sid | A Meme

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

tesserae said: Talk to me about art glass, beer, cooking, jim/blair, reading, torchwood, and
writing...

art glass
I think the easiest thing to do is just to give you a link to the Fragile Beauty community on LJ, and let you stare at the pretty pictures. And if you can read Russian, you can even understand what they're talking about! Basically, this interest stems from my liking for glass paperweights, which goes back to the one my mother had. I used to hold it in my hand, round and smooth and heavy, and turn it and look at it from different angles to get the 3-D effect. I have a small collection of about six paperweights.

beer
This would be beer as in: not!Miller Lite, not!Budweiser beers. Microbrews and foreign beers. My dad is a beer lover, and my brother took that to a whole 'nother level, and is quite an expert and connoisseur. I enjoy going to festivals and brew pubs with them and sampling different varieties and different brewers. I don't like anything too hoppy, although hoppy ales smell wonderful! And stout is a bit much for me because the dark-roasted malt is a bit too reminiscent of coffee, which I don't like. Beer. You can pair it with food, like you would a wine; you can cook with it...

cooking
I lived on my own for years, and cooking didn't mean much to me. I'd try a new recipe now and then, get ideas from food I ate in restaurants. But a lot of my cooking was one-pot meals, like Hamburger Helper with some vegetables tossed in. And don't get me wrong, I still do that! But when I found myself with people to cook for, everything changed. Now I watch the Food Network and print recipes off the internet and try new things like fennel and parsnips, and grow herbs, and cook with beer and wine, and season with pink peppercorns... it's a lot of fun for me now.

Jim/Blair
The main characters on The Sentinel tv show. Jim Ellison is a detective with heightened senses and Blair Sandburg is the grad student writing his thesis about Sentinels. A friend points him in Jim's direction, and Blair tells Jim what he is, and begins to help him learn to control and use his senses to fight crime. And then Blair moves into Jim's loft for a week or two or two thousand, and the slash just writes itself! I wasn't too impressed when I first started watching. A cop show, and not really all that good. Shit blowing up, car chases (and horses and cycles and boats... *g*.) And then, before I knew it, I was completely sucked in: rewatching episodes, reading fanfic, and eventually writing some, too. I've consciously stepped away from the fandom to concentrate more on SG-1 exclusively (although I stray from time to time), but I'm so very fond of these two guys.

reading
I got my first library card when I was five and I never looked back. The first thing to do when I move is check out the library and get my card. I was one of those kids who carried a book with her everywhere. I would read while I was walking to grade school, although I'm pretty sure I looked up before crossing the street. I read fewer books now that I'm reading online so much, and sometimes I miss them. Over the years I've immersed myself at various times in science fiction, mysteries, Gothics, romances, biographies, history books. Nowadays it's Age of Sail and Grandma's Romance Novels!

Torchwood
Gosh, I haven't even seen an episode of this in forever, it seems! Well, it's all about Captain Jack Harkness, immortal cutie pie who's randy for anything within reach. I followed him to Torchwood after his guest stint in the TARDIS, and I watch the New Who because I loved the classic Doctor Who. I can't quite remember when/how I got into Doctor Who, but I always used to watch a lot of PBS, and I've always been an Anglophile, so I probably just stumbled into it. Torchwood, a.k.a. the Jack/Ianto show. That is all.

writing
I've been writing fanfiction for about four and a half years now. I know I've learned a lot, about what to do and what not to do. I can remember at about age ten acting out a tag to a Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode using marbles to represent the characters. So I guess I was always telling myself stories; they just weren't going down on paper until recently. And the really nifty side benefit to writing is meeting so many lovely people. :-)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Cool meme. I enjoyed tesserae's notes also. Congrats on the blue moon, as well.

What can I tell you?

You must have me mixed up with somebody else re: the Blue Moon awards. I was a nominee, but not one of the winners. But I'm okay! *sniffs loudly*

:-D

Okay, tell me all about: gardening, Guy Kay, Marlowe, Pamela Dean, The West Wing, Judith Tarr, and freedom of speech!

Am trying this to see if I've got this Open ID thingy correct!....*snortle*....

I'd adore to take you to Belgium.....they have the most amazing, fresh tasting and scrummy beers you can imagine!!...

Deeds xx

Ooh, yes, I've had some marvelous Belgian beers. I went to a special dinner once where all the food was prepared using Belgian beer and there was a guest speaker who'd written several books about beer, and of course yummy beer to drink. It has to be even better when it's fresh.

You can take me any time you want! :-D

Yay for OpenID!

