These are a few of my favorite things:

[a_leprechaun]

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 that others can play along.

roguebelle requested explanations for the following:
bishounen: In Japanese, translates to "beautiful youth," though it is understood to mean (to use a more vernacular phrase) "prettyboy." It's most widely used to describe any male character from anime who looks slightly (or very) feminine. Another one of my interests, Dilandau Albatou, is an example of a bishounen, though even he might fall on the more male-looking side of the spectrum.
So why's this in my interests? Because sexual ambiguity is yay, that's why. ^__^

buachailleen: Pronounced "book-a-leen" with emphasis on the first syllable, buachailleen are Scottish faeries who appear as young boys and run around on summer nights messing with sheep. They fall on, I think, a happy medium with regard to humans- not particularly nice or particularly malevolent, but rather just mischievous. My faery-dude who I've posted art of a coupla times is a buachailleen, and if I ever try my hand at a webcomic, it'll be about the little group of sheep-worriers I've had running around in my head for some time now.

earthbound: My favorite video game of all time!!! Also one of my most treasured fandoms, inasmuch as I "do fandom" anymore. The game is an aerial-view RPG for the Super Nintendo, and in it you play a young man who's awakened one night by the sound of a meteor crashing not far from his house. From there begins an adventure involving aliens, psychic powers, a traveling blues band, an evil dimension-bending statue, monkeys, cavemen, hippies, vision quests, magic cake, the loch ness monster, a walking dungeon, zombies, ghosts, dinosaurs and time travel, just to name a few things.
Some years ago I managed to become a big fish in a small fandom with my 20-chapter Earthbound fanfic, Cycle, which picks up on our heroes 10 years after the game ends and has since been called "the 'Casablanca' of Earthbound fanfic." Its sequel, Mutation, has become a very long work-in-progress which I'd still like to finish...

my scottish ancestry: The only part of my geneology I've done any looking into (though I would like to do more someday...). My mother's maiden name is Crawford, a very Scottish name, though so far we've actually traced them back to Ireland. BUT. It was right around the time when a whole bunch of well-to-do Scots were coming over and seizing the Irish farmers' land and living on it. Soooo there's a good chance my ancestors were Scottish assholes XD Dunno how proud I am of that, but it feels cool to know where one comes from. Even if it's from assholes.

nhsi: Stands for "National High School Institute," or the "Cherub" program. It happens every summer here at Northwestern for Junior high school students. I did it for theatre when I was between 11th and 12th grades. It's fun being a former Cherub at Northwestern, because you can strike up conversations with other former Cherubs that start out with, "Remember that time during Cherubs..." and watch non-Cherubs roll their eyes. :P

pgsm: Stands for "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon," which is a great example of Japan's wonderful ability to take a good thing way too far. Hey look, we have a successful cartoon with hundreds of episodes! Now let's make it a live-action show! And have stage shows! With songs! I have a DVD of one of the stage shows. It is deliciously ludicrous.

takarazuka: More Japan stuff! More sexual ambiguity! Takarazuka is Japan's all-female acting troupe known for staging lavish musicals. The actors live together in dorms, train and rehearse all the time, and are not allowed to date while they're in the company. Hard.Core. I'd do it if it weren't for the not-allowed-to-date thing. And the being American thing.
My favorite otokoyaku (or "actress who plays male roles") is Oozora Yuuhi *points to icon*. She's a wonderful comic actor; she played Nicely-Nicely Johnson in their production of Guys and Dolls. She was also Rudolph in one of their many Elisabeths. And she's pweeetty *_*

And with that, I'm off to campus. I has callback!

Comments

[roguebelle.livejournal.com]

Volley the meme back at me, babe. ;)

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

Catullus, getting into trouble, Julia Quinn, storms of all kinds, talsyra, the black rose, the purple duck. :)

...I'm really curious about that purple duck. XD

[adampb.livejournal.com]

It's fun being a former Cherub at Northwestern, because you can strike up conversations with other former Cherubs that start out with, "Remember that time during Cherubs..." and watch non-Cherubs roll their eyes.

Lord, this brings back memories. There were times I felt like the only RTVF kid who didn't do Cherubs.

After freshman year it sort of dropped out of view... until a fateful meeting for "Love: The Movie", where somehow Cherubs came up. Specifically, humiliating sexual indiscretions committed by certain not-to-be-named women that magical summer. It's not every project that starts out with the director learning what people's filthy nicknames were and how they were earned. So much for romantic comedy!

this story initially had a point, I swear


And with that, I'm off to campus.

// nods with a little smile

Go get 'em, kiddo. Win one for the Gipper.

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

Well, I made my Strong Choice and Went With It. Tune in for results tomorrow?

In case you were wishing to be memed: graphic design, internet, memetics, personal finance, typography, web design, whining

-_- Your interest-list is quite short relative to other LJ-friends of mine.

[adampb.livejournal.com]

LOL. You're good to try, but I think I'll sit this one out. It's not much of an interest list and everything is depressingly self-explanatory, I think. Besides, surely you wouldn't be so heartless as to subject my readers to yet another histrionic wail over fonts.


Tune in for results tomorrow?

Hey, gotta live up to that 'Internet' interest.

[leighaden.livejournal.com]

Oooh meme! =D Count me in!

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

Hokay!

Aloysia, ancient curse words (ooo, examples please!), asps, evrain, kynyr, scaramouche, wandering idiots. :)

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

Eep! Looks like Cass and I overlap a bit. So I'll also ask about jura and keili.

[fyrestar1.livejournal.com]

Meme me please =)

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

Diplomatic history, economics (I'd like to hear why anyone would list that as an interest ~_^), molly for misrule!, scroggs smells!, talking to walls, the rufty tufty, varf

[leighaden.livejournal.com]

Heh. Forgot to add: I adore Sailor Moon. But I agree they took it way too far with the live action and--they made stage shows?! Ack. That sounds frightening. But the manga and the original show are great.

::sigh::

::is such a dork::

[of-carabas.livejournal.com]

Meme me?

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

arnold schwarzenegger, cabal, dracula the musical, elective monarchy, glastonbury tor, laures, steampunk (I just became mildly interested in steampunk and I'd like some recommendations of good books/movies, hehe)

[rocknlobster.livejournal.com]

Takarazuka is WIN! :D When I was at Nik's, we watched Ernest In Love. And just...<33333 Teehee. :D

Meme me, baby! >D

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

catti-brie, cosmic dance, d&d (I'd like to know what your history is with it ^_^), darbukas, dumbeks, durga, vnv nation

[scytheandroses.livejournal.com]

Apparently, have decided that will have time to do these soonish, so, ah, if you would... meme-meme? :D?

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

big noise from winnetka, bolt races, crowbar of doom, frodo the pot, it's a nuclear reactor, keep left signs, lollipop lust kill

Hehehehehehe

[hazy-reflection.livejournal.com]

Almost everyone I know seems to be getting further into Japanese culture and language nowadays...it's rather fascinating how quickly it seems to be taking over...

And I don't suppose I've got very interesting interests...but meme me please! =)

[a-leprechaun.livejournal.com]

For me, the getting into Japanese culture/language thing has been a long, slow process which started in middle school.

YOU ARE MEMED!:
beaded curtains, cats cats cats, frank paretti, mume, pure imagination, trying to dance