till human voices wake us

What sexuality is your pup (are your pups) and is it canon or not? Be as detailed or sparse as you like!

The Baron Munchausen: "Beautiful ladies!"  Canon answers this question neatly.  He woos them and leaves them wanting though.  We shall call him flirtysexual.

Barking Mad Wednesday (OC):  The Captain enjoys the company of men, but rarely indulges.  She commands a ship of forty men, and fraternisation is discouraged.  It never ends well, and any crewman caught fraternising will be lucky to make it back to port before she shifts them overboard.  That said, she has nothing against time spent in the company of women.  Mostly, she enjoys sex, when she can.  And she's not one to let gender stand in the way of getting what she wants.

Gilbert is hopeless, mostly.  He's lucky to get a woman to look at him, much less a man.  His dalliance with Fields still leaves him feeling a  bit like he's stolen someone else's life, and they'll be back any minute to claim it.

Khephera is another for whom gender is secondary, and the attraction is primary.  If she became involved with a woman, it wouldn't cause her any great consternation.

John Dillinger Straight as an arrow, in public spaces.  Behind closed doors, well, that has yet to be explored.

Danny Ocean Likes pretty girls who make him laugh.  Straight as the day is long.

Don Draper likes women who refuse to be tamed.  (One can only assume that Betty was fierce as the day is long before he married her.  Which broke his attraction to her, but I still think he cares about her.) Hopelessly straight.

Roger "Verbal" Kint is asexual.  Sex is something that makes things complicated, gets in the way of doing business.  If he ever felt attracted to someone, that could quite possibly be dangerous for the person he's attracted to.  Any emotion is to be ruthlessly suppressed.

Nicked from everybody

A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?

B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her (to the best of my ability, with the understanding that if the character just looks at me, that's the answer you're getting).

(List is here.)

1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What's their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!

From wordsthatfail :

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.


Burn Notice: Crazy good looking spies have fun blowing things up and helping innocent people get some back.  I realised awhile back why I love this show so much (Jeffrey Donnovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Sharon Gless, & Bruce Campbell notwithstanding).  It's basically The A-Team set in Miami.  It's bad guys on the run from the Government (or vague nebulous threat of the week) helping the little guy on the way.  Along with the ubiquitous process montage.  (The Pretender also falls into this category for me.)  Oh show.  I love you so.

writing: Oh pick an easy one, why don'tcha.  Writing is my life's blood.  It has often been said that I am a drinker with a writing problem.  I have always written, I always will write.  It's not something I do, it's who I am.  Choosing the right word to express a particular moment, a specific emotion, a span of heart beats, is absolutely essential to me.  I have no patience for people who do not take the time to craft their words.  Language is the most powerful tool we have for interacting with other people.  Language is magic.  It creates worlds, it brings characters to life, it defines us in ways we cannot even begin to understand.  When I put pen to paper (or pixels to page, perhaps), I seek to create magic.  I want to take you on a journey, transport you, make your world better for having taken the time to read.

Taken: This is an interesting one, and one that I perhaps take a little too seriously.  If you know me at all, you know that my husband is a fire arms instructor as well as a self-defense instructor.  He's worked in Executive Protection.  So this film has a lot of specialised knowledge around it that I had already been exposed to outside of the theatre.  Several of our friends called after having seen the film to say, "Does Wolf know they made a movie about him?"  There are several concepts that this character is founded on that are very much a part of who he is.  Improvise, adapt, overcome.  Always cheat, always win.  (There are, of course, things in the film that he would never do.  But a person's toolkit is only as limited as their own will to accomplish the mission.)  So yeah -- I wanted a character to explore that mindset, why he does what he does.  I've learned a lot and it's generated a ton of really interesting conversation.  (I love rp.)

The Gecko (yes, that one *g*):  What do you want to know about the Gecko?  He's crack, pure and simple.  He's a jaded ex-stage actor sucked into doing commercials for auto insurance.  He knows about the seedy underbelly of Hollywood and has almost been stepped on by some of its greatest talent.  Whatever you do, don't get between a lizard and his martini.  You saw what happened to Billy Mays ~hands up~ I'm just sayin'.

music: Gah,  ok.  This one could be a freakin' dissertation.  I have a degree in music, emphasis on conducting.  It means I play most instruments, but none of them really well.  I didn't discover I could sing until my senior year, and by that time, I was burned out on academia.  I will listen to anything once, and have wildly eclectic tastes.  As long as it's interesting, I'll probably listen to it.  I love World Beat and particularly Middle Eastern music.  I've had some amazing performance experiences, both as a vocalist and an instrumentalist.  I think music is the one truly universal language, and I think if it played a more important part in our culture and day to day life, I think we, as a species, could overcome some of our darkest instincts and truly learn to accept and indulge the piece of divinity that exists in every single one of us.  (How's that for a high falutin' opinion, hmm?)

So who wants words?

TELL ME THE FOLLOWING ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERS:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question ♥

→ why I decided to play this character: I originally wanted to try my hand at strong female characters.  Fiona struck me as an incredibly self sufficient, intelligent, clever, cat with nine lives type character.  She's loyal (to the point of stupidity), she's fierce and she's more than a bit mad.

→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date: Gah too many to pick from.  For the G-Rated, it would have to be meeting Indiana Jones the first time.  For the not-so-G-Rated, it would have to be meeting Ramon and the subsequent near miss encounter.

→ my favorite original aspect about this character:  Her flat. It's very much her space in my head.

→ the last thing they did "off screen" : Milliways has not exactly been a stabilizing force on Fiona's life.  Too much trouble to get into. I think perhaps the last thing she did off screen was probably not suitable for prime time.

→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow "Bloody hell that hurts."

→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever) Well, there's a Michael in the bar now, and even though he's way behind her in canon, there should be many fun times ahead.  Especially seeing as Ramon-mun and Michael-mun are the same person.  ~evil laugh~

from moonlup 
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it probably make a big ol' comment about it, unless it's so big that I have to write a post. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on slash, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

And?  New pup.  Okay, old pup, but new LJ. 
khephera 


I blame doihearawaltz and her inestimable doctorsawbones and this thread.

1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press "play."
4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE.
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool... just type it in, man!

Nicked from moonlup 

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If I were a natural phenomenon, I would be... St. Elmo's Fire
If I were a metal, I would be... hammered copper
If I were an animal, I would be... A black jaguar
If I were a color, I would be... Cinnabar
If I were a mythological being, I would be... Scheherazade
If I were a famous human being, I would be... Anais Nin
If I were a human activity, I would be.. Storytelling
If I were a work of art, I would be.. Klimt's The Kiss
If I were a weapon, I would be... Psy Ops
If I were an object, I would be... An astrolabe.

Link to the pups' responses.