Three Random Topics from carbonel
Jun. 22nd, 2019 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydyGalaxy - As an sf fan, I am supposed to love astrophysics and astronomy. I kind of...don't. I think stars are very pretty, and I know that a lot of galaxies look like stars unless you use a strong telescope, and sometimes even then. I also know that galaxies are designated by the letter M and a number, and that there was at least one Minicon that used the number of that Minicon, and an image of the galaxy that it described. Was that M31? Really not sure. Also, there was (is?) a famous sf magazine called Galaxy.
Waltz - I cannot dance to save my life, and I'm crap at identifying time signatures. However, I was delighted to realize (incredibly belatedly) that "The Times They Are A-Changing" is a goddamn waltz. I have always wondered how much truth there was to the Vienna Waltz craze, where allegedly people sold their last stick of furniture to be allowed to waltz a bit longer, and some died of exertion after waltzing for several days, straight. It sounds exactly like the many iterations of the killer drug and killer youth craze that I've seen in my own life, and none of those were particularly fact-based. They were, however, reported solemnly by papers of record, and so historians are totally going to believe that LSD caused blindness, violence, and genetic mutations. And that D&D was used to summon literal demons.
Train - Trains are much nicer than busses, and I really wish they ran more often. I also know that Amtrak is badly managed by policy, and that we could have nice things if only the Republicans would stop trying to prove that they aren't fit to govern. I also know that the whole thing is more complicated than that, but I pretty much want to start by turfing anyone who thinks that the point of being elected to office is to destroy the government from within. Public transport is a public good, not a profit center. Also, I used to really want to have one dress that had a train, but my goodness, where could I possible wear it? Since I can't dance (see above) even if I were the type that got invited to historical re-enactment balls and such, I still wouldn't be able to show it to its best advantage.
I would also like to note that all three of my assigned topics are the subjects of passion and have intense fandoms associated with them, and wonder ifcarbonel intended that.
So, that's three random things about which I have demonstrated great ignorance. If you also wish to have an opportunity to blather about three random topics about which you know nothing, I would be happy to assign them.
Waltz - I cannot dance to save my life, and I'm crap at identifying time signatures. However, I was delighted to realize (incredibly belatedly) that "The Times They Are A-Changing" is a goddamn waltz. I have always wondered how much truth there was to the Vienna Waltz craze, where allegedly people sold their last stick of furniture to be allowed to waltz a bit longer, and some died of exertion after waltzing for several days, straight. It sounds exactly like the many iterations of the killer drug and killer youth craze that I've seen in my own life, and none of those were particularly fact-based. They were, however, reported solemnly by papers of record, and so historians are totally going to believe that LSD caused blindness, violence, and genetic mutations. And that D&D was used to summon literal demons.
Train - Trains are much nicer than busses, and I really wish they ran more often. I also know that Amtrak is badly managed by policy, and that we could have nice things if only the Republicans would stop trying to prove that they aren't fit to govern. I also know that the whole thing is more complicated than that, but I pretty much want to start by turfing anyone who thinks that the point of being elected to office is to destroy the government from within. Public transport is a public good, not a profit center. Also, I used to really want to have one dress that had a train, but my goodness, where could I possible wear it? Since I can't dance (see above) even if I were the type that got invited to historical re-enactment balls and such, I still wouldn't be able to show it to its best advantage.
I would also like to note that all three of my assigned topics are the subjects of passion and have intense fandoms associated with them, and wonder if
carbonel intended that. So, that's three random things about which I have demonstrated great ignorance. If you also wish to have an opportunity to blather about three random topics about which you know nothing, I would be happy to assign them.
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Date: 2019-06-25 03:15 pm (UTC)At at some point too, I could write about three words if you'd care to give them.
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Date: 2019-06-26 09:50 am (UTC)Three words: Needle, stalk, tape. Nouns or verbs, your choice.