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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-12-31 02:33 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-12-31 02:33 am
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Well, at least I found it before the year rolled over?
FIRST: barring a terrible crisis of some sort, I am going to Floridaaaa/Disney World/EPCOT AREA ANYWAY AHAHA this summer. PARTY! \o/
ANYWAY.
Wow, um. Got tagged for this a… very long time ago, wrote everything up in a word doc, and then forgot about it entirely. …Here it is now? (I am pretty sure it is finished, anyway...)
The Rules:
* Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!".
* I will then give you five words that remind me of you.
* Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
Words from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nano_moose:
Transformers
Transformers! eee! Actually,we’re kind of on a downswing right now we were when I wrote this we're coming back again now. This happens. Sometimes the fandom gets to me, sometimes I’m not interested in the current canon – or lack thereof, as it is now –sometimes I just wander off… Buuut I always come back eventually. Because I love my robots. Even if canon is a headache (I see a chance to link to one of my favourite images! LOOK AT THIS. All of those continuities! All of them canon! And that thing’s several years out of date now) and the writing is sometimes awful at best. When it is good, it is very, very good. Beast Wars and Animated come to mind. When it is bad it is horrid, well. We don’t always like to talk about some of that. Sometimes it is just ridiculous (see: the 80s cartoon. My heart belongs to the Gen 1 continuity family, especially G1 and Beast Wars, but I’m the first to admit that G1 is largely nonsense), and sometimes Japan just needs to not write Transformers canon. (I’m sorry, really, I can respect the Unicron trilogy, but I am not sure I will ever truly welcome Kiss Play.)
… Actually, sometimes the ridiculousness of it is the best part. We have canon crossovers with a bunch of different stuff. It’s canon that there are unlimited universes/realities (I absolutely love that everything counts, even if it makes for complete headaches and having fifteen different continuities for one movie and other ridiculous things)! No matter what you do, canon very often has some variation of it. (Not to say people can’t be completely ridiculous, anyway, but, you know.) I really love the potential behind it all. The series that get fleshed out (well, in a manner of speaking, anyway) are so well done and I love all of the characters and their quirks and damages and awesomeness. The series that don’t just give you enough to hint at really interesting stuff, and you / fandom can take over from there. There’s the whole war! We barely see any of it! What about the politics of things? I’m not with the “fluffy Decepticons only want freedom from the oppressive Autobots” group (especially not with G1 because just what?), but there’s still some interesting stuff in there.
I can’t really explain it. This is just… my fandom home? I can go out and have fun and see new things and places, and meet new people, but I have always, without fail, come back eventually. I can talk about Transformers FOR EVER. You all read this journal. You all probably know that already. (You are all probably sick of hearing about it all the time. XD) … Maybe I can blame being exposed to it at a very, very young age (when two of my cousins visited when I was all of some months old, they were way into G1 and watched it). There are probably things I have loved more, but there are not things I have loved longer. Or maybe it’s just because the fanbase is so honestly wonderful and hilarious and creative (sure, sure, though, we’ve got our crazies, too) and the creators love us (which... wouldn’t entirely explain why I came back after my years-long break after Beast Machines ended, since that started before I really found the online fandom and everything).
Dolphins
AGSDHUJFKLGHMJNHBESADKLFGR!!! probably isn’t going to cut it, is it? I like dolphins, actually. Ecco is a video game series about a dolphin who has to fight space aliens (and everything else under the water plus a few things above it – though mostly you just run from those things) and travel through time and alternate realities to save his family and also the world. It is very difficult in places, but I love it to bits. While hating it a lot. To the point of near-controller throwing. Just think, if I’d never developed a fascination with dolphins, I never would have picked this game up and my life would be a happier (but far less entertaining) place. (I readily acknowledge that I react in ways other people find amusing when poked with sea-life. It doesn’t even have to be dolphins. You interact with lots of different critters.) (…Would it really be happier? I actually kind of doubt it.)
Unfortunately, talking about Ecco makes me want to play it, so if I suddenly lunge for the PS2, well, you’ll know why.
HERE: 5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth. The first one is certainly true when I am playing Ecco. The last one really isn't.
Games
I like to play them! As with most things in life, my stance is that I will try anything once, so there are very few genres I haven’t bothered with. And also I am a total sucker for the more interactive story type games allow. Books are the best thing in the world, and movies and shows are fun, but on the level of emotions, games connect with me most. I cannot think of a single book or movie/show that I can promise will always make me cry or cheer or curl into a ball and whimper in terror. I can think of multiple games. They work brilliantly as a story telling medium, but they also just make a great way to relax for a while. They’re fun. They’ve been a large part of my life since, um. Whenever my brother and I decided to start pooling our weekly $2 allowance to buy a Sega Genesis. 1994? (About the time I can start solidly remembering things, really.) I feel safe saying I would not be where I am today, would not have the friends I do, if not for games, and I don’t care if that’s lame.
