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The Sci-Fi channel rocks my socks on Sunday nights after 4400 is off (no Jeff this week). Twilight Zone had an excellent episode about a man who discovered that he was a robot. This has been a minor fear of mine ever since I read "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick, so I was quite attentive to the show. (This is also why I cried so fucking hard at the end of A.I.) And now I am watching Quantum Leap, which I haven't seen in ages. Considering writing a crossover. Already have enough stories on my plate that I need to finish. Am terrible at prioritizing stories.
Ever since I joined the White Wolf LARP on Saturday nights, I have been hanging out with a guy named Brady Brenner. Brady is about 30 and feeds me bacon when the group goes out to Shoney's after the game, and I was worried that he was flirting with me. I do not wish for males to flirt with me. (I had three guys this week tell me that I was cute. Why? I try very hard to look and act asexual, insofar as that is possible with my very limited wardrobe. Should I start dressing in a more masculine fashion to avoid this? I've tried this. The boy I was dating at the time said it made me look "cute." So cross-dressing appears to be out. Should I try to disfigure my face? Is it my hat? I get a lot of comments on my hat. My Psych prof even tried to steal it.)
So I took everyone's advice and mentioned, in passing, "Oh, my week was great! I got a letter from my girlfriend who lives in Texas!" (I did get a really sweet letter from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nyghtshayde who is my online girlfriend, so it does kind of count. Random note: I recently told someone that I have two half-girlfriends, which makes one whole girlfriend. However, I am still single. How does this work? I'm not necessarily complaining, mind you. Something just does not appear to add up.)
My suspicions, for once, were correct. Brady had indeed been flirting with me. When I explained that I did not look at males as possible romantic relationshops, he said he was a little disappointed and a little relieved, because he had been looking at me as a potential romantic relationship, and he hadn't been sure of how to treat me because of that. Now that he knew I was "off-limits," as he said, he could relax and not try to worry about impressing me.
He still gave me his bacon. And he did tell me that I had beautiful teeth. (This was in-character, so I suppose it's a compliment for a vampire.)
I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with the game. It's much more character-driven than an average tabletop game, and there are at least ten different plots going on at one time, and I don't know which ones I'm supposed to be in. Frustrating. Lars the Storyteller (LARP equivalent of Dungeon Master) explained to me that nobody knows what's going on in any given plot at any given time anyway, so not to feel bad. He also explained some of the plots to me. I have plans to get more involved in some of them.
Lars then told me about a new character he was creating for himself, a 6,000-year-old Sumerian vampire. He then lectured me for fifteen minutes on ancient Sumeria. I love listening to people talk about things they're really enthusiastic about, no matter what the subject is. And ancient Sumeria is really quite interesting. Lars is also Raphael, a Toreador. Toreadors are another really fun bloodline. They are vain, pretty, shallow, charismatic, witty, pretentious, avant-garde, elitist art snobs with expensive tastes.
I'm planning on changing my character a bit so that her Sire is Vitaly (aka The Onion). Vitaly is the new Sheriff and a member of the Lancea Sanctum, the insane Christians of the Vampire world. He calls himself The Inquisitor now. More importantly, he is a Malkovian, which is a bloodline characterized by insanity. My character, instead of being a novelist, shall be a conspiracy theorist who writes "THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW ALIENS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS AND INVENTED STRING CHEESE"-type of books. Not as official as Fox Mulder, or as enigmatic and clever as the Question, but certainly someone to be reckoned with in terms of batshit paranoia. She is going to love the Sumerian vampire when he comes around.
Note to self: When you find yourself wondering which clan, covenant, and bloodline various celebrities and fictional characters belong to, it is a sign that you should get some nutritious food and sunshine before you start writing Mary Sue stories where your Mary Sue is a vampire with a really stupid name. Maybe I should start playing "Mage: The Awakening" instead to forestall this possibility, because that way, if I do go out of my mind and start writing Mary Sue fanfics involving my role-playing characters, a mystic and enlightened Mage would be significantly more interesting than a vampire, and the Mage system would mesh much more easily with most of my fandoms.
ETA: There is a character in our Vampire game who is a mad scientist who used to cut up small children and try to make Frankenstein monsters out of them. My character is a student of his Sire. This is going to be really interesting.
I really don't have anything interesting to say tonight. I'm very hungry and don't feel like sleeping and am trying to make a Re-Animator![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
muse_secrets that will express MY INNER ANGST. (Yes! I have some! Is this a surprise to anyone at all?) Right now I'm kinda identifying with The Bride for a lot of reasons that are too melodramatic to explain without me feeling like an idiot.
