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shadowkat1. So I found the The Kinsey Scale Test online - I got the idea watching HACKS which brought it up numerous times. I'm apparently "1" or "I am heterosexual with incidental homosexual tendencies on the Kinsey scale." Although how accurate a ten question quiz is on the internet is...
The reason for that? I like to socialize with men and women, have formed close attachments to men and women. I'm just not sexually attracted to any of the women I've formed the attachments to. So basically, if you are female and have a lot of close female friends, or male with a lot of close male friends - then you too are either 1 or 2 on the Kinsey Scale.
2. Per Twitter notifications...
This is just...too good not to share?
NeilGaiman@neilhimself.com
I don't write much about gay sex, as people who have read my books would know. But, oddly, I don't read a tweet like this and feel the urge to convert. Instead I read it and vaguely wish I'd actually written more about gay sex.
Quote Tweet
eclecticanecdotes
eclecanecdotes·
23h
Replying toneilhimself
Stop writing about gay sex and accept Jesus Christ. You will never be as good a writer as Tolkien because you reject Logos.
Me: First of all who in the frigging hell is Logos? Is it Legolas? WTF? Or is it Legos?? WTF?
[Reads comments. Ah, it's Logos and Greek for the Word of God, got it. And it apparently made no sense to anyone on the comments thread..except for two Greek scholars, one of which stated, somewhat snarkily..."Because why use English, when you can use Ancient Greek.."]
Comments:
Why would anyone reject Legos?
[Personally, I'm not a fan of Legos...but that's just me.]
While I read it as rejecting Legolas - because my brain skipped ahead.
Me: Good to know I wasn't the only one who did that.
Other commentators took this as an opportunity to attempt to persuade Neil to write a gay sex scene between Arizaphale and Crowly, and debating which one would be on top.
Honestly, why bother - when you have all these other people writing it for you? I mean what's the point of fanfic writers - if they can't write all the smutty pairings you can't quite get around to writing yourself?
I was beside myself with laughter. Also, I agreed with commentator who said they thought he'd confused Tolkien with CS Lewis. I'd agree - Lewis was more interested in the Word of God, Tolkien personally preferred that God and theology be left out of fictional works and left to theologians.
I suggested one commentator who had noted Neil was her favorite writer because he took nothing seriously - should look up PD Wodehouse, who didn't either.
It's a lovely thing being well-read, you can play with people on social media.
I told someone else who said Tolkien was a better writer than Neil Gaimen, that I don't think you can compare the two. I don't. While they are both world-builders, they were interested in different things. Tolkien was a linguist, Gaiman is a mythologist and folklorist. Two separate interests, right there. Also wrote during different periods.
Anyhow it was a fun thread to play on.
3. Still on Writer Twitter (which is a lot more fun than Political and Soap Twitter, also less toxic for the most part)...
People older than 40, please fill in the blanks. You're standing in front of a corded telephone. You pick up the reciever. There's no dialtone, so you tap the (A)_____ a couple of times to check. There's still no dialtone, so you put the receiver back in the (B)_____.
I still have one. At work and at home. I don't know what to call the thingy that you tap. It is possibly a hook? And I put the phone back in its cradle.
4. Crazy Workplace
Well, I got a shock today. The woman who left crazy workplace in 2008 for a gig closer to where she lived, which she'd been working to get for a long time, and had a nice gym, a spa, a pool, and was fifteen minutes from her house - left this job, which allegedly paid her more, for a job at crazy workplace, at lower pay, at a position a rung below her previous one, and no vacation time (she thinks she gets three weeks to start - that doesn't happen until two years in).
I was shocked. I asked her why... and she explained that the private world works you to death. During the pandemic - she had to come in every day, worked weekends, and worked evenings. That you work on vacation. That you work until the job is done, and the deadlines met, and there's no overtime.
Here - we get overtime. (well, not really, we get comp time and you have to get up to 99 hours of it to cash out and its rarely approved). But okay.
She took a job with the other side of the house - general services. Which also shocked me, because when I joined, she told me that I was with the cool group - Construction.
It was surprising to see her back, although it did make it clear to me that hunting a job elsewhere doing what I'm doing now - isn't necessarily a great idea.
I could probably retire easier than she could - I don't have the expenses.
I don't live that high on the hog. But who knows really?
5. Chidi disliked the Elvis movie but loves House of Dragon. Sigh, Chidi likes violent things. And does not like musicals. My co-workers are boring. I want new co-workers.
Chidi: Nothing happened in the Elvis movie.
Me: Stuff happened. It was a film filled with metaphors...
Chidi: No different than stuff on James Brown..couldn't make it through it.
Sigh. I told Chidi I'd seen Hacks, but didn't recommend it to him. He'd hate it.
The reason for that? I like to socialize with men and women, have formed close attachments to men and women. I'm just not sexually attracted to any of the women I've formed the attachments to. So basically, if you are female and have a lot of close female friends, or male with a lot of close male friends - then you too are either 1 or 2 on the Kinsey Scale.
2. Per Twitter notifications...
This is just...too good not to share?
NeilGaiman@neilhimself.com
I don't write much about gay sex, as people who have read my books would know. But, oddly, I don't read a tweet like this and feel the urge to convert. Instead I read it and vaguely wish I'd actually written more about gay sex.
