The last of the questionnaires

[petronia]

Earlier ones here and here.

cherrylet:

yumiko & yuuta: IMO Tenipuri fandom, when delineating Fuji's character, tended (tends?) to downplay the role of his family environment in forming it. The thing about Fuji, I think, is that he's never really been lonely - to the degree that he requires understanding and acceptance, which granted is perhaps lesser than the common man, he's never lacked it. Whereas Yuuta's often been lonely, although he might not have known that was what he was.

fan(dom) mixes: talking with koganbot made me rethink my relationship to music - how third person it tends to be. But idk, the emotional impact of all that fake soundtracking is very real? XD; A lot of the time I just like songs because they remind me of real people, warts and all, or fictional people, or because I like the singer's persona (as you might like someone you met at a party, and want to get to know better).

The other day I was teasing sororial unit over her Art Must Be Experienced Not Analyzed! thing**, saying well it's lazy if you're just going to experience it without talking about it, isn't it? But that's simplistic, because there are different ways of talking about it. Art itself is a way to "talk about it", because sometimes it's easier to say whatever it is with a short story than with an essay, in the same way that some discussions are more easily framed in French versus English. Whether I construct a fic or meta essay or mixtape, I'm making a response to the canon (or simply describing it); the choice of format is usually down to path of least resistance. IMO, the more complicated the thought process is, the more advantage accrues to the artistic/fictional format, because you can show and not tell. If I had to write out in so many words what I'm trying to say about the series by putting a specific song on the FST it would run to pages and pages.

I've always thought dancing about architecture would be a particularly interesting exercise, because whatever you could effectively demonstrate about architectural structures using choreographed human bodies would probably be immensely complex to convey in any other guise. So complex that it would be dismissed as truism, perhaps...

cheese: LOL WHY. smurfmatic is the real cheese fanatic, whereas you have to put it in front of me. And then I'll consume massive amounts of it. When I first moved to America I thought the whole idea was a joke. Then I tried Brie and realized that only American cheese was a joke. This was back in the day when people thought it was okay to put celery and raisins in fruit jello, too. Those mayonnaise-tastic old-skool cookbooks that hipsters like to LOL at these days - that stuff lasted well into the 80s.

Quebec cheese is amazing, when not subject to pasteurization/contamination scares. Gotta live a little, yanno? Take risks. XD

meta analysis: I think I sort of covered this under fan mixes, actually. XD I don't really think of myself as being very meta-tastic; far too lazy and scattered to engage under normal circumstances. But every once in a while I get very interested in a topic, and then it feels like something in my brain bares shiny metal teeth and latches on. The rest of me that's not that part of my brain finds it embarrassing.

japan: I was originally meant to do JET but dropped out halfway through the process to accept a job offer in my field. Never regretted it (apart from when I realized, much later, that I could've tried for a balmy southern island bit rather than the big cities); I would make a terrible language teacher. TBH I'd never really wanted to live there for any extended period of time - for various reasons, in particular because the idea of negotiating being Chinese-Canadian in Japan seemed onerous (perhaps this is unjustified). Do want to spend some time travelling, but haven't, because family and Europe took precedence. smurfmatic's questioned why Europe takes precedence over Asia for me, but it just does.



** My sister is kind of a muso. XD; But she's right in the sense that writers are the only creative creatures who enjoy analyzing their art as much as engaging in it (or more); musicians, painters, potters and what have you just want to just get on with the doing.

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone else thinks this way. XD Where I said "dismissed as truism" up there I was in fact thinking about the beginning of your idea - i.e. for one when you dance you are always negotiating within some sort of architecture i.e. a room or stage anyway, and in fact on various occasions where I have ballroom-danced it seemed to me the constraints of architecture were even more primary than that of one's partner - but didn't mentally follow through.