two quizzes and a yet another meme

[salinea]

I took the "What's So Funny?" quiz on gURL.com
		My sense of humor is... Absurd Does nonsense make sense to you? Then absurd comedy might be your fish. Did you know that there is actually a word that means "saying something totally illogical"? It's called a "non-sequitur" and comedians use them to abruptly confuse or surprise you.Read more... What is your sense of humor?

Yay for sense of absurd and Terry Gilliam Haha. I have a feeling the other kind of humour I get off on is dark, but absurd is indeed one of the thing I like


Your word is BUGGER. You are generally quite
restrained, but sometimes your anger or
frustration come to the surface and it all
comes out. Yet you somehow can't stop sounding
polite, despite it all.


Which Swear (Curse) Word Are You?
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Oh, cool, I love that curse word. Bugger this, bugger him, bugger you, in the wise words of Sandor Clegane. Besides, it's so slashy ^^

Seen and copied from laurus_nobilis

Ask me my opinion on any character from any fandom, and I will say. If I do
not know the fandom, I will say what I think I know based on fannish
osmosis.

I remember doing this with ships before. Cool memes.

Comments

[sakuraragi.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Ohtori Akio. XD

Cool meme.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Haha Akio. Akio is one of those characters I have trouble taking seriously as a villain because I want to point and laugh "he's such a slut !" (I'm like that with Muraki too) He's a character that's so hard to define by other things that his extraordinary sexual appeal.

In a way he's like a Rose Bride like that too.

Akio and his little games is pretty pathetic too. For most of the serie we see him as the masterplayer, positioning all his pawns and (mind)fucking about everyone. But in the end, he's so powerless. A little boy with his toys and his illusions and his cars. The only reason he appears to be in control is because he mostly deals with children. All he's got is built on illusions of course - and on the Rose Bride.
Poor, poor Akio.
Then of course there's Dios and the mystery of how they relate with each others. How could Dios come for Utena that night when he was already Akio ? How much does Akio really wants to become Dios again ? How much is he aware of the vanity of his goal ?
I don't know. Akio as a fallen Dios is eternally caught in trying to grasp back the faded glory and innocence of his childhood days - just like most of the Duellists are. The whole game is about using other people's believes to believe in Dios. Maybe sometimes it's good enough to trick himself into believing it's there. Maybe what still remains of Dios still exist somewhere separate from Akio (possibly in Anthy). Possibly Dios' power belonged with Anthy all along.

Akio's relationship with Anthy is the most intriguing thing about Akio. It would be easy to write out as simple abuse and control from him to her, but it's not. It's not. It's too twisted and complicated and mutually abusive for that. I do believe Akio cares genuinely for Anthy on some level. I think of that scene when she's in the car and he comments about the pain she's in, and the fact he's not causing it, the world is. A part of him is concerned. Another part of him thinks she's got it coming, of course. Her own fault, after all. But he needs Anthy, needs her in a fundamental way that he probably doesn't totally understand, and is possessive of her even while he sets her up with others to advance his gools.
She's probably the only person he cares about.

All in all, at the end of Utena I've got a feeling every single character have a chance to grow up and seize Revolution for themselves. Even Akio, though it'd be the most difficult for him. Maybe Anthy's departure will be enough to shake him up. Maybe not. I do think that Dios is hopelessly gone, but there has to be a balance between the pure altruism of the Prince and perfect selfishness of Ends of the World.
He could get there, someday.

[sakuraragi.livejournal.com]

God. You don't know how much I enjoyed reading that. *_* I actually have a soft spot for Akio; I feel for him.

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

Hokuto Sumeragi :P

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hokuto rocks ♥
For me it's a character that's really defined by her death scene. Because her death is such an optimistic, life-affirming gesture, ironically. She doesn't give up. She wants her brother back and she wants even to give a chance to Seishirou to love him. "there's no such thing as someone who shouldn't love". And she says that to her killer. That's just freaking unbelievably cool.
It's the kind of bravery that shakes the whole world, you know.

But Hokuto is also such a girl. She's fun and she's lively, she's futile and she's full of contradiction. She's independant and modern but she wants to become a housewife, and she's totally crazy about her brother.

Subaru is Hokuto's most important person. I don't mean she's in love with him, but he's the person she's ready to die for, the person her whole life revolves around. I suppose Hokuto is a bit in love with Seishirou and Subaru as a couple. But I guess she wanted to get her own life, at some point, she just never had the time to. She's a difficult person to visualise with someone romantically, even Kakyou.

The miracle of Hokuto is that she was never bitter enough to envy Subaru. It would have been such an easy thing to do, be jealous of the special one, the one with all the powers and all the attention. But she's not, she's clever enough to realize how much Subaru suffers of his powers and she's loving enough to be willing to give up Subaru to Seishirou.

