The Sleeper's Den

I'm doing my best to catch up on my flist and came across this meme a few times. So... Why not?

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

By golly! And there I was thinking I'm a Ravenpuff!
:)

Your result for The Sorting Hat Test...

Slytherclaw

You scored 50% Order/Chaos, and 44% Moral/Rational

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sylvanawood tagged me…

1. Select Random on your MP3 player/Windows Media.
2. List the first five songs and what they mean to you.
3. Tag five people!

I don’t have an MP3 player, and there is nothing uploaded to my Windows Media - for some reason, I always listen to entire albums, so I have never looked for a means to play songs randomly… But for the meme’s sake I picked up the top five CDs from the pile on my desk and picked one song from each. The result is a bit … eclectic :-).

( Music Meme )

Nicked this from ani_bester...

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write attempt to write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear (err...), graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal if you are so inclined.

Nicked from torenheksje:

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Guess what: I'm working on a new short comic - not HP-related, I'm afraid, but something that is actually publishable, if a magazine will have it. I'm eyeing Plots, of course - the magazine formerly known as Het Salon. I wasn't too happy with how my previous submission was treated, but I have to face the facts: there just aren't a lot of alternatives as far as getting comics published is concerned. Besides, the Plots Team is more experienced now. They have just published and launched their fourth issue and have been very active on the comics front all year. In fact, as they have been getting more and more submissions, I will once again be nervous about getting accepted at all... But then again I too have learned and improved, so I think I should try my luck :-).

Making short comics is a difficult business, I find. It is not easy to tell a complete story in a mere few pages, especially for someone like me, who thrives on character development and is bad at plotting. A short comic requires a plot like a bullet, fast and compact. I am always at a loss for things like those, and that really annoys me, because if I want to draw any attention to myself at all, I have to be able to show samples of my work from time to time. My projects are always so huge that it takes ages until something is completed, and the important thing about a comic is the quality of the storytelling, not that of sketches and stills.

Yesterday I had a Eureka moment in the bath. I will be adapting a literary text, once more - a poem of sixteen lines with a complete plot in it :D. I do hope that I can pull it off... The sketching is fun, in any case.

Anyway: if I am quiet on the LJ front, you know what I am doing inbetween my jobhunting :P.

The original pages of my first published short comic, The Useless Resurrection, are on display in an exhibition that is shortly to go on a tour of comics shops in Flanders. At the moment it's on view in my hometown. See? It really is time I produced something new... And force the Plotsers to publish it... ;-)

I was tagged by septentrion1970 to list 7 habits/quirks/facts about myself.

Hm.

Okay.

1. It is painful how quickly I forget the names of people I don't meet frequently.

2. Occasionally I dress up and take a stroll for no better reason than to show off my costume. I won't wear anything extravagant or odd; I will just be well-dressed, with perhaps a hat or a cane as a somewhat more unusual detail. But most of the time I hate drawing the attention of strangers. I could never be a true dandy because I am painfully natural.

3. I collect beautiful umbrellas.

4. I once wore a ring worth 25 000 Euros - that's about $35 000 or £17 500.
( Well... )

5. I like to sing songs to my cat. I make them up as I go. They are pretty horrible.

6. I don't idolise any celebrities. I would never go out of my way to see an actor/actress, a singer or a musician. I am totally uninterested in asking anyone's autograph. On the other hand I adore a number of dead or fictional people. I would LOVE to have an autograph of Oscar Wilde, and I go on pilgrimages to places connected with him. I HATE books or films that paint a negative picture of Sir Gawain. Nobody touches Sir Gawain. I mean it.

7. In November I'm going to see Wagner's Siegfried. It will be the first of Wagner's operas that I will go to in the firm knowledge that I'll adore it. Previously I invariably entered the opera house with the suspicion that I might want to leave during the break, though in the end I never did feel like leaving.



Many of you have already taken the meme, so I'm not tagging anyone.

I have been tagged by lewlinx - I really couldn't escape!
( Five Guilts Meme )

Snatched from florence_craye...

1. Scan my list of interests. List the one that seems the most odd/interesting/whatever to you in the comments below.

2. I’ll explain it or why I have it listed.

3. Tag, you're it.

I nicked this from lareinenoire, just to motivate myself to do more ficcing ;)...

( Writing Meme )

I snatched this from ... everybody. It's just too much fun not to have one :D! Now excuse me while I go around the flist and add something (unfortunately very short - why only 30 characters?!) to people's loot...

( my Christmas stocking )