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Nov. 4th, 2003 04:44 pm"sin" of the day: pride. I have cute hair. I love all the little flipperies of the bangs and how they fall in my face. I also have a really cool cell phone with Sanzo (Gensomaden Saiyuki) hanging off of it. 'kay bye.
I also have a new individual to go 'Squeeee! I wanna be like her when I grow up!' over. Embarrassingly, in canon terms she's seventeen. Oh, yeah, and that whole being fictional thing. I suppose it's vaguely less pitiful than wanting to be like Tohru, who's sixteen. Damn those anime and manga writers! Why can't they add some interesting twists and wacky hijinks into my life! Um, yeah.
Like I was saying, I now will commence with going fangirly over 'Witch Hunter Robin,' the confusing new release from Bandai (it was all over the place at Otakon). Squeeeee! I wanna be like her when I grow up! (And I want my own Amon, damnit. Yum!) The music for it is lovely, too. For once, I adore all of the songs I've heard so far, especially the opening.
"It's like I'll disappear as soon as I close my eyes. I feel like I've turned into someone that even I don't recognize. Sadly, I've become so small. I want to be rescued, but instead of sighing I vomited up my loneliness, and just lay there, measuring it all up."
--From 'Shell,' the Opening Theme Song to Witch Hunter Robin
In other news, I am all over Spinner - though not like a horny teenager on prom night. I started with some nice angst - the Goth channel - and then a proposal arrived. Ah ha! I know just what to do! Slip over to Ambient. Ambient held me until I got pissed at being interrupted all of the time, at which point I made a hop, skip, and jump over to trance, where I have remained. Good times.
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Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet:
Munchausen's Syndrome is when one gets attention by being ill. Munchausen's Syndrome by proxy is when one gets attention by making other people ill. Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet is when one lies on the internet in order to get attention. Livejournals are rife with this sort of thing; it's the perfect forum for building a rapport so that people feel affection and caring for someone they've never seen. Gehayi offers up some informative links in the wake of one Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet case where a girl claimed she was being physically harmed due to her sexual orientation. Much like Mr. Dark Stories, Munchausen's Syndrome is the refuge of scared and isolated people who want attention more than everything else, and are prepared to go to extensive lengths in order to get that attention.
( Ph34r my l337 74r07 c4rd 5k1llz )
My own thoughts amuse me. As I was speaking to one of the two gentlemen who run the deli downstairs (who will own it outright by next Monday, according to one of them), my brain idly wondered if they were friends or a couple - one of those random 'Huh, they're going into a business together' kind of thoughts, speculation on the depth and breadth of their relationship. Now I'm caught wondering if the room for this sort of speculation is what makes many fundamentalists so terrified of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (and we won't even get into transgenders and hermaphrodites). Many, many people are uncomfortable with individuals who don't live neatly in predefined boxes; people also seem to like to rigidly control what boxes people should fit in. This is in contrast to the Celtic love of the liminal places, the inbetweens where it's neither one thing nor another, and the Norse transitional way of thinking, where all things are ultimately interconnected so it wouldn't be odd to find oneself suspended between fire and ice (as Midgard is). I wonder if this need to define and control everything is a function of being monotheistic; there seems to be a tightening that is found in many (though hardly all) monotheistic belief structures. One must atone. One is born in sin. Allah decides all. That's not to say that flexibility cannot be found within monotheism, but I'm wondering if it might be more difficult there where one idea purity is held up as the ultimate power. It could be a result of the literalism that grew around monotheism, though; literal things are so three dimensional and impenetrable. The gnostic movement seems to have been in direct conflict with that literalism. There must be something in being literal and rigid that appeals to people, though, since so many people seem to be caught up in that paradigm. I wonder why. It seems like it would be so boring. Perhaps that is where the appeal lies, though; boring things are predictable; predictable things are easier to control; easier to control things are less scary. I wish it didn't all seem to come down to fear, though.
I also have a new individual to go 'Squeeee! I wanna be like her when I grow up!' over. Embarrassingly, in canon terms she's seventeen. Oh, yeah, and that whole being fictional thing. I suppose it's vaguely less pitiful than wanting to be like Tohru, who's sixteen. Damn those anime and manga writers! Why can't they add some interesting twists and wacky hijinks into my life! Um, yeah.
Like I was saying, I now will commence with going fangirly over 'Witch Hunter Robin,' the confusing new release from Bandai (it was all over the place at Otakon). Squeeeee! I wanna be like her when I grow up! (And I want my own Amon, damnit. Yum!) The music for it is lovely, too. For once, I adore all of the songs I've heard so far, especially the opening.
"It's like I'll disappear as soon as I close my eyes. I feel like I've turned into someone that even I don't recognize. Sadly, I've become so small. I want to be rescued, but instead of sighing I vomited up my loneliness, and just lay there, measuring it all up."
--From 'Shell,' the Opening Theme Song to Witch Hunter Robin
In other news, I am all over Spinner - though not like a horny teenager on prom night. I started with some nice angst - the Goth channel - and then a proposal arrived. Ah ha! I know just what to do! Slip over to Ambient. Ambient held me until I got pissed at being interrupted all of the time, at which point I made a hop, skip, and jump over to trance, where I have remained. Good times.
Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet:
Munchausen's Syndrome is when one gets attention by being ill. Munchausen's Syndrome by proxy is when one gets attention by making other people ill. Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet is when one lies on the internet in order to get attention. Livejournals are rife with this sort of thing; it's the perfect forum for building a rapport so that people feel affection and caring for someone they've never seen. Gehayi offers up some informative links in the wake of one Munchausen's Syndrome by Internet case where a girl claimed she was being physically harmed due to her sexual orientation. Much like Mr. Dark Stories, Munchausen's Syndrome is the refuge of scared and isolated people who want attention more than everything else, and are prepared to go to extensive lengths in order to get that attention.
( Ph34r my l337 74r07 c4rd 5k1llz )
My own thoughts amuse me. As I was speaking to one of the two gentlemen who run the deli downstairs (who will own it outright by next Monday, according to one of them), my brain idly wondered if they were friends or a couple - one of those random 'Huh, they're going into a business together' kind of thoughts, speculation on the depth and breadth of their relationship. Now I'm caught wondering if the room for this sort of speculation is what makes many fundamentalists so terrified of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (and we won't even get into transgenders and hermaphrodites). Many, many people are uncomfortable with individuals who don't live neatly in predefined boxes; people also seem to like to rigidly control what boxes people should fit in. This is in contrast to the Celtic love of the liminal places, the inbetweens where it's neither one thing nor another, and the Norse transitional way of thinking, where all things are ultimately interconnected so it wouldn't be odd to find oneself suspended between fire and ice (as Midgard is). I wonder if this need to define and control everything is a function of being monotheistic; there seems to be a tightening that is found in many (though hardly all) monotheistic belief structures. One must atone. One is born in sin. Allah decides all. That's not to say that flexibility cannot be found within monotheism, but I'm wondering if it might be more difficult there where one idea purity is held up as the ultimate power. It could be a result of the literalism that grew around monotheism, though; literal things are so three dimensional and impenetrable. The gnostic movement seems to have been in direct conflict with that literalism. There must be something in being literal and rigid that appeals to people, though, since so many people seem to be caught up in that paradigm. I wonder why. It seems like it would be so boring. Perhaps that is where the appeal lies, though; boring things are predictable; predictable things are easier to control; easier to control things are less scary. I wish it didn't all seem to come down to fear, though.
