Respect. The kind of respect you show your best friend. In fact, your SO should be one of your bestest friends, IMO. Respect meaning loving them deeply, but also giving them the room to be their own best self, while being there to help them pick themselves up as necessary. Not letting arguments descend into pettiness and name-calling. Liking them ( Read more... )

Well, you know what? I have indeed 'had to' give up on a couple of indulgences lately, and I quickly discovered that I have alarmingly little self-control. I am useless at this giving up thing. It's just as well there is no official requirement for the observance of Lent around here. It's just as well I am a basically nice person, with few criminal ( Read more... )

A full-time well-paid slash fic writer, of course...

I think my 'natural' self is an optimist. To the extent that the glass actually looks about two-thirds full from over here... (See what I was doing there? It's all about perspective! Hee hee!)

One of the reasons I love Merlin (the show and the character) so much is that he's optimistic, and engaged with the world, and somehow he manages to enjoy ( Read more... )

As I have kinda mentioned before, I think we human beings are each made up of both matter and energy. The matter is our bodies, obviously, and the energy is our live force or soul or what have you... And when we die, we lose that energy, it returns to the universe. There is a law of physics that says no matter or energy is ever created or destroyed ( Read more... )

It was someone else's idea, but I love it so much I can't see beyond it any more...

Tilda Swinton.

If this isn't immediately self-evident as A Good Idea, I refer to you her amazing turn as the archangel Gabriel in Constantine, her gender-bending turn in Orlando, and her wonderful strong mother in The Deep End.

'So, can I publish your novel, please, oh please say yes - and the next ten you write as well...?'

Australian - Afraid
Brave - Big-hearted
Creative - Confused - Contrary
Depressive (on and off, currently off thank heavens)
English - Ego (suspects it's showing right now)
Foolhardy - Fannish
Good
Habit, Creature of
Intelligent
Just
Keatsian - Knowledgeable - Knitter
Loving - Libran
Mad for Merlin
Nurturing
Obsessive
Professional - Proud - Pollyanna
Queer (in many ( Read more... )

Heh! That's easy - I already wrote a novel about it. :-)

I would be Homosapien, and my finishing move would be the Homo Superior!