Just a wee lil' meme...
Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
My 5 from bomberman61.
1. Writing
I've been writing since middle school. Given, at that point it was basically fan fiction (I borrowed other people's characters, changed their names and threw them into my plots) and it was far from good, but it's where I started with writing. Eventually that led to actual fanfiction (see below). I desperately needed help with better original work, so I started taking creative writing in high school. I got published in several of the school's literary magazines and even won a couple small time national school-age writing contests (somewhere, I have a letter that came with a $100 check for winning one, and that bitch'll get framed when I find it). Enter college, and I can't think of a damned thing I want to do with my life more than write, so I drunkenly follow that path (a few stumbles here and there for the career-minded psycho in me =P) until graduation. Nowadays I'm still plugging away at some short stories but I don't think anything's ready yet for the game of Publication Parcheesi (it's probably more like the game Sorry! but I like the alliteration).
2. Anime
My first car had the bumper sticker Anime: Drugs Would Be Cheaper. I also have a messenger bag that bears the same message. If I spent that much money on advertising it...heh. Anime was my first fandom, so to speak- lasted me all through high school. It's probably a very good thing we had dial-up internet during much of this, as it kept me from going completely bananas into fandom when I wasn't old enough to comprehend it all. Gundam Wing was the big cheese for me, so I had (and still have) EVERYTHING- entire series on VHS and eventually DVD, all the smaller Gundam models and several of the bigger ones, soundtracks, posters (oh GOD, the posters...I just dug those up a couple days ago), figures, etc. I even still have my bootleg Endless Waltz movie. I have a similar array for my other favorites- Fushigi Yuugi, Ranma 1/2, Evangelion (fuck me, that one still makes no sense), even good old Sailor Moon. I have tons of the manga books, too, and am still reading a few series when I remember to pick up the next volumes.
And yes, I WAS a con-goer. I never did Cosplay, but I saved up all year to go to the hotel the local A-KON was held at and stay the weekend, and blow too much money in the dealer's rooms. I loved the fanvid contests, I loved taking soooooooo many pictures of people I did not know in truly awesome costumes, I loved just BEING around fellow otaku. I even took up cel painting for a while until it sunk in that I suck at it. Anime was a pretty big and expensive part of my life for a looooong while. Only Harry Potter and college knocked me out of it.
3. Music
You'll laugh, but I've really only taken to music so seriously in the last few years or so. I'm the kind of girl who resists something the more she hears about it- Final Fantasy games and Shrek come immediately to mind. So during middle and high school, when EVERYONE absolutely had to talk about how music is their life and they had to always have a CD player and they couldn't study/think/breathe without headphones on, I got very meh about music. Of course I had my favorite bands. Of course I had favorite radio stations for when the desire struck. But I barely had a CD player on me and I had to be dragged to concerts my friends wanted me to attend with them.
I couldn't tell you what's changed. But now my CD shelf thingie is packed. My WMP takes forever to load. I've been to FAR more concerts in the last year than every previous year of my life combined. In two years I went from a 2G Sandisk mp3 player to a hefty iPod. I flail about the perfect music used in Skins. I go through a dozen radio stations in the car before I settle on anything. I bought a TURNTABLE and am looking forward to my next trip to Half-Price Books so I can raid their vinyl. I have a guitar. I know enough to be dangerous and know why it is I hate the bands that I hate.
4. Life at UNT
I was never one of the unfortunate ones who was consistently screwed over by UNT's shenanigans, so I tended to like my time there. The wallflower in me diminished considerably as I become classmates with sooooo many people. I found out what it was like to truly worry I'd never have a class with someone again, as well as what it was like to truly worry I would. I made jokes in class. I slept in public places. Being a nerd finally started paying off. I mastered bullshitting my way through an essay, researching and writing a paper within 24 hours of it being due, and reading MASSIVE books over a weekend (I'm talking Moby Dick in two days, around work, other homework, and unintentional sleep). I figured out myself in so many ways, not all of them good. I drank beer and shot the shit with my teachers.
Oh yeah, and I learned some stuff here and there. =P
5. Tech girls Oh Q.
Okay. Yes. I have a weak spot for cute tech girls. I've had enough experience with theatre to know that the cute girls are very rarely the ones to know their way around a set, let alone electrical equipment and soforth. No, the cute ones act or sing and only know enough to save their own asses when some drama happens and they have to take care of themselves. The most common tech girls are kind of gruff. They're quite awesome in their own right and several I've known could probably run a set by themselves, but I've never known one to do something ridiculously cute and girly like twirl hair (maybe it's just the ones I've known?).
At the Lubbock concert last week, there were two girls working at the venue that night. They were adorable and they knew their shit- cords, amps, and one even worked some of the lighting. They were on stage between each set, working with the bands' crews like they'd done this a hundred times before. I'm probably making too big a deal out of nothing, but...tech girls! Wearing Ugg boots and lip gloss! I hung out with them some after the show and quickly found out neither would really take a liking to me buying them a drink (some of the band guys were tripping over each other to do it anyway...good to know it's not just me that appreciates a smart cute girl). We still chatted for a while because they were pretty groovy. I NEVER see girls teching for bands. Not that the guys that take the job are all bad (Beth and I were doing some SERIOUS ogling in-between sets in Montgomery), but the girls just make it awesome.
