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[ladyjanelly]

Answers to that "What should I blog about" meme

What is Yaoi? I may have thoughts about it, but I'm not sure what it is. Talk about sushi. That's random. Or how about dog breed specific legislation (sucks -- dogs are dogs not breeds). Or maybe talk about global warming. Or composting more. Daniel loves composting and our pile is big, stinky, and frickin' steaming awesome! Or hows about socks. Blog about socks. Yep yep.

Yaoi. Japanese anime or manga with gay themes. Pretty enough but I reject the strict stereotypes of who is ‘the man’ and who is ‘the woman.’ I prefer my gay boys with a little more flexibility about who is what all the time. Also, Yaoi tends to put one of them in the position of weepy and emotional to a point where if the character was female I’d think it was overdone.

Mmmm, sushi. There’s an all-you-can-eat place called Osaka Japan near here that is sooooo good. I don’t like yellowtail. I loooove tuna.

Dog-breed specific legislation is like--Yeah. You said it already. Just about any dog can be dangerous. For a while, German Shepherds were the Ooooh dangerous ones. Dobies, Rotts, Pits. Somebody’s always gonna be in the news. And small dogs put more people in the emergency room every year anyways.

Global warming--I dunno. I do know that we’re using more potable water than the world gets back every year. I know pollution is so bad that people are getting sick and I’m afraid to eat vegetables I grow in my garden that get too much air on them.

My first batch of compost is half done! The cans work sooo good. It gets so hot in the sun, all steamy and dark.

I bought socks with frogs the other day. Dark purple with these bright green frogs. But I can’t bear to wear them because I worry they’ll get messed up if I forget and wear them when I work in the muddy yard even if I have shoes on.

Feel free to ignore this, but how did you meet your other half?

Heh. I love my Sam. He’s an awesome guy. So. About 1996? We were both on this online RPG and our characters had a little romance. It was all cute and stuff. And while he and I never did any out-of-character romancing, we did talk and stuff. We were both married at the time, and we sort of became pen-pals or something, talking about our lives to each other. So he got a divorce and I got a divorce and one day in 2000, just as friends, I asked him “So why haven’t you come visited me yet?”

So he flew from TX to FL and we had really great chemistry and hit it off like crazy. For the next year, one of us flew every month to visit the other. And then I moved to TX in 2001 to be with him and a year later we got married and we’re still going strong and happy.

I guess let start with something simple.... What significance do the election today have? Are they real or Staged? If real what direction will whom ever elected best take the country and the world? If staged whom is really pulling the strings and are their intentions, agendas taking our society to a place of social benifit or not? Explain... ;0)

Sigh. Elections. I really try to have hope. That it isn’t just politics. That they’re not for sale to the highest bidder or whoever puts the most into the campaign fund.

I think Obama seems the least “bought” of all of them. I dunno if he’s the most experienced or the best for the job. But I think he listens to what the people want more than any of the others. I think he cares more.

What are your overall religious-philosophical views?

I am basically Christian, though bits and pieces of other religions have put down roots in my personal belief system.

I had a bad relationship with God for a long time. It’s still a little rocky sometimes when I look at the crap in the world.

I have to look at it more as a loving parent than an all-powerful protector. I like the idea of unconditional love. Like the ten commandments aren’t a list of laws but guides to help me be happier and more whole in my life. More content. Don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t kill. It’ll make your life better.

I can’t believe in hell and heaven’s too abstract an idea for me to live for. So all that’s left is a path of growth to being a better person.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Hmm. Pretty much where I am now but better. Hopefully with a job in my field. Definitely with Sam.

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[jellicle.livejournal.com]

Feel free to ignore this, but how did you meet your other half?

Heh. I love my Sam. He’s an awesome guy. So. About 1996? We were both on this online RPG and our characters had a little romance. It was all cute and stuff. And while he and I never did any out-of-character romancing, we did talk and stuff. We were both married at the time, and we sort of became pen-pals or something, talking about our lives to each other. So he got a divorce and I got a divorce and one day in 2000, just as friends, I asked him “So why haven’t you come visited me yet?”

So he flew from TX to FL and we had really great chemistry and hit it off like crazy. For the next year, one of us flew every month to visit the other. And then I moved to TX in 2001 to be with him and a year later we got married and we’re still going strong and happy.


That was the most adorable tale ever! I wanna meet an awesome boy like yours, too!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

I think it was a good thing for us that we weren't romantic at all for four years, up until after we met in person. I think meeting at romance-centered online places makes it too easy to try to force relationships to be what they aren't.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Meeting on-line, anywhere, makes it too easy to force relationships-even friendships-into an intimacy that's not real, I think. It's too easy to self-censor when writing to each other, more so than in person. But it's a good way to break the ice, if keeping in mind that this *is* only a facet or few of the person we're talking to.

[lekkerstuk.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone asked about yaoi. I keep hearing the word but only vaguely knew that it involved pornography or Japan.

I also have to say that your posts have gotten me thinking that I should start composting again.

Thanks for sharing, it's always fun learning interesting new tidbits about people.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Yaoi is...yeah. Pretty but not much substance.


Composting is awesome. I do recommend the sealing garbage cans. I have no stink and no bugs at all.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I blame yaoi for a lot of the idiocy that creeps into on-line fandom-with young fangirls who cross over and bring their, as you said, weepy, overdone, man/woman,etc, stereotypes with them.

I read this book last year about the geisha, and how a large problem is created for them and anyone making a living or trying to preserve traditional Japanese culture, because so many people follow anime/manga. The simplistic and juvenile approach to literature doesn't develop the more sophisticated personalities that know how to appreciate the geisha culture.

Color me cranky on the subject, but yeah. *scowls* (And the art is very BAD, imo.)

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

I think yaoi has none of the realism that makes me like slash, especially rough-boy slash like SPN or BDS boys. When yaoi ideas come over into those it hurts my soul.

I can see how the proliferation of modern Japanese pop-culture things are eroding the older ways. Very sad.

I like some of the art, some of the more art-deco style pieces.

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Your ideas about religion and mine are rather startlingly similar. *G*

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

That's cool.

There's too much contradiction in the bible to not pick and choose what you want to keep from it.

Kendra and I sometimes go to a little gay church in downtown Dallas. They tend to focus on the positive like that too. With contentment and peace in this life.