Sakura of DOOM

That meme where you pick up the first book next to you, flip to page 45, and use the first sentence as a summary of your love life:

"After configuring the devices necessary for connecting to the Internet, tap 'Internet Settings' in the System Settings menu."

(courtesy of the 2DS manual)

... I find this eerily accurate.

And of course, I have already missed a day! Ha.

Day Two: Nine things about yourself.

1. I am really introverted and antisocial, though I've gotten much better at socializing over the years. Generally, I will avoid interpersonal contact if possible, I hate phones, I like people but will need to recharge if I hang out with a lot of them at once.


2. I don't like raw fruit with a somewhat creamy texture and no hint of sour (i.e. bananas, jackfruit, durian, dragonfruit). I'm good with them if they're cooked though.


3. I'm really sensitive to music in a very unaware way. Bouncy happy music lifts my mood, minor key music makes me sadder, and I cannot analyze it very well for the life of me. I also have terrible audio memory and rarely hear lyrics until I've listened to something a billion times.


4. I can do things like algebra equations or more abstract solving, but I am crap at visual-spatial transformations. It took a while figuring out which way to turn on a map without turning the map so it's aligned to my current position.


5. I used Curlz in all my graphics for my first fan site in high school.


6. I like watching everything with subtitles on because I don't process audio that well. Also, I got used to it in Taiwan, where everything is subtitled because of the different dialects people speak and the variety shows almost always use text effects and captions for emphasis.


7. I am still seeing if I identify as disabled or not due to depression. I used to think it would eventually just go away, but now, not so much.


8. I memorized all of Bai Juyi's "Song of the Pipa" for Chinese class in eighth grade, but now I only remember the first four lines.


9. I have a huge sweet tooth, but I don't actually like things that taste too much of sugar. Honey, though, I can eat out of the bottle.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession.

Quick note that azuire is hosting a love meme, and that I am especially excited because it has a lot of people from my dwircle on it! Go and compliment people!

Wow, it's been forever since I've done a meme. School is still killing me, so much so that procrastination methods have now gone from kdrama watching and reading fantasy to figure skating on TV, reality TV, and spider solitaire. Sadly enough, I think that's about all I have brain capacity for right now: entertainment in five minute intervals or less!

And so, instead of my super backlogged book write ups, a meme.

Via several people on my reading list:

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life. [Mine is edited for things with large casts of characters.]
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

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And since Rachel asked, my five worst books ever!

In no particular order:

RL Stine - I can't remember which book this is, since there are so many with increasingly implausible and silly deaths. But the book had a character dying via a piece of dough placed in his/her mouth. The dough rose and miraculously acquired enough force to suffocate the person or to cause death via dough in the brain. I swear, I am not making this up.

Barbara Hambly, the Dragonsbane sequels - I think I may have blocked out how truly terrible these were from my mind. This is particularly sad, because I love Dragonsbane, but the sequels reverse a key decision in the original book (I think) and then begin to incorporate incoherent dimension- and/or time-travel. Other elements that I may or may not be remembering correctly: squalid details about homeless, addicted people in an alternate dystopic earth and how John either saves them or becomes one of them. Mely notes that there is also demonic mother-son incest, which I managed to scrub out of my memory.

Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin - So, there's the "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending, and then there's Slammerkin, in which rocks (metaphorically) fall, everyone dies; you sell your virginity for a red ribbon, get gang raped, then thrown out of the house; you abort your misbegotten gang rape child with a stick; and your best prostitute friend freezes to death on the street and you briefly think of burying her and instead pry a bottle of gin from her cold, dead fingers. The best thing? This is just the first hundred pages! It gets worse (spoilers)!

Robin Schone, Awaken, My Love - I cannot believe I actually finished this. Here's the original post. First, there is the gratuitous detailing of historical squalor. If two people are going to have sex later, I really do not want to know about how unclean they are when they pee, nor do I want details about bad breath, bad teeth, greasy hair, and dirty clothing. I do not mind these things, but when paired with descriptions of bulging tumescences and yonis and chakras and other nonsense blindly taken from the Kama Sutra, they are ridiculously funny. Also, the heroine's husband has apparently never heard of sex, masturbation, or orgasms, and he is supposedly a perfectly normal guy.

The hero's wife is frigid, so he rapes her into submission! We get entirely too detailed descriptions on dryness and tearing, zero remorse from the hero, and no sympathy from the author. Clearly, the hero's wife deserved it for being frigid, for having one leg be shorter than the other, and for being raped by her uncle when she was a child.

I still cannot believe I finished this. All I have to say is that it was before I started throwing books at walls.

And now, I can't think of a fifth, as they were either so bad that I never finished them, or mind-numbingly mediocre. Instead, I list: Piers Anthony, especially the Adept series and its gratuitous virtual sex (IIRC); Robert Jordan, with his notions of how women act; Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series; Anne Bishop's penis-shaped breadsticks; and the Beatrice Small book I started and never finished because it was just that bad in every possible aspect.

via yhlee:

Are there any topics/things/whatever that you notice or think about that makes you think of me every time? If so, what are they? I'm curious!

From lots of people:

( Ten things I assume you know about me )

And just for the heck of it...

( Five things you may not know about me )

( That daemon meme )

And for some semblance of actual content... uh. There really is no actual content. Most of what I've been doing for the past two or three days is mainlining Honey and Clover for the nth time, due to vonnie_k watching and squeeing.

Answers to Guess This Show beneath the cut, though you are of course welcome to keep guessing as much as you want!

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I spam LJ and avoid writing up books and manga!

Which of my icons do you associate with me, or think of as me...and which one(s) do you think I should use more often? Is there one that you're wondering why does she have THAT one?, or have other questions about? Hit me!

I am going to make a wild stab in the dark and guess people think I am a little cute teruteru bouzu holding a pink heart ;).