more.
C is for corporate personhood. This is important because it is the single most bullshit part of pretty much anything. What it means is that anything a company does stops with the company itself. In short, the board of directors, the CEO, the employees cannot be held personally responsible for things that a corporation does. Now, I understand why it exists-- if some employee fucks up and mails you the wrong part for your computer, which you install according to all provided instructions and (because it is the wrong part) ends up, say, wiping your hard drive, it would be hard to find the employee in question and sue them. But it also removes personal responsibility from the equation when it comes down to punishing corporate higher-ups for things that their company does, even though they are in every way responsible.
C is for Competence (versus performance) Competence is an idea that Noam Chomsky had-- basically, that language is an abstract mental faculty rather than a sum of all produced sentences. That's competence, in his book. Performance is more descriptive and is directly observable. Why is it important? Because it forms the basis for all modern linguistic research. It quite literally remade the field into what it has been for the past fifty years.
C is for Cthulhu. Oh come on, you had to have seen this coming. Why is Cthulhu important? Because he will consume your body and devastate your mind when the stars are right and he rises from where he sleeps in R'lyeh (runners up for this place included 'Carcossa and cyclopean, but I decided that only one mythos thing should be included).
C is for Cyberpunk. Because for some reason, I really like the genre. Especially when it's tacked onto other genres of fiction, like Westerns or fairy tales. I really want to write a cyberpunk fairy tale sometime, holy crap. I think it would be the best thing ever (okay, not really, because I am not that good a writer and it would be inferior to most anything written by real writers. Into which category Stephanie Meyer does not fall, but Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and J.R.R. Tolkien certainly do.
C is for Christianity. Okay, this is a list of things that are important, not necessarily things that I like. And like it or not, Christianity has been a formative force in the history of the Western world pretty much since 312 AD. Or 313, depending on whether or not you count from Constantine's personal conversion or the Edict of Milan. Either way, Christianity has been pretty fuckin' important ever since and continues to be down to this day.
C is for Calvin and Hobbes. This is the best comic ever. I will fight you if you say otherwise. I am now growling menacingly at anyone who challenges my assertion.
I got the letter C from veilingofthesun.
C is for college! Why? Because it got me out of my parents' house. And lordie loo is it glorious. Not gonna lie, I am dreading coming back here. Which is why one of my projects for the coming term is to find a job somewhere, anywhere, as long as it gets me the fuck out of this house. And is preferably north of the Mason-Dixon Line. And hopefully has identifiable seasons, rather than Vancouver's "Cool and Wet, Cold and Wet, Cool and Wet, Warm and sunny".
C is also for communication. Because it is the blood and spirit of any relationship, be it with a friend or lover or family member. Also because it is something I'm working on and trying to get better with. Because it pisses me off when I don't say what I mean. Which I do a lot. Either way, the point is that (in my opinion) 9/10 of problems can be solved by talking them out, laying out viewpoints, establishing a compromise, or agreeing to disagree, or being swayed by logic.
C is even for common sense. Heh, who am I kidding, this isn't important. There'll be an extra one at the end to make up for this.
C is (actually) for cocks. Because the penis is an inherently funny organ, and anyone who doubts me should check out this. ...okay, that is actually more terrifying than funny. Apologies for anyone scarred by that. In my defense, you can't blame me. I fucking warned you. Okay, I didn't, but you knew there were dicks behind that link. So don't bitch if they look horrifying.
C is for cowbell. Because you always need more.
C is for corporate personhood. This is important because it is the single most bullshit part of pretty much anything. What it means is that anything a company does stops with the company itself. In short, the board of directors, the CEO, the employees cannot be held personally responsible for things that a corporation does. Now, I understand why it exists-- if some employee fucks up and mails you the wrong part for your computer, which you install according to all provided instructions and (because it is the wrong part) ends up, say, wiping your hard drive, it would be hard to find the employee in question and sue them. But it also removes personal responsibility from the equation when it comes down to punishing corporate higher-ups for things that their company does, even though they are in every way responsible.
C is for Competence (versus performance) Competence is an idea that Noam Chomsky had-- basically, that language is an abstract mental faculty rather than a sum of all produced sentences. That's competence, in his book. Performance is more descriptive and is directly observable. Why is it important? Because it forms the basis for all modern linguistic research. It quite literally remade the field into what it has been for the past fifty years.
C is for Cthulhu. Oh come on, you had to have seen this coming. Why is Cthulhu important? Because he will consume your body and devastate your mind when the stars are right and he rises from where he sleeps in R'lyeh (runners up for this place included 'Carcossa and cyclopean, but I decided that only one mythos thing should be included).
C is for Cyberpunk. Because for some reason, I really like the genre. Especially when it's tacked onto other genres of fiction, like Westerns or fairy tales. I really want to write a cyberpunk fairy tale sometime, holy crap. I think it would be the best thing ever (okay, not really, because I am not that good a writer and it would be inferior to most anything written by real writers. Into which category Stephanie Meyer does not fall, but Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and J.R.R. Tolkien certainly do.
C is for Christianity. Okay, this is a list of things that are important, not necessarily things that I like. And like it or not, Christianity has been a formative force in the history of the Western world pretty much since 312 AD. Or 313, depending on whether or not you count from Constantine's personal conversion or the Edict of Milan. Either way, Christianity has been pretty fuckin' important ever since and continues to be down to this day.
C is for Calvin and Hobbes. This is the best comic ever. I will fight you if you say otherwise. I am now growling menacingly at anyone who challenges my assertion.