She's not without flaws still. She is a bit possessive, I think, with the way she dress up Subaru as she wants. And she's loud and sometimes clumsy about things.

She sacrificed too much, possibly, because of what she wanted of Subaru's happiness. That's the part she played in their tragedy. She wasn't reasonnable... but I can't honnestly disagree with her.

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

♥_♥ I love you and you analysis skills XD And I can't agree more with you about Hokuto, she always will be the best among the 'trio' XD Thanks

[ripedecay.livejournal.com]

Tell me what you think about Lady Sumeragi or Kamui :E

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I like Lady Sumeragi. She's a tough old lady. But we know so little of her. She's a strict person, very polite and she exhudes an aura of power. It's easy to see her as intimidating but at the same time I hate to see her bashed as insensitive and cold, especially to Subaru in fanfics. She cares a lot about her grandson and I believe she wants to see him happy, even if she's principled.

I wish we had some scene between Hokuto and her. In a way, I believe they're very similar persons - obvious differences of generation and style apart. I could see them clash a lot because they both have a very strong personnality, but I imagine they love each others a lot.

I wonder about Subaru's parents, and whichever was Sumeragi-sama's child. What happened there that she had to raise both of them from a very young age.

I love that Seishirou obviously respected her and her work which he gives as a reason for not ending the bet early. ^^ Seishirou is obviously quite impressed by both Sumeragi women in his way too. I love to see the both of them interact in fics, it's usually very interesting (when well done)
Tea with Obaa-chan is my favourite fic which deals with that.

Now I want to re-read Tokyo Babylon >_>

[ripedecay.livejournal.com]

*hearts you!* Yes! I'm sick to death of Lady Sumeragi being seen as something evil and horrible. Her love for her grandchildren is beyond clear in Tokyo Babylon and X. She's not harrassing Subaru over the phone, she's worried about him. And yes, I wish there had been scenes with her and Hokuto. That would be been nice :x

It's hard to find good fics with decent Seishirou-Hokuto or Seishirou-Lady Sumeragi interaction. Most just redo the old jokes and scenes and scurry to SeishirouxSubaru stuff. It's sad. And 'Tea with Obaa-chan' is one of my favourites! And yes, it deals with Seishirou and Lady Sumeragi beautifully.

*wants to re-read it herself* @.@

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Touya Kinomoto. :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Touya ! I love Touya ! He's forever in my list shaggable character. He's I believe the first anime character I ever fell in love with. That was a long, long time ago and he was french dubbed Thomas. I remember I was faintly ashamed of it when I realized I was watching CCS a great deal because of him. Anyway, last year when I finally got into the Clamp fandom, light flashed when I realized I could actually read slash ! With Touya ! Yippi ! And that's how I came to read CCS fics.

When I want to freak out people, I compare Touya to Seishirou. They both have big mommy issues, are control freaks, and have possessive streak. Of course that's about as far as they're comparable. However I still have a feeling, that out of the CSS cast and though I loved CCS for this atmosphere of domestical bliss, Touya has one of the most edgy personnality. For such a genuinely kind person, there's a hint of darkness, of violence and anger I'd have a hard time explaining. Maybe it's just how delightfuly boyish he is. Maybe it's because my favourite Touya is the one in peacewish's fics (Scattered Blossom especially).
One of the thing I adore in Touya comes from how out of the focus of the camera he is most often. Sakura goes blissfully unaware of things and we only see his life through hints and flashes until we realize that yes, Touya was actually aware all along that something was happening with Sakura, that he actually have the power to see ghosts and other things, and by the way he's in love with his best friend - who's not human. I like that aura of mystery - Touya isn't exactly a shy person, but he's very private and reserved (something we quite see with how he reacts to Nakuru), and I admit I find the Seer power that he had to give away dead sexy.
However, possibly the most appealing thing in Touya is the sibling relationship. I love how Clamp display Touya and Sakura together. It's not sickeningly sweet. They argue all the timed and I absolutly adore how he teases her. He's also extremely protective and you can just guess how big a part he took in raising her. Touya is very much a take charge person. He needs to be useful, to be needed. That can be overbearing if people let him do. I usually like ships where power is an issue of some kind, and there can be that with Touya and Yuki, an interesting dynamic working alongside with Yuki's softer, more manipulative approach and Yue's own true power. That's also probably what Touya's got the most in common with Clow. (Obviously, Clow is more for the manipulative approach himself)
But he's also less dorkish than a lot of similar characters I love. He's fun and he can be wicked.
I'm not sure what exactly to think of his relationship with Kaho in general. Not that I dislike Kaho, but teacher / student romances tend to squick me. I'm sure that however young at the time, Touya was already quite mature, but he probably had a lot of things to deal with at the time. And well, Mummy Issues.

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

I like the new Lj look very much, though it took me ages ( I suppose!) to leave my friends page and find it.

And so tempting meme, oh, my lemme think on it, who is going to be my victim, Stannis Baratheon? Go girl go!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I hate Stannis, you know that (evil temptress you ♥) he's one of the very few characters I hate. I'm not totally sure why, why does he manage to get an emotionnal raise out of me. Part of it I think is disapointment. In A Game of Throne there's a build in and in the wake of Robert's death when the question of the succession it's Stannis that Ned clings as his answer. It's for Stannis that he refuses Renly's offer and dooms himself. So of course we hope it's worth it. We hope that Stannis is stern but just (he's not, he's only pretending he is) and might be a worthy King for Westeros.
And then it's that. Stannis is dry, bitter, brittle, and above everything he's ungrateful. Ungrateful for Ned's letter, ungrateful for Cressen's sacrifice, and ungrateful for Davos' service. Stannis whines and bemoans and complains of being unloved, even while he's throwing away every prooves and every people who do serve him, who do love him. Stannis thinks so highly of his own sense of justice, that he shows nothing but contempt for everyone else. Even while he might love them.
He pretends not to want to be king, and yet he's not qualms sacrificing everything to them. He gets rid of his own Gods and impose his new religion to his followers shamelessly. He's ready to kill his own brother - his own younger brother who's not older than twenty-something - and he dares claim it's not out of jealousy. He gets rid of his Hands one after the others merely because they dare say the truth. He'd be ready to kill hid brother's bastard son - just a child. It's not difficult to believe he would be ready to sacrifice his own daughter.
Stannis is stiff and rigid and wants us to believe he's all doing it out of his attachment of the laws, but he's actually the one character who we see again and again betray all of the most holy laws of Westeros. Their Gods, kinslaying, he offers Jon Winterfell despite the Oath to Night's Watch and it never looks to cross his mind it's a lack of honour.
Then there's Davos. I adore Davos, out of all the characters in ASOIAF he's probably the character I have the most respect for morally speaking. Davos clings to Stannis and Stannis often don't even realize what he's got there. Sometimes... sometimes he does listen. But you know it's not because he recognizes Davos' worthy, it's because Davos is small enough - just a smuggler, just someone who owes everything that he's got to him, a humble man Davos is - that he doesn't feel threatened by him - most of the time. Fact is Stannis is simply that insecure that he's forever doomed to fear and envy everyone else around him. So he needs to put them down, to scorn them, to humiliate them. He needs to be made into some kind of Godlike figure by Melisandre. Stannis is a very petty person, so he needs to believe everyone is as petty as he is.
And I really can't find in my heart to find any compassion for him. Not even the pity I have for Theon or Cersei.
Someday Stannis will have thrown everything into the fire, there'll be nothing left and he'll burn alone. On his throne. I'll not feel sorry.

You go!

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

You know, I am so convinced the Slayer of Lies part applies to Stannis, I am so hoping he gets his. I don´t know why I go this quirk, maybe we all have, but more than what happens to the good guys, I want to see the bad guys get what they deserve. The thing about Stannisis that he is totally and completely unware of other people having rights of any sort. Rights, to justice or gratitude or kindness or family protection, only ever apply to Stannis himself. He is the ultimate gimmegimmegimme.

BTW not too fond of Theon either, for much the same reasons, I can feel a bit sorrier about Theon but that is not even kindness in my part ( ah!) but that Theon being on more powerless positions annoys me less. And I will be a brat and hint that I got the idea GRRM does not think much of Theon ( well, I think that is obvious from the books), but he compared this awesomely horrible character in Vance´s books, saying he was like Theon ;)

[heavensgardener.livejournal.com]

Swan.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Swan isn't overall someone I've got a lot to say, because all I know of him is the tibits in base book and the description from Eclipse: Caste Book, and both were read quite a long time ago. I remember liking Swan for an ensemble of rather superficial reasons. #1 he's an Eclipse, and I ♥ Eclipses. He's also a pretty boy, an explorer, a smart ass and got Lilith as his Firt Age wife, yay ! I think what I like the most about Swan is that he's got a mixt of innocence and shrewdness, naiveté and intelligence. He goes off to adventure with a bit of a wide eye look, but at the same time, he's quite able, and he can twist people around to his poitn of view with his niceness... as befitting an Eclipse (argh, now I want to Caste the Harry Potter cast - stop me)
And that's about all I can say ^^