Interest Memeage
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sara_tanaquil: Drop me a comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 of your icons, for you to explain.
interests:
1) banana yoshimoto
One of my favorite modern Japanese authors, and author of the first Japanese1 novel I read in Japanese. No, her novels don't break new artistic ground, but they're solidly written and full of heart. Many of them have also been translated into English, so anyone can have a crack at them now.
2) ffvii
Oh, Final Fantasy VII. Although this is something of a lie, as I'm not really interested in the game itself (which was in the stone ages compared to contemporary PC titles), but lovely, lovely Sephiroth.
3) gremio
And another video game character, this time from Gensou Suikoden, which is ever so loosely based on Water Margin. What can I say? I have a thing for scarred, diffident servant-martyrs devoted to their much youngerseme charge.
icons:
1)
Fujin
One of a pair of deities (with Raijin) who guard the entrances to Buddhist temples. They're the gods of wind and lightening, respectively. I first became interested in them thanks to a program I watched during my first week in Japan on how these gods, who were originally Greek, came East along the silk road and were naturalized in India, China, and Japan. This image comes from a photograph I took of a famous screen in Kenninji, one of my favorite temples in Kyoto.
2)
g-ninja
If the purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people, then it follows that the purpose of the grammar ninja is to flip out and correct people. (In the interest of full disclosure, I am a grammar ninja.)amasugiru gets credit for the peanut gallery conversation.
3)
pluto
What Pluto probably thinks about the recent IAU downgrade because it's too friendly. My all-purpose "that's lame" comment icon.
1I read a fair number of novels translated into Japanese (Rebecca, From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Hobbit, and The Lord Of The Rings (what the hell was I thinking?) before reading a native work.
That will be all.
sara_tanaquil: Drop me a comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 of your icons, for you to explain.interests:
1) banana yoshimoto
One of my favorite modern Japanese authors, and author of the first Japanese1 novel I read in Japanese. No, her novels don't break new artistic ground, but they're solidly written and full of heart. Many of them have also been translated into English, so anyone can have a crack at them now.
2) ffvii
Oh, Final Fantasy VII. Although this is something of a lie, as I'm not really interested in the game itself (which was in the stone ages compared to contemporary PC titles), but lovely, lovely Sephiroth.
3) gremio
And another video game character, this time from Gensou Suikoden, which is ever so loosely based on Water Margin. What can I say? I have a thing for scarred, diffident servant-martyrs devoted to their much younger
icons:
1)
One of a pair of deities (with Raijin) who guard the entrances to Buddhist temples. They're the gods of wind and lightening, respectively. I first became interested in them thanks to a program I watched during my first week in Japan on how these gods, who were originally Greek, came East along the silk road and were naturalized in India, China, and Japan. This image comes from a photograph I took of a famous screen in Kenninji, one of my favorite temples in Kyoto.
2)
If the purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people, then it follows that the purpose of the grammar ninja is to flip out and correct people. (In the interest of full disclosure, I am a grammar ninja.)
amasugiru gets credit for the peanut gallery conversation.3)
What Pluto probably thinks about the recent IAU downgrade because it's too friendly. My all-purpose "that's lame" comment icon.
1I read a fair number of novels translated into Japanese (Rebecca, From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Hobbit, and The Lord Of The Rings (what the hell was I thinking?) before reading a native work.
That will be all.