Hippies, Hipsters, and Steampunk! OMG!

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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?)

ETA: It's all roh_wyn's fault, but I have signed up for femgenficathon. It does what it says on the tin: gen stories about women from any fandom! (History RPF, too.) YOU SHOULD ALL GO SIGN UP! Let me know if you do. :P

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[tierfal.livejournal.com]

(He bit my neck. It was adorable. True story!)
Please write this down as a story. Fictionalized/heavily embellished is totally fine. But I NEED TO KNOW.

...honestly, as far as labels go, I think the only one that suits me is "CONFUSED."

omg, bb, I hope you feel better!! D: ♥!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I really should embellish the story, because it's just not that interesting, otherwise! Here goes:

There's a 'Goth' club in Detroit called City Club, and I've been a few times. It's supposed to be all CRAZY and intense and whatnot: hardcore scenesters hang out there, and there's nudity. (Never anyone I've particularly wanted to see naked, but I digress!) A lot of people there put a whole lot of effort into their outfits, which is really fun. (There's this one 'couple' who come dressed head-to-toe in black latex: covering their faces and everything. It's rather eerie, but cool. According to some regulars I know who go there, they're kinda snobby, though, and will only talk to their own crowd.)

Anyway. My friend's roommate belongs to a Detroit Gothic Network, and they were hosting a special event night at the club. She asked my friend and I if we wanted to go, and we said sure. She kept trying to 'prepare' us for what it was going to be like, despite the fact we'd both been there before.

Anyway, she introduced us to a lot of her friends who were there that night. One of them was this really shy, kinda awkward-seeming guy dressed in all black. While talking to him, he'd asked if I'd been 'initiated'--it was really adorable, because he asked in this really shy, coy way. I told him I hadn't, and he asked if I wanted to be. I said 'sure'. And he leaned in and ever-so-gently bit my neck. It was just really cute! :P

[tierfal.livejournal.com]

omg, that is TOTALLY ADORABLE.

See, if Twilight was this story, the world would be in much, MUCH better shape right now. As would the future of feminism. And my soul.

D'aww. :D