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1. Name/alias: JT
2. Birthday: I’m gonna leave this one blank for anonymity reasons.
3. Sign: Scorpio (I always feel like I don’t fit Scorpio descriptions at all, cause they’re like “sexy and mysterious and confident and super organized” and I am like the exact opposite of all of those things, but it is what it is)
4. Height: Five foot five and three-quarters inches, barefoot and if I stretch. The orthotic sneakers and inserts add a fair bit, though; when I’m walking around I’m functionally about five seven.
5. Hobbies: I’m not even awake enough to word the requisite terrible pun, so I’m just gonna headbutt @camshaft22 here ❤️ (Reading, writing, knitting, singing, karate. I’ll learn basically any craft to a fair level of competence and then never do it again, but those are the ones I can think of that have stuck)
6. Favorite colors: Blue. Royal blue especially. Some shades of green, but there are a lot of green shades I dislike (especially the more brown-shaded ones) and only a few blue ones I dislike (mostly for reasons unrelated to the actual color). Jewel tones and neons in general, I like very vibrant colors.
7. Favorite books: Lord of the Rings, Starfighters of Adumar, Gone-Away Lake/Return to Gone-Away, The Cricket in Times Square, Digger, Chris Claremont’s original run on Uncanny X-Men (which is technically fifteen years of comics issues, but neener ;S). I read Cricket in Times Square at age two or three and I’m pretty sure it materially influenced the OTP dynamic I’ve gravitated to ever since. ^_^
8. Last song I listened to: Uh. God only knows. The last audio thing I deliberately chose to listen to, as opposed to muzak or ambient TV noises coming through the door, was an episode of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, which was recommended me by the excellent @ravenskyewalker (I may be mistagging them) many moons ago. I only listen to three podcasts regularly, and this is by far the most structured – no live kitchen beagles at *all*. XD I like it partly because I know and love the source material, partly because Jay is the kind of thinky and articulate person I aspire to be. (Although Jay does a lot less screaming about his personal life on the internet. ^_^)
9. Last movie I watched: Seriously, these memes are designed for people who do a *lot* more media engagement than I have lately. I just haven’t had the spoons to watch movies since I got kicked out. Is there something like extroversion/introversion for visual media watching? Because hanging around live people in realtime energizes me, which I know it doesn’t for a lot of y’all, but I mostly find movies and TV really draining, even when it’s a show I like, like SG-1 or Leverage.
10. Inspiration/muse: You know, my first author I betaed for had a “muse”, which was a little wooden wolf creature that sat on her computer and she wrote little dialogues with him in the author notes. He was intended to herd plotbunnies or eat them or something. His name was Katchi. So that’s *my* association with the term “muse”. Apparently it’s more commonly used to refer to a character one RPs, but that makes mine Wes, and *that* just brings up mental images involving urns, which nobody needs at this hour. ;P
11. Dream job: Proofreader. Just sit in a comfy chair all day and make other people’s words go right. God, I wish. :P
12. Meaning behind your url: It’s a song title. Canadian folk music, less depressing than most. If you YouTube it, be sure you get the Stan Rogers version and not one of the inferior covers. (Apparently most people who know this song and my association with it think of me as primarily the narrator, but I tend to think of myself as primarily the ship, which is sort of distressing by this time because people keep having to rescue me. :P) I’m looking for a new url, to change to if and when I ever get out of this situation, but the only one I’ve come up with that really clicked for me yet was pretty damn personal and also people would have to spell “statistician”. So that’s a project.
>>Is there something like extroversion/introversion for visual media watching? Because hanging around live people in realtime energizes me, which I know it doesn’t for a lot of y’all, but I mostly find movies and TV really draining, even when it’s a show I like, like SG-1 or Leverage.<<
I find them draining too. They’re overstimulating, I think.
There must be people who react better to visual media, given the existence of things like marathons, and the literal version of Netflix-and-chill, and the ridiculous quantities of Youtube my mother somehow finds the brain processing-power to watch, and the concept in things like anti-40-hour-workweek essays of being “too tired to do anything but watch TV”.
(Well, I mean, I guess I *have* arguably been in states of being too tired to do anything but watch TV, like when I had the flu. But at those times I wasn’t *really* watching the TV either, not consistently. Last time I was that kind of sick there was a Deadliest Catch marathon on, which I found worked well: it was *just* engaging enough to have something to listen to when I couldn’t keep my eyes open but my brain was working enough to be capable of boredom, maybe even open my eyes for a bit occasionally, but also if I fell asleep for an hour I hadn’t missed much. Sometimes when people talk about “being too tired to do anything but watch TV” they *do* seem to mean something like that, but not always.)
I have also heard the occasional rumour of people who find *textual* media draining, but of course one wouldn’t tend to encounter such people when one hangs out primarily in text-based venues, so I wouldn’t know.
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