Icons and Interests

[netaria]

This is in response to snowaltz who also did this at her journal. Basicly you pick 3 icons and 3 interests of mine and ask about them. If you take part then I get to ask the same of you, which you then answer in an entry at your journal. :D I think it's a cute way to get to know everybody better.

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[netaria]

Heh, atleast it has been a happy busy!

I can't help, but to wonder if the differences are "good" or not? haha. Definitely into Japan, for whatever reason Asian cultures have always jived better with me than most western ones. And the high school I graduated from has a sister school in Japan, so we had Japanese exchange students.

So, I ended up friends with all of them. Heh, Takuma-kun flagged me down from across the field and started hitting on me and took the necklace right off his neck and gave it to me. I wish in retrospect I had understood the gesture better, I would have found something to give him as well. But me being the shy youngling then with this bombastic, outrageous Japanese boy smiling down at me(I am short and was even shorter then) and making these grand gestures I just sort of numbly let him put it on me and stammered out an "A-a-arigato gozaimasu!!!" haha. So, the entire group sort of adopted me after that. Especially since I'm one of those people who will patiently attempt to understand a thick accent or misused words. And they showed the same patience with me. We ended up learning a lot together and becoming great friends! I will have to scan some of the photos from our graduation at some point. Before meeting them I had mainly been interested only in anime/manga and learning to speak Japanese. It was making such great friends and when they told me in a really bumbly conversation (all the fun of trying to find the right words; all of us pulling out our dictionaries! haha) that they considered me as family and that I was honorary Japanese. I guess that's when I really became interested in the culture in such an obnoxiously in depth manner.

Aheh, yeah, I kind of skipped over the babysitter club books and went straight to Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, Tanya Huff...Jane Yolen(the Pit Dragon Trilogy was my favorite set of novels for much of my life.) Someone did buy me a boxed set of the babysitter club books once, but I never read them. I didn't make it through the first one. Man, the more I talk about my childhood the more I realize how strange I am...great... >.<

I did read some americomi as a little kid! I had an issue of Spiderwoman, some Catwoman ishes, and a Catwoman, Vampirella cross-over issue(no my parents really didn't pay attention to what I bought.) I started collecting americomi again when I got into highschool, Witchblade mainly, though I dropped it after Michael Turner abandoned the project...it really lost so much when he left. Some Spawn, Angella, Sandman, and Gen-X, as well.

I first started collecting manga with Maison Ikkoku graphic novels(which I still haven't finished.) As well as, Mixx Zine...god knows if you can find any info about them anymore. I believe the original Mixx incarnation was running Ice Blade, Parasite, Sailor Moon and...Magic Knights Rayearth...if I remember correctly. Which I thought was SWEET XDD but then they got greedy and broke everything up and you had to buy it all individually and then they started SMILE, which was for shoujo and had Sailor Moon, MKR and Peach Girl...I could be remembering all this wrong tho... But before that all I could collect of course, was the untranslated Japanese Tankoubon, of which I have a nice sized collection. It's pretty much just waiting for me to get desperate enough for cash at some point to put it all on ebay. haha.

Lucky you on the lack of soul-branding(baptisms) I've only been "baptized" willingly once and it wasn't like a western baptismal at all. At birth I was baptized protestant, then in the second grade I attended catholic school and (hoo boy!) they re-baptized me catholic along with a little Jewish boy and two Buddhist sisters also attending the school without telling any of us what was going on or garnering any parental permissions...so, yeah, I refused to have my daughter baptized when she was born. It rather upset my parents, but my hubbie was behind me all the way, he was raised in the south where they wait until your old enough for your parents to force you to say you want to be held under in a tub of water....yeah...I'm getting harsh here, so I'll stop. Needless to say, I don't have a high opinion of baptisms.

*blushes* ;p