YouMeme

[kerravonsen]

Gacked from synaesthete7. I only promise to do the first five people who comment; though there's probably no chance of more than five people commenting anyway -- my usual level, I'll get three...

Leave a comment and I'll tell you some things I associate with you. Reply with your name, favorite color, and birthday, and:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a dessert with which you and I would have a food fight.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (maybe/maybe not).
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of (your Patronus?).
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

If I do this for you, post this on your journal/blog in turn, and do the same for others.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Sarah
blue
April 23 (aka Shakespeare's birth/death day & the Feast of St. George)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I would but I don't do those memes because I wouldn't have a clue how to respond to others in turn.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Birthday is 27 September, favourite colour is red.

[kerravonsen]

1. You live in LA and write scripts.
2. Babylon 5 soundtrack.
3. Chocolate mousse.
4. Slash devalues friendship.
5. You were surprised that I recognised where your net-name came from.
6. Border collie (like Lassie); loyal and intelligent
7. You're close to your family; you're Christian; you like SF. What does your family think of SF? Do they think you're odd, or did they introduce you to the genre in the first place?

[lady-smith.livejournal.com]

Liza
Blue
December 3rd

[kerravonsen]

1. You have, in the past, dyed your hair blond.

2. Gallipoli

3. Rasberry jelly.

4. Spare computers in your bedroom at your parents' house, in another state to where you actually live.

5. I can't remember exactly, it was too long ago. Through the Lyst, definitely.

6. Golden labrador.

7. What is your world-view, anyway?

[kerravonsen]

1. You are also known as lizamanynames.
2. "Devil's Right Hand"
3. Apple pie.
4. Is your surname a deep, dark secret? Cuz I know what it is.
5. You signed up for the Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel.
6. A firefly. Or a Firefly. (grin)
7. Where are you from, anyway?

[lady-smith.livejournal.com]

1. *grins* Indeed. So much for bothering to change over my sign in to make sure you recognized me...
2) LOL!!!!! Now, however did you come up with that association...
3) Damn, that sounds like fun! A la mode or not?
4) What on earth is so secret about "Fletcher"? (though it'll be changing next year)
5) Here I thought I MAY have made an impression before then, commenting on Astro's journal - but really it makes sense that this would be were you remember me from.
6) LOL!! I am terribly terrible amused by the concept of a Firefly patronus. And come to think of it, both variaties do suit my personality.
7) I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, spent Juniour High in Alberta, and now live in Regina Saskatchewan. All those places are in the Canadian Praries.

[kerravonsen]

1. *grins* Indeed. So much for bothering to change over my sign in to make sure you recognized me...

No, actually, that was considerate of you, because I didn't know that until you happened to mention it recently in someone else's journal (most likely AstroGirl)

A la mode or not?
What does "a la mode" mean, in relation to apple pie?

What on earth is so secret about "Fletcher"?
Nothing, except that some people like to hide their RL names...

I am terribly terrible amused by the concept of a Firefly patronus.

I saw someone's user icon the other day, and was ROTFL because it said... "My patronus is a Dalek"... A Firefly patronus is conservative by comparison.

[lady-smith.livejournal.com]

What does "a la mode" mean, in relation to apple pie?

With a scoop of ice-cream on top (traditionally vanilla).

it said... "My patronus is a Dalek"... A Firefly patronus is conservative by comparison.

*I'd* feel a hell of alot safer with a Firefly... :D

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

2. Babylon 5 soundtrack.

Yay! :-) I'm pleased about that; the B5 soundtrack is terribly inspiring when I write fic, btw, and not B5 fic either. I don't know why.

3. Chocolate mousse.

I swear you and whitemartyr merged this bit of your brains, you both said the same thing for me.

4. Slash devalues friendship.

Hooray for solidarity. :-) I still need to come up with a design for a GenFic Pride icon.

5. You were surprised that I recognised where your net-name came from.

I think the total may be up to seven, now. Including an Ebay vendor I bought comics from. It must be the spelling....

6. Border collie (like Lassie); loyal and intelligent

Aw! That's far too spot-on. Wow.

7. You're close to your family; you're Christian; you like SF. What does your family think of SF? Do they think you're odd, or did they introduce you to the genre in the first place?

I am one of the lucky few; a convert to SF/F practically from the cradle. Both my parents discovered such books in college, so I, born a couple of years later, received the full force of their enthusiasm. :-) Narnia when I was seven; The Hobbit, A Wind in the Door, and A Wizard of Earthsea when I was eight; and LotR when I was nine (a bit young, but I adored it). The actual SF came a bit later, though my entire family are Trekkies and fans of Star Wars, so....

I have gone further than my parents, and I think they're a bit weirded out by the whole fandom thing, but they don't tell me it's bad, and they think my fics are well-written. And they didn't mind me converting my brothers to B5, then to I-Man and The Sentinel. :-D

I'm still working on permission to send all my sibs the Harry Potter books.

[kerravonsen]

I'm still working on permission to send all my sibs the Harry Potter books.

