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1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.
1. Black or White?
Gray. That's not just how I see the world in terms of the issues affecting it, it's also one of my actual favorite colors. I favor darker grays more than light ones, and any gray over pure white or black.
2. What animal would you become if you could?
A wolf.
3. What got you into bandom?
skoosiepants. She started talking about these Fall Out Boys, and Gerard Way, and Brendon Urie and this band with an ! in the middle of their name. And I looked them up on iTunes, discovered that hey, I already had a Fall Out Boy song on my computer (“Sugar We're Goin' Down”, if you're curious), listened to the 30 second sample of the songs on From Under the Cork Tree that I didn't already have, and decided that hey, I liked these Fall Out Boy people. Although what the hell did they look like? And why did the Internet keep talking about Pete's dick???
I resisted My Chemical Romance for a really long time, actually; the “Helena” video kept showing up in my Yahoo! Music video rec list (you know, the “if you've watched this video 3994789812348564 times, you'll probably like this one!”) and annoying me, my last roommate had been a big MCR fan and I was not a fan of hers, and basically I hadn't let Gerard Way and his ridiculous earnestness into my heart yet.
Panic! won me over with their VMA performance of “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies.” It took me awhile to warm up to A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, but once I did, I was gone.
4. Who would you kiss on a first date?
If the date went well, someone I wanted to go on a third date with. (Being as I'm not out to my parents, I'm trying not to date seriously until I meet someone I'd actually be willing to go through that for. Yes, this limits my options by a lot, but I'm not gonna be that asshole who tells you she loves you, but then refuses to talk about her girlfriend to her family. Just... No.)
5. What's your favorite book?
Oh wow, that's a really hard choice. I've got somewhere in the region of 1000+ books, and I've read all but... 8 of them. (Those are mostly textbook-ish.) There are a lot of books that have had a huge impact on me; here, have a list:
* Orson Scott Card's Hart's Hope--which is really hard to find, but worth it—is the book that influenced most of my perceptions about a writer's role in the universe.
* Simon R. Green's Nightside series helped me figure out some of my end of worldbuilding over at Midnight Rising, which is, in the simplest reality, a fairly dark alternate future where gods and monsters are real, and among us.
* I love Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry series; I couldn't actually choose a favorite of those if I tried—she had a huge impact on how I see the sometimes lighter side of a world where the mundane and magical worlds don't just brush shoulders, but exist together in the same space, sometimes the same person.
* Phillip Beard's Dear Zoe is a book that got me thinking about how, even in the wake of a huge tragedy, there are smaller and sometimes entirely unrelated tragedies that deserve attention, too.
* I've seen other people on my flist badmouth Jennifer Wiener's Loving a Larger Woman, but as a real-life larger woman, I kind of love that book to bits. It's both realistic in the sense that life sometimes sucks, and people suck ten kajillion times worse at times, but it's also feel-good wish-fulfillment fantasy—in the end, it all turns out as okay as it can. And sometimes, life happens like that, too.
But since the question was “What's my favorite book?” I'm going to go ahead and say that Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce has top rank. I've read and reread that book hundreds of times; I can quote chapters to you, and it's a book that combines my favorite things: weatherworking, learning/teaching control of magical gifts, dragons, foreign places and ways of doing things, sociology and anthropology, solving crimes, and blowing glass.
Frommiriel, who is starting Field School soon, after a stress-filled semester in college in Canada. She is also made entirely out of awesome.
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firedragon91. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.
1. Black or White?
Gray. That's not just how I see the world in terms of the issues affecting it, it's also one of my actual favorite colors. I favor darker grays more than light ones, and any gray over pure white or black.
2. What animal would you become if you could?
A wolf.
3. What got you into bandom?
skoosiepants. She started talking about these Fall Out Boys, and Gerard Way, and Brendon Urie and this band with an ! in the middle of their name. And I looked them up on iTunes, discovered that hey, I already had a Fall Out Boy song on my computer (“Sugar We're Goin' Down”, if you're curious), listened to the 30 second sample of the songs on From Under the Cork Tree that I didn't already have, and decided that hey, I liked these Fall Out Boy people. Although what the hell did they look like? And why did the Internet keep talking about Pete's dick???I resisted My Chemical Romance for a really long time, actually; the “Helena” video kept showing up in my Yahoo! Music video rec list (you know, the “if you've watched this video 3994789812348564 times, you'll probably like this one!”) and annoying me, my last roommate had been a big MCR fan and I was not a fan of hers, and basically I hadn't let Gerard Way and his ridiculous earnestness into my heart yet.
