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amredthelector) wrote2009-09-11 01:13 pm
amredthelector) wrote2009-09-11 01:13 pm
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meme time
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.
1) what generation of pokemon do you really feel a tie to? what really brings back the nostalgia?
I'd have to say the 3rd generation. While I grew up with Yellow and Gold version, it wasn't until I got Ruby that I really started to get into the games. It may have had something to do with the fact that it came out when I was in 7th grade, and was starting to experience playing video games for the story. Ruby was also the first game I'd ever really tried to personalize, buy naming pokemon and coming up with a back story for my trainer. I think Crystal is the best game of the series story-wise, but Ruby just struck a chord with me. It had awesome pokemon designs, interesting villains, and was just a lot of fun to play. Y'know those little pokemon comics I posted a while ago? Well, I started drawing them when I restarted Ruby recently, and I've got ideas for more. I don't even know why, I just wanted to honor the game in a nice way, I guess.
2) what is your favourite type of hat.
Top hat, hands down. There's just something so elegant and classy about top hats, especially silk ones (though, mine is very stiff felt). I'm also kinda weird about when people just say 'good morning' or something when passing me on the street - I dunno why, but I can never just say 'good morning' back. But with a top hat, you can just tip your hat, and that's awesome. Fedoras are a close second, though.
Also, one of my favorite films growing up was Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which may have something to do with why I love those hats so much.
3) what period of time to you find most inspirational to characters/writing?
The Victorian Era, I think. There's just a lot of really intriguing conflicting ideas that come out of that era. Like, the fact that industry and science where really taking off, yet so many people where still interested in the occult. Or the fact that for a man to be alone with a woman was practically a sin, yet he could be alone with other men whenever he wanted... yet could get thrown in prison if he was gay. There was just so much pressure on people, especially the upper and middle class, and I think that it's really interesting to try and figure out just what kind of damage that kind of pressure could do to a person's psyche. Of course, there's also the industrial revolution, which is just. So. Cool. And since it was usually the lower class that was creating the revolution, and running factories and what not, it leads to a lot of neat things you can explore within the lower class. Or just any of the science of the time is neat. Invention of anesthesia, prototypes of the plane, etc. And like I said before, there was still a lot of interest in the occult, so when righting about the Victorian Era, it's totally okay to write a bunch of hard sci-fi, and then turn around and write a bunch of soft fantasy.
Also, the fashion. I had to wear Victorian clothing a lot one summer, when I worked at the Molly Brown House Museum, and got to know a lot about the fashion, and I find it just so amazing, for both genders. (Except for corsets) Actually, most of my fascination with that era may have to do with the fact that I spent so much time at that house, and got to know so much about the hard time Margaret Brown had as she transitioned from a poor miner's wife, to being the somewhat wealthy person.
4) public transportation. discuss.
I generally tend to like public transportation. I don't really like driving (and put off on learning how to drive for so long), there isn't a big taxi presence in Denver, and a lot of the cool places to go in Denver were an hour or more away from my house by foot. So back home, I relied on public transportation a lot, and found it to be a very useful thing. Of course, Denver tends to make it on a lot of 'Top 10 best public transport in the nation' lists. There are a lot of drawbacks to public transportation, though, like buses getting off schedule, schedule changes happening and not being posted publicly, things like that. There's also the fact that if you're not familiar with the route you're taking, and your driver doesn't call out every stop, you can easily miss your stop and have to walk back (or worse, get off and take the bus going the other way if you went far enough). Also, the less busy bus schedules for weekends is truly annoying - I don't know if it's like that every where, but in Denver, on weekends buses only run once an hour, not every 15 minutes, so it can be a long wait some times.
I haven't ridden any buses here in NM yet, so I can't really say anything about their quality. But I do like the idea of public transport, because it's cheaper then buying gas, for the most part, and you can usually get just about anywhere in a city. However, sometimes this good idea needs to be better executed.
5) which is better, pet birds or pet reptiles?
Oh geez, that's a tough question. I've never had either as a pet, but have always wanted both. Hmmm. I'm going to go with birds on this. Reptiles are awesome and beautiful, but birds generally tend to live pretty long, and can be super affectionate (a friend of mine when I was a kid had a cockatoo, and their relationship was a lot like a mother and a toddler - it was so incredibly cute). Also, with a bird, you don't have to worry about feeding it live animals, like crickets or mice. While I'm pretty desensitized to feeding snakes and iguanas, you sometimes wind up with really picky animals that won't eat their food very quickly, so with something that eats bugs, you wind up with a whole bunch of bugs sitting around and being pests, or if you have a snake, it might be too picky to eat frozen mice and then you have might have to care for live mice, or get too attached to them. Also, you can teach birds to mimic human speech, which you really do with anything else. Actually, I've considered getting a cockatoo once I'm settled in an apartment/house/whatever after college.
