Naruto, Meme

[lykomancer]

I haven't mentioned lately that I love Sound. I still fucking love Sound.
So much Orochimaru makes me want to lick my computer screen. OM NOM NOM, MOTHERFUCKERS. /inappropriate lust for fictional character
Weeks of Kabuto backstory.
Sasuke and Itachi working together.
And now Orochimaru?
Specifically, a glimpse into the Orochimaru/Sasuke mentor-student dynamic? (I always presumed that (older, post-Konoha) Orochimaru was likely a surprisingly competent teacher, even though there's really no suggestion in the manga up to this point that that was the case. However, everything about his stance and expression in this chapter was exactly what I presumed-- patient, curious, etc. Squee, squee, squee!)
Naruto's been kind of catering to me lately. I do rather enjoy it.



Ask Me Anything Meme
Stolen from ze bleed_peroxide

Basically, a free-for-all for you guys to be nosy, or if you're newer, to figure out shit you're not really clear on. I'm enabling the anon option-- as soon as I remember how-- in case you don't feel comfortable asking something "face-to-face", as it were. I'm also posting it with the hopes that it spreads - sometimes with LiveJournal and such the way it is, people change and you're like, "Wait, so what was that? I don't remember. Oh wait, you were different last I hear about ____. Clarify for me, please?" I've certainly picked had those moments.

While there's a list here, I guess it'd be fair to extend it to any particulars you're curious about.

1. Sexual orientation.
2. What I’m really bad at.
3. The one person whose arms I’d like to be in.
4. My best first date.
5. A description of my self-esteem.
6. Who my best friends are.
7. My favorite book.
8. Biggest turn-offs.
9. A description of my best friend.
10. My favorite animal.
11. Someone I miss.
12. The reason behind my last breakup.
13. What I did yesterday.
14. What my greatest achievement is.
15. A description of the person I dislike most.
16. My 5 favorite songs right now.
17. How my last kiss went down.
18. What I find attractive in the preferred sex.
19. All of the pets I’ve ever had.
20. Favorite flavor of ice cream.
21. The one place I want to be right now.
22. The meanest thing anyone has ever said to me.
23. Where I have lived before.
24. I’ll love you if…
25. What are my future plans?
26. An internal conflict I have with myself.
27. What I’m doing tomorrow.
28. What I want to be when I get older.
29. Most embarrassing moment.
30. Two of my insecurities.
31. What I would do if I won the lottery.
32. A description of the boy or girl I like.
33. What I love most about myself.
34. My biggest pet peeves.
35. What bands I’ve seen live.
36. How many kids I want in the future.
37. My idea of a perfect date.
38. What I’m really good at.
39. Most traumatic experience.
40. Where I would like to live.
41. The nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
42. Do I like where I am now?
43. My relationship with my sibling(s).
44. All the pets I’ve ever had.
45. What I can hear right now.
46. My biggest worry currently.
47. Something I’ve wished for repeatedly.
48. My relationship with my parents.
49. Something I should have said a long time ago.
50. What my last text message says.

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[bleed-peroxide.livejournal.com]

7. My favorite book.
18. What I find attractive in the preferred sex.
20. Favorite flavor of ice cream.
49. Something I should have said a long time ago.

[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

20. Ben & Jerry's Dublin Mudslide (http://www.onsecondscoop.com/2010/08/ben-jerrys-dublin-mudslide-ice-cream.html), which is a discontinued flavor and I can no longer get. :( I lived on that shit during my last year of college; it fueled much of my capstone project.
Failing that, B & J's Phish Food is a more-than-acceptable standby.
(Weirdness note: I prefer half-melted ice cream to solid cold. I let pints sit on the counter for an hour before even opening them.)


18. I like toned, slim, lithe femmy/androgynous men, and curvy women with a large waist-to-hip difference. I love asses, hips, and Apollo's belts. I like mohawks and (clean) dreadlocks; I like piercings and eyeliner on everyone. I am very turned on by confident people, artistic people, intelligent people.

I rarely hit on people to whom I am really, really attracted; honestly, I can't even look at them. I get all giggly and blushy and stupid-- intimidated. So when I date or even just fuck, it's often with average or just cute-ish folks. You know, people I can talk to coherently without sounding like a moron.


