The Hoard

Yes, as of today I am calling it a day on this meme and I feel no guilt about it -- I did say, after all, I may not get through it. And, looking ahead, there's a bunch more questions I don't think I'll enjoy (much as a good few of the last I have not been enjoying), shipping questions and the like that I'd just be skipping altogether, and so on.

If I'm going to post, I'd rather be spending my limited energy burbling about Revenge Of The Seven Heroes or the Geologist's Primer (shipping soon omg! *hugs Herbalist's Primer*) or the like, or commenting on my actual fannish things, or or. or yelling about the Voltron rpg KS because whoof I expect Things[tm] lol

Contrary to what I'm sure is common perception these benighted times, I would rather not be posting like unhinged ranting is about to go out of style! So I choose to stop this meme now. It is not being fun anymore and reading these likely isn't either.

In any case, one last question for the road:

Day Nine: What's the hardest thing about writing, and why are titles the Worst™?

The hardest thing is starting.

And titles are not, in fact, anything remotely close to ~*the worst*~ and that weird fannish stereotype is deeply annoying.

Day Seven: What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?

Here's another place where the too-narrow definition of "fandom" is being unhelpful, to say the least. *snort* I'll also keep the responses deliberately short, because otherwise I could rant forever and I can't waste the energy or the time today --

Fuck bigots, abusers and chuds as well as their enablers. I generally stick with something forever once I pick it up -- but pop that shit out and I'm fucking gone. Be known for it and I'll never start. Some examples: Knave (fuck me for finding out after paying for everything), Rurouni Kenshin, or wanting to interact with anything Toru Furuya touched (which makes my main Gundam a problem and it isn't even UC) ...

If one means "fandom" as "fans": I have better things to do than deal with purity culture or edgelordy everything-must-be-kink-or-daaaark-or Problematic[tm]-or-you're-an-anti shit. A fucking pox on both your fucking houses.

Day Five: What's a fandom that you wish had a bigger following?

You want an honest answer?

None.

Not a single fucking one.

I can't think of a single fandom I've experienced in the last 10-15 years that didn't start circling the drain as soon as people started noticing it for whatever reason (usually because of a new version but not always). No. Just no. Never fucking again.

Ask me what I feel about what my other fandom as old as Transformers is like since 2016 I fucking dare you.

The more that things dear to me fly under the radar the happier I'm going to be from now on.

Day 2: Your newest fandom.

That's a good damn question.

*thinks*

If Yet Another Transformers Continuity In The Making counts and isn't just folded into the greater TF yarn tangle I've been hauling around for forty years, it'd be Transformers One since I saw that five days ago (pretty new!) ...

If not counting that, hm. Break!!, I think? I don't remember anything more recent than that.

shhhhh yes i was waiting for Break!! for a decade that doesn't matter shhhhh

From kalloway: What's so interesting about ancient Egypt?

Whoo boy. Of all the various "broad topic" subjects I've been handed for this meme, this is The Big One and I could probably honestly answer Everything! except the Old Kingdom is a horribly boring speedbump. So.

Also, better put as what I find interesting, because interesting is subjective and lalala --

So, yeah, Egypt. What isn't there? I'm fascinated by the economics (macro and micro) and how they likely worked, how the entire country worked as a massive redistribution economy but also developed independent merchant activities beyond those of the state. I can never find out enough about how people lived -- what they ate, how it was produced; what they wore, how they wore it -- don't believe it was always unrelieved white, that's a rank lie -- how the forms of jewelry changed over time and what were fashion trends and how what look like a zillion careful starched pleats were probably just artistic convention for how linen rumples on its own. The architecture, technological capabilities; all of it.

I love the literature and I wish we had more of it. I wish we had the fucking end of the Tale of the Prince Cursed By Fate (goddamnit!), I kind of want to smack Sinuhe upside the head a little even though the plot makes sense and I think a lot of people would recognize themselves both in the protagonist of The Eloquent Peasant and the The Man Who Was Tired Of Life. Oh, and the Love Songs. The Love Songs are awesome.

History; all that history and cultural change and evolution. Egypt was not an unchanging monolith; not by any stretch of the imagination. It wasn't a monoculture in any given era, either, and I wish we knew more about that but even bits like the idiom "as impossible to understand as a Delta man among Southerners" and the difference in writing and technical terms used by law clerks and bookkeepers in a given time give it away. And then there's Egypt's entry into the first wider-world political scene and that first truly international koine and the correspondence between nations, oh yes I would like more of that please. And the gorgeous shared artistic style, please and thank you. Oh Dynasty 18 how I love you.