Panic! won me over with their VMA performance of “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies.” It took me awhile to warm up to A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, but once I did, I was gone.
4. Who would you kiss on a first date?
If the date went well, someone I wanted to go on a third date with. (Being as I'm not out to my parents, I'm trying not to date seriously until I meet someone I'd actually be willing to go through that for. Yes, this limits my options by a lot, but I'm not gonna be that asshole who tells you she loves you, but then refuses to talk about her girlfriend to her family. Just... No.)
5. What's your favorite book?
Oh wow, that's a really hard choice. I've got somewhere in the region of 1000+ books, and I've read all but... 8 of them. (Those are mostly textbook-ish.) There are a lot of books that have had a huge impact on me; here, have a list:
* Orson Scott Card's Hart's Hope--which is really hard to find, but worth it—is the book that influenced most of my perceptions about a writer's role in the universe.
* Simon R. Green's Nightside series helped me figure out some of my end of worldbuilding over at Midnight Rising, which is, in the simplest reality, a fairly dark alternate future where gods and monsters are real, and among us.
* I love Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Meredith Gentry series; I couldn't actually choose a favorite of those if I tried—she had a huge impact on how I see the sometimes lighter side of a world where the mundane and magical worlds don't just brush shoulders, but exist together in the same space, sometimes the same person.
* Phillip Beard's Dear Zoe is a book that got me thinking about how, even in the wake of a huge tragedy, there are smaller and sometimes entirely unrelated tragedies that deserve attention, too.
* I've seen other people on my flist badmouth Jennifer Wiener's Loving a Larger Woman, but as a real-life larger woman, I kind of love that book to bits. It's both realistic in the sense that life sometimes sucks, and people suck ten kajillion times worse at times, but it's also feel-good wish-fulfillment fantasy—in the end, it all turns out as okay as it can. And sometimes, life happens like that, too.
But since the question was “What's my favorite book?” I'm going to go ahead and say that Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce has top rank. I've read and reread that book hundreds of times; I can quote chapters to you, and it's a book that combines my favorite things: weatherworking, learning/teaching control of magical gifts, dragons, foreign places and ways of doing things, sociology and anthropology, solving crimes, and blowing glass.
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miriel, who is starting Field School soon, after a stress-filled semester in college in Canada. She is also made entirely out of awesome.Rules:
Leave me a comment and
1. I'll tell you why I added you to my flist.
2. I'll tell you what I most associate with you.
3. I'll tell you what I like about you.
4. I'll state a favorite memory of you.
5. I will tell you about a character or a pairing that is similar to you.
6. I'll ask you a question about you that I've always wanted to know.
7. I'll tell you which of your user pics I like the best.
8. In return, post this meme on your journal.
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15/5/08 22:46 (UTC)2. Panthers. Incense. Living together peaceably. Summer. Fairs. Funnel cakes. Those slushies we served at Sue's & Senior's booths. The color blue. UK Wildcat frenzy. Love. Faith. Poetry. Loyalty.
3. Everything.
4. Any of the Thursdays at Mom & Me, before the ceramics lessons, when it was just the three of us.
5. Eric Calhoune, from Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. (He's the one staying fat, if you were at all curious.) Not because you're an 18-year-old overweight competitive swimmer whose 18-year-old father abandoned his pregnant 18-year-old mom and then went on to teach geology in the Midwest somewhere. But because you'll do anything to protect and help a friend, because you're smart and sarcastic, and you can avoid a direct question like a team of lawyers had coached you at it. Also because you can be passive-aggressive and at times self-defeating, but you still hang in there, all the time, doing what you have to do.
6. Not only do I want to know which Gargoyle is your favorite, but why them and not the other guy who might have been?
7.
1. What's your favorite thing about hand-animated Disney movies?
2. Which party will you be voting for in the 2008 Presidential election and why?
3. Right at this very moment, how do you feel about Jason?
4. In the past month, how have you felt about Jason?
5. When's the last time you talked to Jessi and/or Tabitha?