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Sep. 6th, 2005 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeLook at your LJ "interests" list. If you have fewer than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much.
I was careful about counting 'em, but I still ended up with a big long list. Make yourself a nice cup of tea, this is a long one...
1. autumn -- My favorite season of the year: relief from the heat and bugs of summer... lovely colored leaves... and Hallowe'en!
2. charles williams -- One of J.R.R. Tolkien's literary friends and the author of some incredibly densely-packed spiritual fantasy novels. This guy's books have almost as many literary and mythologic and philosophic references packed into each square inch as the "Matrix" movies do.
3. creativity --
4. fan fic -- reading/writing/sporking badfics... I discovered fan fic as an art form when I first started going online back in the late 1990's, but I was creating fan fic a long time before that (though I didn't write it down) when I used to play out spin-offs of my favorite books, using my menagerie of stuffed animals. Beatrix Potter's lesser-known chapter book "The Fairy Caravan" was one that I did a *lot* of spin-offs from.
5. gigolo joe -- ::Blushes:: He's gotta be the most original character in the movie "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence", and one of the best roles Jude Law ever played.
6. j.k. rowling -- Probably the most clever female fantasy writer today: I may be not be as wild about Harry as some people, but I like the books, and I like the person who wrote them: she may be immensely popular, but she's managed to keep her humility, and her life story is one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories ever.
7. knights -- King Arthur's champions of the Round Table. Charlemagne's court. Edmund Spenser's Red Cross Knight. I suppose Ste. Jeanne d'Arc could be considered a female knight (I got a boughten knight costume and dressed up as her for Hallowe'en a few years back). We need more guys like these fellas!
8. matrix fanfiction -- Hey, we've got dozens of intriguing characters each with their own personal history, and seven iterations of the Matrix (the First Matrix, ie. the Paradise that fell, plus six iterations during the cycles of the One), and roughly 700 years of backstory to fill in on the ultimate geek fandom. I have a feeling the Wachowski Brothers left a lot of wormholes and lacunae in their masterpiece to give the fans something to play with. I'll say one thing, it's a fandom that's good to the fans who get it.
9. movie musicals -- Okay, some people may see them as being corny and unrealistic, but they're fun to watch, and they're great to sing along with.
10. old movies -- Sometimes I think the old classics had more style than the blockbusters of today. And hey, we wouldn't have the blockbusters without the early silents and talkies...
11. republicans -- Please don't hold it against me. I'd rather that we did away with the two-party system entirely (as well as the electoral college; if we're gonna do something like that, we might as well use a system like the College of keep the whiny babies among the Democrats (or the Demobratz as I prefer to call them) from getting into office and pulling this country down any further.
12. soulbonding -- This is something I firmly believe can happen, and it's something I value very highly. It's something I've done since I was nine or ten, but it wasn't until recently that I knew the "proper" name for it. I'm fascinated by it, as I experience it, and as others do. Even the erratic soulbonders and the fanbrats who give it a bad name hold my interest, though the antics of the latter class make me laugh.
13. the matrix trilogy -- ::Looks up at her username::
14. true love -- I may not seem like it, but I'm actually a romantic. I believe that real love has to be reciprocal, and it has to work on all levels, *and* that there's someone out there for everyone, if they're supposed to find that someone. It's just that we've got this thing called free will that causes people to choose the wrong someones...
I was careful about counting 'em, but I still ended up with a big long list. Make yourself a nice cup of tea, this is a long one...
1. autumn -- My favorite season of the year: relief from the heat and bugs of summer... lovely colored leaves... and Hallowe'en!
2. charles williams -- One of J.R.R. Tolkien's literary friends and the author of some incredibly densely-packed spiritual fantasy novels. This guy's books have almost as many literary and mythologic and philosophic references packed into each square inch as the "Matrix" movies do.
3. creativity --
4. fan fic -- reading/writing/sporking badfics... I discovered fan fic as an art form when I first started going online back in the late 1990's, but I was creating fan fic a long time before that (though I didn't write it down) when I used to play out spin-offs of my favorite books, using my menagerie of stuffed animals. Beatrix Potter's lesser-known chapter book "The Fairy Caravan" was one that I did a *lot* of spin-offs from.
5. gigolo joe -- ::Blushes:: He's gotta be the most original character in the movie "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence", and one of the best roles Jude Law ever played.
6. j.k. rowling -- Probably the most clever female fantasy writer today: I may be not be as wild about Harry as some people, but I like the books, and I like the person who wrote them: she may be immensely popular, but she's managed to keep her humility, and her life story is one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories ever.
7. knights -- King Arthur's champions of the Round Table. Charlemagne's court. Edmund Spenser's Red Cross Knight. I suppose Ste. Jeanne d'Arc could be considered a female knight (I got a boughten knight costume and dressed up as her for Hallowe'en a few years back). We need more guys like these fellas!
8. matrix fanfiction -- Hey, we've got dozens of intriguing characters each with their own personal history, and seven iterations of the Matrix (the First Matrix, ie. the Paradise that fell, plus six iterations during the cycles of the One), and roughly 700 years of backstory to fill in on the ultimate geek fandom. I have a feeling the Wachowski Brothers left a lot of wormholes and lacunae in their masterpiece to give the fans something to play with. I'll say one thing, it's a fandom that's good to the fans who get it.
9. movie musicals -- Okay, some people may see them as being corny and unrealistic, but they're fun to watch, and they're great to sing along with.
10. old movies -- Sometimes I think the old classics had more style than the blockbusters of today. And hey, we wouldn't have the blockbusters without the early silents and talkies...
11. republicans -- Please don't hold it against me. I'd rather that we did away with the two-party system entirely (as well as the electoral college; if we're gonna do something like that, we might as well use a system like the College of keep the whiny babies among the Democrats (or the Demobratz as I prefer to call them) from getting into office and pulling this country down any further.
12. soulbonding -- This is something I firmly believe can happen, and it's something I value very highly. It's something I've done since I was nine or ten, but it wasn't until recently that I knew the "proper" name for it. I'm fascinated by it, as I experience it, and as others do. Even the erratic soulbonders and the fanbrats who give it a bad name hold my interest, though the antics of the latter class make me laugh.
13. the matrix trilogy -- ::Looks up at her username::
14. true love -- I may not seem like it, but I'm actually a romantic. I believe that real love has to be reciprocal, and it has to work on all levels, *and* that there's someone out there for everyone, if they're supposed to find that someone. It's just that we've got this thing called free will that causes people to choose the wrong someones...