Kate Saunders Britton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bonny_kate) wrote2008-09-12 05:38 pm
bonny_kate) wrote2008-09-12 05:38 pm
Entry tags:
(no subject)
A meme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
charismitaine
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.
1. If you had to live out a fairy tale, with all of the ugly bits but with all of the lovely bits too, which one would you choose?
You know, I wouldn't have expected my answer to this question. I have long loved Beauty and the Beast, and I have long wished to be Beauty in Robin McKinley's Rosedaughter. It is a beautiful retelling, and I still want to be like Beauty, and yet I find that it is not the one fairy tale that I would choose to live out. I would live out East of the Sun, West of the Moon, because I am not certain I could, and yet I want to. I want to love so wholly and completely, in spite of my mistakes, that I will go beyond the edges of the world for the sake of the beloved. I want to be so persistent and tenacious of character that I will not give up, that I will continue to search for the beloved beyond hope, through three pairs of iron shoes, and beyond the possible. I do not want to make mistakes, but when I do make them, I want to redeem them, even if it is impossible. I want the wit to know to use the gifts given me, to know how to open the acorns, and when to use what is inside of them. I want my beloved to love me, though I am insignificant and a peasant's daughter; nothing important at all. I want my beloved to be wise and warn me when I am about to do something stupid, to tell me not to light the candle, to let me face the consequences when I do, and yet love me. I want my beloved to have the wisdom to turn my faults around and redeem them, to take the candle wax that I dripped and was my undoing, and make it the means of our reunion and happiness. I want a beloved who will live in an unconventional, little known fairy tale, where it is the girl who does the rescuing, instead of the other way around, and who doesn't care. I want to live happily ever after because I am virtuous, because I love the beloved, because I am tenacious, and because I have learned wisdom.
2. Following question 1, if you could choose a time period and setting for your fairy tale (including modern), what would you choose?
I am not sure that I particularly like this time that we live in; I see much I prefer of the Medieval or Regency times. And yet, I think this is a very good time to live out a fairy tale, because very few people really believe in fairy tales right now. It seems that most people are disillusioned with fairy tales, that they think that they are wish fulfillment, or untrue to life, or overly idealistic. So I would want to flagrantly and ostentatiously prove them wrong. Fairy tales are important, and useful, and generally good (although there are some terrible ones that have quite rightly dropped into oblivion). A modern fairy tale is a hard thing, because it must not slip into the maudlin sentimentality that means nothing, it must have substance, and it must not slip into that biting sarcasm that leaves no room for wonder or truth. A modern fairy tale is hard because it must be rooted and grounded in the everyday and the ordinary (there was scarcely anything more ordinary than a cheap, tallow candle) but it must include the fantastic, and it must be believable. It would be a great challenge to live out a fairy tale today.
3. If you could choose any secondary (or ensemble) character from any TV show to have their own spin-off series, who would you choose and what would their show be like?
I can't believe how long it took me to think of an answer to this question, because it is so glaringly obvious. Spike. Spike needs his own tv show.
This should take place after the last season of Angel, when Spike is good and being a hero, even though he claims he isn't. He would run around generally saving the world and being snarky about it, and claiming he wasn't really going to save the world, and all that, but still averting the Apocalpse. It would be like all the best bits of Angel, with less angst and more quotable bits. There would also be various other interesting characters who came back, or were introduced, so it would be more of an ensemble show instead of just Spike. He would still be in love with Buffy, of course, because I can't even picture what he would be like if he was good but not in love with Buffy, but he wouldn't spend entire seasons pining after her. Drusilla would come back and generally make a nuisance of herself, in an interesting and somewhat insane way.
4. If you could travel in time with a muscular man named Hans and choose one person for Hans to punch in the face, who would it be?
I cannot think of anyone I particularly would like someone to punch. There are many people I disagree with, but that is generally a civil disagreement, and even though I often wanted to throw Emerson's book against the wall, and I found it most exasperating, I wouldn't think he should be punched for writing it. There are many people I am exasperated with, but I would generally like to grab them by the shoulders and shake some sense into them (such as, for instance, the people who canceled Firefly). There are many wicked people throughout history, but somehow it does not seem appropriate to hit them. To have someone punched is to avenge an insult, and I can't particularly think of anyone who has insulted me.
