Be Interested in Interesting Me!

[qos]

Following after saskia139, whose interesting list of interests includes theosis:

Scan my interest list and pick out the one that seems the most odd to you -- either because you don't know what it is or because you don't know why I would be interested in such a thing. And I'll try to explain myself...

And I'll add my own twist: when you post this in your own journal, include the interest you selected for the person in whose journal you found this.

Comments

[athenian-abroad.livejournal.com]

I'd ask about "Antonio Banderas," but you also list "Unresolved Sexual Tension" and "Stockholm Syndrome", which sort of explains everything. ;-)

[qos.livejournal.com]

Hurmph!

I think Banderas smolders better than just about any other male movie star these days. Desperado is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies, and I enjoy his singing.

In addition, my gaming friend John used Banderas as the 'face' for his Star Wars character who eventually became my character's husband, so there are often emotional overtones from that when I watch his performances.

[nixnivis.livejournal.com]

I'm curious about "gwenhwyfar" - I've never heard that word before. My gut reaction is to say "bless you", but somehow I don't think that's correct... :-)

[qos.livejournal.com]

If you aren't looking at this response on LJ, you should click the link to view the entry.

Gwenhwyfar is one of the oldest spellings of the name of King Arthur's queen. I like to use it because it echoes back to the times before her identity became so caught up in the "adulturous wife" motif. I first came across it in my favorite Arthurian book, Firelord, by Parke Godwin (which I push whenever possible). His version of Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar is magnificent. Flawed, but with much more strength and courage and ferocity than most. He writes her as a royal daughter of the one of the non-Pictish British tribes, but classically educated because of the Roman presence. She's the one who teaches Arthur kingship, not just the leading of military men.

Keira Knightley's character is nothing like Godwin's character, but a generous icon artist picked that interest and came up with the icon for me during a give-away.

[nixnivis.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I had no idea about all this (and I love the icon) - thanks!

And I'm so pinching this.

[ad-lumen.livejournal.com]

sylvia louise engdahl ?

[qos.livejournal.com]

She is the author of Enchantress from the Stars, the first science fiction book I ever read, and the story of one of my favorite heroines. Its sequel, The Far Side of Evil, is also good, and she has a trilogy now published as an omnibus called The Children of the Star which is a character-driven story which is also lovely meditation on religious truth and symbol. To fully appreciate the third book, it helps to have read either Enchantress or Far Side because her worlds overlap.

The books were originally marketed as young adult novels, but after Enchantress they really speak to the concerns of adults. And even Enchantress remains delightful. I think you would enjoy the Star trilogy.

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

What about "colliding galaxies"?

[qos.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh. . .

When I first started writing my secret fantasy saga, the justification for my traveling between worlds was that one day several galaxies were going to collide. I wrote this in spite of my awareness of the official statement that objects in space are traveling "out" from what we think is the center of the universe, and away from each other.

And then, sometime after my college years, to my utter, slack-jawed, stunned amazement, that some galaxies actually do collide:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0411/ngc2207_hst_big.jpg

"Colliding Galaxies" is not just a reference to my deepest personal myth, it is a metaphor for the mystery and wonder of the universe.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_storyteller_/]

The only thing I saw that I didn't already have a clue about.

pibgorn

[qos.livejournal.com]

Pibgorn is the name of one of the comic strips I read everyday, about the adventures of a fairy named Pibgorn who is in love with an Episcopelian organist named Geoff. Her best friend (now) is a succubus named Drusilla, who also loves the organist. The background is here:
http://www.comics.com/comics/pibgorn/html/about_comic.html#story

The most recent storyline has been startlingly macabre: including MIB capturing Pibgorn, removing her wings, and hanging her up by her wrists to interrogate/torture her. Drusilla and Geoff are coming to the rescue, and Dru, as a succubus, has some standard ways of distracting people. . . It's been reminding me of those old pulp magazines. . .

The strip is drawn by Brooke McEldowney who also writes/draws my very favorite strip, 9 Chickweed Lane, which has just turned the lives of its characters completely upside down.

I keep wondering what's going on in the cartoonist's life to make him producing these particular storylines.