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rushthatspeaksI am having a bad day. Have a couple of memes.
Bryn Mawr College: home, alma mater, source of housemates, place I met my wife... as well as a damn fine educational experience and a really lovely campus and a set of choirs I still miss. Yeah.
comics: I've been reading them since I was about twelve, and I became extremely confused when I got to high school and discovered that a lot of people didn't take them seriously as art or as literature. Of course, by that point I'd already run across Sandman and Love and Rockets and V for Vendetta and Pogo and the Alan Moore Swamp Thing and Elfquest and Hothead Paisan and, and, and... Oddly enough, I've only started reading mainstream superhero-y-type books in the last couple of years, and I doubt it will stick.
Diane Duane: I still remember picking up the Young Wizards trilogy randomly in a bookstore when I was about ten because I had some money and the covers looked interesting. I fell hard and fast and totally, and the Door Into books are still some of my favorite portrayals of polyamory, joy in sexuality, and the pros and cons of having an involved and interested deity.
Fullmetal Alchemist: I love this anime. Love, love, love. It's beautifully researched, nicely plotted, well-characterized, and I like the art and some of the music. It's a damn shame that it plays into my personal symbology in such a way that I haven't actually been able to finish it because I find it too traumatic for reasons that the writers and artists almost certainly did not intend.
Japanese: I speak it, somewhat. I read it, somewhat. I'm working on it. It's a beautiful language.
lesbian rights: a subject of close and immediate personal relevance on a day-to-day basis, being as how I am a woman married to a woman.
Pat Califia: My favorite writer of pansexual S&M erotica, and one of the pre-eminent theorists in the philosophy of S&M. Scorchingly hot, not politically correct one little bit, and a formative influence on my adolescence. I also admire him on a personal level for having been one of the only people I can think of to have been both genders and all sexual orientations.
Saiyuki: Not just the anime Gensomaden Saiyuki, much as I love that, but the original Journey to the West legend, and the delightful Osamu Tezuka version of that story, and the so-bad-it's-funny Chinese TV show Monkey King... gotta love a rich, interesting, endlessly reinterpretable mythological story-set.
singing: I don't really feel like me unless I'm in at least one choir. It's been way the hell too long since I was in a choir. I need a choir, stat.
women's rights: also a subject of close and immediate personal relevance on a day-to-day basis.
Tagged by my wife, that one where you list your twenty current favorite fictional couples, canon or not.
1. Gon and Killua, from the anime Hunter X Hunter. So cute and so MARRIED.
2. Ban and Ginji, from the anime Getbackers. Theirloveissotheywillneveradmitanything.
3. Shikamaru and Chouji, from Naruto. I insist this IS canon, thank you.
4. Segnbora and Hasai, from Diane Duane's Door Into books. Dragon! Woman! Genderqueerish cross-species cuteness!
5. Utena and Anthy, from the anime Shoujo Kakumei Utena. One of the Great Epic Romances and it gets me every time.
6. Cutter, Leetah, and Skywise, from Elfquest. Family is how we define it...
7. Hothead and Daphne, from Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist. Somehow, together, they aren't fucked up.
8. Kaworu and Shinji, from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The redeeming point of that universe is their relationship.
9. Pfirsich and Rosen, The Desert Peach. And somehow, together, they are not just not fucked up, but nearly a sane person.
10. Kira and Setsuna, Angel Sanctuary. Together, they *wouldn't* be fucked up. This needs to happen.
11. Sean and Jardine, from A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, by Gordon Korman. High school surrealist love. Yeah, I know I'm going to hell for slashing Gordon Korman.
12. Fanfic Harry Potter and fanfic Draco-- so much more interesting and three-dimensional than canon.
13. Herrel and Gillan, from Year of the Unicorn, by Andre Norton. Now that is a good marriage.
14. Nyateneri and Lal, from The Innkeeper's Song, by Peter S. Beagle. Not meant to be, but so meant to be, and the most beautiful knot of working and not-working, sex and confusion and innate understanding. Throw Rosseth and Lukassa in there and you just get one of the great gorgeous messes where nobody ever says anything because there is too much to say.
15. Howl and Sophie, from Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones (book, please, not movie). Theirloveissounderstated.
16. Haku and Chihiro, from Spirited Away. I firmly believe that he will turn up at some point and make her a very, very happy woman.
17. Sara and Jareth, from Labyrinth. I firmly believe that he will turn up at some point and ditto ditto ditto, except with complications and angst and gorgeous tragedy and Brian Froud art direction.
18. Tom and Polly, from Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones. Too impossible to ever work; too inevitable to ever fail.
19. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, by Dorothy Sayers. "Placetne, magistra?" And tenderness like a wound.
20. Thomas Mendip and Jennet Jourdemayne, The Lady's Not For Burning, by Christopher Fry. Through the whole wide world he'll see her home again. Perfect.
Hm. I seem to go for, well, complicated, understated, with things not said or said in the wrong ways or said cryptically. I seem to go for doomed and sweet balancing out, and for the kind of relationship which works because the parties involved have hurt each other so much that they can never be untangled, but with real love and persistence in it. And I seem to go for a certain amount of genderplay. No surprises there, huh?
I don't believe in tagging people, but if it makes you happy, go ahead and do the meme.