Note to those who missed it: The episode of "American Dad" involving Patrick Stewart singing "Little Girls" is going to be on Cartoon Network on Thursday at 11 PM.
Ever since I joined the White Wolf LARP on Saturday nights, I have been hanging out with a guy named Brady Brenner. Brady is about 30 and feeds me bacon when the group goes out to Shoney's after the game, and I was worried that he was flirting with me. I do not wish for males to flirt with me. (I had three guys this week tell me that I was cute. Why? I try very hard to look and act asexual, insofar as that is possible with my very limited wardrobe. Should I start dressing in a more masculine fashion to avoid this? I've tried this. The boy I was dating at the time said it made me look "cute." So cross-dressing appears to be out. Should I try to disfigure my face? Is it my hat? I get a lot of comments on my hat. My Psych prof even tried to steal it.)
So I took everyone's advice and mentioned, in passing, "Oh, my week was great! I got a letter from my girlfriend who lives in Texas!" (I did get a really sweet letter from
nyghtshayde who is my online girlfriend, so it does kind of count. Random note: I recently told someone that I have two half-girlfriends, which makes one whole girlfriend. However, I am still single. How does this work? I'm not necessarily complaining, mind you. Something just does not appear to add up.) My suspicions, for once, were correct. Brady had indeed been flirting with me. When I explained that I did not look at males as possible romantic relationshops, he said he was a little disappointed and a little relieved, because he had been looking at me as a potential romantic relationship, and he hadn't been sure of how to treat me because of that. Now that he knew I was "off-limits," as he said, he could relax and not try to worry about impressing me.
He still gave me his bacon. And he did tell me that I had beautiful teeth. (This was in-character, so I suppose it's a compliment for a vampire.)
I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with the game. It's much more character-driven than an average tabletop game, and there are at least ten different plots going on at one time, and I don't know which ones I'm supposed to be in. Frustrating. Lars the Storyteller (LARP equivalent of Dungeon Master) explained to me that nobody knows what's going on in any given plot at any given time anyway, so not to feel bad. He also explained some of the plots to me. I have plans to get more involved in some of them.
Lars then told me about a new character he was creating for himself, a 6,000-year-old Sumerian vampire. He then lectured me for fifteen minutes on ancient Sumeria. I love listening to people talk about things they're really enthusiastic about, no matter what the subject is. And ancient Sumeria is really quite interesting. Lars is also Raphael, a Toreador. Toreadors are another really fun bloodline. They are vain, pretty, shallow, charismatic, witty, pretentious, avant-garde, elitist art snobs with expensive tastes.
I'm planning on changing my character a bit so that her Sire is Vitaly (aka The Onion). Vitaly is the new Sheriff and a member of the Lancea Sanctum, the insane Christians of the Vampire world. He calls himself The Inquisitor now. More importantly, he is a Malkovian, which is a bloodline characterized by insanity. My character, instead of being a novelist, shall be a conspiracy theorist who writes "THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW ALIENS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS AND INVENTED STRING CHEESE"-type of books. Not as official as Fox Mulder, or as enigmatic and clever as the Question, but certainly someone to be reckoned with in terms of batshit paranoia. She is going to love the Sumerian vampire when he comes around.
Note to self: When you find yourself wondering which clan, covenant, and bloodline various celebrities and fictional characters belong to, it is a sign that you should get some nutritious food and sunshine before you start writing Mary Sue stories where your Mary Sue is a vampire with a really stupid name. Maybe I should start playing "Mage: The Awakening" instead to forestall this possibility, because that way, if I do go out of my mind and start writing Mary Sue fanfics involving my role-playing characters, a mystic and enlightened Mage would be significantly more interesting than a vampire, and the Mage system would mesh much more easily with most of my fandoms.
ETA: There is a character in our Vampire game who is a mad scientist who used to cut up small children and try to make Frankenstein monsters out of them. My character is a student of his Sire. This is going to be really interesting.
I really don't have anything interesting to say tonight. I'm very hungry and don't feel like sleeping and am trying to make a Re-Animator
muse_secrets that will express MY INNER ANGST. (Yes! I have some! Is this a surprise to anyone at all?) Right now I'm kinda identifying with The Bride for a lot of reasons that are too melodramatic to explain without me feeling like an idiot. Note to those who missed it: The episode of "American Dad" involving Patrick Stewart singing "Little Girls" is going to be on Cartoon Network on Thursday at 11 PM.
