Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek

For those who remember these memes, I'm doing something similar. Again, asking for the same kinds of questions, but this time, instead of hiding their identities until someone guesses or I get enough questions, I'm giving their names in advance. Which won't help because a lot of you don't know who most of them are, and none of you know all of them (I think one of you holds the top spot by knowing seven). These are all characters I RP or have RPed, or write or have written, and I think it would be good practice for me to think about how they might react in whatever situation you can toss their way. So go nuts with the questions, and find out more about them along with me.

1) Tor
2) Mina
3) Grace
4) Lucca
5) Fish
6) Joni
7) Elly
8) Vic
9) Bridget
10) Mark

One more thing: if you could, refrain from asking about characters you're already familiar with. This will be more interesting if you offer your questions blindly.

Rules: Post the explanation of where your usernames came from. Then tag TEN users (EDIT: or don't) whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.

( Lengthy )

From matadin:

Name any fandom I'm probably aware of and I will tell you:

1. The first character I fell in love with.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates.
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer.
6. The character I would shag anytime.
7. The character I'd want to be like.
8. The character I'd slap. (Or punch. Or maim.)
9. A pairing that I love.
10. A pairing that I despise.

I'm just lazy.

1: thunderphoenix - doodle - anything from his interest list
2: beyondfake_0 - icon - surprise her
4: eternalism - doodle - moogle-form Kuken riding umbreon-form Walks
5: mountainranger - doodle - "a shadow of doom"
6: shadeykins - icon - "something Shadeylike"
7: matadin - icon - surprise him
8: surgo - doodle - Surgo and Starfire puzzling over airplane controls

The lesson being: next time ask for icons, because I suck at drawing faces. :P

(Make sure to click on the image, THEN save. If anything beside the image is showing, you may not be seeing the high quality version.)

Stolen from matadin, thunderphoenix, and mullenkamp (at once! fear my meme thieving skills!)

( Final Fantasy meme )

1) Make a list of 15 characters, and keep it to yourself for the moment. (That way you're not leading the questions asked to fit the characters.)

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the screened comments.

For example:

"4, 6, 12 & 15 are starting a band together, what is their name and what kind of music do they play? Also, who's the lead singer, and what instruments do the others play?"

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the 15 characters you selected beforehand, and then post them.

I'll provide the results in a separate post, probably on the weekend.

To keep myself distracted, here's a meme I stole from matadin:

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

1) River Tam (Firefly)
2) Dave Jones (College Roomies From Hell!!!)
3) Laguna Loire (Final Fantasy 8)
4) Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
5) Death (Discworld)
6) Goliath (Gargoyles)
7) Millie Thompson (Trigun)
8) Maes Hughes (Full Metal Alchemist)
9) Violet Parr (The Incredibles)
10) Chichiri (Fushigi Yuugi)
11) Minsc (Baldur's Gate)
12) Chiyo Mihama (Azumanga Daioh)

Because I needed a laugh.

First, write down the names of 12 characters. Then read and answer the questions. You can't look at the questions (or click on the cut) until you write down the 12 characters you're going to use.

1) River Tam (Firefly)
2) Maes Hughes (Full Metal Alchemist)
3) Blue Green (College Roomies from Hell!!!)
4) Yoda (Star Wars)
5) Gil Grissom (CSI)
6) Bruce Wayne (Batman)
7) Ginny Weasley (Harry Potter)
8) Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)
9) Freya Crescent (Final Fantasy 9)
10) Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting/King of Fighters)
11) Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)
12) Samus Aran (Metroid)

( Got your own set of characters? Good! Now click! )

( Second meme: )

Since it's been a long week and I just want to veg...

( Here's Teep's questions: )

( And that quiz that's been floating around: )

The following are the first sentences of ten of my favorite books (not necessarily in order). See if you can guess them.

If some remain unguessed by this time tomorrow, I'll add the second line, and so forth each day. In cases where the first line was just too flipping obvious, I start with the second line; I'll note where I do this.

1) It has now been a mere two score of years since we had the honor to have our work, Toward Beginning a Survey of Some Events Contributing to the Fall of the Empire, rejected by Lord Tri'ari and Master Vrei of the Institute. - The Phoenix Guards, by Steven Brust (guessed by bugen)

Second line, not the first: 2) For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling (guessed by jordanis)

3) The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river. - The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel (guessed by zerodotjander)

4) It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. - The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis (guessed by jordanis)

5) Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. - The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (guessed by urbankotq)

Extended after 24 hours: 6) It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. - Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (guessed by bugen)

7) "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one." - Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (guessed by bugen)

8) Once upon a time in Westphalia, in the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, there lived a young boy whom nature had endowed with the gentlest of dispositions. - Candide, by Voltaire (guessed by jordanis)

9) This is the bright candlelit room where the life-timers are stored -- shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past. - Mort, by Terry Pratchett (guessed by jordanis)

10) Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York; and all the clouds that lour'd upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - Richard III, by William Shakespeare (guessed by jordanis, who's kicking all your butts)