Meme.

[brigdh]

Gacked from, oh, everyone, it seems like:

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I'm going to rectify it. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

What was your first fandom?

[kohakutenshi.livejournal.com]

Well, others might know, but I don't. When'd you start writing for the Yami no Matsuei fandom?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, the first fandom that I actually knew as a fandom, like with internet connection and other people and fic and all, was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I keep ending up in it, switching to another fandom for a while, and then getting sucked back into it. It's like an abusive relationship!

But before that, I variously wrote a Mary Sue novel for Drizzt Do'Urden from the Forgotten Realms books, wrote a movie script for Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice, obsessed over Anne McCafferty's books, and read LotR five million times.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, I first got into the fandom in November of 2002, when someone on my friends list happened to rec the Possession vid. I watched it, fell in love, googled 'Yami no Matsuei' to come up with some information about it, and found Theria's site.

At which point I went crazy and read the entire series in one sitting. *cough* And then I started searching for the episodes on Kazaa, and eventually came up with all 13. It took a while for me to really move into this fandom, if just because I was very active at the time with something else, and I didn't want to break all ties suddenly. But you can definetely trace my leaving by looking at the music in my LJ posts- it aburptly all becomes stuff that has YnM associations for me.

I started writing with a Tsubaki-hime story that was finished on Janurary 21, 2003 (I always keep accurate dates on my word files of fic). ^^

[pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting meme. It seems to have less potential for awkwardness than many of the "finding out more about each other" ones.

What are your defining characteristics, then, apart from 'gay student fanficcer'? I only know those three things.

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

this may seem silly, but what is your gender? just to put a voice to your words.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

I still haven't finished the Farseer Trilogy. lindentreeisle turned me on to that. And my husband fanboyed Drizzt all through high school.

I never read or watched much Buffy fic, I was always pretty happy with the canon (until Season 6 and then I was just depressed).

[lucifrix.livejournal.com]

Do you have any phobias?

[kyriadalyn.livejournal.com]

i love your icon

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite kind of cake, if any?

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

DRIZZT IS SUCH A HOTTIE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_neith_/]

Who is your favorite author? (or mangaka, if you prefer...)

[katsue_fox]

Who's your favourite band or solo artist?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

XD

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aw, haven't finished it? No time, or did you not like it? Robin Hobb hits my kink for epic subtextual love stories in a big way, but I know that a lot of people are turned off my the high fantasy elements. You might try her LiveShip Traders trilogy if you want something a little less 'dungeons and dragons' plotwise.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's an interesting question. "Defining characteristics", hmmm... My major's anthropology, and I'm going to the second biggest college in the United States, which means constantly meeting new people and still getting lost on campus. That's good though, because I adore big cities. Farmland and woods and open country kind of scares me.

Which is due to where I grew up, I suppose, exactly between the dammit, our neighbors are selling crack *again* scary ghetto and the you have how many maids? rich, exclusive Jewish suburb. Because of that, I'm also completely race-, religion- and class- blind when it comes to people.

Um. I was raised Roman Catholic, but now I'm pretty quietly agnostic. I'm possibly too smart for my own good (I was Salutatorian of my high school class, and I'll be graduating from college in only three years), but people rarely realize it, especially in real life, because I apparantly don't come off that way. I have such a low alchohol tolerance that Hisoka looks like an AA member in comparison. I am not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination. I can't stand winter- I have the same levels of hate for the cold that most people reserve for the man who killed their entire family. I'm a vegetarian, except for when I feel like eating meat. I have no talent for drawing, but I fill the entire margins of my class notes with doodles, and I've been doing it for years, which always ends up being embarrassing when someone asks to borrow them. I don't have a job right now, but at various points I've been a lifeguard, a grocery store cashier, the clerk of a candy booth at a summer fair, a camp counsellor, a secretary, a janitor, a babysitter and a tutor. I still don't have my driver's license. I have a brother four years younger than me who I haven't called by name in ages; instead, depending on my mood at the moment, he's chibichan, dearheart, honeychild, boyo, boychild, or fucking brat.

Heh. Enough characteristics for you?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No worries! It is funny how that, one of the most basic characteristics of a person, can be really hard to guess.

But me, I'm a girl. \o/

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one.

I used to be absolutely terrified of big dogs. I'd nearly have a panic attack just by having to be near them. Now, not so much. I don't like spiders, or being out in the country far from cities, or hearing strange noises when I'm alone in the house, but there's nothing I'd really call a phobia.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ice cream cake! Mmmm, ice cream cake.

But I also used to love this kind of cake that they made at the grocery store near my house that I haven't seen in years. It was this banana cream cake, with vanilla/banana batter chocolate/banana icing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I love this question!

Robin Hobb is probably my very favorite author, but she's sort of a guilty pleasure. I could read her books over and over again, but logically, I know the writing isn't that good, it's just that she really pushes my buttons for epic subtextual love stories and conflicated, understandable villians.

Everything Neil Gaiman writes is beautiful and true and tragic. Or funny, depending. And I'll anything from Terry Pratchett.

Kate Walbert and Arundhati Roy (authors of "the Gardens of Kyoto" and "the God of Small Things", respectively) both write with a clean, stark loveliness that leaves you gasping, like the glimmer of light on a blade. But neither has written more than one novel, and I feel kind of silly saying that they're my favorite on the basis of just one thing. Similarily, "House of Leaves" by Mark. Z. Danielewski is the scariest book *ever*, but he'd need to write more for me to be sure I liked him.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Tough one! I listen to so much music, it's hard to pick a favorite. And besides, what I may be in the mood for one day isn't going to be what I'm in the mood for the next day.

But here are some of the artists whose CDs I'll buy as soon as they hit the stores: Eminem, A Perfect Circle, Tori Amos, Poe, Sarah McLachlan, 50 Cent, Massive Attack, Garbage, Radiohead, Coldplay, Flogging Molly, Goo Goo Dolls, Bright Eyes, Brand New and Neutral Milk Hotel. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but that'll give you an idea. ^^

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You know that Robin Hobb also writes under the name of Megan Lindholm, right? Her books under that name are much better written on a prose level, and are mostly available via amazon.uk. The "Ki and Vandien" series, a very un-epic fantasy series about a Gypsy-turned-teamster and her wild-and-crazy boyfriend, are some of my favorites ever.

[pennypaperbrain.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, your life story. That's a good bargain, thanks.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

My three-year-old doesn't like me reading in front of her but doesn't mind me writing, so my only real opportunities to read long, concentration-demanding stuff are vacations, for now. I read the first book on my last vacation and haven't gotten the second volume yet. I thought it rocked, but I'll just drop off halfway through if I try to read it right now.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Good to know.

[goddessgrrrrl.livejournal.com]

If you could slap anyone across the face, who would it be?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Cool, then, I'll bet you like- the pace and action actually start to pick up a lot in the second book. Plus, there's way more of my favorite character.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I did know that actually, I'd just never gotten around to reading any of them, because... well. Um. I'm sure there was a reason, but I've forgotten it.

*grins* I'll be putting those into my 'to-be-read' list.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know the answer to this question. ^_^

But as it's two people you don't know, it'd be kinda pointless to share.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

...who is...?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

The fool! <3<3<3

Though he's only in, like, two scenes in the first book. He becomes more important.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how much I was hoping you were going to say that. I love him-- he's so intriguing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

The fool is the bestest character of all time. Plus, um, he and Fitz are sooo slashy.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

yay!