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I was voluntarily 'tagged' in this meme by Rihatsu62, yaaay!
"Reply to this meme by yelling "words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you..."
Zombies
Oh, zombies... what can I say about zombies? They interest me on so many levels. XD The part of me that loves post-apocalyptic settings loves zombies for the 'what the fuck are you gonna do, it's zombies' aspect. I mean, they're dead, they just keep coming - how would you possibly deal? And that, at least when I was younger, scared the crap out of me; the concept of something ever-living (un-living), something unstoppable, something that couldn't be bargained with or fought against, an endless horde focused on completely and utterly destroying you. But there's more than one side to zombies, at least to me. This is where my author brain pops in and says "hello!" with a jaunty little wave, because every time I think about zombie movies I consider what if's. What if there was a middle stage to the infection, a partial immunity where you didn't die but you still kept your brain? What if the consumption of human flesh leads traditional undead zombies to become more humanlike? What would happen if it wasn't just humans who could be zombified, what if it was every living creature? (We'd be screwed, by the way. Just think about it! Zombie rats? Zombie cats? Dogs, horses, mountain lions?)
Well, if I wanted to put it in short, zombies are kind of a muse for me, just because you can change them into so many different things. Plus, y'know, if you're prepared for zombies, you're prepared for pretty much everything.
Team Fortress 2
Oh, Team Fortress 2... how you combine my love for shooters with humor, pretty designs and hilarious characters! Oh, how your miscellaneous fighting styles are so different and yet somehow maintain at least a modicum of balance! To be the Spy, slinking through the base, darting from shadow to shadow only to be illuminated by the Pyro's mad gouts of flame moments before you sap that sentry! Oh, to be the Scout, and to run straight into a level three sentry and explode into millions of pieces! Oh, to be a Soldier or a Demo and jump on a crit-mine or a crit-rocket! Or, how to be the Medic, a poor casualty to the Spy's sneaky, sneaky ways! To be the Heavy, slower than a retarded turtle, with the shiniest, baldest head for a Sniper to see! To be Engie, and suffer endless hours of boredom protecting the intelligence or the control point! Or to be the Sniper, standing above them all and dying to that bastardy other Sniper who's just a fraction of a second faster than you!
*looks back up at what was written* ... I am such a nerd. XD
Nny
Because someone needs to paint that goddamn wall.
Nny, which I don't really read anymore, was at least once important to me - back when I was trying hard to be the gothy little girl I wanted to be. XD It was deliciously blasphemous, it went where comics probably shouldn't, and it was adorable and sad at the same time it was hilarious and disgusting. It, like many comedians of the world, taught me that nothing is sacred and everything's up for laughs, even the grimmest, nastiest things you could think of. 'Cause if you can't surround it with humor and fantasy, the packing peanuts of the soul, the world might be a little too painful to stand.
Eh, I'm rambling, aren't I? In the end, Nny has head-esplodey. That's all you really need to know. XD
Lemons
WELL THIS WILL BE FUN HUH GUYS. 8D
For those of you who don't know, go read this before giving me really, really weird looks when you read the rest of this.
Gnrf. What can I say about lemons? They're just plain fun. Maybe it's because I have an extra dirty mind, but I tend to plot out lemon scenes in my head when I'm bored. This is part of why one of my potential career moves contains becoming a porno writer/director and bringing fancy modern-day movie shooting technology to the world of pornography. As opposed to shaky hand-cam-and-hotel-room pornos, which are just... blegh. Bo-ring. A dime a dozen. Now, my fascination with sexuality vs. relationships is an entirely different matter, which I will probably only expound upon if someone begs me to.
Anyway, it's just another part of writing fiction, and the bottom line is, I enjoy it, haha XD;;;.
Fine art
So, I've been drawing pretty much since I was able to hold a crayon. I wouldn't necessarily call it fine art, but even back in the day I liked making collages. (What that really means is, as a little kid I didn't know how to draw birds, so I just drew a background and stuck a stamp with a bird on it on the paper instead.) Honestly, I don't know if my interest in the arts is even focused solely on the fine arts. I don't think I could ever have the patience to work on something as long as, say, Michelangelo or Da Vinci. However, I do like drawing, and I do like creating, even if it's not something necessarily realistic... something I've been fighting with a lot, because I don't like modern art so much. I'm just not 'enlightened' enough to appreciate a small blue square next to a large orange square. But... maybe something just off the wall is what's right for me. Maybe something kind of like William Kentridge - weird, surrealistic dream-sequence type animations or creations.
Hurk. I got off track. What I wanted to say was that when I was a kid, I liked Disney animation, and coloring books from Disney movies, and for a while back in the day I wanted to be a comic artist or an animator or something like that. The problem with that is that I'm really no good at drawing stuff consistently. I'll still work towards drawing consistent characters, because I do really love comics, but maybe weird surrealistic Mirrormask-style/Kentridge-style art is for me. Take from that what you will.
