A Better Word for Weird

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!

Maybe no one who will read this will care, but personally, I am really rather proud of Chapter Seven of "Mutation".

Because that last bit is the creepiest thing I've ever written. I freaked myself out writing it.

And now I get to go to sleep! YAY!

(WHY do I write these things late at night....?)

OMG! Mother 3! Is mine! And the Game Boy Micro! Is mine! I can understand the owner's manuel! Sort of! OMG!



Lookit! How small it is! Crazy times! OMG!

Posting this here mostly for my own benefit, but also for showing off.

Said about my EB-fic "Cycle" on starmen.net:

I just read Cycle. It was fan freakin' tastic- I read it all in one sitting.

Cycle - No words. You must read it.

-Cycle and it's sequel Mutation, both by ImagineGal, the former likened to EB fiction like Casablanca is to cinema (and at least 82 others agree with me; it's the most-lauded EB fic on fanfiction.net).

TRANSLATION: EMILY! WAKE UP AND FINISH THE FREAKIN' SEQUEL YOU MORON!

Seriously. I know basically what I want to happen in the story. I know the direction it's currently headed, anyway. Head outta the sand and WRITE. Jeebus.

Yeah, for those who saw that last post, that was supposed to be in a comm, and I was sure I'd deleted it from this journal. Hum.
Anyway, if you don't know what Earthbound is, this year is probably a good time to find out, as the third game in the series is being released in April!!! *squees all over the place and prays for a North American release*

And now a meme, yoinked from lassarina:

If you make up titles for stories I didn't write, I will respond with details of those non-written stories. Just think of the possibilities! (If you'd like to include details you'd like, pairings or fandom or something, you can do that too.)
Personally I don't get the thing about suggesting fandoms, but if you really wanna... :P

( Quiz Time! )