Permission? Sounds like you're the eldest or an elder sibling... I'd never be asking permission -- but I'm in the other direction, consulting with my sibs to see what they would permit me to give to my nieces and nephews.

On the other hand, it has never occurred to me to give HP to anyone -- all the people I know who I think might like it, have them already. And I don't actually rate them high enough to want to give them to people cold.

I'm in a similar position; my parents were all into Narnia and LOTR, and read us fairy tales; I borrowed my first Asimov from my eldest brother. They all remain mildly interested (I introduced my eldest brother to David Weber, for example, and my sister was watching New Who at the same time that I was), but I'm the only one who's the all-out SF fan.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Oh, what the hey. Do me--only if you want to. It may be a bit before I feel like putting it up in my own journal, though. I still have some old questions to answer.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements. </td> Materialist 75% Existentialist 63% Postmodernist 50% Romanticist 44% Modernist 38% Cultural Creative 25% Fundamentalist 19% Idealist 0% What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

[kerravonsen]

1. Hippos! Or Christmas cookies.
2. "Wind Beneath My Wings"
3. fruit salad
4. Grannie MacQuarrie.
5. You understood what the "Maranatha!" in my .sig meant!
6. cat; intelligent, curious, and non-conformist
7. Okay, this is not something I've always wondered, more like a random question: what was the first SF/F book you ever read?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I forgot. My birthday is August 1st. My favorite color changes hourly, though it's usually in the red-purple-blue range. At the moment, it's violet.

1. Christmas Hippo cookies! (Do you know, I'm planning to do a study of the life of Augustine soon, as he was the Bishop of Hippo.)
2. Er, just let me go put on my Bette Midler disguise...
3. Watch out! I have a pomegranate and I know how to use it!
4. "Oh, come out to the highlands..." :D
5. That can't be that unusual, surely?
6. Not to mention snooty and anti-social...
7. Um. Raised on fairy tales, oddly enough, so I don't actually remember. And I learned to read on Dr. Seuss and similar authors (well, along with the KJV), which probably count as fantasy, too. But I suppose where I realized fantasy was my preferred style was when I read Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, which I got in a one-volume for my seventh birthday. The first bit of science fiction was either one of Heinlein's juveniles or a volume of Bradbury short stories, both of which I discovered in junior high, about age eleven or twelve.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Ack. That was me, behind the mask of anonymity.

[kerravonsen]

That can't be that unusual, surely?

Oddly enough, it is. I mustn't be hanging with the right internet crowd. I've had a couple of people ask what it meant, but I think you're the only (or almost the only) person who remarked on it who knew what it meant.
Perhaps that just means that there are a bunch of people out there who do know what it means, but never bothered to remark on it.

"Oh, come out to the highlands..."

Just letting you know that I still want the rest of that (encourage, encourage)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, ISTR having a friend in college whose favorite word was Maranatha. Also, there's a music publisher whose stuff I've used a great deal called that. So I might have an unfair advantage.

And I want the rest of Scottish Air quite badly myself, not to mention half a dozen other stories. ::sigh:: But, unfortunately, have been in far too much pain to write. My entire output for the last three days amounts to: 'At the core of her darkness flared a white point of pain.' Had to finally ask for a pinch-hitter for Multiverse (though I'm still going to finish it, because it's already half done and I quite like the idea). Am giving up ficathons (except for the finish-a-thon and the Beatles song thing if it happens) until I get the previous ones caught up.

[kerravonsen]

But, unfortunately, have been in far too much pain to write.

Oh dear! {hugs}

Am giving up ficathons... until I get the previous ones caught up.

Very sensible.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Very sensible.

Which should give some indication of how not-myself I've been lately. ;-P

[kerravonsen]

DOES NOT COMPUTE. DOES NOT COMPUTE. DOES NOT COMPUTE.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Hee!
::resists urge to say, 'Well, at least we know you're feeling like yourself!'::

[kerravonsen]

But you didn't quite resist it, did you?

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Permission? Sounds like you're the eldest or an elder sibling...

I am, in fact, the eldest of seven (1 1/2 yrs to 25 yrs). In a lot of ways, I've been the one to test-and-try new books or authors, and report to the other siblings if they're worth the time. My parents really placed quite a lot of trust in me early on...but re: Harry Potter, they've been too influenced by the current (thoroughly unfounded) Christian backlash.

Need I say, at this point, that I *do* value HP enough to give people the books cold? That's how I was introduced to them, and I couldn't believe they were that good.

I'm the only one who's the all-out SF fan.

I might be in a similar position--although I nearly talked my brother and his wife into coming down to the San Diego ComiCon, so maybe not. :-D

[kerravonsen]

eldest of seven (1 1/2 yrs to 25 yrs)

Golly, that's a huge age range! The gap between me and my eldest brother is only 11 years. Though as I said elsewhere, that was only five children, not seven.

Need I say, at this point, that I *do* value HP enough to give people the books cold? That's how I was introduced to them, and I couldn't believe they were that good.

I think I still prefer Diana Wynne Jones, though I also have to admit they got much better after the second one, but on the third hand, I am finding the current one hard to get through, and the previous one was really too long and slow.