Another Five for your amusement...
Feb. 26th, 2018 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magnetic_poleCatching up on some older Friday Fives this week to keep the posting habit going:
1. Where did you grow up and do you miss it? Suburban Los Angeles, and yes. More so as I get older. The aspects of the area that bothered me so much growing up bother me less, and the aspects I liked at the time now have a stronger pull.
2. Which are your three favorite words in the dictionary and why? Hmm! This is surprisingly difficult. Here's a bit of a dodge: "magnetic pole." When I was first creating this journal, I wanted to use it as a complement to a personal journal whose name began with "magical" (long story), and, finding myself unable to think of something on the spot, I looked in the dictionary for a word or phrase that also began with m-a-g. "Magnetic pole" caught my eye. "Magical etc." is long defunct, but "magnetic_pole" lives on.
3. What is a vegetarian dish that you really like? I love vegetarian dishes! I don't even know where to start here. Anything with tofu. (Tofu as a vehicle for spices and flavors, not as a slab of "protein" in a salad. Ugh. I don't know where we got that idea.) Anything with lots of spices and root vegetables. Bean soups. Salads with berries in them. Cake and croissants. (What? Do those not count?)
4. What do you do when you have a misunderstanding with your friend? Ugh. I'm bad at this. So you know the better half and I have been together for more than twenty years, right? And she's very outgoing, so I tend to outsource a lot of the day-to-day (well, weekly, or semi-monthly) socializing to her. I tend to make friends very slowly and hold onto them forever. The couple times I've screwed up with people, I've really screwed up, and I haven't been able or willing to go back and set things right.
5. What do you daydream about? Fictional characters in interesting situations. Sometimes that "interesting" is a euphemism for something else, but mostly not. I tend to ruminate over emotionally intense moments that reveal something about the character or the world. I've been daydreaming with characters from books and tv since I was little, and finding fic (evidence that I'm not the only one who does this!) was such a revelation. I think this is one of the reasons fandom never feels very far away, even though I haven't been writing or even reading much lately.
Anyone else want to play along? Text box below, and you can link back to the comm,![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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1. Where did you grow up and do you miss it? Suburban Los Angeles, and yes. More so as I get older. The aspects of the area that bothered me so much growing up bother me less, and the aspects I liked at the time now have a stronger pull.
2. Which are your three favorite words in the dictionary and why? Hmm! This is surprisingly difficult. Here's a bit of a dodge: "magnetic pole." When I was first creating this journal, I wanted to use it as a complement to a personal journal whose name began with "magical" (long story), and, finding myself unable to think of something on the spot, I looked in the dictionary for a word or phrase that also began with m-a-g. "Magnetic pole" caught my eye. "Magical etc." is long defunct, but "magnetic_pole" lives on.
3. What is a vegetarian dish that you really like? I love vegetarian dishes! I don't even know where to start here. Anything with tofu. (Tofu as a vehicle for spices and flavors, not as a slab of "protein" in a salad. Ugh. I don't know where we got that idea.) Anything with lots of spices and root vegetables. Bean soups. Salads with berries in them. Cake and croissants. (What? Do those not count?)
4. What do you do when you have a misunderstanding with your friend? Ugh. I'm bad at this. So you know the better half and I have been together for more than twenty years, right? And she's very outgoing, so I tend to outsource a lot of the day-to-day (well, weekly, or semi-monthly) socializing to her. I tend to make friends very slowly and hold onto them forever. The couple times I've screwed up with people, I've really screwed up, and I haven't been able or willing to go back and set things right.
5. What do you daydream about? Fictional characters in interesting situations. Sometimes that "interesting" is a euphemism for something else, but mostly not. I tend to ruminate over emotionally intense moments that reveal something about the character or the world. I've been daydreaming with characters from books and tv since I was little, and finding fic (evidence that I'm not the only one who does this!) was such a revelation. I think this is one of the reasons fandom never feels very far away, even though I haven't been writing or even reading much lately.
Anyone else want to play along? Text box below, and you can link back to the comm,
thefridayfive, and see other replies, if you'd like.
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Date: 2018-02-26 09:40 pm (UTC)I was *so* delighted to find fanfiction, I can't tell you. I'd been daydreaming for years, never thinking to write it down, share it, or read someone else's! M.
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Date: 2018-03-01 08:53 pm (UTC)Yes, I'd never written down before, despite ours of daydreaming. (Although, given the ratio of "hours daydreaming" to "actual writing" the difference in my behaviour is negligible, sad to say.)
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Date: 2018-03-02 05:02 pm (UTC)Hee! You've been super productive lately, S, I've noticed. (And been a bit envious.) But I agree with the sentiment.
Thanks for recounting your user name story! Some user names are obviously user names, but yours sounds so natural. I'm a bit suspicious that you even have another name on your birth certificate, to be honest. :) M.