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.
1) what generation of pokemon do you really feel a tie to? what really brings back the nostalgia?
I'd have to say the 3rd generation. While I grew up with Yellow and Gold version, it wasn't until I got Ruby that I really started to get into the games. It may have had something to do with the fact that it came out when I was in 7th grade, and was starting to experience playing video games for the story. Ruby was also the first game I'd ever really tried to personalize, buy naming pokemon and coming up with a back story for my trainer. I think Crystal is the best game of the series story-wise, but Ruby just struck a chord with me. It had awesome pokemon designs, interesting villains, and was just a lot of fun to play. Y'know those little pokemon comics I posted a while ago? Well, I started drawing them when I restarted Ruby recently, and I've got ideas for more. I don't even know why, I just wanted to honor the game in a nice way, I guess.
2) what is your favourite type of hat.
Top hat, hands down. There's just something so elegant and classy about top hats, especially silk ones (though, mine is very stiff felt). I'm also kinda weird about when people just say 'good morning' or something when passing me on the street - I dunno why, but I can never just say 'good morning' back. But with a top hat, you can just tip your hat, and that's awesome. Fedoras are a close second, though.
Also, one of my favorite films growing up was Top Hat, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which may have something to do with why I love those hats so much.
3) what period of time to you find most inspirational to characters/writing?
The Victorian Era, I think. There's just a lot of really intriguing conflicting ideas that come out of that era. Like, the fact that industry and science where really taking off, yet so many people where still interested in the occult. Or the fact that for a man to be alone with a woman was practically a sin, yet he could be alone with other men whenever he wanted... yet could get thrown in prison if he was gay. There was just so much pressure on people, especially the upper and middle class, and I think that it's really interesting to try and figure out just what kind of damage that kind of pressure could do to a person's psyche. Of course, there's also the industrial revolution, which is just. So. Cool. And since it was usually the lower class that was creating the revolution, and running factories and what not, it leads to a lot of neat things you can explore within the lower class. Or just any of the science of the time is neat. Invention of anesthesia, prototypes of the plane, etc. And like I said before, there was still a lot of interest in the occult, so when righting about the Victorian Era, it's totally okay to write a bunch of hard sci-fi, and then turn around and write a bunch of soft fantasy.
Also, the fashion. I had to wear Victorian clothing a lot one summer, when I worked at the Molly Brown House Museum, and got to know a lot about the fashion, and I find it just so amazing, for both genders. (Except for corsets) Actually, most of my fascination with that era may have to do with the fact that I spent so much time at that house, and got to know so much about the hard time Margaret Brown had as she transitioned from a poor miner's wife, to being the somewhat wealthy person.
4) public transportation. discuss.
I generally tend to like public transportation. I don't really like driving (and put off on learning how to drive for so long), there isn't a big taxi presence in Denver, and a lot of the cool places to go in Denver were an hour or more away from my house by foot. So back home, I relied on public transportation a lot, and found it to be a very useful thing. Of course, Denver tends to make it on a lot of 'Top 10 best public transport in the nation' lists. There are a lot of drawbacks to public transportation, though, like buses getting off schedule, schedule changes happening and not being posted publicly, things like that. There's also the fact that if you're not familiar with the route you're taking, and your driver doesn't call out every stop, you can easily miss your stop and have to walk back (or worse, get off and take the bus going the other way if you went far enough). Also, the less busy bus schedules for weekends is truly annoying - I don't know if it's like that every where, but in Denver, on weekends buses only run once an hour, not every 15 minutes, so it can be a long wait some times.
I haven't ridden any buses here in NM yet, so I can't really say anything about their quality. But I do like the idea of public transport, because it's cheaper then buying gas, for the most part, and you can usually get just about anywhere in a city. However, sometimes this good idea needs to be better executed.
5) which is better, pet birds or pet reptiles?
Oh geez, that's a tough question. I've never had either as a pet, but have always wanted both. Hmmm. I'm going to go with birds on this. Reptiles are awesome and beautiful, but birds generally tend to live pretty long, and can be super affectionate (a friend of mine when I was a kid had a cockatoo, and their relationship was a lot like a mother and a toddler - it was so incredibly cute). Also, with a bird, you don't have to worry about feeding it live animals, like crickets or mice. While I'm pretty desensitized to feeding snakes and iguanas, you sometimes wind up with really picky animals that won't eat their food very quickly, so with something that eats bugs, you wind up with a whole bunch of bugs sitting around and being pests, or if you have a snake, it might be too picky to eat frozen mice and then you have might have to care for live mice, or get too attached to them. Also, you can teach birds to mimic human speech, which you really do with anything else. Actually, I've considered getting a cockatoo once I'm settled in an apartment/house/whatever after college.
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