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[alfvaen]

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in


1. reading score: 37

Well...yeah. It's not so much of an interest as it is a necessity.

2. cats score: 31

I suppose. We only have one cat, and are unlikely to get more. Our current cat is not the friendlist, at least not to me. I don't clean her litterbox as often as I should, and I sometimes wonder if she resents me for it, as unlikely as it is that she would associate me with it. She's not a cuddly cat, and she often seems to be hiding from the kids. And sometimes I chase her with a wire brush to try to pull mats out of her fur. But when I get up in the morning, which usually involves my sitting on the bed for a few minutes(like a Sim with low Active score*), she comes up to be petted. Probably just a Pavlovian response, but it's kind of nice. I like cats in general, but I'm not an obsessive about it. After all, I do have children.

3. movies score: 30

I do like to watch the occasional movie, but considering we only manage one or two movies a month these days, it's not much of an interest. On the other hand, I do like the Bacon Chain game and the Fantasy Film League, so I'm mostly interested in movies as data objects.

4. computers score: 29

See "reading", above.

5. anime score: 26

I've honestly never tried it, unless "Samurai Pizza Cats" counts. I've just never had the urge. (Does this meme recommend "anime" for everybody?)

6. sci-fi score: 26

No. I can't stand the term "sci-fi". "SF", please. (Which I often consider to stand for "speculative" instead of "science" fiction.)

7. photography score: 21

I really could care less about taking pictures. As reminders of past events, fine, they can be good memory triggers. But I am uninterested in the technical details of taking quality pictures, and I am uninterested in visual composition.

8. cooking score: 20

How wrong! I loathe cooking with a passion. I'd probably cope better now than I did when I was living with two roommates and going to university, but when I'm left alone in the house, I tend to cook very simple things. What recipes I do know, I follow slavishly because of a lack of intuition on how variations will affect things. It just seems to be a lot of work just to produce food.

9. lord of the rings score: 18

I liked the movies more than I ever liked the books, really. It's not something I think too much about. I've read too much other fantasy to consider Tolkien that special for anything other than getting there first.

10. art score: 17

I presume we're talking about visual art here, possibly including sculpture. No, I am completely uninterested. I am verbally oriented, not visually.

11. star wars score: 17

Not particularly. I thought the movies were great when I was a kid, the Marvel Comics series was pretty decent, and "Attack of The Clones" was not half-bad, but that's as far as it goes. I don't play the computer games, I don't read the newer comics, I don't read the books.

12. history score: 16

A little bit, I guess. I'm beginning to appreciate the richness of our world's history, and would like to emulate it in worldbuilding for fantasy worlds. Reading about it I find very spotty, though. My favourites sources are Asimov's Chronology of The World and The Cartoon History of The Universe(if that ever continues). But I don't get into it too deeply.

13. sex score: 16

Not that I'll admit.

14. comics score: 16

I guess, but my interest pretty much stopped over a decade ago. I read voraciously in my childhood, mostly Marvel Comics, but since then it's been sparing. With the end of Cerebus, I don't think there are any current series I'm buying. Grimjack came to an end, Love & Rockets has palled, Sandman ended and its spinoffs failed to hold my interest, Silver Surfer dropped considerably once Jim Starlin took over from Steve Englehart, and I don't like the current styles of art in superhero comics. I was always more interested in the SF/fantasy-oriented comics, like Micronauts and Dr. Strange, and Silver Surfer. And nobody can touch the heyday of Claremont's X-Men.

15. chocolate score: 15

Can't stand the stuff. Well, I was okay with it as a child, but at some point I realized I didn't like it. I've only recently managed to tolerate, say, having a chocolate birthday cake to be sociable. Can you put in "anti-interests"?

16. mythology score: 14

A little bit, I suppose, but mostly in my childhood. I file a lot of Christianity in this category as well, too.

17. drawing score: 14

Nope, can't draw worth a damn.

18. buffy score: 14

This is just redundant for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", which I already have in there. In this case, for some reason I prefer the longer form of the title.

19. polyamory score: 13

No. Just...no.

20. love score: 13

Not as a topic of discussion.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

OK, so kind of fiction isn't "speculative"?

[alfvaen]

Don't blame me, I didn't coin it, I just picked up the term back in 1989 and it seems more compact to me than "science fiction/fantasy/horror/magic realism" or however you expand it. Many authors that I like write more than one of the above, so putting them in separate genres seems foolish.

"Speculative fiction" doesn't take place in "consensus reality", I guess. I'm not sure who invented the term--I want to say Theodore Sturgeon, but I could be wrong.

(Of course, putting "horror" in there is troublesome, because some horror does take place in consensus reality...but sometimes the premise rests on the possibility that there _could_ be supernatural forces at work.)