This is the sort of thing I wish I’d thought of when stuck in airports on long, lonely nights past… Next time you’re stranded, make the best of it!
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Things that go bump in the night…
…shamelessly stolen from @flatlinejack.
The Tarot Meme
These are both fairly accurate descriptions of my personality, but I might split hairs with their apologia on the Devil… I’ve never thought so-called darker ambitions needed an apology — without darkness, what is light? — but I willingly read a Thoth deck, and that’s probably proof enough I’m not entirely right in the head.
The Magician came up when I chose Mercury as my favorite planet. It is the ruler of Virgo after all, and I do have wings tattooed on my feet. Seems fitting enough, with how mutable I can be. The Magician is probably the card I would choose for myself, and it seems to come up more often than anything else in self-referential positions.
The Devil arrived when I chose Jupiter, which I do love. It’s interesting, Jupiter and I have an on-again/off-again relationship, Jovian luck doesn’t seem to work the way it should for me, but occasionally, oh, occasionally it works oh so well, and I find fortune in spades. I suspect that’s the Magician aspect’s creationism cutting both ways.
You are The Magician
Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.
Eloquent and charismatic, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.
The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud.
Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man – either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.
You are The Devil
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession.
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
The Devil is not really “Satan” at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires.
This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. The card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild – or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
The Cold War Reenactment Society WANTS YOU
“Then I realized that to dress up as a communist sympathizer, you just wear your normal clothes…but you always remember that in your heart, you’re wearing red.
Seriously, when did the Communist party stop giving out membership cards?
I registered as a Red one year so I could get my very own card, which I planned to display proudly to one and all so as to prove that I really was not just a bourgeois pig, no, I was a bourgeois pig with ethics. I was a bourgeois pig who was anxiously awaiting the glory of the coming revolution, I was a bourgeois pig ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with my comrades!
I was really disappointed when not only did I not get a card, they didn’t even bother to send me any propaganda decrying the capitalist state! I’m sure I ended up on a handful of watchlists for my trouble, too. Oh well.
Here’s a link to the rules if you too would like to participate in the CWRS.
PS — I’ve already reported you to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Facts about Neil Gaiman
- If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 words, Neil Gaiman has written more than you.
- Neil Gaiman once did the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen. In fifteen minutes. He won two Hugo awards for it.
- Neil Gaiman is who the Ghostbusters call.
- Neil Gaiman is the reason nobody teaches “I before E except after C” anymore.
- Some writers take inspiration from the muse. The muse takes inspiration from Neil Gaiman.
- The pen is mightier than the sword; Neil Gaiman has mastered fourteen different styles of penmanship.
- Rumor has it that a NY editor rejected Neil Gaiman’s first book. This can not be confirmed, as the editor in question was never heard from again.
- Neil Gaiman can tweet 175 characters.
- In any given week, 7 of the top 10 books on the NYT Bestseller List are by pseudonyms of Neil Gaiman.
- Neil Gaiman has never written a deus ex machina ending. However, God once wrote a Gaiman ex machina ending.
There’s more at Jim Hines blog.
Relationships, much.
“The sharp dip in the “Traditional Relationship” correlates to the moment you stop acting like the person you partner thinks you are, and regress into who you really are.” TRUFAX
Blatantly stolen from davmoo.
The Fannish Five meme
The Fannish Five, questions from 4you_blue_jway
If you want questions, reply to this post and I’ll give you five new ones.
1.) Favorite episode or serial of Doctor Who (new or classic) ever and why?
Of course she starts with the hard one!
In the new series, I think it’s got to be “Family of Blood” — I love the possessed scarecrows. John Smith is heartbreaking and wonderful. There are a few moments that certainly could have been managed better, but I love the Doctor’s motivations in this one, and I think that last two minutes make the entire episode.
2.) What book (or play or something that’s not a movie) do you think should be made into a movie?
Any of China Mieville’s books would make fairly epic movies, I think. If I had to pick one, I’d say The Scar; it’s got a strong female lead, there are seriously interesting monsters, and it’s set in a floating city!
3.) If you could only listen to ten songs as the only music you heard for a year, what would they be?
“She Has No Strings” Dirty Three
“Tigresa” Caetano Veloso
“When The Man Comes Around” Johnny Cash
“Dig, Lazarus, Dig” Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
“Temptation” Tom Waits
“Your Own Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode
“Big Wheel” Tori Amos
“Raphael” Coco Rosie
“Duvet” Boå (Lain OST)
“Kaneda” Yamashiro Shoji (Akira OST)
4.) What’s your favorite thing about rp-ing as Three? (or just talk about what you think about rp-ing in general)
Three is just great fun. What I love most about him is that he’s so very child-like — also childish, on occasion. He’s charming, witty, an intolerable flirt, but he’s got depth, too, he’s arrogant, impatient, and prone to mistakes.
I typically play villains, either because I’m very good at it, or because no one else is willing to play the really loathsome ones, which are the ones I always end up with. The realization I came to very quickly is that if you are going to play or write a villain effectively, you have to act as if they were heroes — because internally, they are.
No one ever believes themselves to be evil, not truly, and no one is evil just for the sake of being evil — they are generally attempting to do something, that, were they on the other side, might well be perceived as good. This is especially true for your intelligent villain, but even complete psychopaths have internally valid motivations.
5.) If you could send everyone in the world (or universe if you prefer) a message, what would you say?
Take a deep breath and try to be a bit more accepting of one another. If you’re in the middle of a disagreement, whatever it may be about, it probably isn’t worth fighting over, and it definitely isn’t worth killing one another.
