seven interests

[terabient]

yeah, that bit about posting 'something substantial soon?' nooooooot happening...yet, at least.

instead, here's a meme:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

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[terabient]

here you go!

astronomy
cosplay
drawing
epic poetry
harvest moon
lolita
pet rat

[elbarto252.livejournal.com]

1) Astronomy
I consider this to be the oldest of my interests. When I was young, my uncle used to take me outside of my grandma's farmhouse to see the stars. At first it was just the pretty lights and the fact that my mom's family is obsessed with heaven (traditional idea, not the Christian idea) but when I grew older, I wondered why it was. So after 2 different research opportunities and a lot of other classes and telescope monkeying to study different aspects of this weird curiosity, I've decided I want to keep going until I know as much as I can about how the universe or "heaven" worked.

2) Cosplay
Something I credit my friend bianchi_chan for! She went to all these conventions in high school and got into it right away after seeing all the other cosplayers. A way to stand out in the crowd and show off your insane fandom in her opinion. Both of us had worked in theatre and I really liked crafts from the start, so it just happened.
The first and only cosplay I've done to date was my Toon Link costume. I plan to do the other incarnations but I'm not good enough yet to do any more complicated cosplays. I am picky about detail! I won't add an extra strap to the costume if the art said no.

3) Drawing
I've been drawing since I was younger than 5, and earlier, according to my relatives. They never told me why and I just liked it when I was young. Now I draw because I want people to see how I saw things and I draw the ideal. Outside of art assignments, I find myself drawing landscapes a lot, and Siegfried and Link, lolololol. I'm actually not bad at drawing, but I always try to improve!

4) Epic poetry
I got interested in this when I first read the Odyssey when I was 13. Everyone in my class hated the book, but it was nothing short of epic for me. This was really the first "real book" I considered to have read because I thought it had the most accurate world view, even if it had gods in it, because I saw religion/gods, sin, hubris, culture, sex (lol), human nature, war...I never got a picture like that from anything I read before. Plus, the way it was originally written just amazed me! I have read others since then, even the incomplete ones of Tolkien (English epic poetry?! It rhymes in English!) and I couldn't stop after that.

And that's why I also think so highly of adventures/epics. Poetic form means the mastery of the language, so both combined = epic win.

5) Harvest Moon
One of my friends introduced me to this. I had only played Pokemon up to this point, so when a new game came by that was the RPG of farm life, I got addicted. The later versions with more cute graphics and a marriage option was even more fun! But what was really addicting was trying to get things done, like every recipe, every degree, every fishing entry, etc.

6) Lolita
Oh to clarify, this is the clothing, not the novel XD
I haven't read the novel yet, and I think I should someday...not because it has anything to do with the clothing, but just because it's a book. I guess my anime-obsessed friends got me into this. Amy Sorel wears a lolita style outfit, I noticed!

I guess that being the short, childish looking type of person I'll probably be stuck looking like until I'm 30 (thanks, mom) I figured this type of clothing would look better than the other clothes my classmates wear, which I consider too immodest. Besides, this is the only time where I've gotten clothes that fit and I don't look like everyone else!

I'm not too much for the excessive frills or the sweet lolita style though. I just like the bit toned down ones (like the classic style)

7) Pet Rat
LOL! This is actually a nickname for my old pet hamster. He was the cutest thing ever! Just like a very small puppy but makes relatively little poop. He would beg for food, do tricks and I would let him play around without be scared that he would escape even though he's really small. I didn't like him at first but when we (my sisters and I) started to spoil him, he started acting really cute and friendly. I would go on, but I have so many cute stories about him! (like watching him dance to Thriller)

Oh, he died last year on 12/31 at an age of roughly 150 hamster years, and I still think about him.

Wow, this came out about a few hundred words longer xD