My own self

Knitting - like tetris, but when you're done you can wear your high score.

- Ironychan, 9th of October 2008

Originally posted by Terje:

Sometimes, I wonder how “heroes” like these [Green Lantern and Captain Marvel] have managed to survive for 40, 50 years. To the extent that they have, of course.

Because they’re bigger than life, and they are cumulative creations, meaning that as new writers (and I suppose, artists) get assigned to them, their mythology, personalities and identities grow. The ones, for instance, that are originally concieved as too ridiculously powerful becomes iconic, a wonderful foil for other characters or simply interesting sources for stories of how it is for a god to devote his life to protect those who would by all means seem to be less than he (Superman). The very things that make them inherently ridiculous is what makes them iconic, and they’ve had decades of cumulative story-telling creating an often very rich and interesting tapestry of backstory and depth explaining why this seemingly ridiculous trait actually makes sense with the character and the world.

The reason why a story about a guy who wields absolute power through a ring limited only by his imagination and things of the colour yellow becomes iconic and popular is the exact same reason why people told stories about the bull that mounted Europa or Herakles killing the Hydra for centuries. The advantage of the superhero comic books that the faerytales, legends and myths of old never quite could match, though, is the depth of the cumulative qualities. Stories of Herakles would probably get bigger and more impressive, boring bits being cut away and good bits being added, as the centuries went past, true, but nothing in human history can compete with the modern age’s archives of past stories, allowing stories to be built on stories that’s built on other stories. Like the stories of Herakles and Perseus, the stories of the Green Lantern were constructed over a long period of time by many, many story-tellers - but unlike the stories of Herakles and Perseus, the storytellers of DC and Marvel Comics have had a certain (and increasing) amount of joint direction, co-operation and planning that was never available or even doable with similar characters of old.

Why these heroes survive for half a century? You might as well ask why people tell stories.

I have spent DAYS OF MY LIFE devoted to the works of Joss Whedon and I'm pretty sure I haven't even sent A WHOLE DOLLAR OF RESIDUALS in his direction.

- Josh Friedman, November 30th 2007 on his weblog

Gay Indian dogs have standards too.

- Scott Adams in his weblog November 14th 2007.

As linked by Lotta.



Responsible. Respectable. Dour. That’s not shit coming out of your ass–it’s honor. You are clearly of House Stark.

You are a submissive personality, meaning that you are more than willing to relinquish control to someone more qualified; you will unflinchingly accept any responsibility that is thrust upon you, including servitude. Unfortunately for you, your unending patience and accommodating nature often make people look to you for a leader. In essence, you are the perfect leader: someone who has no desire to lead, yet is substantially well-qualified to do it.

You are also introverted, which means that people sometimes have difficulty understanding your thought process. Your dependable nature makes you predictable, but you’ve probably got all sorts of emotional dysfunctions when it comes to more intimate relationships. There are very few people whom you trust unwaveringly, and you’re not the type to confide in other people. So cold, so aloof–so Stark.

Finally, you are trustworthy–the very definition of the word. All secrets are safe with you. All of your vows are unbreakable. True to your name, you world is a stark place; there is black, and there is white. Your rigidity tends to undercut your overall value as a friend and ally. Honesty such as yours is hard to come by, which is easy to understand when you consider how easily manipulated you are by less decent individuals. Essentially, you’re the nice guy, and you’ll always finish last.

Representative characters include: Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, and Sansa Stark

Similar Houses: Frey, Lannister and Tully

Opposite House: Baratheon

When playing the game of thrones, you play it with one sword in your hand and another up your ass.

I posted on Obdormio's weblog a few hours ago; a disclaimer to ensure total lack of culpability in the man's blatant use of untruths.

...so I can't comment and say thanks for this, so I trust Ceres 'll read this instead.


Thanks. Though I really don't think I write a lot of interesting stuff here, it's nice to hear you consider me linkworthy. I wish I could write an Interesting Weblog with well-thought opinions and essays on all sorts of thoughts and issues, but I'm neither knowledgable enough nor do I have enough energy to do stuff like that more than once a year or somesuch, it seems. So I end up writing short rants and fan-gushings and the occasional book- or movie-review instead. Not all that much to be linking around, really.

But if you actually get some enjoyment out of reading here, yay! And thanks again! ^^

This is from Caroline's LJ, and I post it here as when I filled it out, I found it ended with a question on whether or not I'd re-post it so she could fill it out, too, but anyone else who feels like bothering with it can fill it out too.

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1. Can you cook?

2. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator?

3. What talent do you wish you had?

4. Favorite place?

5. Favorite vegetable?

6. What was the last book you read?

7. Are you Dirty or Clean?

8. Any tattoos and/or piercings?

9. Worst habit?


HERE COMES THE FUN ...

1. How did we meet?

2. What's your philosophy on life?

3. Negative or Optimistic?

4. What was your dream growing up?

5. Worst thing to ever happen to you?

6. What was your first impression of me?

7. Tell me one weird fact about you:

8. What’s your favorite memory of us?

9. Is missing. Make up something if you want.

10. Have you ever kept anything from me?

11. What do you think of me as a person?

12. Do you think I'm sane or insane?

13. Would you cry for me if I died?

14. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

15. If you could change anything about me, would you?

16. How do you fall asleep?

17. Ever gotten angry with me?

18. Would you go on a blind date if I set you up?

19. If you had one day to live, what would you do?

20. A million bucks… what would you do with it?

21. What is your worst fear?

22. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

23. Can you sing or dance?

24. In one word, how would you describe me? Be honest....

25. Will you repost this so I can fill it out?

Replying here, I thought I had made some amusing comments, and I linked my reply to Olaf, whom I was at that point chatting with on MSN.


