Wacky thought of the day...
I am like the most unreligious person ever, but I still believe there is someone or something in charge up there hopefully keeping an eye on us, and it is to that something I pray almost every night. Generic thanks is the norm, plus the ongoing request for those who are hurting - whoever they are, whatever it is that they are hurting from - to find peace, and then at the end I tack on the more typical request of "Hey, if it isn't too much trouble, if you can keep me and mine as safe and healthy as one can be expected to be these days, I'd be grateful," because I am still occasionally greedy and selfish and I work with small children full of germs and we all know how getting sick sucks.
Sometimes, though, I go off in tangents, utterly unimportant mental rambles and daisy chains because if there *is* someone up there, and if said someone actually hears our prayers... well, having a few billion people asking for things all the time has to get old and tedious, especially after the first few millennia. So I try to jazz it up a bit, give him/her/it something at least moderately entertaining to listen to. Hey, if I'm talking to an invisible entity up in the sky, I may as well go all out on the crazy front, right?
Speaking of tangents - though it'll circle back around eventually, promise - as is the usual case when I have a less then fantastic week, one of my main coping methods (the other being eating something deep fried or in the cake or pastry family) is to go off on a fic binge, looking for the ultimate in fluff and/or feel good-ness. The good stories stick with me, churning around in my mind as I contemplate what will happen if I haven't finished reading it yet, or plot things I would've done differently if I have. This isn't just for fic, either - I do the same thing for books and movies, or anything creative that makes the brain juices start churning. If I'm really inspired, I might even go so far as to start writing a story of my own.
So, I read fic. A lot. Lacking anything else to blab about, sometimes I even occasionally babble about fic to the Powers That Be because, hey, entertainment, right? More often it's usually a book I'm in the middle of or a movie I've just watched that got the brain-storms a' brewing, but like any good story, well written fan fictions also tend to get a significant portion of the grey matter dedicated to them. As a geek *and* a writer, I often start to scheme and re-write scenes from said books or movies (or fic!) in my head, which is just another kind of fan fiction, right? Even if it never sees the light of day, it still qualifies. Kind of. If you squint.
AND SO, at last we get to the "wacky thought of the day..." - or the entire point of this entry to begin with.
If I read fan fic and blab about it to the Powers That Be - OR, if we take that a step farther and accept that there is a such thing as guardian angels or the like, and mine in particular is stuck "watching" me as I dedicate many, many, *many* hours to reading and/or writing fan fiction - and the whole world is full of geeks like me with their own Powers That Be at their back... Does that make God and his/her angels (or whatever divine beings you may blab to in the middle of the night) Geeks By Association?
Or... well, who knows how to judge the personality of divine beings? If *I* were stuck watching or listening to someone all day, I imagine it would get kind of dull. Hours, days, maybe even weeks of boredom, interspersed with only the briefest moments (maybe getting up to a day or two at most unless you live in an action movie or serve in the military on active duty) of adrenaline-pumping emotion and activity... It kind of leaves "develop interest in what your charge is interested in" as the only option to keep one's guardian angel (or whatever) sane during the tedium of 90% of life on this planet.
Thus, if you are one who believes in divine beings who take an active interest in human life, one must assume that there are at least a handful of them who have developed a decided interest in geek culture. And the idea of Comic Con being full of angels wearing Firefly costumes and/or carrying light sabers while they dutifully follow around their human charges amused me enough that I decided it needed to be shared.
Aren't tangents fun?
Sometimes, though, I go off in tangents, utterly unimportant mental rambles and daisy chains because if there *is* someone up there, and if said someone actually hears our prayers... well, having a few billion people asking for things all the time has to get old and tedious, especially after the first few millennia. So I try to jazz it up a bit, give him/her/it something at least moderately entertaining to listen to. Hey, if I'm talking to an invisible entity up in the sky, I may as well go all out on the crazy front, right?
Speaking of tangents - though it'll circle back around eventually, promise - as is the usual case when I have a less then fantastic week, one of my main coping methods (the other being eating something deep fried or in the cake or pastry family) is to go off on a fic binge, looking for the ultimate in fluff and/or feel good-ness. The good stories stick with me, churning around in my mind as I contemplate what will happen if I haven't finished reading it yet, or plot things I would've done differently if I have. This isn't just for fic, either - I do the same thing for books and movies, or anything creative that makes the brain juices start churning. If I'm really inspired, I might even go so far as to start writing a story of my own.
So, I read fic. A lot. Lacking anything else to blab about, sometimes I even occasionally babble about fic to the Powers That Be because, hey, entertainment, right? More often it's usually a book I'm in the middle of or a movie I've just watched that got the brain-storms a' brewing, but like any good story, well written fan fictions also tend to get a significant portion of the grey matter dedicated to them. As a geek *and* a writer, I often start to scheme and re-write scenes from said books or movies (or fic!) in my head, which is just another kind of fan fiction, right? Even if it never sees the light of day, it still qualifies. Kind of. If you squint.
AND SO, at last we get to the "wacky thought of the day..." - or the entire point of this entry to begin with.
If I read fan fic and blab about it to the Powers That Be - OR, if we take that a step farther and accept that there is a such thing as guardian angels or the like, and mine in particular is stuck "watching" me as I dedicate many, many, *many* hours to reading and/or writing fan fiction - and the whole world is full of geeks like me with their own Powers That Be at their back... Does that make God and his/her angels (or whatever divine beings you may blab to in the middle of the night) Geeks By Association?
Or... well, who knows how to judge the personality of divine beings? If *I* were stuck watching or listening to someone all day, I imagine it would get kind of dull. Hours, days, maybe even weeks of boredom, interspersed with only the briefest moments (maybe getting up to a day or two at most unless you live in an action movie or serve in the military on active duty) of adrenaline-pumping emotion and activity... It kind of leaves "develop interest in what your charge is interested in" as the only option to keep one's guardian angel (or whatever) sane during the tedium of 90% of life on this planet.
Thus, if you are one who believes in divine beings who take an active interest in human life, one must assume that there are at least a handful of them who have developed a decided interest in geek culture. And the idea of Comic Con being full of angels wearing Firefly costumes and/or carrying light sabers while they dutifully follow around their human charges amused me enough that I decided it needed to be shared.
Aren't tangents fun?