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Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Cherry Blossoms. I think cherry trees are one of the most beautiful things on the planet when they're blossoming. Every time I go back to California during Spring Break, it's like the entire state has burst into flower. It's the most amazing thing. I've always wanted to go to Washington D.C. during cherry blossom season. It sounds AMAZING.
2. Collecting Jackets. Beyond my winter coat, I own 12 jackets. Three of them are velvet (black, bright blue, and red), two are blazers--one pinstripe and one in gray tweed, another two are military inspired, one is the top part of a vintage set of aviator dress blues, and then there's the vintage tailcoat and an antique oriental jacket in gold silk, and finally, my latest find, a turquoise double-breasted cowlneck jacket. This is not including all of the lightweight summer wear either. Suffice it to say, I love coats and jackets.
3. Honest Tea. If you haven't heard me babbling about Honest Tea at this juncture, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH. I started drinking Honest Tea when I was sixteen because I could no longer drink Snapple or Arizona (Liquid Candy, as the Honest Tea founders call it). I was taking my first flight on Jetblue, and they didn't serve food so my dad was like 'LET'S PICK UP SOME SNACKS.' Remember this was back in the day when you could still bring your own liquid on the flight. I got myself Red Vines, Gold Fish, and a bottle of Peach Ooh La Long on a whim. We've been in love ever since.
4. Javelin In Hand. This just goes to show that I'm a really big fucking dork. In Plutarch's Life of Demetrius, Plutarch makes a really big deal about how Demetrius and his father Antigonus were very close. The quote is, "It is evident that his feeling for Antigonus sprang from genuine affection, and not from mere regard for his power." Basically Antigonus made this big show of how Demetrius was allowed to sit next to him holding his javelins while he was on the throne. Basically, "Look how much he loves me, he'll sit next to me with his javelin and not suddenly leap upon me and spear me with it." What I take from this? THIS IS SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP, YO! For multiple reasons, A) that you would have to worry about it in the first place and B) that Demetrius would be so stupid as to try and murder you in front of everybody while cleaning his weapons. Oh, Hellenistic history, I love you.
5. Male Models, wait you have to ask?
There. 'Nuf said.
6. Sequins. I love sequins. I think I must have been a drag queen or a vaudeville girl in my last life. They should be on everything. I have a sequin totebag that I used to carry everywhere, but then my freshman year roommates made fun of me so I stopped wearing it. Fuck that. I should dig that bag out again.
7. Regency Period. High boots, tight pants, empire waists, low-cut necklines. It's before Queen Victoria becomes a prude (and sexually represses the western world) and those horrible hoop skirts set in, but after wearing wigs and spending the poor people into the ground. Although let's be honest, it's still an era of decadence. Colonialism (the better of two evil brothers) is still holding its ground against imperialism. Also, Napoleon is running around, Mr. Darcy is pining, Andrew Jackson is kicking the pants off the British two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent is signed, and best of all there's an ENTIRE genre of romance novels devoted to the romanticization of this time.
amberlynne Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
1. Cherry Blossoms. I think cherry trees are one of the most beautiful things on the planet when they're blossoming. Every time I go back to California during Spring Break, it's like the entire state has burst into flower. It's the most amazing thing. I've always wanted to go to Washington D.C. during cherry blossom season. It sounds AMAZING.
2. Collecting Jackets. Beyond my winter coat, I own 12 jackets. Three of them are velvet (black, bright blue, and red), two are blazers--one pinstripe and one in gray tweed, another two are military inspired, one is the top part of a vintage set of aviator dress blues, and then there's the vintage tailcoat and an antique oriental jacket in gold silk, and finally, my latest find, a turquoise double-breasted cowlneck jacket. This is not including all of the lightweight summer wear either. Suffice it to say, I love coats and jackets.
3. Honest Tea. If you haven't heard me babbling about Honest Tea at this juncture, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH. I started drinking Honest Tea when I was sixteen because I could no longer drink Snapple or Arizona (Liquid Candy, as the Honest Tea founders call it). I was taking my first flight on Jetblue, and they didn't serve food so my dad was like 'LET'S PICK UP SOME SNACKS.' Remember this was back in the day when you could still bring your own liquid on the flight. I got myself Red Vines, Gold Fish, and a bottle of Peach Ooh La Long on a whim. We've been in love ever since.
4. Javelin In Hand. This just goes to show that I'm a really big fucking dork. In Plutarch's Life of Demetrius, Plutarch makes a really big deal about how Demetrius and his father Antigonus were very close. The quote is, "It is evident that his feeling for Antigonus sprang from genuine affection, and not from mere regard for his power." Basically Antigonus made this big show of how Demetrius was allowed to sit next to him holding his javelins while he was on the throne. Basically, "Look how much he loves me, he'll sit next to me with his javelin and not suddenly leap upon me and spear me with it." What I take from this? THIS IS SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP, YO! For multiple reasons, A) that you would have to worry about it in the first place and B) that Demetrius would be so stupid as to try and murder you in front of everybody while cleaning his weapons. Oh, Hellenistic history, I love you.
5. Male Models, wait you have to ask?
There. 'Nuf said.
6. Sequins. I love sequins. I think I must have been a drag queen or a vaudeville girl in my last life. They should be on everything. I have a sequin totebag that I used to carry everywhere, but then my freshman year roommates made fun of me so I stopped wearing it. Fuck that. I should dig that bag out again.