And, without saying anything, he suddenly quoted me in his subnick. Again. Yay!

The quote: "Favourite animal? CATS. Because they wouldn't keep pets, either."

If there for some weird reason would be people out there who are simply dying to read and absorb every single word I utter online, I've written a semi-long blog-post on Obdormio's blog (as you might remember, he has handed me the keys to the dominion, the poor sod. You'd think he learned something from the first time he did that, when I usurped his throne and declared him a heathen imp. But I suppose he's just too nice.) and you may go read it now, if you are so inclined.

Oh, and furthermore, I do so totally think that Carthage should be destroyed.

Seeing as this is technically a non-blog, and my other little blog'y-thingie is an LJ, this actually is my first blog ever.


It should be clear from the contents of that link that I frown upon the concept.

There is now no reason not to check her weblog daily. In fact, I implore you to!

The poor chap is feeling down! And he's such a nice guy, calling me a genius and everything, so we can't possibly let him go around feeling down, now, can we? (I mean, unless he actually is down, like in a basement or something, in which case it'd be somewhat silly to refuse him to feel like it, I think)


Go cheer him up! I implore you!

Peeps I know - or think I know, or pretend to think I know, or really just vaguely have some form of relation to - seem to be having weblogs, too. While I do link quite a lot of these on the Links-page, I suspect you people reading this (who may or may not be the exact same demographic that will now be listed, but in the immortal word(s?) of Richard Fish, by-gones) never really bother with checking the Links-page, or any of the other fancy pages this weblog has to offer you.

ANY. WAY. (Put them together and what have you got? Bibbedi-bobbedi? Bibbedi-bobbedi? Bibbedi-bobbedi-bo? (No, that wasn't really intended to be making large with the sense (nor that with the grammar)))

IN ORDER OF TOTAL RANDOMIZATION, I GIVE YOU, THE LINKS!

LOTHAIR.
Ole. Edvard. The Hairy Man From Nordilandet. Way too mature for his own good, despite being, like, a gazillion years yonger than me, sometimes so much so that he's no fun, he'll just burst every single baloon of good, childish fun I go to great lengths to inflate.

But he's a good little chap, and funny, when he sets his considerable mind to it. I came to know the guy through a now-extinct message board, and I haven't let him shrug me off ever since, try as though he might have might.

OUR CANADIAN READER.
My main excuse for keeping this weblog in English. (The real reason is that I figure I have a larger potential base of readers this way. Of course, this is a poor delusion, in truth it only gives me a larger potential base of people choosing not to read my weblog) Lucky, or Sarah, or Jade, (why the heck would anyone named "Jade" ever make a webnick, by the way?! Me, I'd be all over with the flaunting) is a nice girl from the previously mentioned message board, though it wasn't until I realized she was a fellow Whedonite I started pestering her on MSN as well as on the board. She's a graphic designer, wohoo, and she has even promised me a cool Welsey-avatar! That, in my not-all-that-humble-really opinion, makes her The Bestest.

CYANIDA.
That's what used to be Carolinen's awesome nick on the now quite-a-lot-mentioned message board, which by the way suffered from having a lot of quality members mixed in with, well, horrid content. While Caroline and I may not have all that much in common, she's a treat to chat with, and maybe the sweetest person I've ever communicated with. Whenever I feel down, I just chat with her, and voilà, all better. For that alone, I should be linking her LJ every day.

OBDORMIO.
This rascal is way too alike me for my own good. There are differences, though. For one thing, the guy is so lazy he makes me look like Sir Worksalot. Also, he has this unexplicable thing for horrid islandic formations, and he comments on my weblog way too rarely considering how witty he can be when he puts his mind to it. He was, by the way, the main driving force behind me getting this weblog to begin with. Of course, then he proceeded to shift his own weblog, so that we no longer both had opera-blogs, ruining the entire point, but that's just the kind of a guy he is. Luckily, I had pro-actively gotten back at him by making a coup d'forum on him a year earlier.

SHEEP.
From yet the same message board. I think we've grown a little apart, personality-wise, but he's still a good ol' cyber-friend with way too high an opinion of himself, which I totally respect. His weblog, though, is a bit skinny, and I think he started it only to annoy me with its lack of activity. Oh, well.

LOKI.
Loki's just this guy, you know... In all seriousness, though, this chap is great. He's witty, he's smart, he's interesting, he's stark ravingly mad, and to top it all off he's nice, too. He is one of the most modest and down-to-earth people I've ever met, as well. Sometimes, I wish I could be more like him.

MOMS.
Olaf is a very pleasant cyberconversational-partner, who is my alibi for knowing someone adult. While I'm sure he'd protest about being very mature and adult, in my world, he is. He has is own business, for crying out loud, and, from what I gather, he is doing rather well, too! :D Yay for Olaf, people. Also, he has excellent taste in television. Fraggle Rock, Angel and Veronica Mars for the win, folks! And for the record: Anyone with the guts to actually apply for changing (well,okay, adding) their name to something as cool as "Moriarty" deserves all the praise they can get.

The Darth Admin.
Frode is the administrator on a Norwegian Star Wars-board I'm a somtime member of. He's a nice young guy, very into philosophy (these days, up 'til sometime last fall it was politics, I suspect it'll be nuclear physics by 2008) and Mozart, which is cool.

ALATÁRIEL.
A Dane! (OH THE HORROR, yes I know, deal with it, people, it has been like two hundred years, get over it, will ya?) And what inspired me to making this list when she personal-messaged med her weblogadress on a Norwegian Tolkien-message board we're both members of. (Though I've been inactive for a year) She's a really cool lady who loves "Scrubs" (who the Janitor doesn't?!) and as Obdormio can testify to, write really long and interesting PMs. (He used to ask me for quotes :D)