Another made up meme thing
Dec. 2nd, 2003 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWhy? Because I'm annoyed with life and want to distract myself from stuff that is annoying me. ;-)
Oh before I start - some good news: I finished
my marketing plan over the thanksgiving holidays and turn it in tonight at 6:10pm. Last class. Yippee!
This is a new meme, created by me - regarding the last meme (I'm pretty loose on the rules thing, if you want to list the Sandman series - all 11 volumes
as one work? You can. You can also list all the
volumes of Anne Rice's vampire series as one work as examples - of course it would be counter to the meme if you listed all BTVS episodes as your favorites - now that is cheating. ;-0).
New meme: (Only one major rule, if you should choose to do this - no bashing!! (I'm doing this to cheer myself up and figure out more about myself and others in fun way) Outside of that pretty much anything goes - oh and you can answer any of the questions you wish, skipping some or doing all...doesn't matter.)
1. Do you like slash fanfiction?
2. If you like slash, recommend one that you liked with author. (If you don't skip the question. For a definition of what slash is go tothebratqueen who did an essay on it. Rather good.)
3. Do you read fanfiction?
4. If so recommend one.
5. Are you a post-structuralist/existentialist or a structuralist/deist? Do you follow Sarrusa or Derrida? (for definition see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
superplin's essay on Destiny).
6. How do you view God? (note this is not do you believe in God, it's how you view or consider the concept of God...big difference)
7. Which philosophers off the top of your head are you interested in and want to learn more about?
8. Which philosophers do you prefer?
9. What's your favorite myth or myths?
10. What's your favorite fairy tale?
11. If you could re-write a myth or fairy tale, which one would it be and how would you re-tell it?
12. Do you know any authors who re-tell myths or fairy tales? IF so, whose your favorite? What myth or fairy tale did they re-tell?
13. If you could write a story from the perspective of one character in fiction - can be television, movies, books, or comics - which character would you pick and why? (Off the top of your head)
14. Okay, what do you really think of online personality tests? Like the Similar Minds one?
(yes, I know this breaks my bashing rule - but since none of us created those tests, we're not bashing each other right?)
15. If you could remake a TV show or Movie, redo it, re-cast it, rewrite it - which one would it be?
16. If you could write a biography on any historical figure, alive or dead, and interview them for it, which one would you pick? Why?
17. Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
18. What's your favorite historical period? Do you know any books on this period you'd recommend?
Rules - remember no bashing of other's choices,
although you can refer to them, particularly if you pick the same one. You don't have to answer all the questions, just pick the ones that interest you if you like.
1. Do you like slash fanfiction?
Yes. But it depends on my mood and the characters.
2. If you like slash, recommend one that you liked with author. (If you don't skip the question. For a definition of what slash is go tothebratqueen who did an essay on it. Rather good.)
Subleties by eliade, it's Xander/Spike, takes place five years after the events of BTVS, is AU, and starts with Xander finding Spike in NYC as a male escort. I like some of the character exploration.
Another one is a flashback - When in Rome -Spike/Angelus, Angel sees Spike in the basement in BTVS S7 and flashes back to their relationship.
3. Do you read fanfiction? Yes, but not a lot recently.
4. If so recommend one.
Chain by irkios, you can find it on All About Spike.
No sex really, although there is an attempted rape scene between Buffy and Warren. Very dark and gritty, and explores the ambiguities of Spike and Willow fairly well. AU S6. It explores what would have happened if Warren figured out how to manipulate Spike's chip and does not romanticize it.
Picks up after Dead Things.
WIP - Summer Son by Redover, very weird fic. Yes, everybody's human, but it's not what you'd expect.
27 chapters in and I can't figure out if the characters of Buffy and William are anti-heros. Each character actually comes across fairly even keel. Oddly gripping dark story. Not canon, but
it does add something. Keep wishing she'd complete it since I haven't a clue where she's headed.
5. Are you a post-structuralist/existentialist or a structuralist/deist? Do you follow Sarrusa or Derrida? (for definition seesuperplin's essay on Destiny).
