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{Take the 100 Things challenge!}

I've decided to go for bundles, ten posts about ten subjects over the coming months.

My problem, which subjects!? I already have two subjects I can expand on, but still. Dear readers, throw out your subjects, categories, notions and ideas at me! Some of them will probably stick!

A meme!

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I would be interested to hear 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.

There questions were asked by the lovely dancesontrains.

1. What drew you to paganism?

I was a rebellious and questioning teenager who drew quite a lot of inspiration from Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What drew me at the time was the fact that it was mystical and special and practicing it made me special. I never really practiced it, but I loved the books and I enjoyed looking at the Tarot cards - I consider it one of the better phases I went through as a teenager. Paganism taught me to be critical of religion in general, because what's the difference between one god and many?

Not much, they exist out of human imagination and faith, not the other way around.

2. What sort of country would you like to move to (could be a fictional one)?

I'd really like to live in a country where I didn't feel the oppression of my gender, sexuality, politics and spirituality was the norm. Beyond it being the norm, I'm silly to expect to be treated like a human being due to all of those thing.

3. How did you first discover fandom?

I always say I come from a fannish family. I used to watch cartoon with my brother when I was a young girl and he introduced me to Star Trek:TOS when I was 7. The local sci-fi/fantasy con started about 15 years ago and my brother, my mother and I would go to look at the second hand books and watch the episodes they played at the cinemateque where the con would be held.

But fandom the way I frame it today, I probably discovered when I was 13 and trawling the internet for the first time :)

4. Do you still choose to not shave/wax body hair?

Yep, still hairy! Still sometimes pluck my eyebrows and peach fuzz over my lip though.

5. Who's the lady in your icon?

The lady in my default icon is Jenna Kaye, played by Larisa Oleynick. She was a guest actor in the first and second season of the new "Hawaii Five-0", her character died and I really wanted her to live, so in postmortem, I resurrected her as my icon. We had the same hair cut and she was short and kinda dykey looking and I really appreciated seeing someone who looked kinda like me on that show.

6. Robots or zombies?

Robots. A well placed EMP and no more apocalypse!

7. What question(s) do you wish someone would ask you?

I love questions about fandom that I can be thinky about. Because I like to be critical about the things I love. I also love questions about why I like certain things in fandom because it's very closely intertwined with my identity over all and those are fun to answer :)

I'm running a test to see who's reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your DW/LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's not as much fun!

My word is "mire", because I am slow going this morning.

There's a meme going around my f-list. I haven't asked those who are doing it questions, because I am at heart a lurker.

But I'd love to answer should any of you be curious enough. I answer honestly, but sometimes my answer may be vague. The internet is like that.

Choose a number, and I'll answer the question!
( 46 questions under the cut )

I saw this over on a few journals, and I thought, why not?

The problem with LJ and DW: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So 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. Ask away.

There maybe some subjects I won't answer, because you know, we all have our differing degrees of privacy and such, but I'll try to answer everything to the best of my abilities!

Various people on my f/r-list have done this, so here's what I'm doing!

Put your iPod/mp3 player/iTunes/music player of choice on Shuffle mode.

For each question, press the 'Next' button to get your answer.

You MUST write the song name down that comes up, no matter how silly it sounds as an answer to the question or how embarrassing it is.

Make snarky comments as necessary.

( Cut for length )

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Little Boxes
Tee hee!

Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" is being adapted to Television.

I find the fact that Supernatural's Eric Kripke has his thumb in this pie, distressing. Mainly because I find Supernatural to be derivative in the most unoriginal way, the writing horrendous and the gore not particularly entertaining.
Also the fact that it bleeds into other fandoms via crossovers in such a chronic way very irritating.

Let it be known, I'm not judging anyone who likes Supernatual (Hello, Torchwood fan!) but the actual show is just vomitous.

So anyone involved with that show touching anything to do with Sandman is very upsetting.

Of course at this point there is nothing but this announcement as far as I'm aware, so it would appear that there isn't even a proper pitch.
Still...

In the words of the Interwebs: Do Not Want.

Sandman in many ways was what got me to be a critical thinker. To doubt the world around me, note not reality, but the way the world is constructed. Mainly, how the world is narrative. It helped that the story itself is layered, multi functional as both text and image and the lines blurring between Morpheus' arc and the rest of players is really gorgeous.
Dream may have been the Sun of the solar system of Sandman, but everyone else was also a planet.

I like that metaphor.

Sandman also helped me, over reading it over and over for ten years, to rid myself of the idea that I needed to believe in a power greater than the story. Because even though I kept on trying to have faith in various and sundry gods, powers that be and even that good ole' time religion which believes that Earth and the Universe is a Libra eventually coming to the conclusion that myths of god, are just stories about people.

It's a great comfort of mine.

In relation to that, I don't remember my dreams, sometimes, very rarely, I'll remember a feeling I dreamt, but the actual plots I live through in my subconscious mind are locked away and put forth in the snippets of scenes I write and the characters who talk to me when I'm awake.
I think, much like Watchmen, that there are some stories that can't be translated into a different medium without losing something that made the original story an important turning point in that medium. Because while Watchmen the movie was terrible (except for the opening credits, which was absolute movie making genius!) the comic was a punch in the gut of everything that had come before it.
Samndman is seminal because it crosses genres, breaks them, talks about them consciously and is (was) presumptuous enough to talk about human nature without being condescending.

I fear that Sandman, should a television adaptation actually happen, will be dumbed down to suit the palate of what ever demographic television show makers think actually watch television.

And so I ask... for the love of all that I hold dear, why?

Here, have a song.
Day 6: Your favorite band.
Allow me to be completely cliché and give you…
"Norwegian Wood" by the Beatles!


( The Days )

Day 3: A song that makes you dance.

Any thing by Queen makes me want to dance, but this makes me move my butt!
Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls"


It is most opportune that I am finally watching what seems to be one of the best Rock n' Roll Comedy movie I've seen since "Almost Famous" and "This is Spinal Tap" (okay, that is a bit much but still).

The Boat That Rocked is really funny and has a huge repertoire of classic 60's rock which makes me feel all fuzzy inside. The pub hopping scene is especially lovely. Though I'm still not clear on why a Welshman dressed as a pimp is considered sexy.
Felicity the Lesbian cook (yes, that's what she's known as on this boat filled with stones highly sexed men) is a bit of a butt-monkey, but in the great tradition of British movies, there are (white) men of every size having sex with a great many type of woman, which makes it fun to watch as well.
Honestly not the main foci of the film, but the things you notice, right?

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nye are sexy beasts.

I'm only half way though at the moment, I'm hoping Felicity the Lesbian cook manages to have some sex with a bird at some point.
ETA - 13:20: She did! YAYS!

Enjoy the music!

( The Days Left To Sing To )

Hello there!

Let's get this started, yes?

Day 1: Your favorite song.
Oy, this is difficult. It changes over time, because I can't imagine ever being so constant in my tastes.
But were I to choose a favourite song at the moment it would probably be:
Sinead O'Connor's "Troy"



( More days to come! )

As though there was any doubt! Donna, you're awesome!
Also, kind of uncanny hoe accurate this is:
"you're a rather boggling combination of a romantic idealist and a staunch realist"
Variations of that have been said about me for years.


Donna Noble
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