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Tuesday, 9:39 am in Memes & Quizzes

Because I am a super-happy-fun memesheep, have a meme!

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from you rprofile 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 that others can play along.

Quoted From: LJ Interests Meme

tajessa gave us:

absinthe

Aah, yes.  Once upon a time in university I decided that being Goff as Fuck was my pet hobby and as such I was required by law to enjoy absinthe.  Well, of course you can’t actually buy absinthe here without jumping through a lot of (expensive) hoops, but I have tried absinth, which is the common name for the Wormwood-free varieties you can buy from the bottle shop.  I bought a bottle for braken once and we cracked it open over New Year’s and let me tell you, the stuff is foul.  And this is coming from someone who drinks straight-up shots of Black Galliano.  At least that is sweet; absinth isn’t, even when poured across sugar and water like you’re supposed to do.  Even when mixed with lemonade the stuff is still terrible.

… but still oh-so-very scene.

Copic markers

Copic markers are a type of high-end, well, texta.  They’re used by professional artists; if you ever managed to catch Bill Leak on video doing his political cartoons, you can see him use Copics.  Marker-over-pencil was a popular medium for the grungefurs Back In The Day, which is why I got obsessed with buying them.  I have boxes of these things, though I haven’t used them since moving out of home; there wasn’t really anywhere in the Flat for me to do Proper Art.  But now – a-hah! – now I have a study again!  Mwahahahaha!

Copics occupy the majority of the professional art marker market in Asia.  In America, people mostly only buy them because they are Trendy In Japan; the local brand is Prismacolor.

dreamweaving

Disappointingly, this is the term used for ‘map building’ in Furc.  It is both extremely easy and extremely obtuse, and oh look I even wrote a tutorial on it once.

I’ve been attempting to get a dream, The Nortcha Drif, made for literally years now, but am constantly hampered by the dreadfully slow rate at which I draw stuff.

eschatology

Is, literally, the study of the end times.  Two of my fiction series deal with this – Et tu, Angelus? deals with a Christian Armageddon and the aftermath, while Corner deals with the aftermath of the Nordic Ragnarökk – so I figured I should put it down.  Plus, it’s a cool word, and y’all know you need heaps of cool words in your interests list.

Furnarchy

Furn is a proxy client for Furcadia (again with the Furc, geeze Dee you dirty furry), bought to you by the lovely lads at Heroin Puppy.  Actually, when I say ‘a’ proxy what I really mean is the proxy; anyone using anything else is obviously a braindead moron who doesn’t understand the True Ultimate Awesomeness that is Furn2.

But wait, you say, what’s a Furcadia proxy?  Well, here’s the deal; Furcadia was written in circa 1996 on the top of even older code and the client has pretty much changed not one inch since then.  Various different people will tell you various different stories as to why, but the most consistent one seems to be that DEP are a bunch of cockheads.  The base client for Furc does a bunch of really inconvenient things like log you out after short periods of inactivity, and since the main pastime of Furcers is idling, this obviously won’t do.  Hence the proxy was invented as a way of continually sending ‘pings’ to the Furc server to simulate aliveness and thus prevent your character from being logged out.  But proxies do a bunch of other stuff, too, the most common features being setting away messages in your character’s description, keeping a friends list, and popping up IM-style chat windows for whispers.  Fascinating stuff.

Poison Elves

Is an indie comic written by Drew Hayes.  In a nutshell, it’s about the misadventures of a disgruntled elven thief called Lusiphur.  I discovered Poison Elves in high school and instantly fell in love, mostly because a) it has tall elves (Lusiphur himself is extremely short), b) the tall elves have huge motherfucking ears, and c) the world is Victorian-era fantasy rather than medieval fantasy.  Luse is a bit of a Gary Sue-type character, I guess, but he’s comic-book cynical and – more importantly – he has an evil demon clown living in his head.¹

While I was looking up Wikipedia to write this, I learnt the sad news that Hayes actually died of pneumonia earlier this year.  I was very sad.  R.I.P., Drew, and may your comic live long in collected trade format on the back shelves of my local comic book store.

The Authority

Another comic, published by Wildstorm (an imprint of DC)… but y’all know that by now, right?

For those of you who missed it; I guess the best way of describing The Authority would be to say it’s the JLA for the rest of us.  It originated as an offshoot from the StormWatch series which essentially had the premise that being a superhero was more-or-less just a job; you got up, put on your uniform and headed off down to your secret government/U.N. base to protect the world.  The Authority, on the other hand, was set-up as the first ‘freelance’ supergroup, collected from some of the world’s most powerful metas.  They had many lulz including killing God, deposing third-world dictators, ruling America as a military junta, evacuating the entire planet to alternate universes and using their massive space-ship/base as a refugee camp.  Unfortunately, the Authority’s habit of simply eye lasering to death anyone whom they didn’t like left the in the position of not actually having any recurring enemies, which kinda blows for a serial.  Throw in some really terrible writing and their universe getting absorbed into the DCU and, well, the Authority got lost down the development hell-hole.

So there you go.

1. No, seriously.  And yes; this is where I stole the idea of the Ásgardian from. ^

• Tags » absinthe, comics, copic markers, dreamweaving, furc, furcadia, furn, lj interests, meme, poison elves, the authority
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