Because Memes are Fun!

[osprey_archer]

Because I've wanted to do a meme since forever, because they're totally cool and awesome.

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Questions from troublems03.



1. What's the story behind your username?

The very, very long and circuitous version is in the post about telepathic companion animals. The short version is that, when I was younger, I had a story idea that involved telepathic ospreys that bonded to archers, and it practically alliterated and I needed a username sooooo....

There are worse usernames to have as a relic from younger, more foolish days (Iheartmycrush666 or something of the sort), so I kept it.


2. Where would you go on your dream holiday?

How realistic does this have to be? Because if it doesn't have to be realistic at all then I'm going to steal the TARDIS and go everywhere. And everywhen.

In a slightly more realistic world, I would go on a cross-country trip through Europe, starting in Britain, wending through France, Spain, Italy (visiting my friend who is studying there), Greece, Bulgaria (to visit my roommate), ending in St. Petersburg to see if I like Russia enough to make getting up at 8:30 all of next year to study Russian worthwhile.


3. What day of the week do you always look forward to most and why?

Hmmm. During the school year it was definitely Saturday (no work! No need to do homework! Starbucks morning!), but now that I'm home that may change. At least until I get a job the days will all blur together into an indistinguishable mass, and I will be looking forward to good weather and new movies from Netflix and trips to the library more than any particular day.


4. Is sleeping in until midday a waste of a day?

It depends. If you're deathly ill or recovering from an operation or naturally nocturnal, no. If you're me (and not covered under the first two categories), then yes.


5. What's your favourite word?

You had to bring up favorites, didn't you? It's so hard to pick a favorite anything, especially a favorite word, because there are so many thousands lovable for so many different reasons.

I like tintinnabulation because it's so much fun to say, and I have so few opportunities to use it.

I like carmine, because it sounds so very, very red.

I like paroxysm and paradox because x's are fun and because the two words, although unrelated, are second cousins in my head. Possibly because irresolvable paradoxes are apt to drive me into paroxysms of intellectual despair.

I like verity, because it is the loveliest word for the concept it represents. It's a spiky word, which is fair because truth hurts--pointier and less blunt than the word truth--but also brighter and more illuminating.

I could go on all day, but I think I'll stop.



If you want to reply to something but don't want to be hit up for a meme (although I promise I'll ask nice questions! I promise!) just say so and I will reluctantly stay my inquiring mind.

Comments

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

heh, yay favorite words! and you picked some very lovely ones. (there's this Most Amazing Pablo Neruda mini-essay on nouns, which i tragically can't locate online, hm... but he uses verbs and metaphors to describe them instead of boring ol' adjectives... and so favorite-word choosing always reminds me of that).

re: the meme, i don't know if i'd be willing to answer random questions in my *journal,* since it's really for icons and all... but maybe in a reply to this comment? totally ruins the viral nature of the meme, but i can't think of something better... : P

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's perfectly fine if you only want to answer questions here. I don't care about spreading the meme so much as getting answers. *evil smile*

1. What is your favorite word?
2. How did you get into making icons?
3. Who are your favorite classical movie actor and actress (one each) and why?
4. Which Veronica Mars character would you like to take out to dinner and why?
5. What makes ice cream so great?

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

oh, these are *fun* questions! i approve highly (if that counts for anything.) ; )

1.this is horrible. there are many. if i was busy doing my ususal (but not as usual as i'd like) burst of internet-free creative writing, i'd have something very eloquent (i like the word eloquent)... but otherwise, erm, "preggers" makes me giggle.

oooh! and otomotpeia.

2.it started out as obsession over fandoms (mostly buffy and the office, i think) and a strong urge to make pretty wallpapers. and so i made a few of those, but then i found lj, and icons, and fell in love with doing things 100x100 pixels. because they're tiny, and go quickly, but people get really, really creative with them and it's challenging and fun.

3.hm. probably judy garland, for female, because i grew up loving her and her voice. and as for male, gene kelly, no question... again with the early love of musicals. and he's an amazing dancer. sooo amazing.

4.though it's tempting to say logan, because he's particuarly attractive and also very amazing, i'd probably say veronica, because she's got a good sense of humor, is tough-as-nails, and could teach me neat detective tricks (in theory).

5.oh man, i don't know. probably the sugar, but also the fact that it melts on your tounge from something solid and cold and yummy to a liquid that slips away down your throat. etc. etc.

and there you go, you are answered. ; )
(at length!)

[silksieve.livejournal.com]

gasp, you don't like to sleep in?! :D

hmm....if you like, feel free to ask me questions, and I'll answer them here!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Ah, you misunderstand me. I love sleeping in; it just destroys my productivity for the rest of the day when I do.

Questions!
1. Where did you get your username? It's so euphonious.
2. Which Jane Austen book do you like best and why?
3. What qualities do you think make a movie good?
4. What's your favorite era in history and why?
5. If you found a hundred dollars, what would you do with it?

