{ and all the gold dust in her eyes won't reform into rain. }

[delga]

Okay, so, I've been trying to do that 'all about me' post for new flisters for AGES now and I basically fail like a squirrel lost at sea (zeitheist, I envy your ability to be concise and interesting; I have flunked at both). So I figured instead I could do that meme where y'all just ask me shit about myself that you're curious about. That way if no-one gives a shit, I don't waste time, and if there's something you actually want to know, you don't have to plough through a metric tonne of nonsense to get to your answer. That's no guarantee that my answers won't be summarily verbose, but hotdamn, women, I'm ~trying~.

Um. So. Yes. Ask me, you know, whatever. No topics barred! I will be truthful! Or something. Idfk.

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Did I mention the part where the acronyms for "I don't (even) (fucking) know" in their various permutations make me REALLY HAPPY? Because I say, "honey, I don't even" in RL and it's used to be difficult to accurately convey that tone online. AND NOW THE ACRONYMS. As someone who can't read emoticons and hates most online abbreviations (lols, btw, idk, wtf, ilu are exceptions because... because I am contrary and also because they're so everyday and I never had to ask to work out what they meant; I cannot fucking stand im(h)o &/or fwiw, although ymmv makes me laugh like a drunk dog). So. There's that.

Comments

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

What in the name of Shakespeare's baggy pyjamas is 'fwiw'? And, for that matter, 'ymmv'?

QUESTION TIME: What is your favourite book and who is your favourite author? I don't think I've ever asked this before.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

What in the name of Shakespeare's baggy pyjamas
BEST. THING. EVER. Plus: you spelt pyjamas correctly, huzz! Fwiw = for what it's worth; ymmv = your mileage may vary (meaning, your experience may differ a little). I find ymmv lolarious because I associate it with head banging which makes NO SENSE.

Argh. OK, so, a couple of years ago I would have said that my favourite book is From Caucasia, With Love by Danzy Senna but despite that still being a book I love my favourite these days is probably Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex. My current 'favourite' author is probably him or Jeanette Winterson whose Weight I ripped apart for my dissertation and yet still manage to love the heck out of. True story.

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

It varies between Shakespeare's baggy ones and God's stripy underwear, depending on how I feel at any given time. *giggleface* (Can 'giggle' be defined as a 'face'? Hmm...)

'ymmv' to me looks like a broken palindrome and reminds me of a cat - which, like yours, makes no sense whatsoever. I think I have a broken brain y/y?

(PS: please shoot me, I have overdue coursework and I AM GOING TO DIE because I have written precisely jack shit.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Haha, I think I love the Bill Shakes one best, though. (Fuck yes. I make anything a face, so. You know.)

I think I have a broken brain y/y?
Oh, that makes two of us.

(Aiiiie. What's it on?)

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

It took me a minute or two to figure out what (or indeed 'who') you meant by 'Bill Shakes'. Please don't shoot me!

The coursework is my original writing piece. And I am dreading handing it in. The deadline was Friday, aie. I have a few ideas but holy balls, it's all rubbish. I need to make it 'out of my comfort zone' which I may be doing with subject matter? I don't know. WHATEVER, my teacher thinks I'm going to end up with Ds based on my unimaginative and generally mediocre coursework anyway. I am determined to pass WELL, though. So I need to pull something cramazing out of the bag in the next couple of hours or I'm toast.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

No shooting: that's my pet name for him. I accidentally used it in class once and my tutor was all "...oh, wait, I get it now!" like half an hour later. That really happened.

So your tutor wants you to produce something different to what you usually produce? What have you handed in before/what themes/plots have you written about?

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

The first idea for my original writing piece was a companion to a story I began two, maybe three years ago. It was angsty with questionable sentence construction - basically, the norm for my angst-o-rama fics. The one I'm playing with now has a historical feel - the theme is a kind of cross between R&J (here we go again with our good friend Shakespeare!) and 'lovers in a dangerous time', possibly set/focused around a war. That's challenging, because I know jack shit about wars. I am not a historian.

The other piece is a review on Wicked (surprised? I hoped you'd be.) with a little more of a personal aspect. It's a lot about the fans and how it's changed the theate world and less about all its awards and financial success. That one is apparently Not Brilliant, either.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I don't really see what it is that your tutor wants you to do? I mean. Unless they want you to use a different topic or angle - so, use a different voice, or tense, or maybe write an intensely descriptive piece? - I can't see what you can do?

I can take a look for you tonight, if you want. I'll be up until midnight.

