Meme and OCD

[lodessa]

Some Stats on my Fanfiction Written Per Fandom

By Word Count

1) Harry Potter - 35,477 words
2) A Song of Ice and Fire - 23,548 words
3) Veronica Mars - 21,560 words
4) Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 13,889 words
5) Firefly/Serenity - 8,512 words
6) The Office(US) - 6,005 words
7) Grey's Anatomy - 5,061 words
8) Bones - 4,111 words
9) Doctor Who - 3,893 words
10) Mythology - 3,040 words
11) His Dark Materials - 787 words
12)Ugly Betty - 661 words
13) Big Love - 537 words
14) Romes - 403


By Number of Pieces Written(including all)
1. Harry Potter (34)
2. A Song of Ice and Fire, Veronica Mars (20)
3. Firefly/Serenity (9)
4. Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grey's Anatomy (8)
5. The Office (7)
6. Mythology (5)
7. Doctor Who (4)
8. Bones, His Dark Materials (2)
9. Big Love, Rome, Ugly Betty (1)


By Number of Pieces Written(including items of 500 words or more)
1. Harry Potter (23)
2. A Song of Ice and Fire, Veronica Mars (13)
3. The Office (7)
4. Firefly/Serenity, Grey's Anatomy (5)
5. Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Mythology (4)
6. Doctor Who (3)
7. Bones (2)
8. Big Love, His Dark Materials, Ugly Betty (1)


By Number of Pieces Written(including only items of 1,000 words or more)
1. Harry Potter (10)
2. Veronica Mars (8)
3. A Song of Ice and Fire (6)
4. Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (4)
5. Firefly/Serenity, Grey's Anatomy (3)
6. Bones (2)
7. Doctor Who, Mythology, The Office (1)



meme, frome blue_blazes:
Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then 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.


Answers:
archetypes I'm really into archetypes, not so much in the Jungian sense as just they way that our ideas about certain types of characters interact with the actual reutilization of them in any work of fiction, and actually life itself. We frame all our experiences in terms of this kind of shorthand.

ass is timeless One time sophia_helix, sainfoin_fields and I went to see a play that my sister, in addition to being in, had costumed. The director had wanted the look to be "timeless" and my sister had come up with the idea that dance clothes are pretty timeless and so everyone was basically wearing leotards with various translucent additions. So there was a lot of viewing of people's asses involved, when this was commented on my sister tried to explain why, and well she only got as far as "Well the concept was supposed to be timeless..." before it was agreed upon that yes, ass is timeless. And it is.

Chaplain Tappman "It was love at first sight." I love Catch-22 and I love the character of the poor harassed Chaplain, constantly being picked on and stressing out about his wife.

cyberpunk staples I haven't read much cyberpunk, and it isn't a genre I expected to be into, but I've read Snowcrash and Neuromancer, which are staples of the genre and I absolutely loved both of them.

existentialism I was introduced to existentialism really in my sophomore year of college and I've always found it really in line with my own experience of the world. Just last week I was reading some Sartre short stories and really feeling blown away by his depiction of how things can see unreal and you feel like you are pretending to be yourself. Generally, existentialism is about being responsible for your own experience of life and I approve of that.


no choking it better! This interest indebted to Narnia RFP (among other fandoms) belief in the value of "raping it better". It drives me batty when people write sexual violation fixing sexual violation. sainfoin_fields was responsible for showing us the atrocity that caused the coining of the term. Then there was the whole incident with Isiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey and the choking that happened thanks to the prior's homophobic slur towards T.R. Knight. sophia_helix and I knew right away that there was going to be slashy RPF about Dempsey and Knight and I groaned thinking about the inevitable choking it better that was sure to occur in some of those fics.

Victorian lesbian vampires Mainly this is a reference to Carmilla which I read right around the same time as Dracula and was blown away by. This book seriously has all the best things about the era.

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Hoorah for archetypes!

Ass is truly timeless.

I love Catch-22 as well.

I loved Snow Crash and really liked Neuromancer, even though it was kind of weird and cerebral at times. And the main character had no personality.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel like the world and events of Neuromancer were so vivid that I didn't even really mind the lack of character in the protagonist.

Snowcrash is just ridiculously brilliant, I rarely care about actual prose, but Stephenson's is just seriously amazing.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

can I play along? (you have great interests XD)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I try and keep them fresh.