While on that subject, the people. Not just say the folks of Deir el-Medina (and oh how I love the people of the Village and all their quirks), but Djekhy and his quirky guild-mates in late-ish Thebes. And Maya. Oh, Maya. (you have beautiful handwriting, Maya, and I'll never stop being tickled that I can say that.) And a goodly handful of various royals, most of them related: Sequenenre, poor luckless soul whose sacrifice kicked off Egypt's bid to throw off the foreign yoke; Ahmose, the young unifier; Amenhotep III, a wonderfully magnificent man; Tiye, the most formidable woman I know of; and on and on. I love that we have letters from some of these folks, and mementos, and we can see them in their own words and again I wish we had more of it all. Despite the confusion of quite a few folks over the years I'm not taken with mummies for the sake of mummies -- it's specific people I'm attached to, although some aren't precisely "mummies" at this point (Smenkhkare, for example) and others even less (Maya) ...

I think that's enough rambling which has probably not been all that helpful X3;; Feel free to poke about specifics -- people, places, things, other questions -- I suppose ~?

From lrodell: comic books--your favorites, and ones that made you go "Whaaaa?"


I'm mostly restricting this to the last half-decade or so yes I know I haven't read that much, bear with me with some predictable exceptions, otherwise we'll be here all day *snrrk*

As an ultimate overall thing my favorite comics are the Legion of Super-heroes books, but I need to add some specifics there. Of all the things in L*-land I'm especially attached to what's called the "Five Years Later" / v4 L* run, and the Legionnaires book that spun out of it -- up to Zero Hour, because after Zero Hour that's literally a whole new team. I have a fondness for the earlyish to mid-80s Levitz L* books also, but especially the Cockrum/Grell run that came before corset!.

I fucking hate the abomination that was Waid's "threeboot" in the middle of the 2000s. Fuck that arsehole sideways.

There's other folks I liked from DC also, like Superboy, and Superman (when he had a decent writer) ...

But then DC shoved its head up its arse sideways in 2011 and yuuuuup. Aside from possibly some of the Convergence books coming up -- and not the L* book because it looks like shit -- I haven't bought anything DC in years because it's all fucked.

I've been getting the IDW Transformers books, MTMTE willingly and RID (now just The Transformers) grudgingly and with great hatred, and until a little over a year ago I probably would have called MTMTE my favorite comic currently.

That award is instead going to Archie's Mega Man book, which is consistently pulling off being both entertaining and decently written.

(why yes, I'm skipping days that don't have questions. I don't have it in me right now to make up things for non-question days and there aren't too many of those anyway so --)


From eliyes, SPACE:


LOLOLOLOLOLOL by necessity this is going to be (relatively) brief ;3~

The first important thing I need to say about me and space is that I wish we were living in it goddamnit. *shakes fist* Also that I am far more attached to the idea of orbital colonies no matter how much certain people have pushed that idea aside in recent years, and I'm far faaaar more interested in Europa or Titan than Mars right now. Whether that is because Zubrin, the major push for Mars colonization, seems to have gone from "annoyingly rah-rah American pioneer spirit" to "bugfuck rah-rah libertarian creeper" in his writing I shall leave as an exercise for my readers ~

But basically space is awesome and I want to be there :DDD

It also scratches my itches for 1) shiny things 2) frozen things 3) awesome combos of these things, like stars with ice clouds in their top decks 4) the possibility of life elsewhere booyah. one of these days I'll get that AU thing about Camus worked out

This is something otherwise so long ingrained in my system that it falls under "almost impossible to explain" (apparently as an infant / very young toddler I would howl beause I wanted the moon from the sky), but yeh, fuckyes space. I want us to get out there, I want to see all the awesome and weird stuff that's out there. Yeesssss.

Tis the season for actually doing one of these memes, lol. Granted this one gets rather repetitive this year, but I have no guilt ;3~

Swiped from kalloway who swiped from merikuru:


First Fandom of 2013: Fire Emblem Awakening
Favorite Main Character of 2013: Chrom :D
Favorite Villain of 2013: Jetstream Sam
Favorite Het Couple of 2013: Lon'qu and Cherche
Favorite F/F Couple of 2013: don't have one, alas
Favorite M/M Couple of 2013: Chrom and Voyai (M Avatar) lolololololol
Fandom That You Never Expected To Get Into: Transformers: Prime
Fandom That Made An Unexpected Comeback: Robotech. yeeaaaaahhhhhh ... >.>;;
Fandom That Inspired The Most Crack: I have to pick one? Ely halp D:
Last Fandom of 2013: new? Metal Gear Rising. in general (so far)? a tie for Rockman and Sailormoon.
Favorite Fandom of 2013: Fire Emblem Awakening. also I have learned that it may be best after all to stay in my cave >.>;; how much of that is because the year in general sucked I don't know, but bloody hell this was not a good time at times fandom-wise ..