… Well. Board games, not always so much. But we aren’t talking about those, are we.
Character
Having character and characters in general both, I am going with, here. I probably could’ve asked for which, but I like both.
CHARACTER, to me, is largely what will make or break a story. You can have a brilliant plot, but if your main character is just blaaaaah is it still not going to be good! (Obviously there can be exceptions to this.) But mostly your character must have character, if we want to be redundant about it. AND OF COURSE WE DO. Almost all of the things I love most are things where I love everyone. (Even if in some cases it's more of a 'love to hate' thing.) I like characters. They are interesting. (That is probably why I collect head-characters... and I totally just almost went off on a tangent about first Hisime and then Jade.) How would they react to [such and such a thing]? WHAT IS [this] HAPPENED?
If there is no character (either an actual individual or just traits of something) for me to love, I will probably not like it. I do not know what I am saying anymore. I AM NOT CHIRPING.
Sun
Actually, I have to admit, I’m not sure what prompted this. My default icon (VALKURM DUNES Did you mean: Hell)? Or perhaps the sudden influx of yellow text on my journal back whenever that was (it goes nicely with the blue, I think, kind of like a beach, maybe, if you ignore the black text background, anyway)? Except I’m supposed to be explaining what it means to me, not postulating on the why.
Sun! Sun is shining and happy and it helps combat depression. Winter / SAD gets me every year, and man, I am so ready for it to be spring by, oh, January? I can handle it up until New Year’s. Then I’m done. Okay, you’ve had your events, winter. Now get going.
Also, sunrise and sunset are the best times of day. I especially like sunset, even though it can creep me out at times. If I’m not… thinking about it, I guess, sometimes it feels like the world is underwater when the light is just right.
...YOU CAN TELL I JUST KINDA RAN OUT OF STEAM AFTER REFRAINING FROM RANTING ABOUT ECCO CAN'T YOU. Those games are not good for me. Ever. At all. In any way.
No, seriously, though, I was given these words back in September. Poor filing? I HAVE NO EXCUSE.
ANYWAY.
Wow, um. Got tagged for this a… very long time ago, wrote everything up in a word doc, and then forgot about it entirely. …Here it is now? (I am pretty sure it is finished, anyway...)
The Rules:
* Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!".
* I will then give you five words that remind me of you.
* Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
Words from
nano_moose:Transformers
Transformers! eee! Actually,
… Actually, sometimes the ridiculousness of it is the best part. We have canon crossovers with a bunch of different stuff. It’s canon that there are unlimited universes/realities (I absolutely love that everything counts, even if it makes for complete headaches and having fifteen different continuities for one movie and other ridiculous things)! No matter what you do, canon very often has some variation of it. (Not to say people can’t be completely ridiculous, anyway, but, you know.) I really love the potential behind it all. The series that get fleshed out (well, in a manner of speaking, anyway) are so well done and I love all of the characters and their quirks and damages and awesomeness. The series that don’t just give you enough to hint at really interesting stuff, and you / fandom can take over from there. There’s the whole war! We barely see any of it! What about the politics of things? I’m not with the “fluffy Decepticons only want freedom from the oppressive Autobots” group (especially not with G1 because just what?), but there’s still some interesting stuff in there.
I can’t really explain it. This is just… my fandom home? I can go out and have fun and see new things and places, and meet new people, but I have always, without fail, come back eventually. I can talk about Transformers FOR EVER. You all read this journal. You all probably know that already. (You are all probably sick of hearing about it all the time. XD) … Maybe I can blame being exposed to it at a very, very young age (when two of my cousins visited when I was all of some months old, they were way into G1 and watched it). There are probably things I have loved more, but there are not things I have loved longer. Or maybe it’s just because the fanbase is so honestly wonderful and hilarious and creative (sure, sure, though, we’ve got our crazies, too) and the creators love us (which... wouldn’t entirely explain why I came back after my years-long break after Beast Machines ended, since that started before I really found the online fandom and everything).
Dolphins
AGSDHUJFKLGHMJNHBESADKLFGR!!! probably isn’t going to cut it, is it? I like dolphins, actually. Ecco is a video game series about a dolphin who has to fight space aliens (and everything else under the water plus a few things above it – though mostly you just run from those things) and travel through time and alternate realities to save his family and also the world. It is very difficult in places, but I love it to bits. While hating it a lot. To the point of near-controller throwing. Just think, if I’d never developed a fascination with dolphins, I never would have picked this game up and my life would be a happier (but far less entertaining) place. (I readily acknowledge that I react in ways other people find amusing when poked with sea-life. It doesn’t even have to be dolphins. You interact with lots of different critters.) (…Would it really be happier? I actually kind of doubt it.)