7. Regency Period. High boots, tight pants, empire waists, low-cut necklines. It's before Queen Victoria becomes a prude (and sexually represses the western world) and those horrible hoop skirts set in, but after wearing wigs and spending the poor people into the ground. Although let's be honest, it's still an era of decadence. Colonialism (the better of two evil brothers) is still holding its ground against imperialism. Also, Napoleon is running around, Mr. Darcy is pining, Andrew Jackson is kicking the pants off the British two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent is signed, and best of all there's an ENTIRE genre of romance novels devoted to the romanticization of this time.
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:16 pm (UTC)You totally should! Never ever let anyone else dictate your sense of style to you. <3
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:18 pm (UTC)Dost thou wish to participate in the meme? I will gladly pick some of your interests!
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:22 pm (UTC)Hit me up!
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:27 pm (UTC)Mangoes, Mediterranean Men, hating George Clooney, a sunburnt country, gadgets and technology, porny hands and forearms, pirates.
Alphabetical order is for people whose brains work.
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-11 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-11 10:42 pm (UTC)Hi. :D I miss you!
YOU SHOULD COME SEE CHERRY BLOSSOMS WITH ME THIS SPRING.
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:51 pm (UTC)Also, I have decided you are playing this meme: argyle pr0n, canonball, every gibbon opportunity, lost ice-cubes, old movies, Sam Winchester's Ass, wombat.
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Date: 2010-02-13 02:28 am (UTC)OH MY GOD YAY :D! I will cross my fingers.
Ahahaha I AM? Well, I will do it because you asked so nicely.
1) argyle pr0n
I took part in a little kinkfic thing back in the Harry Potter fandom, and, per a friend's request over chat, wrote a little ficlet where Remus wore argyle all the time and gave Sirius a fetish for it.
2) cannonball
Sam Guthrie! aka Cannonball. He's my favourite of the X-Men. He's a tall blond hick from Kentucky, and his power is explosive thermal force which he uses like rocket fuel to power flight and punching and stuff.
3) every gibbon opportunity
UHHHHH AHAHAHA. It's from a Christmas party I went to with my London Harry Potter fandom friends, the t00bs. We were fucking WASTED. And now I can't entirely remember why we were talking about gibbons, but they were wearing fezzes and smoking jackets and had cigars and...GOD I DON'T EVEN KNOW. We cracked our shit up, though, I will tell you that. And then we put it in all of our interests and made icons. I think maybe someone had a fez and someone else said he looked like a little monkey wearing it and then someone else suggested that monkey was a gibbon and...OH WHATEVER. I WAS DRUNK. I HAVE NO IDEA.
4) lost ice-cubes
ALSO from a t00b party. The very first one, in fact, which took place in
5) old movies
My parents are addicted to old movies. From the silent era onward, they know everything there is to know about American and British cinema. My mom especially. And so I was raised on AMC and TCM and all the great classics. When people call movies from the 70s "old" it makes my soul die a little.
6) sam winchester's ass
I have worshipped it since the pilot. VERY VOCALLY. God it is delicious in every way.
7) wombat
I was obsessed with this boy in high school, and his "code name" so I could talk about him without people who were not my BFFs knowing who he was was Wombat. It was Wombat because he looked just like Prince William, and Prince William was called "Wills the Wombat" by Diana and Charles as a baby.
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:47 pm (UTC)Me?
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Date: 2010-02-11 10:54 pm (UTC)Being a debaser, cavalini notebooks, chemical calisthenics, cursed frogurts, discipline and punish, socrates' lap of truth, zeppo marx.
I like Harpo myself.
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Date: 2010-02-11 11:01 pm (UTC)(OMG I am on a sugar high I think, I apologize if none of this is funny)
I will post on these v. v. soon. I like them all, but Zeppo intrigues me more since he was the straight man. Also because of the Buffy episode "The Zeppo" which I still hold so very dear.
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Date: 2010-02-12 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-11 11:46 pm (UTC)Also, fuck yes you should dig out the sequin bag again. I'd support you in that. :D
I don't know if any of my interests are as interesting, but if you wanna pick away, please do!
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Date: 2010-02-12 12:27 am (UTC)beauty and the beast, homotextuality, Jared/Jude, sauntering vaguely downwards *wink*, shagging the british, subtext, used bookstores
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Date: 2010-02-12 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 12:28 am (UTC)ETA: hey hey, no doing the meme before I give you anything to talk about!
androgyny, beautiful tattoos, blooming late, flaneurisme, justice, pimms no. 1 cup, rescheming
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Date: 2010-02-12 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 12:47 am (UTC)I am SHOCKED that your interest in male models was not an explanation on the examination of the feminization of males wearing high heels and carrying man-purses down the runway. A GASP, I TELL YOU.
I think you should dig that bag out, stat! ♥
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Date: 2010-02-12 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 03:37 am (UTC)REGENCY PERIOD. So awesome!
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Date: 2010-02-12 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 05:19 pm (UTC)Last night I dreamed we were hanging out again in your car. It was awesome.
Will you pick some of my interests? :)
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Date: 2010-02-12 07:03 pm (UTC)Are you watching closely, board in brain, boring postcards, fountain sodas, I’m on fire, nail gun massacre, sweet jumps.