Meme via Rik and others

[taimatsu]

Reply to this posting with three questions (ask me anything you want - I may reply privately though!) I'm not promising to answer absolutely everything, but I'll do my best.

Then type this into YOUR journal, allowing your friends (including me) to ask YOU anything.

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

1. Would Talihana sell her soul for a baby?
2. Is Shards worth Salmonella?
3. How do you maintain the intense concentration needed for sewing stuff?

[taimatsu]

1. No, her soul is more important to her. Technically, she probably doesn't believe she has a seperate soul; the Kul-Tha are so much linked spiritually to the land and the Mother that it's all just one continuum of dream-spirit-foo.

2. Yeah. Particularly as the salmonella got me over a long-term fear/horror of vomiting.

3. Er. Some of it doesn't need that much concentration; it really depends what it is. If it's hand embroidery or something, that needs lots of concentration and often I don't manage it. Listening to music sometimes helps. The sewing machine is a lot easier, and I just have to keep track of the steps in making the item, so I make lists and tick things off. I make things with simple seams and just whoosh them through the machine. It's great.

Thinking about it, the craft I do that requires most concentration is covering glass vases in bead netting. That's bloody awful, though the results are quite cool.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

1. What are you first memories of Roleplaying (live or TT)
2. When did you first roleplay?
3. Where in the world would you like to go that you haven't been?

[taimatsu]

1. Not very long ago, for a start! I first roleplayed at the Oxford Camarilla game in April 2002. I played an NPC Hermetic mage called Harmony Braque, and did very little. It was, however, enough to get me back the following month with my own PC (Clare, the mage I'm still playing).
2. See 1. :)
3. Ergh. Lots of places, but Japan probably top of the list, because it's such a different culture and I can speak a little Japanese :)

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

What is it you like about Shards?
What is your favorite food?
What sort of weapons you like?

[taimatsu]

1. Lots of things! Meeting new people, getting to write lots of our own background, singing, running about, feeling really involved in the group in a way I don't in Cam (because all my characters are quiet and arty), and being outdoors for a change.

2. This is hard. It'll have to be a shortlist, I'm afraid. Smoked salmon is up there, as is really good bread with yummy spreads; fresh peas from the pod; fresh baby plum tomatoes, particularly as mozzarella and tomato salad with black olives and really good olive oil; tuna and bean salad; Peking duck and pancakes; er, er, er, too many things to list.

3. weapons? I don't reallyu do weapons, but probably short swordy-knifey thingy.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

coolies :)

[jo-english-bint.livejournal.com]

What is your name?

What is your quest?

What is the air speed velocity of an unlaided swallow?

[taimatsu]

1. Lucy Clare Kennedy
2. To find a dish that combines smoked salmon and chocolate raisins into one orgy of deliciousness.
3. No clue.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

smoked salmon and chocolate raisins..hmmm ................

It would have to be a cold dish or the raisins added afterwards otherwise the chocolate and raisins will become 2 seperate entities.

I'll think on it.

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

african or asian?

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

1) What's the most private and currently secret thing you're prepared to share with your LJ fanbase?

2) Without necessarily sharing it (although you can if you want) off the top of your head can you recall the very worst thing you've ever, ever done?

3) An amazing breakthrough in bibliotechnology has resulted in the creation of the anti-book. Upon reading the anti-book, all memory of a specific book the reader has previously read will be erased from their brain. Every person in the country is given an anti-book of their choice. What book do you choose to unread?

[taimatsu]

1) See 3).
2) Not really - I block those things out quite a lot. There's some unpleasant stuff, sure, but I can't think of anything hugely dreadful, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
3) 'The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium' by Gerald Durrell. (1)It has a horror story in it which gave me a nervousness of mirrors in the dark which I still have - at my parents' house I sleep with my bedroom mirror covered.

[imc.livejournal.com]

1. If you had a time machine which allowed you to view, but not participate in, any event in the past, where would you let it take you?

2. What single piece of information would you give to your earlier self if you could (let's exclude obvious things such as lottery numbers)?

3. If Sam were to leap into you right now or at some time in the past in order to put right what once went wrong for one of your friends or acquaintances, what might he fix?

[taimatsu]

1. Erm. I've got no idea, actually. Too much of well-known history is battles, and I wouldn't like those. I'll have to keep thinking.

2. 'Size 16 is a real possibility.'

3. Sam? As in Samwise Gamgee? I could get him to 'fix' my ex-uberboss, but I'm not sure how Mr Gamgee would have a useful impact on that or many other situations. Do explain!

[imc.livejournal.com]

3. Not Samwise Gamgee, but Sam Beckett (http://gcalvarez.tripod.com/ql.html) (not the playwright). Sorry, I was too cryptic, perhaps. :-)

[taimatsu]

Never seen it and barely know what it's about, let alone know first name of lead character. So yes, that would count as too cryptic. :)

[imc.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, serious gap in your cultural knowledge - will have to be filled as soon as possible. :-)

Anyway, the clue is in the question really. Using hindsight and future knowledge (imparted to you via a hologram of Dean Stockwell, though that part is largely irrelevant) go back in time and put right something that went wrong for one of your friends.

If it were me, I'd probably go back to 4 November 2001 and tell bopeepsheep to be more careful when carrying laundry at the top of the stairs (or preferably to go out and not faff about with the laundry at all).

[diffrentcolours]

1) Have you ever done any non-LARP or non-White-bloody-Wolf roleplaying?

2) Why don't you come to Oxford more often? ;p

3) Name an artist (musical or otherwise) whom you think I might enjoy.

[taimatsu]

1. Yup, I have played a bit of Feng Shui and Earthdawn TT.

2. Because I'm really bad at arranging to see people. I can survive pretty well in isolation (save online) and so making arrangements with friends seems like a huge undertaking to me. So I don't do it. Also, I lack transport which makes everything that bit harder. Wanna meet up sometime, then? :)

3. Oooooh. I'm trying to think of things you might like. If you have never listened to any Michael Nyman, do try to. He's a modern classical composer and he's great. MGV (Musique a Grande Vitesse) might be a good place to start though it's not my favourite piece of his ever.