Shameless Comment-Mongering

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Work-A-Holics Day

 

I’m under orders.  Blame luinmir.

   

Comment to this entry and:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.

2. I'll challenge you to try something.

3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.

4. I'll tell you something I like about you.

5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.

6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.

7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.

8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours.

 

 

Also, why is Boz Scaggs cooler than you? Well, there’s his voice, and his funky good music. There’s his poetic imagery in his lyrics. But all that’s icing.

 

Boz Scaggs is cooler than you because he rhymes “Buddha” with “computer.”

 

Damn, I bet you wish you’d thought of that first.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It’s never too late!

1. (I'll respond with something random about you.) Your character sketches are original and creative, and lots of fun, too.
2. (I'll challenge you to try something.) Um … oh, I know! Include some sign language in your stories!
3. (I'll pick a color that I associate with you.) A natural green with gold flecks.
4. (I'll tell you something I like about you.) Your introspection and the way you deliberate on many angles before reaching any conclusions.
5. (I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.) I had just arrived on the space station to continue my research on xenoanthropological cultures in a heterogeneous setting. I ordered some hot Earl Grey tea from the bartender in the restaurant and then, behind me, I heard you and the chief engineer ranting in disgust over the installation of the so-called “universal translators.” As I recall, you seemed not to buy into their supposed miracle fix-alls for linguistics … and that induced me to strike up a conversation.
6. (I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.) An Arctic fox.
7. (I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.) Why do you say your cat is Republican?
8. (If I do this for you, you must post this on yours.) I am bossy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

1. Thanks. Although I came up with the concepts for them, kobi_lacroix and soryane are to thank for their execution.
2. In the Rainbow Room, following the showdown between boho-klepto-gambler otter Bridges and a mute carp-clam hacker, after he's slashed her remote control sai to pieces, he drops his three swords and begins to ask her in sign language who she is, what she wants, why she does what she does, whether she's really happy in the relationship she's in or not.
This is the first time she doesn't have to use her sight and hearing-sharing mindlink with her girlfriend and intercoms to talk to people through, the first really private conversation she can have with anyone in years, because for all of her fighting and case winning prowess, her beloved sightless angler doesn't speak sign language.
Bridges then discovers that a lawyer's judgement doesn't necessarily turn itself off when she leaves the courtoom, and that while there's nothing wrong with being mute, there can be some real disadvantages to being unable to really talk back.
3. ^.^
4. Thank you. Not everyone appreciates that.
5. Heheh. I'm no Dr. Polaski, but technological progress actually benefits from having its limits pointed out to it when they're being voiced reasonably and taken seriously, and the complex nuances linguistics are typically regretfully easy to gloss over/oversimplify in the minds of people who haven't really looked at them.
6. That's a first, and it intrigues me. May I ask why?
7. Well, for one thing, she loves to hunt. She doesn't like other cats or different animals coming into our yard, and her territoriality remind me of some Americans' attitude toward immigrants. She's always trying to go on other yards to mark the trees on them also, and her expansionist policy reminds us of the current administration also. She has a tendency to pick fights even when she has no chance of winning just on general principle. She eats almost exclusively meat even though I won't touch the stuff, and showing off how picky she is is important enough to waste food in a way in which I don't think I'd like to let myself do so. She's very attached to her creature comforts and doesn't like to share all that much, especially with people who she feels haven't earned what she's earned.
8. We'll see. :>

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't they appreciate that? I think it's good that you give everything and everyone a fair chance.

I'm not sure why an Arctic Fox sprang to mind. Your dignity resembles that of a canine's ~ a bit friendlier than a feline's ~ but not in a big ostentatious dog way ~ not like a wolf. Neither are you something small and ineffective; rather, you're small and graceful and elegant, but still something to be reckoned with. And while you said you like reptiles, too, I see you as warm-blooded.

Actually, it just sprang to mind, and then I had to figure out why afterward.

Also, your definition of a Republican cat makes mucho sense. :D

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Looking back at your comment after doing my sister's profile, I realized I want to clarify that the parts of your character sketches I like best are your descriptions of the people. Though the pictures are cool, too.