Seven Things Meme
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calliopes_pen:
Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
She gave me:
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Writing
Jack Harkness
Dragons
Star Trek
Mythology
Ghostbusters - Ah, what to say. One of my longest-standing fandoms, along with Oz, Trek, and Who. Saw the first movie in the theaters at the tender age of 10. Been crushing on Dr. Spengler since before I knew what the warm fuzzy feeling behind my solar plexus even was. One of the few modern-day-ish fandoms where my favorite fantasy themes - ancient gods in the modern world, possession and its aftermath, altered states, magic, divination - are perfectly canonical. Not the most diverse cast, but for its time not too bad, especially in the cartoon version where Janine and Winston are main cast instead of secondary.
Back to the Future - Another oldie-but-goodie fandom for me. I like mad scientists, could you tell? The appeal here isn't so much the time travel itself, which I don't think they're consistent about, but the questions about relationships - what happens when those relationships change (substitute grandparent to co-conspirator, parent to friend or potential date, and just look at what happens to Biff). Oh, and the third movie is proto-steampunk that I can actually handle, as the Victoriana isn't the point.
Writing - Part of the joy of fiction, for me, is figuring out what else those characters could do in that world. Most of my fiction writing is just a matter of getting that out of my head and organized. My nonfiction writing is less about that and more about just trying to get something important communicated. I've been writing about 3-5 pages of text + images per class day for my Precal classes, since our textbook is terrible and I'm not sure I feel like relying on their in-class note-taking skills.
Jack Harkness - You know,quantumduck had warned me ahead of time that I'd love Captain Jack, and I was skeptical when I met him, because normally the Lovable Rogue archetype just pisses me the hell off. But the combination of the image of future sexuality that he embodies plus his demigod status post-Series One really made him fantastically attractive to me. And Barrowman's voice doesn't hurt a bit.
Dragons - I hesitate to identify as "otherkin," because most people who use the label are nucking futs. Someone, I thinkbradhicks, once came up with the idea of Fantasy Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which is a little better. All I know is, I remember flying and I have "phantom limb" wings, horns, and a tail. And I'm not the only one, and for some of those others who do, I have a near-instant sense of kinship. I'm not going to claim that I'm a "dragon trapped in a human body" or anything like that, because I'm also quite attached to being a mammal, TYVM. But it's an interesting duality, from my experience of it.
Star Trek - The ur-fandom. (Not the proto-fandom; that's Sherlock Holmes.) My parents are both Trek fans, albeit not obsessive ones, so I was exposed to this one very early. When TNG started airing, it was a communal experience at my high school to gather in one of the two dorm lobbies and watch it in one big group, about 30 of us all together. So this is very much a group fandom for me, rather than a solitary one.
Mythology - There are two types of truth, mythos and logos. Mythos is the truth of narrative, of storytelling and experience, of making our lives make sense in context. Logos is the truth of logic and reason, of measurable fact. Part of the problem with human cognition is that we consistently mistake one for the other, or forget that they're different at all. For instance, fundamentalists have taken a book full of (flawed, I think, but that's neither here nor there) mythos and are insisting that it's logos. Anyway, for me mythology is a matter of collecting other people's mythos and finding what parts of it work for me, out of their original contexts.
Let me know if you want to play!
Meme from
calliopes_pen:Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
She gave me:
Ghostbusters
Back to the Future
Writing
Jack Harkness
Dragons
Star Trek
Mythology
Ghostbusters - Ah, what to say. One of my longest-standing fandoms, along with Oz, Trek, and Who. Saw the first movie in the theaters at the tender age of 10. Been crushing on Dr. Spengler since before I knew what the warm fuzzy feeling behind my solar plexus even was. One of the few modern-day-ish fandoms where my favorite fantasy themes - ancient gods in the modern world, possession and its aftermath, altered states, magic, divination - are perfectly canonical. Not the most diverse cast, but for its time not too bad, especially in the cartoon version where Janine and Winston are main cast instead of secondary.
Back to the Future - Another oldie-but-goodie fandom for me. I like mad scientists, could you tell? The appeal here isn't so much the time travel itself, which I don't think they're consistent about, but the questions about relationships - what happens when those relationships change (substitute grandparent to co-conspirator, parent to friend or potential date, and just look at what happens to Biff). Oh, and the third movie is proto-steampunk that I can actually handle, as the Victoriana isn't the point.
Writing - Part of the joy of fiction, for me, is figuring out what else those characters could do in that world. Most of my fiction writing is just a matter of getting that out of my head and organized. My nonfiction writing is less about that and more about just trying to get something important communicated. I've been writing about 3-5 pages of text + images per class day for my Precal classes, since our textbook is terrible and I'm not sure I feel like relying on their in-class note-taking skills.
Jack Harkness - You know,
quantumduck had warned me ahead of time that I'd love Captain Jack, and I was skeptical when I met him, because normally the Lovable Rogue archetype just pisses me the hell off. But the combination of the image of future sexuality that he embodies plus his demigod status post-Series One really made him fantastically attractive to me. And Barrowman's voice doesn't hurt a bit.Dragons - I hesitate to identify as "otherkin," because most people who use the label are nucking futs. Someone, I think
bradhicks, once came up with the idea of Fantasy Body Dysmorphic Disorder, which is a little better. All I know is, I remember flying and I have "phantom limb" wings, horns, and a tail. And I'm not the only one, and for some of those others who do, I have a near-instant sense of kinship. I'm not going to claim that I'm a "dragon trapped in a human body" or anything like that, because I'm also quite attached to being a mammal, TYVM. But it's an interesting duality, from my experience of it.Star Trek - The ur-fandom. (Not the proto-fandom; that's Sherlock Holmes.) My parents are both Trek fans, albeit not obsessive ones, so I was exposed to this one very early. When TNG started airing, it was a communal experience at my high school to gather in one of the two dorm lobbies and watch it in one big group, about 30 of us all together. So this is very much a group fandom for me, rather than a solitary one.
Mythology - There are two types of truth, mythos and logos. Mythos is the truth of narrative, of storytelling and experience, of making our lives make sense in context. Logos is the truth of logic and reason, of measurable fact. Part of the problem with human cognition is that we consistently mistake one for the other, or forget that they're different at all. For instance, fundamentalists have taken a book full of (flawed, I think, but that's neither here nor there) mythos and are insisting that it's logos. Anyway, for me mythology is a matter of collecting other people's mythos and finding what parts of it work for me, out of their original contexts.
Let me know if you want to play!