"Reply to this meme by yelling "words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you..."
Zombies
Oh, zombies... what can I say about zombies? They interest me on so many levels. XD The part of me that loves post-apocalyptic settings loves zombies for the 'what the fuck are you gonna do, it's zombies' aspect. I mean, they're dead, they just keep coming - how would you possibly deal? And that, at least when I was younger, scared the crap out of me; the concept of something ever-living (un-living), something unstoppable, something that couldn't be bargained with or fought against, an endless horde focused on completely and utterly destroying you. But there's more than one side to zombies, at least to me. This is where my author brain pops in and says "hello!" with a jaunty little wave, because every time I think about zombie movies I consider what if's. What if there was a middle stage to the infection, a partial immunity where you didn't die but you still kept your brain? What if the consumption of human flesh leads traditional undead zombies to become more humanlike? What would happen if it wasn't just humans who could be zombified, what if it was every living creature? (We'd be screwed, by the way. Just think about it! Zombie rats? Zombie cats? Dogs, horses, mountain lions?)
Well, if I wanted to put it in short, zombies are kind of a muse for me, just because you can change them into so many different things. Plus, y'know, if you're prepared for zombies, you're prepared for pretty much everything.
Team Fortress 2
Oh, Team Fortress 2... how you combine my love for shooters with humor, pretty designs and hilarious characters! Oh, how your miscellaneous fighting styles are so different and yet somehow maintain at least a modicum of balance! To be the Spy, slinking through the base, darting from shadow to shadow only to be illuminated by the Pyro's mad gouts of flame moments before you sap that sentry! Oh, to be the Scout, and to run straight into a level three sentry and explode into millions of pieces! Oh, to be a Soldier or a Demo and jump on a crit-mine or a crit-rocket! Or, how to be the Medic, a poor casualty to the Spy's sneaky, sneaky ways! To be the Heavy, slower than a retarded turtle, with the shiniest, baldest head for a Sniper to see! To be Engie, and suffer endless hours of boredom protecting the intelligence or the control point! Or to be the Sniper, standing above them all and dying to that bastardy other Sniper who's just a fraction of a second faster than you!
*looks back up at what was written* ... I am such a nerd. XD
Nny
Because someone needs to paint that goddamn wall.
Nny, which I don't really read anymore, was at least once important to me - back when I was trying hard to be the gothy little girl I wanted to be. XD It was deliciously blasphemous, it went where comics probably shouldn't, and it was adorable and sad at the same time it was hilarious and disgusting. It, like many comedians of the world, taught me that nothing is sacred and everything's up for laughs, even the grimmest, nastiest things you could think of. 'Cause if you can't surround it with humor and fantasy, the packing peanuts of the soul, the world might be a little too painful to stand.
Eh, I'm rambling, aren't I? In the end, Nny has head-esplodey. That's all you really need to know. XD
Lemons
WELL THIS WILL BE FUN HUH GUYS. 8D
For those of you who don't know, go read this before giving me really, really weird looks when you read the rest of this.
Gnrf. What can I say about lemons? They're just plain fun. Maybe it's because I have an extra dirty mind, but I tend to plot out lemon scenes in my head when I'm bored. This is part of why one of my potential career moves contains becoming a porno writer/director and bringing fancy modern-day movie shooting technology to the world of pornography. As opposed to shaky hand-cam-and-hotel-room pornos, which are just... blegh. Bo-ring. A dime a dozen. Now, my fascination with sexuality vs. relationships is an entirely different matter, which I will probably only expound upon if someone begs me to.
Anyway, it's just another part of writing fiction, and the bottom line is, I enjoy it, haha XD;;;.
Fine art
So, I've been drawing pretty much since I was able to hold a crayon. I wouldn't necessarily call it fine art, but even back in the day I liked making collages. (What that really means is, as a little kid I didn't know how to draw birds, so I just drew a background and stuck a stamp with a bird on it on the paper instead.) Honestly, I don't know if my interest in the arts is even focused solely on the fine arts. I don't think I could ever have the patience to work on something as long as, say, Michelangelo or Da Vinci. However, I do like drawing, and I do like creating, even if it's not something necessarily realistic... something I've been fighting with a lot, because I don't like modern art so much. I'm just not 'enlightened' enough to appreciate a small blue square next to a large orange square. But... maybe something just off the wall is what's right for me. Maybe something kind of like William Kentridge - weird, surrealistic dream-sequence type animations or creations.
Hurk. I got off track. What I wanted to say was that when I was a kid, I liked Disney animation, and coloring books from Disney movies, and for a while back in the day I wanted to be a comic artist or an animator or something like that. The problem with that is that I'm really no good at drawing stuff consistently. I'll still work towards drawing consistent characters, because I do really love comics, but maybe weird surrealistic Mirrormask-style/Kentridge-style art is for me. Take from that what you will.