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[thewingedword]

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

seanarenay asked me about seven things:

1. celadon

Celadon is one of my favorite shades of green, which is my favorite color-wheel color. It takes its name from this exquisitely beautiful Chinese pottery that learned about when I was having my passionate love affair with Chinese culture. I love both the color and the art, and it represents a lot of what I love about ancient cultures.



2. foil wrappers

My cat loves to play with tiny balled-up foil wrappers. It's gotten to the point where, if I so much as crinkle a wrapped piece of chocolate, he's immediately waiting at my feet for his toy. It's absolutely adorable and I love his kittenish ways.

3. genetic engineering

I've read books on this, and written multiple essays, and it's something fascinating that always stimulates my interest. How far could we go with this? Preventing congenital and hereditary diseases, strengthening resistance to common illnesses and injuries- or further. Enhancing intelligence, strength, health, and appearance. Lengthening lifespan. Further yet, adapting humans for the incredible lifespans, mental stability, fitness, and unique traits required to travel and live on other worlds. People who are capable of surviving in the dryest desert, the most ice-bound tundra, half-amphibious mermaid-people.

I realize that we'll probably invest more effort into solutions rather than preventions, and eventually into terraforming rather than self-adaptation, but it almost seems more fair to do it the other way around. Haven't we caused enough trouble changing external things to fit our needs?

4. paint under my nails

Probably my favorite part of the painting class I took. A lot like having lead- or ink-smudged fingers, sore muscles from exercise, a hoarse throat from concert-screaming, or even guitar calluses. Something I can show off, and take perverse pride in, and something that makes me feel maybe a little like a legitimate artist even though I am one hundred percent not.

5. physics is my girlfriend

Physics is totally my girlfriend. Sometimes she's really easy, and easy to get along with, and I love her for it. Sometimes she's a complete bitch and shuts me out and I can't understand a thing she's saying, but no matter how frustrated I get, I love the challenge. And I say dweeby coupley things like "Just knowing Physics gives me this warm glow of happiness and satisfaction."

6. sharing initials

One of my random passtimes is trying to match the initials of people I know with quasi-famous people. I, for example, have the same initials as Edgar Allen Poe. It takes a brave and/or crazy person to be my friend, truefacts.

7. stargate (I've never seen any Stargates! Um, I don't really know what it is.)

Stargate is/was a TV show! Stargate: SG1, specifically, since they made a Stargate: Atlantis spinoff recently. Stargate was my very first fandom, back when I was all wee and cute, and I still know people from those ancient days. The show recently came to an end after something like ten seasons, which is just insane. I will always be fond of it.

Taken from arsenicjade 

Reply to this post, and I will write one thing I love about you. Maybe more than one. Then (if you want) repost to your own journal and spread the love.

I really hope people comment for this one, because I love you all and I want to talk about it! Feel free to ask for either or both memes, I can take it.

Comments

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

I will comment for the 2nd one!

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

I am going with >1, because I have love to share!

I love that I have known you for nearly four years now, and that I kind of got to see how you've grown (which sounds like a silly thing to say, since I am in fact not your mom, but still).

I love hearing your descriptions of college and weird-ass pranks and things. It makes it into something less mysterious-frightening and more exciting. And you have the best sense of humor about it, honestly, I envy your cool.

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

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[monjinator.livejournal.com]

I comment for both of them!

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

dee roscioli, ernst, feeling electric, kilts, last five years, spring awakening, the black watch.

I just want you to TALK TO ME ABOUT KILTS. It will make my day better! Also, I know a tiny bit about Spring Awakening, but I want to know more about the show with That Lucky Bastard in it.


I love the fact that you have literally boundless enthusiasm. You never seem to run out of interest or excitement. You've seen more musicals than I've even heard of, and you can talk intelligently about all of them. You've been to so many interesting places and done so many interesting things, and yet you are the least snobby person I've ever met, perfectly willing to share all that joy with other people. It's absolutely amazing, and I both respect and admire you very deeply for it.

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

Okay, I will get on that! And who is "That Lucky Bastard"?

