Shamelessly stolen from wal_lace. I love this so much. And I thought Angel was sort of creepy, with the watching her sleep thing.

I'm one of those people who enjoys getting up at stupid-o'clock on a Saturday morning to drive around the city looking for those elusive neon bristol board signs, written on in black Sharpie and stapled to a surface that looks stable. Sometimes they get fancy and have the store-bought ones, or if they put it in the classifieds they have one ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Uhura
Uhura
85%
Deanna Troi
80%
Jean-Luc Picard
70%
Will Riker
70%
James T. Kirk (Captain)
65%
Chekov
60%
Geordi LaForge
60%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)
60%
Spock
52%
Mr. Sulu
50%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)
45%
Mr. Scott
45%
Beverly Crusher
40%
Data
35%
Worf
35%

You are a good communicator with a
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This is the shorter version of an essay I presented at the Popular Culture Association conference on Thursday April 9. If you would like the full essay (be warned, it's 20 pages), send me a message.

( “I sometimes think we Sort too soon” - Rehumanizing the Slytherins: How Fandom Gave Humanity Back to a Quarter of the Wizarding World )

My presentation went really well. I got there early to set up my powerpoint (Knight made it pretty, and it's full of cosplay and fanart and some snippets from fanfiction). Good thing I did, due to tech troubles. I went first, as I was listed first in the program. I read my 8.5 page paper with one hand and clicked at the appropriate time with the ( Read more... )

Your result for The Greek Mythology Personality Test...

Orpheus

33% Extroversion, 67% Intuition, 72% Emotiveness, 71% Perceptiveness


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So I'm doing research for my paper, flitting across any and all LJs with "meta" in the title, and I happen across metaquotes. Highly entertaining, and I really should be reading something else, but I'm getting kinda tired and slumped oer the keyboard and scrolling down is all I can really manage right now. And then there's THIS entry.

I can't believe this ( Read more... )

Some of you on my list already know, and for those who are redirected here, I'm off to New Orleans April 8-12 to present at the Popular Culture Association's National Conference. I'm listed in the Science Fiction and Fantasy area, and will be presenting on fandom in Harry Potter, and the treatment of the Slytherins. I am also asking for some help ( Read more... )