Post-structuralist. Never heard of S or D, but appear to be more the existentialist end of things.
Although Sartre annoys me, which makes me a weird
existentialist.
6. How do you view God? (note this is not do you believe in God, it's how you view or consider the concept of God...big difference)
I view God as an energy force that guides and holds the universe together - maker and destroyer of all things, navigator, originator, completer...a concept beyond human understanding. For me, God guides me, more a guide - like in the series Joan of Arcadia or in BTVS. God to me is neither male nor female, black or white, good or evil, love or hate- but both and neither. Everything in the universe fits together and is part of God or this energy source - it is an extension of it and may be separate for a while but always returns...with the knowledge it obtained while being separate. Not sure any of that made sense. My concept of God is on-going experience, changing and evolving as I do.
7. Which philosophers off the top of your head are you interested in and want to learn more about?
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Foucalt
Kant
Popper/Wittensch..(who I can't spell)
Nietzche
8. Which philosophers do you prefer? Schopenhauer sounds interesting - I like the views on "will" that I read in a post on ATPO a while back, I tend to lean towards Lock's views on taste differentiation, and Foucalt's idea of building your own self is intriguing. (my knowledge of philosophy is sketchy...)
9. What's your favorite myth or myths?
I've always love the Persephone/Hades myth. The idea that she has to spend part of her time in the underworld and part above. I especially love the Summerian take on it which I saw a couple board members on ATPO riff on a while ago. Fascinating
myth.
10. What's your favorite fairy tale?
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. It's about a little girl who braves all sorts of adventures to save her male friend from a frigid life with the snow queen. It's one of the few fairy tales, where the boy is the damsel and the girl is the heroine and has all the adventures.
11. If you could re-write a myth or fairy tale, which one would it be and how would you re-tell it?
Hmmm...tough one. Have to skip for now.
12. Do you know any authors who re-tell myths or fairy tales? IF so, whose your favorite? What myth or fairy tale did they re-tell?
Terry Brooks has retold all the Greek myths - the best one he did was Persephone/Hades - in I think either Being a Green Mother or the book on hell, that I forget the name of.
Joan D. Vinge wrote a fantastic retelling of The Snow Queen.
13. If you could write a story from the perspective of one character in fiction - can be television, movies, books, or comics - which character would you pick and why? (Off the top of your head)
Also a tough one. Right now? I'd probably pick spike because his character is so hard to pin down, so full of contradictions, and extremes. He's like the Rumm Tumm Tiger of T.S. Eliot's verse. The other one I'd love to tackle is Lilah.
14. Okay, what do you really think of online personality tests? Like the Similar Minds one?
(yes, I know this breaks my bashing rule - but since none of us created those tests, we're not bashing each other right?)
Sorry, I've taken more online and offline personality tests than I care to think about and while they are sort of useful, they don't tell me that much. The similar mind thing? pfft. I prefer memes...to 49 questions that I might hit the wrong box do to a little disability of mine.
15. If you could remake a TV show or Movie, redo it, re-cast it, rewrite it - which one would it be?
Have no clue.
16. If you could write a biography on any historical figure, alive or dead, and interview them for it, which one would you pick? Why?
Don't know right now. (Although I've always had a fascination with T.E. Lawrence...)
17. Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
Don't know right now.
18. What's your favorite historical period? Do you know any books on this period you'd recommend?
Hmmm...to study? Always found the period of Ancient Greece and Bablyon fascinating. Don't know of any books on it. Although there is one I've been meaning to read called: "The Year 1000 - What Life was Like at The Turn of The First Millennium", An Englishman's World, by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger - nice and short.
Also need to get around to reading Cathleen Medwick's biography of Teresa of Avila, which takes place at another favorite period in history 1500's or the 16th century. The same century that Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles takes place. A bloody period in history rife with political intrique and murky morality.
Okay off to prepare for class.