And awwww *blush* You're too sweet. *hugs* We totally need to see a show together sometime. :D

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

That Lucky Bastard is a guy from my school's (pretty well-known) performing arts program. He graduated when I was a freshman, and was lucky enough to be performing in this tiny little off-Broadway show called Spring Awakening that turned into a crazy Broadway hit. People from that program speak of him with equal measures respect and deep, deep envy.

That would be lovely, someday when school stops eating my face and my free time. *sighs wistfully and hugs back*

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, I think you mentioned him before. What's his name? Sadly, I don't think I met him, because I only met Groff, Gallagher, and Skylar Astin.

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

Last name Wright, if I remember correctly. He was Stanley in the school production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and magnificent at it.

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yeah. Boy I'm good, that's him in my Ninja icon above! He plays Hanschen, the creepily funny boy who seduces another boy. He's got some great lines

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I think I need to see this musical someday. *grins*

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

*comments for both!*

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

\o/, gasoline, kittens, live music, mac cosmetics, switch, undying love

I hope you don't mind me saying that your interests are absolutely fascinating. Your mindset is very different from mine in an interesting way, and so I chose interests that were more "I want to know why this is important to you," than "I want to know what on earth this means!"

I love you because you are different. I love that you're willing to talk about things that mean a lot to you, which takes a lot of strength. I love your makeup and your tattoos and your creativity and your perseverance. I love that, through the miraculous powers of internet and fandom, my nerdy Quiz Bowl-playing physics-loving self gets to be friends with someone as cool as you.

[fallingfortruth.livejournal.com]

I love Quiz Bowl! I doubt people believe me when I say this, but I am such a huge nerd it's not even funny. When I went to the local normal high school my Sophomore year I was on the Quiz Bowl team and in the Honors program. I was a National Merit Scholar, even with as mathtarded as I am. My favourite shows to watch for casual TV watching are usually on the Discovery Channel.

I love that thanks to the miraculous powers of the internet and fandom I get to be cool. :D

(I am so going to type up the answers to this presently. LJ spam, ftw!)

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

I can't really comment for the questions-about-interests meme, since I only two listed for this journal, but if you wanted to do it for my interests at ink_stain, that'd be nifty!

Otherwise, I'd just like a little love, please. ♥

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

alice in wonderland, diners, historical fiction, sad bastard music, taylor kitsch, the smell of books, toys

Two of those things are things I love beyond all reason. Can you guess which? *grins*

I love you for being the kind of person I wish every fandom everywhere was entirely populated with; cheerful, friendly, creative, open to new things. I love your icon and the obvious crazy sexual tension going on in it. I love that you got fired from an admittedly shitty job and made it a positive thing, which had to be harder than it looks. I love your username. I love that I don't really know you too well right now, so I get to look forward to getting to know you, and it will both a privilege and an pleasure to do so.

[wasoncedelight.livejournal.com]

Oh, this just made me happy all over. ♥!

(seriously, the two of them are just completely STUPID for each other.)

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

SHARE IT!

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

I would have replied to this sooner, except that I thought to myself "Hmm, Arsenic," and then went off and read more bits of The Great American Novel and lost track of time. Which certainly shows one thing I love about you; you create worlds, even tiny relationship-worlds that I just get sucked into. I trust that skill enough that I read things which, on the surface, don't look like something I'd like, and quite frequently I do end up liking it.

You are probably the most genuinely sincere person I've ever met. You say exactly what you think, and are so nice that it's almost overwhelming, like bright sunlight. Talking to you is... I get the impression of someone who's very wise, in a way, who's been through a lot and decided to not let it get her down. Even when you seem sad, there's always a note of hope. You always know the right thing to say to make people feel incredible about themselves, and I would give a lot to be able to return the favor.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Well, you're DEFINITELY returning the favor at this moment. To be honest, you sort of had me at "I went to read more bits of TGAN."

Man, I don't know, I think some pretty mean things some of the time, you really have no idea. But I try not to act on them, so I suppose that's something.

*hugs* Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thanks.

[artyrose.livejournal.com]

*waves*

The second one, please?