Bryn Mawr College: home, alma mater, source of housemates, place I met my wife... as well as a damn fine educational experience and a really lovely campus and a set of choirs I still miss. Yeah.
comics: I've been reading them since I was about twelve, and I became extremely confused when I got to high school and discovered that a lot of people didn't take them seriously as art or as literature. Of course, by that point I'd already run across Sandman and Love and Rockets and V for Vendetta and Pogo and the Alan Moore Swamp Thing and Elfquest and Hothead Paisan and, and, and... Oddly enough, I've only started reading mainstream superhero-y-type books in the last couple of years, and I doubt it will stick.
Diane Duane: I still remember picking up the Young Wizards trilogy randomly in a bookstore when I was about ten because I had some money and the covers looked interesting. I fell hard and fast and totally, and the Door Into books are still some of my favorite portrayals of polyamory, joy in sexuality, and the pros and cons of having an involved and interested deity.
Fullmetal Alchemist: I love this anime. Love, love, love. It's beautifully researched, nicely plotted, well-characterized, and I like the art and some of the music. It's a damn shame that it plays into my personal symbology in such a way that I haven't actually been able to finish it because I find it too traumatic for reasons that the writers and artists almost certainly did not intend.
Japanese: I speak it, somewhat. I read it, somewhat. I'm working on it. It's a beautiful language.
lesbian rights: a subject of close and immediate personal relevance on a day-to-day basis, being as how I am a woman married to a woman.
Pat Califia: My favorite writer of pansexual S&M erotica, and one of the pre-eminent theorists in the philosophy of S&M. Scorchingly hot, not politically correct one little bit, and a formative influence on my adolescence. I also admire him on a personal level for having been one of the only people I can think of to have been both genders and all sexual orientations.
Saiyuki: Not just the anime Gensomaden Saiyuki, much as I love that, but the original Journey to the West legend, and the delightful Osamu Tezuka version of that story, and the so-bad-it's-funny Chinese TV show Monkey King... gotta love a rich, interesting, endlessly reinterpretable mythological story-set.
singing: I don't really feel like me unless I'm in at least one choir. It's been way the hell too long since I was in a choir. I need a choir, stat.
women's rights: also a subject of close and immediate personal relevance on a day-to-day basis.
Tagged by my wife, that one where you list your twenty current favorite fictional couples, canon or not.
1. Gon and Killua, from the anime Hunter X Hunter. So cute and so MARRIED.
2. Ban and Ginji, from the anime Getbackers. Theirloveissotheywillneveradmitanything.
3. Shikamaru and Chouji, from Naruto. I insist this IS canon, thank you.
4. Segnbora and Hasai, from Diane Duane's Door Into books. Dragon! Woman! Genderqueerish cross-species cuteness!
5. Utena and Anthy, from the anime Shoujo Kakumei Utena. One of the Great Epic Romances and it gets me every time.
6. Cutter, Leetah, and Skywise, from Elfquest. Family is how we define it...
7. Hothead and Daphne, from Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist. Somehow, together, they aren't fucked up.
8. Kaworu and Shinji, from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The redeeming point of that universe is their relationship.
9. Pfirsich and Rosen, The Desert Peach. And somehow, together, they are not just not fucked up, but nearly a sane person.
10. Kira and Setsuna, Angel Sanctuary. Together, they *wouldn't* be fucked up. This needs to happen.
11. Sean and Jardine, from A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, by Gordon Korman. High school surrealist love. Yeah, I know I'm going to hell for slashing Gordon Korman.
12. Fanfic Harry Potter and fanfic Draco-- so much more interesting and three-dimensional than canon.
13. Herrel and Gillan, from Year of the Unicorn, by Andre Norton. Now that is a good marriage.
14. Nyateneri and Lal, from The Innkeeper's Song, by Peter S. Beagle. Not meant to be, but so meant to be, and the most beautiful knot of working and not-working, sex and confusion and innate understanding. Throw Rosseth and Lukassa in there and you just get one of the great gorgeous messes where nobody ever says anything because there is too much to say.
15. Howl and Sophie, from Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones (book, please, not movie). Theirloveissounderstated.
16. Haku and Chihiro, from Spirited Away. I firmly believe that he will turn up at some point and make her a very, very happy woman.
17. Sara and Jareth, from Labyrinth. I firmly believe that he will turn up at some point and ditto ditto ditto, except with complications and angst and gorgeous tragedy and Brian Froud art direction.
18. Tom and Polly, from Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones. Too impossible to ever work; too inevitable to ever fail.
19. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, by Dorothy Sayers. "Placetne, magistra?" And tenderness like a wound.
20. Thomas Mendip and Jennet Jourdemayne, The Lady's Not For Burning, by Christopher Fry. Through the whole wide world he'll see her home again. Perfect.
Hm. I seem to go for, well, complicated, understated, with things not said or said in the wrong ways or said cryptically. I seem to go for doomed and sweet balancing out, and for the kind of relationship which works because the parties involved have hurt each other so much that they can never be untangled, but with real love and persistence in it. And I seem to go for a certain amount of genderplay. No surprises there, huh?
I don't believe in tagging people, but if it makes you happy, go ahead and do the meme.
