Who likes memes? I do! And severedscythe, apparently.

Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then 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.

Acafen

A portmanteau of – I suppose – "academic fandom", which I think more-or-less explains what it is. Whenever someone is arguing for the existential lessons in Harry Potter or the deconstruction of gender roles in Battlestar Galactica,¹ they are engaging in acafen. I guess more specifically it's also a semi-derogatory word to refer to the people who do this sort of thing; the same way some conservatives use the term "intellectuals" as an insult.

I think I've always done acafen but I've only had a name and a source for it in the last year or so, thanks mostly to metafandom. The postmodernist in me just loves deconstructing pop culture.

Darkwave

Goth, punk, emo, industrial, cyber, veekay… stuff what is black. Mostly; I'm sure someone's gonna argue my definition ("You can't include emo!") because that's just what we do around here.

I like darkwave precisely because the term is inclusive, no matter what Wikipedia says. Goth getting too velvety and punk too angry? Maybe it's time to try some veekay. Or a little bit of industrial. Column A, column B and all that.

Visual Kei

I'm going to get shot for saying this, but I guess the best way to describe veekay to someone who's never seen it before is that it's sort of like the Japanese version of emo. Of course, the Japanese were doing it first and better, but who's counting. Visual Kei (ヴィジュアル系, literally "visual rock") is another one of those umbrella terms I probably use a bit too umbrella-y. Oh well.

I bought my first Gothic & Lolita Bible fashion magazine in circa 2003; I was sold instantly. I just love the aesthetics of it. And those veekay bands sure do know how to play up the yaoi fanservice!

Urban Nordica

It's my book.

UN started in, um, 2004/2005-ish with this picture of randomredux's character Miriah holding a gun to Loki's head while Sigmund looks on nervously. It was a particularly shit-poor picture, so I'm glad I didn't finish it, but nevertheless it spawned a short fic called "The Wrong Person". randomredux wrote a 'reply post' and it kind of continued on from there. We were originally running it as an RP, but about halfway through we realised that, shit, this might actually be marketable as a novel.

Let's see how that goes, then…

Herebeyond

Oh god. The Herebeyond was the 'series' my grungefur characters came from. It was kind of set halfway between Corner and Et tu, Assiah?. I have a particularly low opinion of the Herebeyond, not just because it wasn't original but because it wasn't even interestingly unoriginal. Almost all the art from the period has gone AWOL, but some of the writing remains preserved forever (as usual).

Still, the Herebeyond occupied a mental space between the end of EtA? and the start of Corner. It has the grungy, glamtrash look of the former and the identity issues of the latter. Actually, the Herebeyond's identity issues were all over the place. Lain is an anthro version of Loki and "father" to the skullkitty, though he doesn't know either of these things. Element is Lokken from EtA?. Loquacia and her brother Loquacious eventually merge to become a single androgynous entity called Loqia, who gives "birth" to the skullkitty by vomiting it up one night. Meanwhile, the skullkitty keeps itself amused by taking off its face to reveal the mask underneath…

It's very deep. Srsly.

Glamdreads

Synthetic dreadlocks, such as these.

I like the look of the ol' synthdread, and I do in fact own one black and red dread wig. I even went through a phase of trying to make the damn thing, but kinda gave up when it turned out to be, a) extremely tedious and b) kinda difficult without a studio. Besides, being extremely anti-social kinda limits the places I could actually wear such things (it used to be uni).

Fun fact: Loki's hair 'naturally' twists itself into a style that is sort of half dreadfall, half heavy ringlets.

Blackstatic

Just an alias I used to use before Infinite Alis (or Alis Infinite, depending on my mood at the time). Mostly I just thought it sounded glamtrashy at the time, and it doesn't have any particularly deep or meaningful associations.

So, there you go.

1. Note: May not be real examples. ^

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