think about where we are in the universe
I got posting themes from egelantier! In this meme:
Comment on this entry, and I'll give you three themes along the lines of "username and [some idea or concept or thing]'. You then post what you have to say on these themes in your own journal.
So here are my thoughts on the following:
frausorge and traveling!
Because my family is so spread out, I've done a fair amount of traveling, although a lot of it has been repeated visits to the same places (where my relatives live), and I haven't done as much tourism as my number of trips might suggest. This past year I've gotten to combine more sightseeing with the family visits, which has been nice. Although I've been lucky to get to see some world capitals and famous buildings, I've found myself breathing a sigh of relief when I get out of the busy streets again - what I like most, I'm finding more and more, is walking around pretty gardens or sitting on pretty beaches. Not wilderness adventures - camping is not my thing, I like a nice comfortable hotel bed at night. Just, wandering around in a landscape with room to breathe and a view to look at. I love that.
frausorge and letters
You will all be shocked to learn that I like sending letters. Or cards, at least. I don't use paper letters so much anymore to send actual news, unless I'm writing to someone who doesn't use email, so I don't write at as great length as I used to. But I like to send birthday cards and holiday cards and postcards, just to say, basically, I like you and I'm thinking about you. There's something about a stack of stamped and addressed cards ready to drop in the mail that's very satisfying to me.
frausorge and a fandom of choice
I will choose Stargate: Atlantis! So, here's the thing. There was a point when SGA was showing up more and more on my flist, and John Sheppard was very hot, and people were linking to interesting fic, and it was all looking very intriguing. So I decided that I would give it a go and I ordered the first season on DVD in order to catch up on the canon and be able to participate fully. And the DVDs arrived, and I thought, ok, tomorrow after work I will sit down and start watching. And the next day I got home from work and there on my doorstep was a care package someone had sent me with DVDs of a different show. So I thought, oh, well! I'd better watch those first, since they were a present and I want to be able to squee and say thank you for them properly. So I did, and then I watched the next few seasons of that show, and then I wrote a little fic for that show, and then several months had passed and I still had not watched SGA. I think at one point I thought, man, I really ought to get around to watching those DVDs I bought! and I put on the pilot, but it was late and I was super tired and I fell asleep partway through and didn't get any further with it. I still hovered around the edges of SGA fandom, made this one icon, read quite a lot of fic, and even absorbed enough fanon to write some not-fic in a meme once, but somehow that diversion right at the crucial moment co-opted all my getting-into-a-new-fandom energy and I never got it back. And that is the story of how I failed to get into SGA fandom.
Comment if you would like me to give you some themes of your own!
Comment on this entry, and I'll give you three themes along the lines of "username and [some idea or concept or thing]'. You then post what you have to say on these themes in your own journal.
So here are my thoughts on the following:
frausorge and traveling!
Because my family is so spread out, I've done a fair amount of traveling, although a lot of it has been repeated visits to the same places (where my relatives live), and I haven't done as much tourism as my number of trips might suggest. This past year I've gotten to combine more sightseeing with the family visits, which has been nice. Although I've been lucky to get to see some world capitals and famous buildings, I've found myself breathing a sigh of relief when I get out of the busy streets again - what I like most, I'm finding more and more, is walking around pretty gardens or sitting on pretty beaches. Not wilderness adventures - camping is not my thing, I like a nice comfortable hotel bed at night. Just, wandering around in a landscape with room to breathe and a view to look at. I love that.
frausorge and letters
You will all be shocked to learn that I like sending letters. Or cards, at least. I don't use paper letters so much anymore to send actual news, unless I'm writing to someone who doesn't use email, so I don't write at as great length as I used to. But I like to send birthday cards and holiday cards and postcards, just to say, basically, I like you and I'm thinking about you. There's something about a stack of stamped and addressed cards ready to drop in the mail that's very satisfying to me.
frausorge and a fandom of choice
I will choose Stargate: Atlantis! So, here's the thing. There was a point when SGA was showing up more and more on my flist, and John Sheppard was very hot, and people were linking to interesting fic, and it was all looking very intriguing. So I decided that I would give it a go and I ordered the first season on DVD in order to catch up on the canon and be able to participate fully. And the DVDs arrived, and I thought, ok, tomorrow after work I will sit down and start watching. And the next day I got home from work and there on my doorstep was a care package someone had sent me with DVDs of a different show. So I thought, oh, well! I'd better watch those first, since they were a present and I want to be able to squee and say thank you for them properly. So I did, and then I watched the next few seasons of that show, and then I wrote a little fic for that show, and then several months had passed and I still had not watched SGA. I think at one point I thought, man, I really ought to get around to watching those DVDs I bought! and I put on the pilot, but it was late and I was super tired and I fell asleep partway through and didn't get any further with it. I still hovered around the edges of SGA fandom, made this one icon, read quite a lot of fic, and even absorbed enough fanon to write some not-fic in a meme once, but somehow that diversion right at the crucial moment co-opted all my getting-into-a-new-fandom energy and I never got it back. And that is the story of how I failed to get into SGA fandom.
Comment if you would like me to give you some themes of your own!