More oversharing, more seven sins meme.

( Day 4, Sloth: Seven things you neglect to do. )

The title will make sense soon, I promise. But first! Thirty Days of Gaming Meme!

( 01 - Your current favorite game )
02 - The most underrated game you’ve ever played
03 - A game that makes you really happy
04 - A game that made you sad
05 - A game that really reminds you of someone
06 - Favorite flash/internet game
07 - The most surprising game plot twist or ending
08 - A game that you’ve played countless times
09 - A game with the best soundtrack
10 - Favorite Retro game
11 - A game that changed your opinion about something
12 - A game that you hate
13 - A game that is a guilty pleasure
14- A game that no one would expect you to love
15 - A video game character who you can relate to the most
16 - A game that you used to love but now hate
17 - A game the disappointed you the most
18 - A game that you wish you more people would’ve played
19 - Favorite game based on a movie/book/comic/etc.
20 - Favorite stress relieving game
21 - Favorite fighting game
22 - Favorite RPG
23 - Favorite racing game
24 - That one awesome game idea that still hasn’t been done yet
25 - The most hilarious game you’ve ever played
26 - A game that you can beat everyone else at
27 - A game that you wish you could play, but suck at
28- A game that makes you feel guilty
29 - A game from your childhood
30 - Your favorite game of all time

As Stolen from canis_m:
( Which fantasy writer am I? )

Deliberately stolen from laylah, who I swear makes up the best memes.

Name a character that I write, and I will tell you one of that character's favorite foods, and why s/he likes it so much.

The mercverse Playlist spit out "Currents." Obviously, this was a sign that I do this meme.

Where Have You Been?

1. Times Square, New York City, NY: 35 million visitors every year
2. National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.: About 25 million
3. Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.: 16.6 million
4. Trafalgar Square, London, England: 15 million
5. Disneyland Park, Anaheim, Calif.: 14.7 million
6. Niagara Falls, Ontario and New York: 14 million
7. Fisherman’s Wharf/Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, Calif.: 13 million
8. Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea, Tokyo, Japan: 12.9 million
9. Notre Dame de Paris, Paris, France: 12 million
10. Disneyland Paris, Marne-La-Vallee, France: 10.6 million
11. The Great Wall of China, Badaling area, China: About 10 million
12. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee/North Carolina: 9.2 million
13. Universal Studios Japan, Osaka, Japan: 8.5 million
14. Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, Paris, France: 8 million
15. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 7.5 million
16. Everland (amusement park), Kyonggi-Do, South Korea: 7.5 million
17. The Forbidden City/Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China: At least 7 million
18. Eiffel Tower, Paris, France: 6.7 million
19. Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando, Fla: 6 million
20. SeaWorld Florida, Orlando, Fla: 5,740,000
21. Pleasure Beach (amusement park), Blackpool, England: 5.7 million
22. Lotte World (amusement park), Seoul, South Korea: 5.5 million
23. Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise, Japan: 5.4 million
24. Hong Kong Disneyland, China: 5.2 million
25. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France: 5.1
26. Tate Modern, London, England: 4.9 million
27. British Museum, London, England: 4.8 million
28. Universal Studios Los Angeles, Calif.: 4.7 million
29. National Gallery, London, England: 4.6 million
30. Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY: 4.5 million
31. Grand Canyon, Ariz.: 4.4 million
32. Tivoli Gardens (amusement park), Copenhagen, Denmark: 4.4 million
33. Ocean Park (amusement park), Hong Kong, China: 4.38 million
34. Busch Gardens (amusement park), Tampa Bay, Fla.: 4.36 million
35. SeaWorld California, San Diego, Calif.: 4.26 million
36. Statue of Liberty, New York, NY: 4.24 million
37. The Vatican and its museums, Rome, Italy: 4.2 million
38. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia: More than 4 million
39. The Coliseum, Rome, Italy: 4 million
40. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY: 4 million
41. Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Calif.: 4 million
42. Empire State Building, New York, NY: 4 million
43. Natural History Museum, London, England: 3.7 million
44. The London Eye, London, England: 3.5 million
45. Palace of Versailles, France: 3.45 million
46. Yosemite National Park, Calif.: 3.44 million
47. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt: 3 million
48. Pompeii, Italy: 2.5 million
49. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: 2.5 million
50. Taj Mahal, Agra, India: 2.4 million

Clearly, the next time I go to London, I need to visit more museums. Damn it, I did the V&A and the Tower of London! I tried!

Tagz0r3d by artimusdin

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

So, what we get is...

In pictures of perfect states and less formally, as we shall see in Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Swift, and others, the theme of emancipation from present hardships is the author's main motive; but there is at least one other reason to account for the 16C cluster of such works. For the generation after Columbus, knowledge of the New World and its inhabitants began to modify the western mind about its own culture. The explorers' voyages had become a literary form, which the Eutopeans imitate minutely. They describe the ship's going off course, the remote island, the natives' treatment of the foreign crew, touchy at first, then friendly.

--Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

Tagging: yohtan, sumanai, bard_linn, pipmudturtle, wolfieziri

(Danke schön, Random.org!)

As ganked from bard_linn, with edits.

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST VE FRIENDED ME, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are I'm obviously on my your list, so let me know with whom I'm who considers me a friends!

ALL COMMENTS SCREENED FOR PRIVACY!

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and bake a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you?

So, the site for The Golden Compass is up, and yeah, I did the dæmon meme.

( Meme-ry, and random ramblings about His Dark Materials. Spoilers. )

Alas, this is being released by New Line, so no chance of Kingdom Hearts what-the-fuckery. I wanted Kingdom Hearts what-the-fuckery. Such things spawned the following:

( The Plot Hesters. Spoilers for the Kingdom Hearts games and His Dark Materials. )

As ganked from icedark_elf

How did you first hear of/meet me?

Where and when did you first hear of my name/see my work/'meet' me? With what people/series/groups etc. do you associate me and my writing? This is not a praise or feedback meme, this is just to track the path of my online presence and to see the connections involved, to find out how people link together.

Yeah, lurker/non-mutual-friend types? Why? Why me?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: Boston You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don't. Of course, that doesn't mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine.
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The West
The Inland North
North Central
The South
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

I suppose I'm preparing for my eventual brownstone in Beacon Hill. In my mind. Why I don't have a "Northeast" accent is beyond me. I guess it's my liking of "awnvelope" instead of "ehnvelope", or something.

The first ten people to comment on this post get to request a doodle/sketch/drabble from me on a subject/character of their choosing. Yes, damn it, sketch. I'll bust out the scanner of doom down in the basement and everything.

THE CATCH: In return, the requesters have to post this meme in their journal.

One of those things just to show I'm alive.


1. Comment with any ship from a fandom that you know I like, or at least have some knowledge about.

2. I will ramble for 100 words about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

3. Put this on your LJ, if you are so inclined.

Ganked from artimusdin

The Great LiveJournal Outage of 2005 During the outage I didn't worry. I do most of my blogging on Pitas. Suckers! What did you do? Brought to you by geek-foo

Ganked from artimusdin

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want, and I promise to give sincere answers. Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

Livejournal Meme. Because I can.

Recommend to me...

1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album
4. a LiveJournal user not on my friends list
5. what I should have for dinner
6. a website

...and put it in a comment and then put this in your journal.

The end.