Getting to know you weirdos meme

[attackfish]

Ganked without attribution from people on other people's f-lists

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's Parker ...she likes money and cereal." I'd love it if everyone who's friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know really well.) Then post this in your own journal [only if you feel inclined]. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer*.

*Providing it's answerable/suitable for public posting.

Comments

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Don't read The Blue Sword. It will raise your blood pressure. It's dances with horses. The plot goes something like this: Free willed and penniless young blueblood, Harry Crew goes to live at a frontier colonial outpost with her soldier brother upon the death of their father. Although everybody is nice, Harry doesn't fit in until the king of the extremely reduced people her people are trying to colonize kidnaps her because his magic orders him to, oh, and while he's doing that, he's trying to convince the colonials that the Northern demons are coming to kill them all. So Harry is trained by the king and his men to be an awesome warrior, she beats all of the natives except the king, and it turns out that one of her great grandmothers or something was a native princess, and then gets to use the Blue Sword of Aerin, a major native relic to beat the Northerners back, and then settles down and marries the (middle aged) king and starts competing with her brother's wife, who is a mysterious native warrior, over how many kids they can pop out. Yeah.

[lalunatique.livejournal.com]

Ugh no. Just no. Thanks for warning me off the idea, and now I'm glad my fourteen-year-old self never laid eyes on the book. My imagined version was way better anyway. *grumbles*

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Just think, it won a Newbery Honor.

[lalunatique.livejournal.com]

That's the sound of me losing respect for the Newbery.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This is why I was utterly unsurprised when she made some racially offensive comments during the 2008 election. Everybody else was going "Oh Robin McKinley no!" and I was just "eh."