7. I'm actually baffled as to how to answer this, honestly. I like so many books, for so many different reasons, in so many different genres, that I can't compare them. My favorite theology book? (Probably something by Marcus Borg. Or The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann. Or Love Wins by Rob Bell. Or The Orthodox Heretic.) My favorite fantasy book? (Comfort-food/Not Good But I Love It: Dragonlance Chronicles. Excellent World-building, Plotting, and Characterization: Coldfire Trilogy by C. S. Friedman) My favorite philosophy book? (The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. Pascal's Pensees) My favorite general fiction book? (Life of Pi was AAAAAMMMMMAZING. Gone With the Wind was epic.)


49. ???
Again, confusion on my part leads to fail. I don't really have regrets, which I think perhaps this inquiry hinges upon.

[bleed-peroxide.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, that sounds really good. And I hear you on the half-melted thing. I like ice cream soup more - I tend to mix in other shit with it when it gets like that, particularly peanut butter. It's so good!

Our tastes are very similar, it seems. Though, of course, the hot ones are the hardest to talk to. There's one dude at work and he's, like, a fucking Adonis. I can't talk to him to save my life - I'm always worried he knows that I think he's hot. Weird as it sounds, I can't talk to people I find attractive because it makes me feel uglier, idk. It's weird.

I don't really have regrets, which I think perhaps this inquiry hinges upon.

That's a great answer, actually. :D

[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

What's with all the bloody icons? O_o


YAY! Someone finally doesn't think the ice cream soup thing is super weird! I get made fun of a lot about that.

Oh no. No, no. I can't talk to gorgeous people. I feel crushingly self-conscious. In my mind, they know I think they're hot and they find it cute but embarrassing, like a puppy humping their leg. They likely have other people flinging themselves at them all the time, and I'm just another drooling idiot.
...the funny thing is that I could likely work this embarrassment as a valid hook-- a version of negging. See, if I think I don't stand a chance with them and force myself to be cynical and dismissive, then I can calm down and, in theory, perhaps confuse them as to why I'm not fawning over their prettiness. Rather than fangirling, I can instead turn it into, Yeah, actually... I'm too good for you, which aggravates the daylights out of some people.
Yay, mindgames.


That's a great answer, actually. :D

Is it? I'm just too bullheaded to regret anything.

[bleed-peroxide.livejournal.com]

I meant to use "HAPPY DEATH TIMES", not "Hail The Emperor". *scratches head* I need to pay attention or go the fuck to sleep. Though blood is hot so I regret nothing, fuck-up or not.

Y'know, I've never thought to go about it that way. :|a I usually just avoid them if I find them attractive - I can't lie very well so they'd see right through my better-than-thou act.

I wouldn't say it's bullheaded. You just don't waste time bitching or mulling over something you did that might not have gone according to plan. At least, it seems that way to me. More people could learn to have that bullheadedness, if you wanna call it that.

[lykomancer.livejournal.com]

LAWL. Go to sleep if you're tired!

I only overthink social situations when it's a matter of "dominance". As being embarrassed is uncomfortably vulnerable, I dislike it, find it to be a personal weakness, and take steps to reassert myself as being More Badass Than Thou. (I have issues, obv.)


I trust myself to do the best I can in any situation. That's all I can do: try to figure out the optimal path at the time, with limited information, and adapt as things unfold. I can look back on my life and wonder about this or that...but I can't change it; I did the best I could at the time; and mulling it over doesn't do anything except enrage me. For example: it pisses me off that I didn't get my driver's license when I was young, and the problem now is that my anger is getting in the way of me getting it now; I have to ask myself if being so infuriated and hurt that I cut off my nose to spite my face is really the way I want to live my life. I don't want to be caged in by past mistakes. I can't live my whole life angry at myself over things I did or did not do. At some point, you have to take a breath and move on. You're only human. And while you can't make other people happy all of the time, pissing them all off at once is easy, and no one understands what it means to be you. No one else has that experience. You gotta pick your own way up the mountain. You can't compare your path to anyone else's, because theirs is different, and you can't spend your time dwelling on how you twisted your ankle or didn't fasten your carabiner; the only mistakes that ultimately matter are the ones that kill you. If you're still alive, just make a note to be more careful and keep going. Don't look down.