Aris Katsaris

"Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern." Gacked from homasse.

Well, I've not written nearly that many fics, not even if I include ficlets, but here goes:

1) Europa held her new-born baby next to her breast and sang to it, sometimes in her own Phoenician tongue, half-remembered songs of her childhood, sometimes in the alien tongue of the Cretans which she was quickly learning, in fragments and hesitant pieces.... ("Names and Forms" - Gargoyles fic)

2) It had been more difficult for Simon than for anyone else. ("Reticent Confessions", HP fic set in Barbara Purdom's "Psychic Serpent" universe)

3) "I have been here before... " ("Dreams of the Kisei: A Prologue" HnG fic)

4) She had moaned his name once, in the throes of passion, as he was thrusting inside her, as he was bringing her to the cusp of orgasm. ("Broken souls: Entr'acte, in the dark" HnG fanfic, sequel to the previous)

5) “My father said what?? Oh father, father! You can be so unthinking sometimes.” ("Mighty" Tolkien ficlet)

6) "Please, some money, dear sir! Our mother is sick, we need--" ("Traits Revealed" HP 100-word drabble)

7) She cuts herself, she screams names at teachers, she burns her diaries and runs away from home. ("Hateful Memories" Buffy 100-word drabble)

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Common element in all of the above? I guess that I tend to begin with a scene indicating the emotional state of an individual: Europa's parental love, Simon's desolation, Hikaru's uncertainty, Akari's need, Luthien's amusement, some random kids' despair and poverty, Dawn's complete emotional meltdown.

I think I miss writing fics.

Gacked from alternativa

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Try out this Meme

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I want to rewatch "Kill Bill" one of these days. It's an appropriate flick for feelings of murderous vengefulness, I think.

Also noting I have several half-finished reviews on a number of books and films, kept as text files all over my desktop or as Gmail drafts. Need to start finishing those up also. Perhaps today I'll post one or two of them.

And I also really *really* need to start searching for a job and sending out CVs. I'm *way* behind on doing that, which alas most likely means there'll be an empty period after I finish with the army early next month. Ugh. I really should have started sending CVs a month ago.

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Gacked from gehayi and synaesthete7, but it's all over the place.

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

Neat facts

1648 - The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1956 - Soviet Union invades Hungary.

Births:

51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian scientist

Deaths:

1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (b. 1921)
2005 - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)

A meme, not like most others, on a thing worth remembering -- taken from bellatrys.


From A Man For All Seasons, winner of the 1966 Oscar for Best Picture:

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Lady Alice More:
Arrest him!

Sir Thomas More:
For what?

Lady Alice:
He's dangerous!

Will Roper:
For all we know he's a spy!

Margaret More:
Father, that man's bad!

More:
There's no law against that.

Roper:
There is - God's law!

More:
Then let God arrest him.

Lady Alice:
While you talk he's gone!

More:
And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law.

Roper:
So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

More:
Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper:
Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More:
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it! - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

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Pass it on.

Gacked from epicyclical, synaesthete7 and jediowl.

( If you call me... )

First a map of the countries of all the countries I have visited in the past:

Create your own visited country map

*g* As you see that's a sizeable portion of Western Europe, but alas, nothing from other continents...

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And here's btw a nerdiness test:

61.904761904761905% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?

Now, that's quite a lot -- right now I'm betting that none of my friends will achieve as high a score in this. :-)

Anyway, try it out people! It's fun.

( First a Battle Royale quiz )

And for a survey of my morality and personality go here: http://www.outofservice.com/morality/results/?morality=67&political=71&social=71&o=41&c=4&e=5&a=63&n=27

I think I'm slightly more liberal socially than this mentions - but I hesitated to use most "Always Right" answers, since that's too absolute for my tastes. Pretty much everything can be occasionally wrong, given the circumstances.

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Anyway, my birthday was today... Didn't do much, just took a break off my programming so as to update my page (uploaded a small "hold" I had made for the game "Deadly Rooms of Death" which you can freely download through www.drod.net) and ofcourse to update this livejournal as well...

As for my mood... Well, I'd first chosen "lonely" but that isn't exactly right. It's more like a weird combination of loneliness but not actually wanting to talk with (or be around) people either, which is probably why I've not opened Trillian even though I've been on the Internet most of the day. So, probably "melancholy" fits a bit better. Ah, well...

And I've been rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix... You know, I've decided that I really like this book. Just like with The Silmarillion many years ago, I've discovered that I can turn to a random page and consistently find a passage I would enjoy rereading...

J.K.Rowling has definitely created one of the most fun series of books I've ever read, despite the occasional flaws and all.

take the nerd test.


and go to mewing.net. a nerd utopia.


Besides the ones mentioned I also know ASP, Prolog, Visual C++, Lisp, Pascal, SQL and CLIPS/Jess. And probably more that I'm currently forgetting.