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dangermousieI am bored being sick at home and I have a ton of new people join my flist so I thought this is as good a time as any to play this game.
Ask me something. Anything. I promise to answer.
It has to be fandom-related though or at least not identifyingly personal (e.g. 'favorite color' is something I'll answer even if it's not a fandom topic but 'what's your daughter's name' is not something I will dish out).
Go at it :) I am sick and bored :)
ETA: LJ comment notifications are still spotty, everyone. I don't think it should take over a week for LJ to fix it but there you are...
Ask me something. Anything. I promise to answer.
It has to be fandom-related though or at least not identifyingly personal (e.g. 'favorite color' is something I'll answer even if it's not a fandom topic but 'what's your daughter's name' is not something I will dish out).
Go at it :) I am sick and bored :)
ETA: LJ comment notifications are still spotty, everyone. I don't think it should take over a week for LJ to fix it but there you are...
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Date: 2011-03-15 12:50 am (UTC)I have no idea what my WPM is but I type really fast which is even weirder because I type with only two fingers (no idea why, nobody taught me to type properly I guess).
I am stay-at-home Mom atm, but before, the job I had involved a lot of writing and typing - it was actually 90% of my work time.
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Date: 2011-03-15 05:14 am (UTC)More fandom-related: Do you perceive East Asian dramas as a category (as distinct from European/American dramas/serials/telenovellas), or are there recurrent traits of East Asian dramas that draw you to them? Or is it an accident that you ended up liking TW/C/J/K-dramas? Or are you actually watching a lot of non-Asian dramas concurrently but just not posting about them now?
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Date: 2011-03-15 05:28 am (UTC)I don't necessarily view dramas as a separate own thing - there is little thematically in common between Three Kingdoms and Hi My Sweetheart except for both being in Mandarin.
But I think what draws me to dramas is the same thing that drew me to Bollywood and that always given me a problem with a lot of Western media - dramas are not afraid to show their emotions, to be epic and larger than life. Maybe this comes from being Russian - not only did Russian tv shows of my childhood and youth have more in common with dramas technically (limited number of eps, serial storyline) but emotionally, Russian stories - in books/tv/movies have always been more open, more "larger than life". If you translate the lyrics of a lot of Russian songs, they sound fairly normal in Russian but ridiculously melodramatic in English. So I think it's that emotion that I liked since childhood that I found in Bollywood and now in dramas that draws me in. Plus, my love for period tragedy and swashbuckling was instituted in me by my obsessive reads of Dumas and Boussenar and Mein Reid and all those other authors and in dramas I find that in cinematic form.
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Date: 2011-03-15 06:20 pm (UTC)I mean, I cry, laugh and curse when watching western shows, too, but asian dramas are really so much richer.
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Date: 2011-03-16 03:18 am (UTC)I agree, that's the only Western show to elicit the same amount of emotion in me.
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Date: 2011-03-16 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-16 10:38 pm (UTC)My best friend and my husband collectively got me into Farscape and I am so glad they did even if I had to deal with s4 awful cliffhanger.
That makes me think, time for a rewatch...
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Date: 2011-03-17 12:34 pm (UTC)I have to watch at least a couple of episodes as soon as I have my annual leave.