Oh before I start - some good news: I finished
my marketing plan over the thanksgiving holidays and turn it in tonight at 6:10pm. Last class. Yippee!
This is a new meme, created by me - regarding the last meme (I'm pretty loose on the rules thing, if you want to list the Sandman series - all 11 volumes
as one work? You can. You can also list all the
volumes of Anne Rice's vampire series as one work as examples - of course it would be counter to the meme if you listed all BTVS episodes as your favorites - now that is cheating. ;-0).
New meme: (Only one major rule, if you should choose to do this - no bashing!! (I'm doing this to cheer myself up and figure out more about myself and others in fun way) Outside of that pretty much anything goes - oh and you can answer any of the questions you wish, skipping some or doing all...doesn't matter.)
1. Do you like slash fanfiction?
2. If you like slash, recommend one that you liked with author. (If you don't skip the question. For a definition of what slash is go to
thebratqueen who did an essay on it. Rather good.)3. Do you read fanfiction?
4. If so recommend one.
5. Are you a post-structuralist/existentialist or a structuralist/deist? Do you follow Sarrusa or Derrida? (for definition see
superplin's essay on Destiny).6. How do you view God? (note this is not do you believe in God, it's how you view or consider the concept of God...big difference)
7. Which philosophers off the top of your head are you interested in and want to learn more about?
8. Which philosophers do you prefer?
9. What's your favorite myth or myths?
10. What's your favorite fairy tale?
11. If you could re-write a myth or fairy tale, which one would it be and how would you re-tell it?
12. Do you know any authors who re-tell myths or fairy tales? IF so, whose your favorite? What myth or fairy tale did they re-tell?
13. If you could write a story from the perspective of one character in fiction - can be television, movies, books, or comics - which character would you pick and why? (Off the top of your head)
14. Okay, what do you really think of online personality tests? Like the Similar Minds one?
(yes, I know this breaks my bashing rule - but since none of us created those tests, we're not bashing each other right?)
15. If you could remake a TV show or Movie, redo it, re-cast it, rewrite it - which one would it be?
16. If you could write a biography on any historical figure, alive or dead, and interview them for it, which one would you pick? Why?
17. Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
18. What's your favorite historical period? Do you know any books on this period you'd recommend?
Rules - remember no bashing of other's choices,
although you can refer to them, particularly if you pick the same one. You don't have to answer all the questions, just pick the ones that interest you if you like.
1. Do you like slash fanfiction?
Yes. But it depends on my mood and the characters.
2. If you like slash, recommend one that you liked with author. (If you don't skip the question. For a definition of what slash is go to
thebratqueen who did an essay on it. Rather good.)Subleties by eliade, it's Xander/Spike, takes place five years after the events of BTVS, is AU, and starts with Xander finding Spike in NYC as a male escort. I like some of the character exploration.
Another one is a flashback - When in Rome -Spike/Angelus, Angel sees Spike in the basement in BTVS S7 and flashes back to their relationship.
3. Do you read fanfiction? Yes, but not a lot recently.
4. If so recommend one.
Chain by irkios, you can find it on All About Spike.
No sex really, although there is an attempted rape scene between Buffy and Warren. Very dark and gritty, and explores the ambiguities of Spike and Willow fairly well. AU S6. It explores what would have happened if Warren figured out how to manipulate Spike's chip and does not romanticize it.
Picks up after Dead Things.
WIP - Summer Son by Redover, very weird fic. Yes, everybody's human, but it's not what you'd expect.
27 chapters in and I can't figure out if the characters of Buffy and William are anti-heros. Each character actually comes across fairly even keel. Oddly gripping dark story. Not canon, but
it does add something. Keep wishing she'd complete it since I haven't a clue where she's headed.
5. Are you a post-structuralist/existentialist or a structuralist/deist? Do you follow Sarrusa or Derrida? (for definition see
superplin's essay on Destiny).Post-structuralist. Never heard of S or D, but appear to be more the existentialist end of things.
Although Sartre annoys me, which makes me a weird
existentialist.
