Fun with Memetics

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

For those of you recognizing that the proportion of memetic content to non-memetic content (which, if we're being technical about the actual meaning of "memetics," is an oxymoron) has grown, this is because . . . er, uh . . . this is because I am conducting a super-secret experiment in memetics.

Yes, I am an experimental memeticist, and you are my guinea pigs. So, erm, stay tuned anyway?

In case you don't believe that, I promise that there will be real content eventually. I have a lot of different fics in a lot of different fandoms planned; I just never seem to have any energy or time to write any of them. Not to mention re-applying to grad schools or searching for better jobs than the summer job I have now, neither activity being one that I've really done as much or as well as I should.

So that pictorial LJ interests collage meme thing, with the tags not even pretending to be represented by the pictures with which they are paired:

( My Interests Collage! )

ETA:I particularly like how it translates Mac/Madison as a Fleetwood Mac album. But that's okay; I like Fleetwood Mac (I'm pretty sure?).

And, Summer. Tina. Juliet. Michelle. Iyari. Amanda, Eliza, Jewel, Miranda, Amy, Elizabeth. (Not to mention Aly, Sarah, Cynthia, Kate, Kristen, and whoever that woman who plays Discord is.) Guh. Just guh. (As Ari would say, actors are paid to be pretty.)

ETA2: And, upon googling Kristen to make sure I spelled her name correctly (I did), I have learned that she will be starring in the animated film Flatland: The Movie. How cool is that?

I Am an Experimental Memeticist

When a meme mutates, does it become an X-meme?

Anyway, the experiments continue. Pretty soon I'll put you back in your cages and go to bed and then you can do what you do every night -- try to take over the world. Or write me porn. Either way works.

Gakked from Karl Rove likeadeuce and others:

1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.

2. Run a google image search on that word.

3. Reply to this entry and post one of the pictures from your search, but don't tell me what the word was.

4. Put this in your journal and I'll reply with one for you.

Note: You don't actually have to put this in your journal. And if all you did was tell me the word you thought of, that will also make me smile. =D

How does the meme know what will make me smile?

"I serve the Comte de Masoch," he said, as he spammed their flists.

Masochist, noun. A canon whore in X-Men movieverse fandom.

1. How old is Kitty Pryde? What does she look like? And why the frell is she an X-Man? (In the sense of being on the team, that is. I love Kitty, but there is absolutely no explanation given.)

2. Since we see Hank with non-blue skin in X2, the secondary stage of his mutation must have set in some time while Jean was dead, right? So his reaction to his response to Leach is one to being returned to a state he very recently held, right? Which raises the question, when did he become in charge of Mutant Affairs? I had the impression he was "closeted" during X2, but that might not be canon--we don't see him long enough to base many conclusions upon his scene (if you can call it that).

3. In X3, we have four distinct "times." If I remember correctly, they are: thirty years "ago", twenty years "ago", the not-too-distant "future", and the narrative "now" against which the other times are being measured ("our" past, "our" future). So Jean's age is her age in the flashback (early teens?) + twenty/thirty years (I forget which flashback was which) + the difference between "now" and the not-too distant future. Warren's age, same deal. Right?