Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

More character meme, because I LOVE it! This time with Special Guest Appearance!

1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!
4. Then tag three people.

Characters: Bastian, Pele (Special Guest Star courtesy of caitirin!), Kyrielle, Shio

Bastian is immortal, crusader turned sailor. Kyrielle and Shio are fantasy types; Kyrielle is Adi'eh, aristocracy who live in an underground city, and Shio is Karai Mishra, one of caitirin's desert elves.

( Whee, more characters! )

caitirin gave me A for a letter :)

10 Things I Like That Begin With "A"

A is for anime, art form I love,
  full of angst and improbable hair.
A is for Akio, that "kind of bad" man,
  who lives in a phallic-shaped lair.
A is for Amber, the one place that's real,
  where all of the siblings connive.
A is for Axel, a bad-ass redhead
  who loves Roxas (I hope he survives).
A is for angst, which I love to read,
  and also to watch and to write.
A is for Adriel, a character of mine
  who has dreams of Mirai at night.
A is for Annabel Lee, the dead girl
  who Poe wrote lay cold by the sea.
A is for aventurine, grass-colored stone,
  that could help inspiration flow free.
A is for Angela Aki,
  Who did a cover of "All Eyes on Me".
And A is for asparagus,
  to which caitirin just says "Yucky!" XD

Disney Princess meme taken from queen_lily_rose :)

( Bold the ones that apply to you )

Heh, I guess Belle it is :) I always liked her, but I liked her because she's NOT a princess. Or at least she doesn't start out as one. I guess marrying the Beast makes her one?

Speaking of which, I'm reading Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter right now, and HOMG. If I could write like that, I'd call myself talented. Every line is beautifully crafted. The whole thing is just incredibly beautiful. I haven't even got that far into it. It's really incredible. I liked The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword very much, but there's a charm about Rose Daughter that they don't compare to. The styles are very different, and Rose Daughter's style appeals to me much more. It's lovely.

Anyway! I should be writing!

I did this meme for queen_lily_rose, so here it is posted in my journal!

Fill out this meme, and then re-post it in your own journal!
( Question meme )

Two memes!

( Firefly and Tarot )

Had a really nice time at my parents' house today, having a barbecue and seeing people :) It was quite lovely. It looks like rain, at the moment... hopefully the fireworks won't be rained out.

Meme!

Find your 42nd entry ever. Yes, this may require some counting and basic math. Deal with it. Link to that entry in a new entry. This is the meaning of your life.

The 42nd post in my LJ, which was actually a post I moved over from my DeadJournal, is about me reading Beowulf in British Lit when I was a sophomore and being amazed at all of the things that obviously influenced Tolkien. The post is here. It's not remarkable, other than me being like "I like British Lit!" Go figure, that.

I should probably find the 42nd entry after I moved over to LJ too. Here it is! It's about the Weiss Kreuz Gluhen series and how all of Schwarz's character designs were changed (in the most hilarious ways XD) I HOPE that's not the meaning of life. I'd rather it be British lit. Here's the post.

Meme stolen from templarwolf, who got it from Fark.com, I think. Yay for Dads!

"What have you learned from your father?"

- If your stuff has a place where it lives and you put it back whenever you use it, you'll never lose said stuff.

- How to tell if that sound my car is making is the serpentine belt, how to check and change coolant/oil/antifreeze/other fluids

- Don't freak out about it: everything will work out eventually and excessive worrying helps nobody

- When he says "I'll hold your sandwich," it'll come back half as big, guaranteed.

- If I'm talking about something I love and know a lot about, I can talk in front of any size crowd with ease. And if that doesn't work, pretend you're acting.

- I'm brave

- How to be an aggressive driver and how to drive in the snow

- When somebody says "Hey, look!" and points, you'll turn back around to find they've stolen one of your french fries.

- No matter what, he loves me and is proud of me

- If I need anything relating to carpentry or fixing something, ever, call him.

- How to do my taxes

- How to make the perfect grilled cheese

stolen from caitirin

Comment with two characters I'm familiar with, and I'll tell you how they kissed (the first time).

You can pick from originals, or any of the fandoms you know that I'm into :)

[posted by caitirin for elaby who is at work right now]

Snagged from sk_brainstorm

( Caitirin: Hey, are you doing that meme too? Whoa! )

Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven't gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven't gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph.

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"Hey," Theo said, interrupting Felix's singing. "I need to talk to you. It's important." The girls gave him a collective nasty glare, but Felix looked surprised and stopped playing.

"All right. Didn't think I'd see you again anytime soon, though." He stood up, gathered the loose coins that were scattered around his feet, and made an elegant bow to the group of girls. "If you'll excuse me, young ladies. Your patronage has more than sustained me through your pretty smiles more than your coins." They giggled. Theo waited impatiently.

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"Work-in-progress" is used loosely, unfortunately, as I've done a lot of thinking but very little actual progressing since the end of November *shame*

We saw Pan's Labyrinth today. BZUH. It was incredible. Incredibly good, incredibly violent, incredibly thought-provoking, incredibly everything. I'm REALLY glad I got to see it at the theatre (omg thank you glr1114 and Dad for the movie card!). We saw Ghost Rider the other night, and it was enjoyable, but nothing comparing to this. Not even in the same league, obviously. Also, subtitled films = win.

Downstairs Thumpy Music Dude has quieted down somewhat, but tonight I can hear his music again. It's not as loud as it has been, though. We put a politely-worded note on his door the other day to ask him to keep it down as the walls are apparently thin and we could feel his bass through our floor. I think it worked pretty well. We DO keep getting some crackhead outside in a car with music playing so loud it actually vibrates our windows, though *twitch* But hopefully they won't come back.