Hippies, Hipsters, and Steampunk! OMG!

[apple_pathways]

I have created a game! Ish... Take a series of identities/cultural identifiers/nonsense phrases, and list the ways in which you might fall under that category of personage. Sounds like fun, right? (This is the part where you play along...) It's also a good way to get to know each other! Let's play, shall we?

Five Ways In Which I Am:

a Hippie:

1. I have an organic garden.
   
2. I compost.
   
3. I make my own laundry detergent.
   
4. I have long hair.
   
5. I make people uncomfortable at parties when they confess to shopping at Wal-Mart.

a Hipster:

1. I have black, acrylic-framed glasses.
   
2. I own more than one plaid shirt.
   
3. My music snobbery interests.
   
4. I listen to NPR.
   
5. I shop at farmers' markets.

a Yuppie Suburbanite:

1. I have a Starbucks gold card.
   
2. I tell people I'm from Detroit, even though I live in the 'burbs.
   
3. I wear yoga pants out of the house for non-yoga purposes.
   
4. I spend way too much time bitching about a lack of parking.
   
5. I consider the soup and salad lunch combo at Olive Garden to be a 'good deal'.

a Goth:

1. I own more than three types of black eyeliner.
   
2. I like Joy Division.
   
3. I was once officially 'initiated' at a Goth club in Detroit by a dude who claimed to be a vampire. (He bit my neck. It was adorable. True story!)
   
4. I have an odd fascination with death, and I love cemeteries.
   
5. I ♥ Gothic literature. (I took a class in college, though I don't know if that fact makes me more or less Goth...)

I wanted to do 'Nerd', but this entire journal could very easily be considered evidence for how I fit into that category! So let me turn the tables and give you:

Five Ways In Which I Am Not A Nerd:

1. I'm not into video games.
   
2. Never got into Star Trek.
   
3. I enjoy talking to strangers at parties.
   
4. Also: I will dance. Even if no one else is dancing and the music is really lame. I am going to bust a move.
   
5. I have never in my life said: "OMG, you should see X Movie, it's got awesome special effects!" Fuck special effects. AND High-Def. I am more than happy with regular-def.

Now's the part where you play along at home: either in the comments or on your journal, pick a label! Pick one of the ones I used, or make up one of your own. Give me five reasons why you are or are not like that label. The challenge comes when you pick one that doesn't really fit: I am by no means a Goth, but with some creative thinking, I was able to come up with five ways in which I could be.

Basically: help distract me from the fact I'm dying AGAIN! (I know, right: inconvenient!) My throat hurts, my chest feels heavy, and my shoulders and neck are achy. So play with me, please, and we shall make merry! (Also: what are some good labels you might suggest for anyone who wants to play?)

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Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Hmm... let's see. This is mostly steampunk as design element, rather than steampunk as lifestyle or literary genre.

1) Almost all of the jewelry I have features clock hands or cogs
2) I own goggles and suspenders, and have worn them together; I also stole my date's tophat at prom (which I made him wear as a condition of him taking me) and wore it all night
3) I have a list of buildings in Chicago that I think would make excellent zeppelin docks (I also know which one has a zeppelin dock)
4) I love the way metal/plastic minimalist design looks when juxtaposed with wood, and most of my ideal apartment designs involve this (these are getting kind of tenuous)
5) I'm not sure what to put for this one, but whatever it is would probably reference how The Great Machine is my hero.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

You rose to the challenge mightily! (And came much closer to the definition that I would have.)

And now: which building in Chicago has a Zeppelin dock? I'm pretty sure you're required to tell me under the Mutual Exchange of Information clause of the Detroit/Chicago Zombie!pocalypse Mutual Defense Act...

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

You're only allowed to know this on the condition that you come rescue us in dirigibles: it's the gold dome on the InterContinental Hotel.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

It's important to keep all your options. I may not have access to an airship at the moment, but believe me: I will be on the lookout for one! (Especially now that I know I can dock it atop that gorgeous hotel! I stayed at an InterContinental in New Orleans, but it wasn't that pretty!)