Interview meme
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skuf interviewed me, and now I'll interview you, if you like.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview Me!" (or something of that ilk)
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1) Muaha, I have been wanting to ask you this for ages, but there never seemed a good time for it (or a good way to phrase it): if I were feeling brave and wanting to read outside HP fandom, judging by reader-response, which of your non-HP fics should I tackle first?
Going strictly by reader response? Higher Education. It's from the movie "The Breakfast Club," but some people have told me they enjoyed it even though they either haven't seen the movie or don't remember it. Everybody in the movie was a type, anyway, so all you need to know is that Brian's a brain and Bender's a delinquent.
The drawback there is that that's my one and only Breakfast Club story; I mean, it's nice and long, but when it's over, it's over. If you wanted to fall into a new universe and stay there for a while, I'd suggest either Abstain (Stargate Atlantis) or American Way (Due South).
2) I remember you talking about being Episcopalian in the 10 things meme: how does that differ from generic Christian to you?
American Protestants don't argue about dogma all that much. If you searched the creeds of various denominations, you'd find things to disagree on, but you really don't get, say, Lutherans and Presbyterians in passionate arguments about predestination these days.
But it seems to me that the difference between one denomination and another is that each one is filling a different role in the greater world of religious people. (Different religions may be doing the same thing; I'm only familiar with Protestantism, so I can't really say.)
Presbyterians are here to model civilized, orderly, respectful processes and ways of disagreeing. Methodists are here to keep broadening the definition of "us" until it includes everyone. Black Baptists are the passion and compassion of Christianity. (I don't have anything nice to say about white Baptists at the moment, so I'm going to keep my mouth shut about them. Present company excluded, of course.)
And Episcopalians? We're here to praise the creation.
There's the most amazing, gorgeous music in the hymnal. There are beautiful words in the Book of Common Prayer. We like our pleasures, large and small; we like good food and good wine and pretty churches in pretty gardens.
Where that goes wrong, it goes wrong in smugness and self-satisfaction (and also occasionally in reducing the social life of the church to alcohol and adultery).
But when we do it the way we're supposed to do it, we do like God in the creation story: We're here to look at the world and say that it's good.
(Actually I've been told that in the Hebrew, God looks at the world and says that it's delicious. Better still.)
3) What, if any, are your expectations for Book 7?
I'm really, really hoping that we're going to get an acknowledgement that the Gryffindor-Slytherin Light-Dark thing is insanely oversimplified.
I want to know what's up with the centaurs, and I hope they'll be more than just a sidelight.
It seems to me that we still don't have the whole story on the Marauders and Snape. At least, I hope we don't; I'm looking forward to more of those puzzle pieces.
I'd like a more detailed picture of Grimmauld Place.
Snape's going to die, of course; I hope he gets a chance to explain himself first.
4) What is the most overrated piece of canonical/popular literature (i.e. not fanfiction) today, do you think?
With the current hype, I'm tempted to say The DaVinci Code, but I haven't read it, so that wouldn't really be fair.
Actually I don't often read highly hyped things; eventually I did read The Bridges of Madison County but not until years later when a co-worker forced it on me. (It was worse than any badfic I've ever read.) Most of what I read is either just as good as one could reasonably expect, or so obscure that I have no expectations at all.
5) So, if you were to be reincarnated as an animal, what would you choose :o) ?
Ooh. Otters seem to have a lot of fun. But I don't know; I'd be inclined to fall back on the good old housecat. Now that's a good life.
skuf interviewed me, and now I'll interview you, if you like.1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview Me!" (or something of that ilk)
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1) Muaha, I have been wanting to ask you this for ages, but there never seemed a good time for it (or a good way to phrase it): if I were feeling brave and wanting to read outside HP fandom, judging by reader-response, which of your non-HP fics should I tackle first?
Going strictly by reader response? Higher Education. It's from the movie "The Breakfast Club," but some people have told me they enjoyed it even though they either haven't seen the movie or don't remember it. Everybody in the movie was a type, anyway, so all you need to know is that Brian's a brain and Bender's a delinquent.
