redbrunja: (Do My Evil Bidding)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2009-09-18 10:43 pm

Meme Meme Meme

gacked from [profile] ivy_chan:

leave me a comment saying "BITE ME",
- i'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
- update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions


1)What is your favorite mythological monster?

Vampires. I loved vampires before they were cool. Okay, scratch that, vampires were always cool. I loved vampires before they sparkled, back when Buffy was the It Girl to the hottest things to go bump in the night, when the book everyone asked you about when they found out you liked vampires was written by Anne Rice (tangentially, when I first checked the book out of the library, my mom asked me what I was reading and then told me to return it because I was too young for that book, and then I did. Parental guidance: that is how it's done).

2)If I was going to drop you into any fictional world, which would it be?

I'll take one ticket to Ile-Rien, please. AKA the best of Paris and London and their respective countries during a time period whose aesthetics I love (the 1940s, fyi) with level of woman's equality roughly equal to our current time period.

3)Which fandom you've been in has the most perfect gender dynamics?

Fandom or canon? To be quite honest, speaking just of the fandom, Naruto has one of the best I've seen. I've heard rumors of the epic Sakura bashing, but I was around for things like, you know, 80% of the comments to an anti-Karin post being about how Sakura is awesome too, why are you bashing one to glorify the other?

4)Do you think your astrological sign fits your personality?

It does to a ridiculous degree. I'm a Cancer and have four planets (the moon, the sun, Mercury and Venus) in that same house. 

And it really reflected in my personality.

5)If you were going to pick a style of music that best describes you, what would it be?

Rock and roll, baby. ^_^

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2009-09-23 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
1.) How did you come to wicca as your religion?

2.) If you were a character in a fantasy novel, what would be your weapons and/or powers?

3.) Someplace you would like to visit.

4.) Some place you have visited and wished you hadn't.

5.) Last movie you saw, and your opinions of it.

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2009-09-24 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1. actually it was the movie The Craft. I was 14 and it made me curious because until that point witchcraft was something that didnt actually exist to my knowledge. Id been raised to consider it make-believe. I wanted to see what it was all about (turns out, almost nothing like the movie)I got a bunch of library books and read up on wicca, and discovered that the theological aspects of it really resonated with me. it was the first time I personally identified with a religion, instead of just being told what I am - which in my family was southern christian. (one day my dad and grandma found my books - that was a fun discussion...)Im not very active or ritualistic, but Ive been a spiritual wiccan ever since.

2. I would be a swordfighter - double short-swords probably, and maybe have an elemental power, like fire. Fire-swords! XDDD

3. Ireland. Im a 3rd generation Irish-american and very proud of my heritage, so I would love to visit my ancestral home. Maybe a lot of people say this, but I feel connected and drawn to it on a soul-deep level.

4. Lol. Well Ive never intentionally gone anywhere I thought might suck, but Ive been through Texas. I loathe that state on so many levels.

5. District 9. I really liked it. It was a unique take on the alien genre, and probably the most realistic ever made. I also liked the casting of unknowns, it gave it a genuine documentary feel.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2009-09-29 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
1.) Ha! Considering how many people I know have commented about what an awful representation of wicca that movie was, I find it hilarious that that's how you came to the religion.

2.) So basically, Zuko. I can dig that.

4.)So even just driving through you weren't getting out of Texas fast enough?

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2009-09-29 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, there are a lot of fallacies and bad messages about wicca in that movie. though i never really expected to be able to change my eyecolor or make all the stoplights turn green. lol.

texas is just so... well. aside from the fact that its ugly (im from the green, foresty northwest) the people are friendly but judgmental and very stuck in their ways. and any state that idolizes george bush the way they do gets a heavy coolpoints deduction.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I always wanted to be able to blow candles lit, like in Practical Magic.