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

My tutor wants me to challenge myself with style, genre and subject matter, I think. I'm hoping that by straying from my usual style of questionable sentence structure and lots of arrogant, grandiose words, she'll accept that I have challenged myself and consequently leave me alone. After giving me a good grade, of course.

I might take you up on that offer. I need to do some tip-tap-typing, first.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Let me know :)

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

"Concise and interesting"? Pshaw. I make up for it by being nearly illiterate without a spellcheck.

I have a question! Um. If you could be a comic-book superhero (or supervillain), what would you be like? It's a lame question, but I'm a lame person. Also, not so much a question about yourself so much as a question generally: Generation Kill, recommended y/n?

I love saying 'idk'. I keep trying to say it in real life, like 'idd-uck', and then people look at me weird.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

True story: I love pshaw but can't really use it because although I have some grasp of how it should be said/used, I can't get my mouth around it. (Hey! Focus!) I sound like someone trying to imitate a Mandarin speaker. Seriously, it's terrible.

Spellfucker: what would we do without it? (Love is: spellfucker not liking the word spellfuck in all its conjugations/permutations.) No, but seriously, I was kind of using your posts as a template and then I was all, but fo'reals, nobody gives a shit about these details, Self, and then I'd delete and then I sounded crass or self-onvolved, or etc. etc. and I read your posts and they're great! They're interesting! They're humorous! They're so you! Oh boy.

Girl, I'd like to say I would be so fucking badass you'd need shades to look my way but the truth is that I would probably have a geeky superpower that I'm super ashamed of and spend my life trying to integrate into normal society. Much like in rl. So. I flunked that, too. My superpower (which I would use for good and for bad depending on the situation: I am a ~conflicted~ character, thus I have ~conflicting~ aims) would be something mental because M is not synonymous with 'physical'. I will let you choose my superhero/villain/etc. name and costume.

GENERATION KILL = EXTREME Y. Did you see/like Jarhead? Or Band of Brothers? (For the latter, if not, WHY NOT? I will have to share that with you when I get it back from The Flatmate).

Verbose M is verbose.

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

Weirdly enough, I think I started out using your posts as a template. Seriously, though: I enjoy reading your posts! I enjoy reading your voice, weird as that sounds: I enjoy how ridiculously literate and intelligent you sound, and your writing voice is snappy and funny and unique. I tend to confuse a lot of people on my flist with each other, but I've never read another delgaserasca, ever.

... moving swiftly on.

You mean like... reading minds? Or moving things with your brain? ... killing things with your brain? Photographic memory? I think you'd probably have photographic memory. It just suits you, for some reason.

I wanted to see Jarhead so badly but NOBODY WOULD GO WITH ME. I have never seen Band of Brothers, and am not entirely sure what it even is. But I've been flicking through some picspams of Generation Kill and it looks so pretty and sounds so gritty, so I am intrigued (I just spelt that as 'interiuged'. FAIL, SELF. See what I mean about being barely literate?).

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh, you're so nice, but I don't think that's possible (you using me as a template). I mean. Not to doubt you or anything. But. My posts are glorified lists, lets face it. And also: it's more the other way around? lols, terrible. Tbh, I think that the only reason I come off even vaguely like I sound like I know what I'm talking about is because I have a fondness for using one long word where a handful of smaller ones would do. <-- the Stephen Fry school of Speech. And I'm not even that good at it.

Okay, okay. Enough mutual appreciation. I love you, though; I'm totally warm and glowy right now. Someone could mistake me for a UFO.

KILLING THINGS WITH MY BRAIN! I wish I'd thought of that! I was thinking of something way more geeky like... super memory! Or making things I write come to life! That sort of bullshit. But the Grey Matter-fuelled Assassin thing, I am TOTALLY down with that. Awesome! ...ahem. But yeah, photographic memory... for fingerprints! I am totally fucking kidding.

GIRL SHUDDUP I AM SENDING YOU THAT FILM IN THE MAIL RIGHT NOW HOLY SHIT WHAT ARE YOU DOING. No, seriously, I have taken my DVD and am about to wrap that shit up and First Class it to you. Super pigeon if I have to. Holy cow. I went with The Flatmate and I fucking... I don't even know how to express how much I love this film. I mean. It totally hits my kinks, for sure, but it's also just. I LOVED IT. OK. I MEAN. REALLY. & now you'll probably be underwhelmed because there's nothing exceptional about it, but fuck. I do really enjoy watching it. It has high entertainment value. Sending. Right. Now. Or, you know, tomorrow ante meridiem.