And for you: bitextuality, cult of ecstasy, sku, splitting hair, syncretism, thinking too much, writers are liars mdear,

[sainfoin-fields.livejournal.com]

i would ask to do the meme but my non-posting inertia is so strong, i don't know what can push me back over to the dark posty side.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Well in case you decide you want to do it anyway: connor-reese family values, free-range organic storytelling, inevitably pilots, retelling reworking subverting, smashing the robot patriarchy, the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, the mythology of childhood.

[lupanotte.livejournal.com]

I love existentialism too

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

It really just clicks for me in a way that nothing else every really has.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Me for the meme!

(Did anyone ever choke it better? I guess we were too scared to find out.)

(Also it's sad that we don't have a new phrase to add to a trifecta of Acme phrases, but then I would have had to attend the play.)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

For the meme: beirut, failing captcha tests, not being fifteen, not watching supernatural, ot3, the rhyming becktionary, your san francisco giants

I don't think we ever actually looked, I am pretty sure it happened though (in my heart of hearts.)

(Believe me: It was not worth the sacrifice)

[blue-blazes.livejournal.com]

I must concur; ass is about as timeless as it gets. =)

Responsibility for one's own experience? I can get that. I've never been much of a student of philosophy, and I barely passed the one introductory college level course I took, but it's all very interesting.

Ahhh... that makes much more sense. I threw 'no choking it better' in the list because I had no idea what it could possibly be, and now I know. Oh fandom and your insanities... =)

I'll have to check out some of the books you mentioned. I love a good vampire story, I've never read Catch-22, and have never heard of this Cyberpunk you speak of, so that makes lots of new territory to explore.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I encountered existentialism first in one of my lit classes in college. There are some really great writers, who really exemplify the ideas without you having to read dry theory. Basically you create your own meaning and reality, the idea is that people are free, but that freedom is a responsibility rather than the opposite. I am of course butchering it.

Fandom is a special special thing.

Carmilla is really more of a novella so it's a quick read, Catch-22 less so but it's one of the top ten best books I've ever read.

Cyberpunk is basically the inheritor to what I feel Sci-Fi used to be about. The future isn't on other planets with other species (although some cyberpunk does have space elements), it's right here in our messed up world with the escapist capacities of technology. It's the genre that the Matrix comes out of and William Gibson's Neuromancer(which is like the foundational novel for the genre, like Tolkien in Fantasy) is seriously ripped off, especially in the sequels. Gibson's book remains a great and interesting read, despite the fact that it is as old as I am. Neil Stephanson's Snowcrash is slightly newer, a major masterpiece, and weaves mythology in with technology in a way that is amazing. Both authors have other books that I intend to read in the future.

[blue-blazes.livejournal.com]

Cool things. I will definitely be checking these things out.

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

Was there really Dempsey/Knight choking fic? ZOMG, fandom.

Anyway, I keep waiting for you to post about SatC! Am I high, or weren't you a fairly big fan?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

We never actually had the stomach to look, but I seriously am sure it is out there. Because fandom is predictable sometimes.

Not so much with the being a SatC fan. While I have seen and enjoyed a lot of episodes in the moment, I never watched methodically or intentionally, and I have huge issues with the implications of the overarching plot lines and assumptions of the show, especially the validation of Carrie's relationship with Big. So if anything it will be a guilty pleasure rental.

Movies I have seen in the theater this season: Ironman, Prince Caspian, Indiana Jones.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

You're most productive and interesting...

And have just given me a very, very good leg up on my latest "I want to get into Victorian literature and stuff."

Also, you're the second person who wrote about being OCD on my flist recently.

PS. I'm ready for another round of icon!crack. Seriously.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Awww thanks.

I am always here for Lit recommendations. Seriously, it's what I do.

I have some very OCD tendencies, being ridiculously pleased and soothed by lists is one of them.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"You weren't saying that when we were kissing, you prawn!"

Lit is always of the good. I used to read a lot of trash, and looking for the barest hints of sex and physical contact at every turn.

Then I started writing my own.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"It's not like you've never complained before, remember the part with the snow and whining about the cold?"

I think we all did that, and then we found the internet. Of course there is some really terrible stuff that's considered "Literature".

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"I was freezing to death!"

Oh, don't get me started.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"Well you were the one who wanted to stand around outside instead of enjoying the comfort of the TARDIS."


Oh, please do start.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"You would have just jumped my bones once inside!"