Quote Tweet
eclecticanecdotes
eclecanecdotes· 23h
Replying to
neilhimselfStop writing about gay sex and accept Jesus Christ. You will never be as good a writer as Tolkien because you reject Logos.
Me: First of all who in the frigging hell is Logos? Is it Legolas? WTF? Or is it Legos?? WTF?
[Reads comments. Ah, it's Logos and Greek for the Word of God, got it. And it apparently made no sense to anyone on the comments thread..except for two Greek scholars, one of which stated, somewhat snarkily..."Because why use English, when you can use Ancient Greek.."]
Comments:
Why would anyone reject Legos?
[Personally, I'm not a fan of Legos...but that's just me.]
While I read it as rejecting Legolas - because my brain skipped ahead.
Me: Good to know I wasn't the only one who did that.
Other commentators took this as an opportunity to attempt to persuade Neil to write a gay sex scene between Arizaphale and Crowly, and debating which one would be on top.
Honestly, why bother - when you have all these other people writing it for you? I mean what's the point of fanfic writers - if they can't write all the smutty pairings you can't quite get around to writing yourself?
I was beside myself with laughter. Also, I agreed with commentator who said they thought he'd confused Tolkien with CS Lewis. I'd agree - Lewis was more interested in the Word of God, Tolkien personally preferred that God and theology be left out of fictional works and left to theologians.
I suggested one commentator who had noted Neil was her favorite writer because he took nothing seriously - should look up PD Wodehouse, who didn't either.
It's a lovely thing being well-read, you can play with people on social media.
I told someone else who said Tolkien was a better writer than Neil Gaimen, that I don't think you can compare the two. I don't. While they are both world-builders, they were interested in different things. Tolkien was a linguist, Gaiman is a mythologist and folklorist. Two separate interests, right there. Also wrote during different periods.
Anyhow it was a fun thread to play on.
3. Still on Writer Twitter (which is a lot more fun than Political and Soap Twitter, also less toxic for the most part)...
People older than 40, please fill in the blanks. You're standing in front of a corded telephone. You pick up the reciever. There's no dialtone, so you tap the (A)_____ a couple of times to check. There's still no dialtone, so you put the receiver back in the (B)_____.
I still have one. At work and at home. I don't know what to call the thingy that you tap. It is possibly a hook? And I put the phone back in its cradle.
4. Crazy Workplace
Well, I got a shock today. The woman who left crazy workplace in 2008 for a gig closer to where she lived, which she'd been working to get for a long time, and had a nice gym, a spa, a pool, and was fifteen minutes from her house - left this job, which allegedly paid her more, for a job at crazy workplace, at lower pay, at a position a rung below her previous one, and no vacation time (she thinks she gets three weeks to start - that doesn't happen until two years in).
I was shocked. I asked her why... and she explained that the private world works you to death. During the pandemic - she had to come in every day, worked weekends, and worked evenings. That you work on vacation. That you work until the job is done, and the deadlines met, and there's no overtime.
Here - we get overtime. (well, not really, we get comp time and you have to get up to 99 hours of it to cash out and its rarely approved). But okay.
She took a job with the other side of the house - general services. Which also shocked me, because when I joined, she told me that I was with the cool group - Construction.
It was surprising to see her back, although it did make it clear to me that hunting a job elsewhere doing what I'm doing now - isn't necessarily a great idea.
I could probably retire easier than she could - I don't have the expenses.
I don't live that high on the hog. But who knows really?
5. Chidi disliked the Elvis movie but loves House of Dragon. Sigh, Chidi likes violent things. And does not like musicals. My co-workers are boring. I want new co-workers.
Chidi: Nothing happened in the Elvis movie.
Me: Stuff happened. It was a film filled with metaphors...
Chidi: No different than stuff on James Brown..couldn't make it through it.
Sigh. I told Chidi I'd seen Hacks, but didn't recommend it to him. He'd hate it.
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Date: 2022-09-07 08:04 am (UTC)And, yeah, but what's the other thing? I too grew up with them but don't recall knowing a name, I can't guess better than your .
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Date: 2022-09-07 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-07 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-09 02:00 am (UTC)Ah, you scored higher than I did on Kinsey Scale.
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Date: 2022-09-07 05:42 pm (UTC)Good for Gaiman.
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Date: 2022-09-09 01:58 am (UTC)Gaiman's latest is an apology, stating he promises not to do anything with Lord of the Rings in the future. (I don't even think he's really read or liked Tolkien, he doesn't seem to be his brand of fantasy to be honest.)
I think the marketing people confused them? - They seem to have gotten the Rings of Power marketing launch confused with the marketing launch for Sandman (although I have no clue how - the two couldn't be any more different, plus different channels) or they got it confused with Good Omens (same situation - couldn't be any more different). There's more similarity between Game of Thrones than Sandman/Good Omens.
People are weird.
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Date: 2022-09-08 03:52 pm (UTC)Now-- if you have a wall-mounted phone (or a phone booth phone, which is also a wall-mount design), then the thing you press and release is indeed called a hook, because it looks like one. The handset hangs on it, it isn't "cradled" like on a desktop phone. The hook operates the same internal switches as a button set would.
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Date: 2022-09-09 01:52 am (UTC)