5. If you had to live for a year on an isolated island--not a desert island, and you aren't shipwrecked, so you won't be fighting for survival. Let's say that you have to pretend to be dead for a year, so you've been dropped off on this island with supplies so that no one can blow your cover. If you could only have one companion, and it could be anyone in the world, or even a fictional character, who would you choose? Or would you instead choose to be alone?
There are a great many literary characters who I would like to have with me on an island, but I am not sure that it would really be worthwhile, because I am not sure that they would want to be with me. For instance, at first thought, it seems like great fun to have Lord Peter Whimsey on the island, but I think that he would always be bored and pining for Harriet. There are similar problems with my favorite literary characters who are quite happy where they are. So then, I shall say that I would like to be on this island with my friend Nikki. It is quite simply that I don't see her nearly enough since we graduated, and I know that we could finally again have just as many conversations, and never have to be interrupted, and it would be fabulous. We had such lovely, long conversations about anything and everything (mostly philosophical in nature) in the lab, in the dorms, and wherever we happened to be. Now we are in different states, and constrained by telephone conversation and meeting perhaps once a year. An entire year on an island would be just the thing.
charismitaine1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.
1. If you had to live out a fairy tale, with all of the ugly bits but with all of the lovely bits too, which one would you choose?
You know, I wouldn't have expected my answer to this question. I have long loved Beauty and the Beast, and I have long wished to be Beauty in Robin McKinley's Rosedaughter. It is a beautiful retelling, and I still want to be like Beauty, and yet I find that it is not the one fairy tale that I would choose to live out. I would live out East of the Sun, West of the Moon, because I am not certain I could, and yet I want to. I want to love so wholly and completely, in spite of my mistakes, that I will go beyond the edges of the world for the sake of the beloved. I want to be so persistent and tenacious of character that I will not give up, that I will continue to search for the beloved beyond hope, through three pairs of iron shoes, and beyond the possible. I do not want to make mistakes, but when I do make them, I want to redeem them, even if it is impossible. I want the wit to know to use the gifts given me, to know how to open the acorns, and when to use what is inside of them. I want my beloved to love me, though I am insignificant and a peasant's daughter; nothing important at all. I want my beloved to be wise and warn me when I am about to do something stupid, to tell me not to light the candle, to let me face the consequences when I do, and yet love me. I want my beloved to have the wisdom to turn my faults around and redeem them, to take the candle wax that I dripped and was my undoing, and make it the means of our reunion and happiness. I want a beloved who will live in an unconventional, little known fairy tale, where it is the girl who does the rescuing, instead of the other way around, and who doesn't care. I want to live happily ever after because I am virtuous, because I love the beloved, because I am tenacious, and because I have learned wisdom.
2. Following question 1, if you could choose a time period and setting for your fairy tale (including modern), what would you choose?
I am not sure that I particularly like this time that we live in; I see much I prefer of the Medieval or Regency times. And yet, I think this is a very good time to live out a fairy tale, because very few people really believe in fairy tales right now. It seems that most people are disillusioned with fairy tales, that they think that they are wish fulfillment, or untrue to life, or overly idealistic. So I would want to flagrantly and ostentatiously prove them wrong. Fairy tales are important, and useful, and generally good (although there are some terrible ones that have quite rightly dropped into oblivion). A modern fairy tale is a hard thing, because it must not slip into the maudlin sentimentality that means nothing, it must have substance, and it must not slip into that biting sarcasm that leaves no room for wonder or truth. A modern fairy tale is hard because it must be rooted and grounded in the everyday and the ordinary (there was scarcely anything more ordinary than a cheap, tallow candle) but it must include the fantastic, and it must be believable. It would be a great challenge to live out a fairy tale today.
3. If you could choose any secondary (or ensemble) character from any TV show to have their own spin-off series, who would you choose and what would their show be like?
I can't believe how long it took me to think of an answer to this question, because it is so glaringly obvious. Spike. Spike needs his own tv show.