[silksieve.livejournal.com]

1.Hmm...this is going to be a longer answer than warranted, but I thought of the name as reflective of a blog, you know, letting some things through and some not, and the silk for a finer, better cloth, than say, netting :D
2. I used to say Sense and Sensibility, but now I'm torn between Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. I really appreciate the emtional depth in Persuasion, but I've recently been reminded just how smart Pride and Prejudice is...so, I can't decide!
3. Good writing, especially wit, and good direction. I appreciate charm in comedies, and emotion in dramas (even if they're repressed. :) I'm not a fan of existentialism and "message" films that overpower the storytelling. Actually, that's kind of what it boils down to: a good story.
4. I love the Gilded age in the US (technology is booming, women are getting out the vote, life is pretty good--if you have money) and the 1750's. I guess I have a thing for big skirts. And powdered wigs. And men in heels who carried swords. :D
5. Right now? Put it towards my student loans, lol. And maybe go see a movie.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I love the Gilded Age. It doesn't seem to be widely popular, sadly :(, so I'm glad to meet a fellow aficionado.

[troublems03.livejournal.com]

I love you choices of words - very interesting.

And I'll answer some questions here if that's okay.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

:)

1. What superpower would you most want to have?
2. What would you dream house be like?
3. What kind of engineering are you studying?
4. How did you get interested in fanfiction about the next generation in Harry Potter?
5. What is the mars volta, anyway?

[troublems03.livejournal.com]

1. My superpower would be...oh! This is hard - I want to choose more than one. But...if I was limited to one I thing it would be...umm...super-speed. Because I'm really clumsy and it would be a nice change as well as a bit of an adrenalin rush.

2. My dream house would probably be described as "cosy" but it wouldn't be at all kitsch. There would be a lot of fire places, small-ish sized rooms with old floorboards and rugs and the colours would be largely deep reds and purples. So, yeah, it would be warm and inviting - the kind of place where you'd have a favourite comfy armchair in a study filled with good novels.

3. I am studying electrical engineering (/nerd)...but I'm only just finishing my first semester so it's pretty generic at the moment. But...I want to get into telecommunications engineering and then ideally work in Antarctica as a telecomms engineer.

4. Ah. NextGen fanfiction, one of my guilty pleasures. I think for me it was that I found the epilogue of the 7th book somewhat lacking and hence wanted something to fill in some of the gaps and expand on some of the new characters introduced. Plus, Albus Severus/Scorpius and Rose/Scorpius both have so much potential (with irate fathers and all)...I'm yet to decide which I prefer.

5. What? Surely who? The Mars Volta (http://www.themarsvolta.com/) are prog rock gods a progressive rock band with Latin influences who are the most awesome musicians ever. Okay, I'm biased and they're not everyone's cup of tea but I think that they're divine.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Antarctica! You do dream big--and cold--but really, I am very impressed.

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please, Don't fence me in

Random enough?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Alas! I will never forgive you for your lack of randomness. Tragedy!

(That was sarcastic. I have discovered that people can't tell.)

1. If you could embody an ideal (Truth, Justice, Love, etc.) which ideal would you embody?
2. What is Life on Mars, anyway?
3. If you had a telepathic companion animal, what would it be?
4. Why Owen/Ianto?
5. What's your favorite kind of cookie?

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

1. Consistency. It's not one of my options, nor is it a strictly legitimate answer to your question, but it does fulfill the requirements of an Ideal. I preach about consistency at work, and I value it highly; it's actually one of the words that's regularly used to describe me.

2. Life on Mars is a product of the BBC. It ran for two seasons (12 whole episodes) and starred John Simm--the Master from the third season of Doctor Who--as a modern-day detective who is hit by a car in the first episode and spends the rest of the series in 1973, not knowing how he got then or how to get home. The episodes themselves are above par for a television series, but what makes the show is Simm as Sam Tyler as he's absolutely brillant and sympathetic even when he's being a pompous ass. Oh, and there's Gene Hunt, who really has to be seen to be experienced. Tragically, US tv has decided to remake LoM...it makes my soul die.

3. Wow. Talk about random questions. I'm not really an animal person at all, so I'm just going to go with my dog Davey. Unfortunately, Davey's pretty dumb so I think the communication would be limited to, "chickenchickenchicken...i'm tangled again...chickenchickenchicken...ooh bug!...chickenchickenchicken" and I might lose my mind.

4. I've liked Owen since the beginning of the series, so it was only natural that he be the point of interest here. I've always thought that Owen was a interesting character, and decidedly more complex than the single-minded asshole that he could have been seen as (and I was a little smitten by the moment with Diane where she has him against the window and his arms are wrapping around her back). On the other hand, I didn't like Ianto so much in the first season. He had his moments (saving Tosh from the cannibals), but as much as I appreciated what he was doing in CJH, I didn't like so much that he shot Owen. More importantly, he came off as inconsistently characterized and too physically perfect to be of any interest. Then Jack left and his team had just been put through hell, and it just seemed...natural. Sure, they hate each other, but that's what the pairing interesting. Gwen has Rhys, Tosh would have become too attached too quickly, but Owen and Ianto were at a place where they had either had to bond or kill each other. And, to quote myself, "[Ianto] know[s] what it's like to need saving, and to have no one come."

5. I make an amazing White Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal cookie, but (secretly) my favorite cookie is the muddy chocolate oatmeal clumps that my grandfather used to make...I've never been able to get them right.