re: Band of Brothers, it's a mini-series (10 episodes) following a US battalion during WWII and it's... it's immense. It's just fantastic. Great story, great action, great dialogue, great cast... the cinematography blew me away, too. I don't have that on me right now but I'll send that too when I get the chance. I truly think you will love that. It is an amazing piece of work. And yes, Generation Kill is a similar sort of thing but set during the invasion of Iraq. Both are based on real events, though in BoB each episode starts with the surviving soldiers talking about events. On the shallow end: everyone is gorgeous, too, and there's this sort of crass manliness to GK that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. lols, okay, sending GK with Jarhead. Will sort that out now for you. No, really. (I can't believe you haven't seen Jarhead! We are going to have to rectify that shit right now.)

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

I'm serious! I mean, it was way back when I first friended you, but: the way I structure my posts, with the line breaks between topics? I picked that up from you. Trufax.

I love the image of somebody irritating you, and suddenly: FWUMPF. Dead! That is so cool. Or possibly I'm a little bit twisted. All the same: I used to try and test if any of my customers had telepathy when I worked in WH Smith, by thinking the absolute worst things I could about them to see if any of them would go "... what?". My brain is a fun place to be.

OH SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY? That's very kind of you! I remember when it came out and I was all "HOLY SHIT EVERYONE LET'S GO WATCH THIS WAR FILM" and they were all: "shut the fuck up". I remember loving the hell out of the trailer and not really understanding why everybody else was apathetic about it. I CAN BUY IT FOR ABOUT £3 IN ANY HIGH STREET RETAILER YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEND IT TO ME. ♥

Ah, I thought that might be it. For some reason I wasn't sure if Band of Brothers was a movie. I seem to remember you talking about it? I've seen an epic picspam of Generation Kill with quotes (I... I look at a lot of picspams), and I remember thinking: "god, this is so crass... but it's brilliant!!".

My thing for this year is apparently to get into more television instead of reading books for university. Generation Kill and Leverage seem to be getting very favourable reviews.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

FWUMPF! <-- awesome. No, but really, I wished I'd thought of that. That's totally a me reflex, too. One minute we're dandy, next minute you're dead. (Not you, natch. A hypothetical not-you you.) Also: omg, I STILL do that with customers. Except I'm all, really, more cigarettes? Your lungs will incinerate, I am fucking telling you, put that shit down. ...hasn't worked yet.

I AM SERIOUSLY SENDING YOU IT RIGHT NOW. And if you like it that much you can buy your own. Holy shit, girl hasn't seen it WHAT IS THAT I AM SENDING IT.

lols, there were a couple of GK picspams in picspammy which is the exact reason I finally got off my arse and mainlined the series. It's only 7 hours, but it's great. And crass. AND GREAT.

Leverage is light yay. I'm behind a couple of episodes, but I've enjoyed most of it so far. The fandom is driving me a little loopy so I'm backing off from that, but the show itself is nice.

BUT SERIOUSLY. AM SENDING YOU MODERN WARFARE STUFF. (Have you seen Three Kings? Way more serious, but still pretty great. Better quality than Jarhead, but entertainment wise it's not as strong. Or... it's not as boot-camp-y. GI Jane is not a great movie but it's a GREAT MOVIE. Can you tell I have a thing? BECAUSE OH YES.)

[bessemerprocess.livejournal.com]

Where do you find all the amazing poetry that you post? (I really love it!)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Huzz!

A mixture of places - there are some great comms on lj (greatpoets is a good one, as is theysaid) plus I have some poetry-inclined flisters who share and share alike. I bookmark stuff I love at delicious and if someone else has something bookmarked, sometimes I'll browse through their other ones and see if anything takes my fancy.

Other than that: I read, lols. I have noticed that two things make me more likely to read a poem: the language and the form. This seems obvious considering what poetry is, but certain language appeals, and certain topics don't. So. There's that, too. The shape of a poem sometimes draws me in, especially large bodies of text. If the poem can keep a tempo that keeps me interested, I'll probably love it.

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

I'm getting slightly better at the internet lingo but I admit, I was reading an article on text speak and understand nay a word of the sample of abbreviations (I'd suspect the author in question made it up, except you know - it's doubtful). And I have no idea of ymmv at all.

Except oh, I want to say something about Generation Kill as well. Or how Spooks Season Six and I have this weird relationship of like/hate (with a continued emphasis on Ros and Zaf being my favourites). /randomness.

Question (s) - what makes you want to listen to a song? And oh, politics - do you have thoughts?