As stolen from nekare
Comment on this post. I will choose 6 interests from your profile and you will explain what each of them means (and why you're interested in them).
The lovely doughbending master nekare gave me:
eileen gavin / henry townshend: Those are the male and female lead of Silent Hill 4, the only SH game I've ever completed (yes, I know, shame on me.) Yes, his name is Townshend; quite funny, that there's a musician called Henry Townsend. Anyway, you've got to protect Eileen about half of the time during the game. Or maybe a third. But similar to Ashley Graham of RE4, she's amazingly not-annoying. You can even give her weapons, and she can use them, saving your behind more than once. Besides, the don't quite do romance; but it's somehow unspoken that yes, maybe, after the game, if everything works out, they'll meet for a cup of coffee. It's cool, and therefore I ship.
H.P. Lovecraft: Oh, the love. Okay, okay, he's far from perfect; he was a racist. That's a big point against his writing. However, I still love his works; they're dark and imperfect. (And, if one looks at my own small works, it's apparent that I've been influenced a great deal by his.) The main characters usually don't win, or if they win, it's a Pyhrric stall at best, banishing the evil only for a certain time at the great cost of sanity, life and soul. Additionally, the idea of an unspeakable evil that makes one insane simply by *seeing* it is great. There are many, many themes I like, and some I hate. (The aforementioned racism; additionally, his sexism, as sympathetic female characters are rare.)
Illuminatus!: Take twenty to fourty conspiracy theories, combine them, add some twists and make it a tale about the end of the world. Or, better said, the end of the world as we know it. Now tell this tale through roughly fifty different points of view, without indicating when and how and why you're jumping characters, time or place. (This is especially prominent in the beginning of the first book.) This book is a written mindfuck. I've never experienced with LSD or other drugs, but I think that reading this book gives one a particular insight in how it would be. Oh, and most of the narrators? Are unreliable. You literally cannot trust any character in the books. Maybe Howard. Maybe.
Revy: Revy. What to say about Revy. A sociopathic mercenary with a small, minuscule soft spot for the rest of her crew members. Normally, she comes across as the badass, but she regularly acts as Heroic Sociopath. She's got a bad childhood (not that you *ever* are told that story), she's willing to kill literally *dozens* of people to protect her team mates. The entire series plays in Roanopur, a city where almost *every* character is a gangster, a smuggler, a serial killer or something like that. And she's one of the best. Revy is a bad girl. Literally. She is never redeemed, but still, one cannot help himself but like her. It's funny.
Subway to Sally: Folk metal. *Good* folk metal. The lyrics are dark and disturbing, fraught with themes such as hopelessness, slaughter and cruelty, and yet they are poetic, in a way. Probably the most astonishing song is Julia und die Räuber, which features the following text:
(translated from German)
"Blood, blood, raider's quenching blood,
Robbery and murder and raids are good,
From up the gallows it sounds,
Robbery and murder and raids are good."
Mind you, this is sung by the titular Julia, a young girl I'd guess is around 8 or 10....
Yeah, I like them. And their version of "Queen of Argyll" is simply the best I know.
The lovely doughbending master nekare gave me:
eileen gavin / henry townshend: Those are the male and female lead of Silent Hill 4, the only SH game I've ever completed (yes, I know, shame on me.) Yes, his name is Townshend; quite funny, that there's a musician called Henry Townsend. Anyway, you've got to protect Eileen about half of the time during the game. Or maybe a third. But similar to Ashley Graham of RE4, she's amazingly not-annoying. You can even give her weapons, and she can use them, saving your behind more than once. Besides, the don't quite do romance; but it's somehow unspoken that yes, maybe, after the game, if everything works out, they'll meet for a cup of coffee. It's cool, and therefore I ship.
H.P. Lovecraft: Oh, the love. Okay, okay, he's far from perfect; he was a racist. That's a big point against his writing. However, I still love his works; they're dark and imperfect. (And, if one looks at my own small works, it's apparent that I've been influenced a great deal by his.) The main characters usually don't win, or if they win, it's a Pyhrric stall at best, banishing the evil only for a certain time at the great cost of sanity, life and soul. Additionally, the idea of an unspeakable evil that makes one insane simply by *seeing* it is great. There are many, many themes I like, and some I hate. (The aforementioned racism; additionally, his sexism, as sympathetic female characters are rare.)
Illuminatus!: Take twenty to fourty conspiracy theories, combine them, add some twists and make it a tale about the end of the world. Or, better said, the end of the world as we know it. Now tell this tale through roughly fifty different points of view, without indicating when and how and why you're jumping characters, time or place. (This is especially prominent in the beginning of the first book.) This book is a written mindfuck. I've never experienced with LSD or other drugs, but I think that reading this book gives one a particular insight in how it would be. Oh, and most of the narrators? Are unreliable. You literally cannot trust any character in the books. Maybe Howard. Maybe.
Revy: Revy. What to say about Revy. A sociopathic mercenary with a small, minuscule soft spot for the rest of her crew members. Normally, she comes across as the badass, but she regularly acts as Heroic Sociopath. She's got a bad childhood (not that you *ever* are told that story), she's willing to kill literally *dozens* of people to protect her team mates. The entire series plays in Roanopur, a city where almost *every* character is a gangster, a smuggler, a serial killer or something like that. And she's one of the best. Revy is a bad girl. Literally. She is never redeemed, but still, one cannot help himself but like her. It's funny.
Subway to Sally: Folk metal. *Good* folk metal. The lyrics are dark and disturbing, fraught with themes such as hopelessness, slaughter and cruelty, and yet they are poetic, in a way. Probably the most astonishing song is Julia und die Räuber, which features the following text:
(translated from German)
"Blood, blood, raider's quenching blood,
Robbery and murder and raids are good,
From up the gallows it sounds,
Robbery and murder and raids are good."
Mind you, this is sung by the titular Julia, a young girl I'd guess is around 8 or 10....
Yeah, I like them. And their version of "Queen of Argyll" is simply the best I know.