Unfortunately, talking about Ecco makes me want to play it, so if I suddenly lunge for the PS2, well, you’ll know why.
HERE: 5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth. The first one is certainly true when I am playing Ecco. The last one really isn't.
Games
I like to play them! As with most things in life, my stance is that I will try anything once, so there are very few genres I haven’t bothered with. And also I am a total sucker for the more interactive story type games allow. Books are the best thing in the world, and movies and shows are fun, but on the level of emotions, games connect with me most. I cannot think of a single book or movie/show that I can promise will always make me cry or cheer or curl into a ball and whimper in terror. I can think of multiple games. They work brilliantly as a story telling medium, but they also just make a great way to relax for a while. They’re fun. They’ve been a large part of my life since, um. Whenever my brother and I decided to start pooling our weekly $2 allowance to buy a Sega Genesis. 1994? (About the time I can start solidly remembering things, really.) I feel safe saying I would not be where I am today, would not have the friends I do, if not for games, and I don’t care if that’s lame.
… Well. Board games, not always so much. But we aren’t talking about those, are we.
Character
Having character and characters in general both, I am going with, here. I probably could’ve asked for which, but I like both.
CHARACTER, to me, is largely what will make or break a story. You can have a brilliant plot, but if your main character is just blaaaaah is it still not going to be good! (Obviously there can be exceptions to this.) But mostly your character must have character, if we want to be redundant about it. AND OF COURSE WE DO. Almost all of the things I love most are things where I love everyone. (Even if in some cases it's more of a 'love to hate' thing.) I like characters. They are interesting. (That is probably why I collect head-characters... and I totally just almost went off on a tangent about first Hisime and then Jade.) How would they react to [such and such a thing]? WHAT IS [this] HAPPENED?
If there is no character (either an actual individual or just traits of something) for me to love, I will probably not like it. I do not know what I am saying anymore. I AM NOT CHIRPING.
Sun
Actually, I have to admit, I’m not sure what prompted this. My default icon (VALKURM DUNES Did you mean: Hell)? Or perhaps the sudden influx of yellow text on my journal back whenever that was (it goes nicely with the blue, I think, kind of like a beach, maybe, if you ignore the black text background, anyway)? Except I’m supposed to be explaining what it means to me, not postulating on the why.
Sun! Sun is shining and happy and it helps combat depression. Winter / SAD gets me every year, and man, I am so ready for it to be spring by, oh, January? I can handle it up until New Year’s. Then I’m done. Okay, you’ve had your events, winter. Now get going.
Also, sunrise and sunset are the best times of day. I especially like sunset, even though it can creep me out at times. If I’m not… thinking about it, I guess, sometimes it feels like the world is underwater when the light is just right.
...YOU CAN TELL I JUST KINDA RAN OUT OF STEAM AFTER REFRAINING FROM RANTING ABOUT ECCO CAN'T YOU. Those games are not good for me. Ever. At all. In any way.
No, seriously, though, I was given these words back in September. Poor filing? I HAVE NO EXCUSE.
no subject
Transformers is one of those fandoms that I’m afraid of even looking directly at because it’s been around so long and is so terrifyingly huge. And also because I don't like the new movies - the only continuity I'm familiar with is Beast Wars, though Animated looks really good as well...
I was indeed prompted by the icon! ...I think. I keep suspecting that your journal’s title at the time may have had something to do with it as well, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was.
...Kind of tempted to ask for words again even though I've already done the meme.
no subject
That is, um. Possibly very wise of you. It has been known to exhibit soul-sucking capabilities. (I was only familiar with Beast Wars/Machines when I trotted in... look at me now. Dx) But at least most of it is friendly! I will confess to liking the movies because the bots are so pretty, but they are completely hopeless. I also get some sort of perverse pleasure from attempting to make sense of them because my brain hates me... (There are a lot of people/fans who don't like them, though.) I would vote check out Animated if you get the chance! I adored it, and so did most of the fanbase (and not just because there were more references to other parts of the franchise than we could keep track of). ...and, oh, right, the actual target demographic liked it, too...
Oh! Yeah, I had "Center of the Sun" as my title for a long while. I'd forgotten about that! In that case, it was from/is the title of this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kj0EJWEvw) (alternately... (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gmqm0tmzgmm)), which is one of my GO TO A HAPPY PLACE songs.
YOU KNOW YOU WANT THEM (go go perpetu-meme).