6. How do you view God? (note this is not do you believe in God, it's how you view or consider the concept of God...big difference)
I view God as an energy force that guides and holds the universe together - maker and destroyer of all things, navigator, originator, completer...a concept beyond human understanding. For me, God guides me, more a guide - like in the series Joan of Arcadia or in BTVS. God to me is neither male nor female, black or white, good or evil, love or hate- but both and neither. Everything in the universe fits together and is part of God or this energy source - it is an extension of it and may be separate for a while but always returns...with the knowledge it obtained while being separate. Not sure any of that made sense. My concept of God is on-going experience, changing and evolving as I do.
7. Which philosophers off the top of your head are you interested in and want to learn more about?
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Foucalt
Kant
Popper/Wittensch..(who I can't spell)
Nietzche
8. Which philosophers do you prefer? Schopenhauer sounds interesting - I like the views on "will" that I read in a post on ATPO a while back, I tend to lean towards Lock's views on taste differentiation, and Foucalt's idea of building your own self is intriguing. (my knowledge of philosophy is sketchy...)
9. What's your favorite myth or myths?
I've always love the Persephone/Hades myth. The idea that she has to spend part of her time in the underworld and part above. I especially love the Summerian take on it which I saw a couple board members on ATPO riff on a while ago. Fascinating
myth.
10. What's your favorite fairy tale?
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson. It's about a little girl who braves all sorts of adventures to save her male friend from a frigid life with the snow queen. It's one of the few fairy tales, where the boy is the damsel and the girl is the heroine and has all the adventures.
11. If you could re-write a myth or fairy tale, which one would it be and how would you re-tell it?
Hmmm...tough one. Have to skip for now.
12. Do you know any authors who re-tell myths or fairy tales? IF so, whose your favorite? What myth or fairy tale did they re-tell?
Terry Brooks has retold all the Greek myths - the best one he did was Persephone/Hades - in I think either Being a Green Mother or the book on hell, that I forget the name of.
Joan D. Vinge wrote a fantastic retelling of The Snow Queen.
13. If you could write a story from the perspective of one character in fiction - can be television, movies, books, or comics - which character would you pick and why? (Off the top of your head)
Also a tough one. Right now? I'd probably pick spike because his character is so hard to pin down, so full of contradictions, and extremes. He's like the Rumm Tumm Tiger of T.S. Eliot's verse. The other one I'd love to tackle is Lilah.
14. Okay, what do you really think of online personality tests? Like the Similar Minds one?
(yes, I know this breaks my bashing rule - but since none of us created those tests, we're not bashing each other right?)
Sorry, I've taken more online and offline personality tests than I care to think about and while they are sort of useful, they don't tell me that much. The similar mind thing? pfft. I prefer memes...to 49 questions that I might hit the wrong box do to a little disability of mine.
15. If you could remake a TV show or Movie, redo it, re-cast it, rewrite it - which one would it be?
Have no clue.
16. If you could write a biography on any historical figure, alive or dead, and interview them for it, which one would you pick? Why?
Don't know right now. (Although I've always had a fascination with T.E. Lawrence...)
17. Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
Don't know right now.
18. What's your favorite historical period? Do you know any books on this period you'd recommend?
Hmmm...to study? Always found the period of Ancient Greece and Bablyon fascinating. Don't know of any books on it. Although there is one I've been meaning to read called: "The Year 1000 - What Life was Like at The Turn of The First Millennium", An Englishman's World, by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger - nice and short.
Also need to get around to reading Cathleen Medwick's biography of Teresa of Avila, which takes place at another favorite period in history 1500's or the 16th century. The same century that Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles takes place. A bloody period in history rife with political intrique and murky morality.
Okay off to prepare for class.
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Date: 2003-12-02 01:31 pm (UTC)No, not familar with...
Date: 2003-12-02 08:12 pm (UTC)Maybe the library will have it.
Thanks for suggestion.
I think you mean...