And then Blair moves into Jim's loft for a week or two or two thousand, and the slash just writes itself! I wasn't too impressed when I first started watching.

Holy cat crap, are both those sentences understatements :D I recently bought the (only season out on) DVD, and nearly died at the crack-ficciness of it all. The chicks of the week? Canonical pet names? I'm usually slow to slash, but that show makes it hard NOT to slash.

Thankfully, the series got better after season one (so would Paramount PLEASE release the rest of the show on DVD?)!

Yes, once you focus on Jim and Blair and forget about the foolishness going on around them, it's a much better show - although I don't think that's quite what TPTB intended!

Are you going to play? *scoots off to check out your profile*

Oh, sure, I'll play. It doesn't take much time out of my other nuttiness for the day :)

So tell us about: jewelry, web design, Ben Browder, dreamweaver, music videos, Vala/Daniel, and writing.

I'll play.

And then Blair moves into Jim's loft for a week or two or two thousand, and the slash just writes itself!

They were my first ever slash pairing, despite the fact that I've never seen a single second of an episode. I can't even remember how I found them in the first place, but I was totally hooked.

I read about them in SG-1 crossovers before I had any clue what they looked like even. So much great fanfic centered on them!

Okay. Talk about: Criminal Minds, feminism, theatre, ice skating, gay rights, CSI: Miami, and paganism. :-)

Yeah, I'll play

Torchwood is fine, but John Barrowman is now all over UK TV and starting to go up his own... yanno.

Never ever seen The Sentinel - I don't know if its ever been shown on UK TV. Pretty boys though! :D

Getting a bit full of himself, is he? Tsk, tsk.

Jim and Blair are very pretty boys, and nothing alike, so if you don't like one you're sure to like the other, lol.

Okay, I want to hear about: arcadia, ben elton, garbage, eddie izzard, languages, simon schama and tennis (I love tennis!)

I already owe this to two people...

Doctor Who and Torchwood are Made of Win. :D I grew up with classic Who, but David Tennant's run as The Doctor is right up there with my childhood favourites (second favourite doctor EVER). And Captain Jack is just a JOY.

I'm just a *little* worried about Eleven, though: from the promo shots he looks like an Emo Gothy Teenager. Which... I just can't imagine *working* in a 900-year-old Time Lord.

Also, I'm worried because we seem to be running through incarnations rather fast. I have every sympathy with both Eccleston and Tennant wating to move on to new projects: they both have well-established careers (at least in the UK) which could be damaged by too long in one TV Sci-Fi role... but since cannonically you can only have 12 regenerations and 13 incarnations, there is an in-built limit on New Who... (I know the Master circumvented this rule, but he's Bad.) :(

Though I guess you could always go "back in time" and bring back one of the early incarnations with a look-alike actor, it would feel like cheating.

I worry about Eleven, too. The few pictures I saw of him did the opposite of excite me. :-(

I imagine that if the show is still popular and they run out of regenerations, they'll come up with some sort of fix-it which will keep fandom arguing for decades. :-D

they'll come up with some sort of fix-it which will keep fandom arguing for decades

I bet you're right about that one!

Hit me! (I've already done the meme here (http://melayneseahawk.livejournal.com/288823.html).)

Ah, my introduction to beer. My parents never made alcohol taboo (one of the good things about the way they raised me), so I'd had sips of my mom's beer and wine since I was 14-15 and I was in no rush to get drunk when I got to college. I had a Milwaukee's Best (eugh, lite beer) at my first college party, which a drunk guy who was trying to hit on me spilled all over my shoes. Then I drank a whole Rolling Rock the night before I moved out of the dorms after withdrawing the first time, because I wasn't sure I was coming back and it was kind of embarrassing to have gone almost eight months of college without even finishing a drink. My friends made me drink silly mixed drinks at my 21st birthday party. Last summer, a few of my coworkers used to hang out at this pub down the street, and I started drinking Sam Adams lager while I was there (the only mixed drink I like is something froofy, and the place was too straight for me to feel comfortable with that), which I was surprised to find that I liked. And then I tried Guinness when I went out for New Year's, and I loved it. Liquid bread, yum.

Beer is totally food, yup. :-D

Okay, fill us all in on: accents, demons in the fridge, Monty Python, Nickel Creek, werewolves, friendly hostility, and British spelling.

Apologies for anything that should be capitalized and isn't or vice-versa!

how did i miss the fact that you were in TS? can i find your fic somewhere? *roots around*

Well, I don't know how you missed it, since it all took place right here in this journal! :-D

http://sidlj.livejournal.com/tag/the+sentinel

A Meme

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject