interest meme

[salinea]

meme from lodessa

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.

I got asked :

bitextuality: you know, I kinda wish I'd remember what bitextuality was. It was something cool and meta like being able to read the text both way, but I don't remember what it really was in details >_>;; help please?

cult of ecstasy: the cult of extasy is a splat from White Wolf's game Mage: the Ascension which is my favourite RPG of the whole world for being so awesome. It's a urban fantasy game where you play mages (duh), with a very flexible magical system and where your magic is based upon paradigms such as beliefs, technology, complicated hermetic rituals or martial art (amongs other things). It can be very fun and deep game at moments, borrowing from a lot of philosophical concept. The CoX is the group of mage who work magic through Extatic rituals, from stuff related to pain to sexual pleasure, drugs (& rock'n'roll!) but also some more sedated things. They've got this focus on utter freedom and perception/experimenting things to see what reality really is which I really dig, and they think that joy is the highest and most important emotion (which I entirely agree with).

sku: Shoujo Kakumei Utena aka Revolutionary Girl Utena, an anime which involves fucked up fairy tales, feminism, surrealism, crack, sibling incest, femslash, maleslash, minfucks, red cars shaped like a penis, more phallic and yonic symbols than your mind can hold, a greek chorus, elevators of doom and freudian analysis, and roses. Lots, lots, lots of roses. Also known as the story of the girl who was once saved by a prince and decided she wanted to become a prince as well, even though she was a girl. A must watch.

splitting hair: As a Virgo I'm often told that one of my flaw is a tendancy to want analyse things so thinly it's equivalent to want to split a hair. I like nuances and very, very thing analysis.

syncretism: I'm endless fascinated by religions and the way they interact with each others and mix and match.

thinking too much: The expression comes from All Things Philosophical on BtVS & AtS website and forum which I used to hang out on once upon a time. A good expression IMHO, and one that fits me :) Although I haven't gone into a complex symbolical/mythological analysis of any series in too long a time...

writers are liars mdear: quote from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. A cool one :) Never trust a writer!

Comments

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Meme, please!

I don't know what 'bitextuality' is, but it sounds interesting and must be to do with books. Hmm. I think I'll google it and see what I can find.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

cognitive dissonance, golden sun, innocence bird, oddeye, rose-tinted glass, watership down, shining force.

Tell me if you find anything :)

[limecat-lotn.livejournal.com]

sku sounds .... interesting =)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

it's a very good anime if you like surrealism, symbolism and genderfucks.

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

Well now I know where the quote comes from.

Hmm, I hadn't heard of "yonic" before; I just used "vulvic" to talk about Utena. Oh Utena.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

haha,you used an icon with a quote without knowing what it came from? XD

I used "vaginal" before I heard of "yonic", yonic definitely sound better. It comes from Hindu mythology.

♥ Utena.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

d'you want to do the meme btw?

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Meme, please.

That reminds me, I owe you one. What was it?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

economic cycles, historical cycles, shell collecting, mbti, cosplay, enneagram, reality tv

you owe me what? a meme? God, I forgot.

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you tagged me for a meme a few months back. I remember that much, but I forget what it was.

Good choices, BTW. Prepare for tl;dr. ^_^

[spikeyboots.livejournal.com]

Awesome meme! :D *volunteers*

WOW. SKU sounds amazing. I must find it! O.o

Also love "writers are liars mdear" - awesome. Ah, Neil. So true.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

words like pomegranate, the secret history, sulla rocks it hard, seaweed!Regulus, remus deserves knives, poetry of bones (oh the imagery!), ink on skin, doppelgangers. I added one more because you have fascinating interests.

SKU is deeply awesome indeed!! It's 40 episodes or so and the beginning is a bit slow, but well worth watching IMHO.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

bitextuality is probably somewhat tied into deconstruction, as the latter believes in a multiplicity of binary meanings (the absence of something is just as relevant as the presence of something for example).

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That sounds smart and pertinent, yes. Could have been it.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yay. This is a concept I can totally get behind as well.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

solesakuma has another theory.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

That is also something I support, although less academic.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*giggles* yes.

[solesakuma]

I've seen 'bitextuality' used as 'can like het and slash!'. XP

Some day, I'll watch Utena. Some day.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

that definitely sounds like something I'm interested in!

You must!

d'you wanna do the meme?

[solesakuma]

Ok, I'll do the meme. :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

el eternauta, franz/albert, cantabile, sanami matoh, their love's so old school, todo por 2 pesos, tonks/charlie

[shelled-avenger.livejournal.com]

Shoujo Kakumei Utena aka Revolutionary Girl Utena, an anime which involves fucked fairy tales, feminism, surrealism, crack, sibling incest, femslash, maleslash, minfucks, red cars shaped like a penis, more phallic and yonic symbols than your mind can hold, a greek chorus, elevators of doom and freudian analysis, and roses.

Roses, incest, and femslash?

I am so there.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

heh :)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I've yet to try Utena, but I might have to. I'm getting bored with the other tropes and need some variety.

Oh yeah, I'll do the meme, but I guarantee it'll be boring. ;-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I think you might like it :)

angostura, bdsm, cake or death, crushing skulls, gritty kitty, otherkin, transmetropolitain.

Allow me to disagree.

[luminaire.livejournal.com]

I think I want to do the meme. :o

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

folktronica, grim adventures, light textures, save the cheerleaders, i'm not your boyfriend, eluvium, chowder

[rebbe]

Hmmm... meme me, please~?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

cirque du soleil, crack!shipping, falling, having an open mind, multishipping, the best story ever, the purple tree