Date: 2003-12-02 04:13 pm (UTC)Piers Anthony. I wouldn't say he 'retold' the greek myths in the series, but rather used them as a basis for creating a new mythos. If you and I are thinking of the same series - the first novel being about Death, called On a Pale Horse, the second about Time, etc.
You're right it was Piers Anthony
Date: 2003-12-02 08:09 pm (UTC)Anthony and Terry Brooks. They're nothing alike, yet
in my memory...I group them together.
Thanks
Me! Me! Meme
Date: 2003-12-03 01:25 pm (UTC)1. Do you like slash fanfiction?
Yes, very much so. Mmm, gay porn.
2. If you like slash, recommend one that you liked with author. (If you don't skip the question. For a definition of what slash is go to thebratqueen who did an essay on it. Rather good.)
Days of Our Unlives by Kita and Jess. It's Spike/Angel slash except it's really a screwball comedy at heart, which is one of my fave genres.
3. Do you read fanfiction?
Yes, but not in quite awhile.
4. If so recommend one.
Half-Gifts by Automated Alice. Just delicious writing, delirious in its love of language. More a mood piece than a narrative, but she has such a great ear for Spike's voice and its natural poeticism.
5. Are you a post-structuralist/existentialist or a structuralist/deist? Do you follow Sarrusa or Derrida? (for definition see superplin's essay on Destiny).
Based on superplin's essay, I guess I'm in the Derrida camp. Otherwise only know of Derrida by rep (and much whining from people who've had to study him! LOL)
6. How do you view God? (note this is not do you believe in God, it's how you view or consider the concept of God...big difference)
Not a deist basically. I am horribly pragmatic. Well, most days.
7. Which philosophers off the top of your head are you interested in and want to learn more about?
I stopped studying philosophy after the Existentialists, so really everyone after that would be necessary. I'm a completist. Wittgenstein sounds really interesting to me.
8. Which philosophers do you prefer?
Kierkegaard & Kant, but I'm old-fashioned so I really enjoy reading the Greeks as well.
9. What's your favorite myth or myths?
10. What's your favorite fairy tale?
11. If you could re-write a myth or fairy tale, which one would it be and how would you re-tell it?
Have to think about these.
12. Do you know any authors who re-tell myths or fairy tales? IF so, whose your favorite? What myth or fairy tale did they re-tell?
Angela Carter. I love The Bloody Chamber and The Tiger's Bride, retellings of Bluebeard and Beauty and the Beast, respectively.
13. If you could write a story from the perspective of one character in fiction - can be television, movies, books, or comics - which character would you pick and why? (Off the top of your head)
Hmmm...another one to ponder.
14. Okay, what do you really think of online personality tests? Like the Similar Minds one?
Don't pay them any mind, really.
15. If you could remake a TV show or Movie, redo it, re-cast it, rewrite it - which one would it be?
How To Steal a Million. With JM in the Peter O'Toole role.
16. If you could write a biography on any historical figure, alive or dead, and interview them for it, which one would you pick? Why?
Shakespeare. To settle all these nagging questions about Hamlet, and other plays. But he'd probably be like Joss, or Dunnett, and just tease me.
17. Who is your favorite historical figure? Why?
Don't really have a fave.
18. What's your favorite historical period? Do you know any books on this period you'd recommend?
I consider myself a dolt when it comes to history, very patchy in what little I know. Basically, I'll enjoy anything that involves a good story. Really enjoyed the Lewis & Clark documentary on PBS recently. Of course, I realized after watching it that I have a book about this, unread, on my shelves of unread books (Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose), so now I will feel guilty about not having read yet another book I should've.
Alice, drowning in cookie recipes
Re: Me! Me! Meme
Date: 2003-12-03 04:33 pm (UTC)on live journal, b/c you don't get people arguing with you about your choices.
So, is Derrida the post-structuralist or structuralist?
I'm thinking post-structuralist/existentialist...but have forgotten. I think I'm Derrida too. Though know zip about him.
Loved Half-Gifts too, another WIP, ugh. Has she ever finished it?