5-Question Interview Meme

[aadler]

 
Acquired from izhilzha:

RULES:

1. Leave me a comment saying “Interview me”. (If you want to, of course! No pressure at all.)
2. I’ll respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature (or not so creepy/personal).
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.

The questions she gave me (and the answers I provided) are

1. Do you believe that the Internet and text messaging are destroying the current generation’s use of language?

I don’t see the abbreviations and artificial jargon as doing anything to improve the language, but I’d say more damage is done by the overall reduction of educational standards nationwide.


2. Should people put specific content warnings on their fic? Why or why not?

I’m inclined to say yes, simply because I routinely skip any slash fic, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to do so without having to actually read any of the stuff. I’m similarly non-enthusiastic about character death, though that’s not an automatic disqualifier.


3. Do you wear hats on a regular basis?

Only for the Army.


4. Name a book or story you’ve read in the past year that moved or changed you in some way.

I just finished Dinesh D’Sousa’s “the Enemy at Home”, and that has substantially clarified my view of both Islam and American liberalism.


5. Is it strange being a male writer in the predominately-female venue of online fandom?

As far as writing and reading fic, and dealing with other readers/writers online, not at all. When I attended the first WriterCon, I was aware of being a minority but not bothered by it. At WriterCon II, however, I found it impossible to escape slash themes (and I really tried, with the wholehearted help of the ’Con organizer); when I voiced some of my discontent in a subsequent posting on the WriterCon LJ, I was widely attacked as both homophobic and misogynistic.

I thought being a Buffy fan and a fanfic writer made me minority enough; the gender thing wasn’t really a matter of any importance to me, until it was seized on as an ‘explanation’ for my loathsomeness. Apparently I was welcome as long as I didn’t voice any disagreement whatsoever.

Okay, that was a bit sour. To be specific: both ’Cons were a lot of fun, and practically all of my online interactions have been positive and rewarding. Only the responses to the WriterCon LJ post (many ungracious and gratuitously insulting, almost all condemnatory) made me wonder if I was in the wrong place … which those posting certainly insisted I was.

Comments

[sroni.livejournal.com]

I'm up for it.

[aadler]

1. What is the ideal number of tattoos for you, and where would you want it/them to be?
(Keeping in mind that the answer might get back to your mother.)
2. If you could be any comic book character, which one? And which one would you most want to marry?
(Yeah, two questions here, but they’re related.)
3. In how many oceans have you gone swimming/wading? Name them.
4. What’s your dream vacation?
5. Your book is being made into a movie. Who do you pick to play the lead character, and why?

[sroni.livejournal.com]

1. What is the ideal number of tattoos for you, and where would you want it/them to be?
(Keeping in mind that the answer might get back to your mother.)

Really, only two. I wouldn’t be averse to more, but it really depends on the image. Right now I’ve found a dancing stick figure that I really want because it reminds me to dance for Jesus. (I want it on my foot.) And I’ve designed a Celtic cross with some infinite butterflies inside it that I want on the back of my shoulder blade. Someone told me once that every church you see has some artwork in it. (That was in response to “Your body is a temple” from the Old Testament.) It made sense to me. I want to put artwork on my body that reminds me what it is I believe in.

2. If you could be any comic book character, which one? And which one would you most want to marry?
(Yeah, two questions here, but they’re related.)

I’d love to be ShadowCat. C’mon, walking through walls? Great stuff. Could you imagine the face on my brother’s face the first time I did that?

Marry? That’s a toss-up between Batman and Spider-Man. I think I’d be more likely to go with Batman since he really doesn’t have powers, and chooses to do what he does anyway.

3. In how many oceans have you gone swimming/wading? Name them.


Only two. The Atlantic (Rhode Island) and the Pacific (California and Hong Kong). I’ve been in countless lakes and rivers, though. Even some cow ponds.

4. What’s your dream vacation?


Golly gosh. I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland.

5. Your book is being made into a movie. Who do you pick to play the lead character, and why?


It depends on which book. Sci-fi, I want whoever played Vi and Riley, Sean Astin, and Sean Connery.