The drawback there is that that's my one and only Breakfast Club story; I mean, it's nice and long, but when it's over, it's over. If you wanted to fall into a new universe and stay there for a while, I'd suggest either Abstain (Stargate Atlantis) or American Way (Due South).
2) I remember you talking about being Episcopalian in the 10 things meme: how does that differ from generic Christian to you?
American Protestants don't argue about dogma all that much. If you searched the creeds of various denominations, you'd find things to disagree on, but you really don't get, say, Lutherans and Presbyterians in passionate arguments about predestination these days.
But it seems to me that the difference between one denomination and another is that each one is filling a different role in the greater world of religious people. (Different religions may be doing the same thing; I'm only familiar with Protestantism, so I can't really say.)
Presbyterians are here to model civilized, orderly, respectful processes and ways of disagreeing. Methodists are here to keep broadening the definition of "us" until it includes everyone. Black Baptists are the passion and compassion of Christianity. (I don't have anything nice to say about white Baptists at the moment, so I'm going to keep my mouth shut about them. Present company excluded, of course.)
And Episcopalians? We're here to praise the creation.
There's the most amazing, gorgeous music in the hymnal. There are beautiful words in the Book of Common Prayer. We like our pleasures, large and small; we like good food and good wine and pretty churches in pretty gardens.
Where that goes wrong, it goes wrong in smugness and self-satisfaction (and also occasionally in reducing the social life of the church to alcohol and adultery).
But when we do it the way we're supposed to do it, we do like God in the creation story: We're here to look at the world and say that it's good.
(Actually I've been told that in the Hebrew, God looks at the world and says that it's delicious. Better still.)
3) What, if any, are your expectations for Book 7?
I'm really, really hoping that we're going to get an acknowledgement that the Gryffindor-Slytherin Light-Dark thing is insanely oversimplified.
I want to know what's up with the centaurs, and I hope they'll be more than just a sidelight.
It seems to me that we still don't have the whole story on the Marauders and Snape. At least, I hope we don't; I'm looking forward to more of those puzzle pieces.
I'd like a more detailed picture of Grimmauld Place.
Snape's going to die, of course; I hope he gets a chance to explain himself first.
4) What is the most overrated piece of canonical/popular literature (i.e. not fanfiction) today, do you think?
With the current hype, I'm tempted to say The DaVinci Code, but I haven't read it, so that wouldn't really be fair.
Actually I don't often read highly hyped things; eventually I did read The Bridges of Madison County but not until years later when a co-worker forced it on me. (It was worse than any badfic I've ever read.) Most of what I read is either just as good as one could reasonably expect, or so obscure that I have no expectations at all.
5) So, if you were to be reincarnated as an animal, what would you choose :o) ?
Ooh. Otters seem to have a lot of fun. But I don't know; I'd be inclined to fall back on the good old housecat. Now that's a good life.
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Date: 5/12/06 06:23 am (UTC)I also liked your definitions of the different Protestant denominations. That's them in a nutshell.
Interview me?
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Date: 5/12/06 03:13 pm (UTC)1. Are you superstitious? In general or only with one or two minor things/
2. (I'm afraid I'm re-using this one a lot because I like it) Suppose I told you you could add five people to the Atlantis cast, taken from any show, book, or movie, or from real life. What five characters would you send to Pegasus, and what would they get up to once they got there?
3. Was there actually a flaw in Rodney's musical talent, or was his teacher just having unreasonable expectations/jealous/looking for an excuse to get out of trying to teach Rodney McKay anything?
4. Are you an adventurous eater? What's the strangest thing that you ever ate? What's the strangest thing you eat on a regular basis?
5. What's a scene that never happened that ought to have happened? What's a scene that never ought to have happened and that you'd like to remove from canon? (Any fandom, though of course I'll only follow you if it's Atlantis.)