Ever tried the Twilight Novels? I've read two pages. I stopped. Never went back.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"I'll have you know, I'm a very sought after man/alien."


Hearing about then was enough for me. Basically they seem like everything that is wrong with badfic... only without the porn even.

I seriously cannot believe how many people like them.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Trust me, Sunshine, the women are only in it for the ride."

I know. And I've read V.C. Andrews. To my credit, I was fourteen.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"Are you saying, that only the blokes really care?"


I've read some truly terrible books myself, but at least I sort of knew that about them.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"It certainly seems that way."

Yeah, I knew V.C. Andrews was bad when I read her. Yet, you know...you keep reading.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"Well then, maybe I should go find one."

(ps. this icon actually came up thanks to my randomizer add on)


Indeed. Now I mainly read actually good books and entertaining YA Fantasy novels.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"And for God's sakes, this time? Don't let him get away."

I'm doing the classics or thereabouts. I'm currently reading Jekill and Hyde.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"Everyone gets away from me" *cries*

Awesome, it's a really neat story. Right now I am slogging though Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Because you lead 'em on, Doctor. And you know it."*pats his back*

Joyce... I have trouble with stream of conscious. I'm having huge difficulties with Kerouac.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"How was I supposed to know what she was thinking, after all she was flirting with Shakespeare."

I like the idea of stream of consciousness, I just don't like a lot of the people who write it. I read this great little novella by Sartre the other day that was essentially the same kind of thing as the Joyce book on paper, but Sartre's consciousness is way more interesting instead of offputting.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"You should have used your mojo."

Well, obviously, I do want to read Sartre. Being the weirdo I am, I'll probably read him in French.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"It's not mojo; it's scientific knowledge."


I would if I could read French.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Honestly? Try focusing on telling you daughter that you like the blokes..."

I hate translations.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"What's the big deal? So does she."

It's always an issue, but I suck at languages so I am sort of stuck with them.

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"True...I'd like her bloke, too, if he was those ten years older..."

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"You never like anyone's bloke"

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Who, me? What, you think I'm gonna stay single for life after Lance?"

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"No one ever does."

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Indeed."

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

"I blame the mothers."

[utopia83.livejournal.com]

"Fathers can be a hassle, too."

[fiendishrogue.livejournal.com]

Wowsers, gobsmacked by the sheer amount of words! A serious well done is needed methinks :)

If you like cyberpunk-esque works, then I thoroughly recommend Richard Morgan's 'Altered Carbon'. I found Gibson's stuff to be a little too dry for me, but Morgan's is so on tha ball, I can't remember when I enjoyed a book so much!

Could you tag me please?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Well this is over the almost three and a half years I've had this journal, but thanks.

I will definitely check Morgan out. I am starting to believe that cyberpunk is a ridiculously important genre. Have you tried Stephenson? I think you'd really like Snowcrash, at it has the advantage of being interwoven with mythological elements (which is something I know you are into).

For the meme: altered carbon, alternate realities, conjure one, earth and beyond, envoy conditioning, spider jerusalem, the cats of seroster


ps. Having looked at your interests I must ask. Re WoW: what server?

[fiendishrogue.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tag :)

Yup Snow Crash was one of the first Cyberpunk novels I ever read, i tend to view it as the punk novel for the 90s, as Neuromancer was for the 80s. I couldn't put it down and finished it in 24 hours iirc! You're right on the nail with the mythological elements keeping me hooked, Stephenson is fantastic at weaving the modern with the mythic and historic! I've also read a few more of Stephenson's works, namely The Diamond Age (odd but many interesting speculations about society, though some bits are a little nasty) and Cryptonomicon (an absolute beast to read but very interesting modern day and historic parallels about codes, code-breaking and money. Also the main characters are great :).

For Wow I'm on the (European) Quel'Thalas server (60 rogue, 61 pally, 30ish shammy all alliance). How bout you?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Snowcrash was my first too. Originally my dad bought it for me when I was far too young for it, right after it came out pretty much, and then was like "Ooops" and replaced it with something else after getting a little farther in and realizing how inappropriate it was. So it was much later, when I was in college, that I finally read it and was just utterly blown away. It's definitely a Top Ten book for me. I have plans to read at least the two you mentioned, if not more, of Stephenson's work.

I've got a 65 Draeni Priest and a couple of real lowbie alts on Dethecus(PVP), and a 36 Troll Shaman and 20 Blood Elf Warlock on Lothar(PVE).