This should take place after the last season of Angel, when Spike is good and being a hero, even though he claims he isn't. He would run around generally saving the world and being snarky about it, and claiming he wasn't really going to save the world, and all that, but still averting the Apocalpse. It would be like all the best bits of Angel, with less angst and more quotable bits. There would also be various other interesting characters who came back, or were introduced, so it would be more of an ensemble show instead of just Spike. He would still be in love with Buffy, of course, because I can't even picture what he would be like if he was good but not in love with Buffy, but he wouldn't spend entire seasons pining after her. Drusilla would come back and generally make a nuisance of herself, in an interesting and somewhat insane way.
4. If you could travel in time with a muscular man named Hans and choose one person for Hans to punch in the face, who would it be?
I cannot think of anyone I particularly would like someone to punch. There are many people I disagree with, but that is generally a civil disagreement, and even though I often wanted to throw Emerson's book against the wall, and I found it most exasperating, I wouldn't think he should be punched for writing it. There are many people I am exasperated with, but I would generally like to grab them by the shoulders and shake some sense into them (such as, for instance, the people who canceled Firefly). There are many wicked people throughout history, but somehow it does not seem appropriate to hit them. To have someone punched is to avenge an insult, and I can't particularly think of anyone who has insulted me.
5. If you had to live for a year on an isolated island--not a desert island, and you aren't shipwrecked, so you won't be fighting for survival. Let's say that you have to pretend to be dead for a year, so you've been dropped off on this island with supplies so that no one can blow your cover. If you could only have one companion, and it could be anyone in the world, or even a fictional character, who would you choose? Or would you instead choose to be alone?
There are a great many literary characters who I would like to have with me on an island, but I am not sure that it would really be worthwhile, because I am not sure that they would want to be with me. For instance, at first thought, it seems like great fun to have Lord Peter Whimsey on the island, but I think that he would always be bored and pining for Harriet. There are similar problems with my favorite literary characters who are quite happy where they are. So then, I shall say that I would like to be on this island with my friend Nikki. It is quite simply that I don't see her nearly enough since we graduated, and I know that we could finally again have just as many conversations, and never have to be interrupted, and it would be fabulous. We had such lovely, long conversations about anything and everything (mostly philosophical in nature) in the lab, in the dorms, and wherever we happened to be. Now we are in different states, and constrained by telephone conversation and meeting perhaps once a year. An entire year on an island would be just the thing.
no subject
no subject
2. How did you end up as a reader?
3. To borrow from Anne of Green Gables, would you rather be angelically good or devastatingly beautiful?
4. What is your theme song, the song that really describes you and your life?
5. If you were a book, what kind would you be? Picture book, trashy novel, first edition, fantasy, mystery?
no subject
no subject
Let's see . . .
1. If you could go to sleep in the knowledge that you would never have another nightmare, at the cost of never having another (sleeping) dream of any sort, would you? Would it be worth it?
2. The Tenth Doctor whisks you away in the TARDIS for a ride, for just one ride. Where does he take you?
3. What is a costume that you really want to make, but haven't yet?
4. If you were a month of the year, what month would you be?
5. Austen or Bronte, and why?
no subject
no subject
2. What is one book you wish had never been written?
3. What fictional world would you like most to live in?
4. What do you like most about college?
5. If you could change one thing about the world, one small thing, not anything big like world peace, but something like the smell of coffee or the taste of artichokes, what would it be?
no subject
no subject
2. If you could have a book, in book at all, and have it real (i.e. it really exists, or the events really happened) what book would it be?
3. What color would you be?
4. Which is your favorite Dr. Who episode?
5. What scent do you like the most?
no subject
This is, btw, the best meme ever. It went around back when I first joined LJ (in 2004) and it has been going around sporadically since.
Me, please!
no subject
2. Which country would you like to be (this includes modern, historical, or fictional countries)?
3. Vampires or Werewolves?
4. Do you think stars are alive?
5. What hat would you most like to own?
no subject
no subject
1. What is a book you really dislike?
2. If you were a piece of art, which would you be (includes statues, paintings, etc)?
3. What book do you wish there was a sequel to?
4. What is your favorite color of lipstick?
5. What taste do you like best in the world?