^_^
My 5 from bomberman61.
1. Writing
I've been writing since middle school. Given, at that point it was basically fan fiction (I borrowed other people's characters, changed their names and threw them into my plots) and it was far from good, but it's where I started with writing. Eventually that led to actual fanfiction (see below). I desperately needed help with better original work, so I started taking creative writing in high school. I got published in several of the school's literary magazines and even won a couple small time national school-age writing contests (somewhere, I have a letter that came with a $100 check for winning one, and that bitch'll get framed when I find it). Enter college, and I can't think of a damned thing I want to do with my life more than write, so I drunkenly follow that path (a few stumbles here and there for the career-minded psycho in me =P) until graduation. Nowadays I'm still plugging away at some short stories but I don't think anything's ready yet for the game of Publication Parcheesi (it's probably more like the game Sorry! but I like the alliteration).
2. Anime
My first car had the bumper sticker Anime: Drugs Would Be Cheaper. I also have a messenger bag that bears the same message. If I spent that much money on advertising it...heh. Anime was my first fandom, so to speak- lasted me all through high school. It's probably a very good thing we had dial-up internet during much of this, as it kept me from going completely bananas into fandom when I wasn't old enough to comprehend it all. Gundam Wing was the big cheese for me, so I had (and still have) EVERYTHING- entire series on VHS and eventually DVD, all the smaller Gundam models and several of the bigger ones, soundtracks, posters (oh GOD, the posters...I just dug those up a couple days ago), figures, etc. I even still have my bootleg Endless Waltz movie. I have a similar array for my other favorites- Fushigi Yuugi, Ranma 1/2, Evangelion (fuck me, that one still makes no sense), even good old Sailor Moon. I have tons of the manga books, too, and am still reading a few series when I remember to pick up the next volumes.
And yes, I WAS a con-goer. I never did Cosplay, but I saved up all year to go to the hotel the local A-KON was held at and stay the weekend, and blow too much money in the dealer's rooms. I loved the fanvid contests, I loved taking soooooooo many pictures of people I did not know in truly awesome costumes, I loved just BEING around fellow otaku. I even took up cel painting for a while until it sunk in that I suck at it. Anime was a pretty big and expensive part of my life for a looooong while. Only Harry Potter and college knocked me out of it.
3. Music
You'll laugh, but I've really only taken to music so seriously in the last few years or so. I'm the kind of girl who resists something the more she hears about it- Final Fantasy games and Shrek come immediately to mind. So during middle and high school, when EVERYONE absolutely had to talk about how music is their life and they had to always have a CD player and they couldn't study/think/breathe without headphones on, I got very meh about music. Of course I had my favorite bands. Of course I had favorite radio stations for when the desire struck. But I barely had a CD player on me and I had to be dragged to concerts my friends wanted me to attend with them.
I couldn't tell you what's changed. But now my CD shelf thingie is packed. My WMP takes forever to load. I've been to FAR more concerts in the last year than every previous year of my life combined. In two years I went from a 2G Sandisk mp3 player to a hefty iPod. I flail about the perfect music used in Skins. I go through a dozen radio stations in the car before I settle on anything. I bought a TURNTABLE and am looking forward to my next trip to Half-Price Books so I can raid their vinyl. I have a guitar. I know enough to be dangerous and know why it is I hate the bands that I hate.
4. Life at UNT
I was never one of the unfortunate ones who was consistently screwed over by UNT's shenanigans, so I tended to like my time there. The wallflower in me diminished considerably as I become classmates with sooooo many people. I found out what it was like to truly worry I'd never have a class with someone again, as well as what it was like to truly worry I would. I made jokes in class. I slept in public places. Being a nerd finally started paying off. I mastered bullshitting my way through an essay, researching and writing a paper within 24 hours of it being due, and reading MASSIVE books over a weekend (I'm talking Moby Dick in two days, around work, other homework, and unintentional sleep). I figured out myself in so many ways, not all of them good. I drank beer and shot the shit with my teachers.
Oh yeah, and I learned some stuff here and there. =P
5. Tech girls Oh Q.
Okay. Yes. I have a weak spot for cute tech girls. I've had enough experience with theatre to know that the cute girls are very rarely the ones to know their way around a set, let alone electrical equipment and soforth. No, the cute ones act or sing and only know enough to save their own asses when some drama happens and they have to take care of themselves. The most common tech girls are kind of gruff. They're quite awesome in their own right and several I've known could probably run a set by themselves, but I've never known one to do something ridiculously cute and girly like twirl hair (maybe it's just the ones I've known?).
At the Lubbock concert last week, there were two girls working at the venue that night. They were adorable and they knew their shit- cords, amps, and one even worked some of the lighting. They were on stage between each set, working with the bands' crews like they'd done this a hundred times before. I'm probably making too big a deal out of nothing, but...tech girls! Wearing Ugg boots and lip gloss! I hung out with them some after the show and quickly found out neither would really take a liking to me buying them a drink (some of the band guys were tripping over each other to do it anyway...good to know it's not just me that appreciates a smart cute girl). We still chatted for a while because they were pretty groovy. I NEVER see girls teching for bands. Not that the guys that take the job are all bad (Beth and I were doing some SERIOUS ogling in-between sets in Montgomery), but the girls just make it awesome.
^_^