questioning the madness
Meme gleefully yoinked from nix_this, because I am easily amused and also it looked like good, healthy, brain-rotting fun!
Q&A MEME
- Leave a comment saying "Beam me up Scotty!"
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
I was interrogated with the following five questions:
1. The missing apostrophe in Tim Hortons, does it drive you bat-shit insane too?
2. Oh wait, you're already bat-shit insane (and I love you for it XD) - have you ever had a moment where the outside world got a peek at it?
3. Pon farr, great plot device or tired trope?
4. What's your number one guilty pleasure movie?
5. Who is your literary hero?
1. The missing apostrophe in Tim Hortons, does it drive you bat-shit insane too?
OH GOD YES. Timmy, you were an excellent hockey player and make excellent doughnuts--I had an apple fritter only yesterday and it was a source of guilty delight and much enthusiastic nomming--but you need to learn about the wonders of grammar.
Perhaps he got cross-checked one too many times?
2. Oh wait, you're already bat-shit insane (and I love you for it XD) - have you ever had a moment where the outside world got a peek at it?
I've actually gotten to be quite good at pretending to be professional and serious and entirely civilized when other people might be watching, but the slip-ups tend to happen most often in the company of my brothers, oddly enough. We have a somewhat warped sense of humour on occasion, and seem to feed off each other so that when we get together we occasionally forget to act like adult twenty-somethings in public and regress to obscure yet amusing quotations and plans to take over the world. (It is worth noting here that my sister-in-law refuses to watch Monty Python with any of us, and will advise people to leave the room if my older brother and I start discussing politics in any form.)
3. Pon farr, great plot device or tired trope?
Well, the thing to remember here is that I mostly believe that tropes and cliches are overused for a reason and that reason is that they are FUN. Pon farr is hard to resist because it is absolutely laden with angsty, porny potential and appears to have been tailor-made to please the fannish mind. When tropes turn out badly it's usually because they're badly written, not because there's a flaw in the concept itself.
4. What's your number one guilty pleasure movie?
Urmm, this one is difficult. Guilty pleasure? Probably Madagascar, because I don't care if it's supposed to be a kids' movie, it is hilarious, and King Julian XIII cracks me up every time. LIONS AND ZEBRAS CAN TOTALLY BE FRIENDS.
5. Who is your literary hero?
Are we talking character or author here? Because character-wise it would probably be Sherlock Holmes. No, wait, Frodo Baggins. Or Menolly from Pern--or, no, Anna from My Sister's Keeper. Um. Or possibly Aziraphale...
And my authorish hero would be Neil Gaiman. Or Anne McCaffrey. Or Anne Bishop, or Tolkien, or, no, definitely Shakespeare. Definitely. ...Er. Wait, let me think about this one some more...
Q&A MEME
- Leave a comment saying "Beam me up Scotty!"
- I'll respond by asking you five questions to satisfy my curiosity.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.
- Include this explanation and offer to ask other people questions.
I was interrogated with the following five questions:
1. The missing apostrophe in Tim Hortons, does it drive you bat-shit insane too?
2. Oh wait, you're already bat-shit insane (and I love you for it XD) - have you ever had a moment where the outside world got a peek at it?
3. Pon farr, great plot device or tired trope?
4. What's your number one guilty pleasure movie?
5. Who is your literary hero?
1. The missing apostrophe in Tim Hortons, does it drive you bat-shit insane too?
OH GOD YES. Timmy, you were an excellent hockey player and make excellent doughnuts--I had an apple fritter only yesterday and it was a source of guilty delight and much enthusiastic nomming--but you need to learn about the wonders of grammar.
Perhaps he got cross-checked one too many times?
2. Oh wait, you're already bat-shit insane (and I love you for it XD) - have you ever had a moment where the outside world got a peek at it?
I've actually gotten to be quite good at pretending to be professional and serious and entirely civilized when other people might be watching, but the slip-ups tend to happen most often in the company of my brothers, oddly enough. We have a somewhat warped sense of humour on occasion, and seem to feed off each other so that when we get together we occasionally forget to act like adult twenty-somethings in public and regress to obscure yet amusing quotations and plans to take over the world. (It is worth noting here that my sister-in-law refuses to watch Monty Python with any of us, and will advise people to leave the room if my older brother and I start discussing politics in any form.)
3. Pon farr, great plot device or tired trope?
Well, the thing to remember here is that I mostly believe that tropes and cliches are overused for a reason and that reason is that they are FUN. Pon farr is hard to resist because it is absolutely laden with angsty, porny potential and appears to have been tailor-made to please the fannish mind. When tropes turn out badly it's usually because they're badly written, not because there's a flaw in the concept itself.
4. What's your number one guilty pleasure movie?
Urmm, this one is difficult. Guilty pleasure? Probably Madagascar, because I don't care if it's supposed to be a kids' movie, it is hilarious, and King Julian XIII cracks me up every time. LIONS AND ZEBRAS CAN TOTALLY BE FRIENDS.
5. Who is your literary hero?
Are we talking character or author here? Because character-wise it would probably be Sherlock Holmes. No, wait, Frodo Baggins. Or Menolly from Pern--or, no, Anna from My Sister's Keeper. Um. Or possibly Aziraphale...
And my authorish hero would be Neil Gaiman. Or Anne McCaffrey. Or Anne Bishop, or Tolkien, or, no, definitely Shakespeare. Definitely. ...Er. Wait, let me think about this one some more...