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?)

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

Comments

[planejane.livejournal.com]

I couldn't do hipster, because I don't really know what one is.

I'm going to have a think, though. How about, I'm not a cheerleader but ... Is that unlike me enough?

[planejane.livejournal.com]

Five ways in which I'm a cheerleader:

- I have three different coloured lip-glosses in my hand-bag.
- I would probably go down on the captain of the football team. For def, actually.


OK, I could only come up with two. I'll have to think of another one.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I'm going to need to come up with some types you didn't use. Also, I think the strikes against me in the "hipster" category number way more than five, but if I do a list of ways I'm not a hipster, I'm just in denial. (-;

Five Ways in Which I am Steampunk

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

1. I own three pair of altered goggles to be steampunk... green, brass, and silver plated and could wear a different steampunk outfit for every day of the week.

2. I fill one whole shelf on my bookshelf with actual novels that have the genre label steampunk... one is actually signed by the author.

3. My Halloween costume for this year was actually advertised as steampunk mad scientist and I wore it to go trick-or-treating with my son.

4. My car has a bumper sticker that says my other vehicle is an airship.

5. I have customized jewelry to be specifically steampunk.

Five Ways In Which I Am Fashionable

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

...which is funny only because I'm actually not. At all.

1. I own six pairs of designer sunglasses. All much too big for my face.
2. I own several pairs of shoes with obscenely indecent pricetags.
3. I wear scarves. Even when I don't need to.
4. I wear makeup just so I can look like I'm not wearing makeup.
5. Er...I can't think of #5.

Five Ways I'm a Punk Rocker

[jacknjill270.livejournal.com]

1) I have a leather jacket.
2) I have the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, and the Clash all on my iPod. (Though owning an iPod is probably a strike against me...)
3) I've dyed my hair blue before.
4) I own safety pin earrings.
5) ...I always listen to my music really loud? I can't think of a fifth reason, damn.

That was kind of hard! Like you, I can think of five ways I'm a nerd without even trying, so I had to put a bit of effort into coming up with these. Ooh, that ficathon sounds interesting! It's been so long since I've written fic my fic-brain has probably atrophied from lack of use. Have you decided what fandom you're going to write for?

[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: ♥!

[faery-fall.livejournal.com]

I've never been well-versed in labels and their associations, but I must try!

5 Reasons I am Country/Southern

1. I don't generally consider chicken edible unless it's fried.
2. There has been a rusted old dead car in my backyard for many, many moons (this might be more redneck, but... I already thought way too hard about how "country" and "Southern" aren't the same thing, so oh well).
3. Um, I worship at the alter of hush puppies.
4. There is a squirrel in my freezer. That sounds like some horrifying euphemism, but ... literally, there's a squirrel in my freezer.
5. There's a farm across from our street, and one night a goat had wandered over and just stood around on our front porch.

It would have been much easier to list the ways in which I'm a bad southerner (featuring my inability to drink sweet tea and my inability to remember which kind of meat constitutes "Carolina" barbecue).

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

I NEED TO PLAY THIS. But later, in the morning, when I am more 'witty' and less 'think I'm witty'. ::ponders stereotypes::

ALSO, don't die. I would be sad if you died. The family remedy for feeling like that is Stone's Ginger Wine (pretty sure you can't get that in the States but this is only theory so never mind), warmed to blood temperature with an equal measure of lemonade (as in the kind that has never been near a lemon and is fizzy), also warm. Inhale the fumes, drink the liquid, feel better.

The step they forget to mention is drinking the rest of the bottle of Ginger Wine (which is delicious cold with lemonade, and as a substitute for Ginger Beer in a Vodka Mule. Y'know, if it needs a higher alcohol content. Only in Australia would you add more alcohol to what is essentially half a pint of vodka.)

Son of Also: If there is such a thing as a 'true' hipster, you would be one. I mean, as opposed to the steretype which is full of people subscribing to a philosophy they couldn't explain to save their lives. Maybe Indie is a better term with less baggage (not that I want to shove you in a neatly labelled box, mind, except that if the world was full of neatly-labelled boxes it would be an easier place to live).

Five ways I am and will always be a goth

[ladybracknell.livejournal.com]

1. I have been drunk and emotional in a cemetary unrelated to the funeral of a person I knew more times than I can count.

2. I have a genuine and completely non-ironic love of She Sells Sanctuary by the Cult.

3. Wearing colours other than black and white makes me nervous.

4. I have pervious with pithy dingy nightclub one-liners. Example:

Random Stranger: I'm doing a survey. Why do men have nipples?
Me: For biting to keep them in-line.

5. I want to be Pauley Perrette when I grow up.

Five Ways In Which I Am So Totally a Jock, Yes, Yes I am, Why Would You Question This?

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

1) I wear sneakers whenever I can possibly get away with them, and often to work when I can't.

2) I own the sportsy-running pants with my alma mater's logo.

3) I, er, own an obsence number of things with alma mater's logo? (Including a purse. Yeah... I tell my mom to just be thankful I got around to BUYING being bought a purse.)

4) I pack away obscene amounts of pizza.

5) I, er, occasionally do athletic stuff, out of my own free will, despite the fact that P.E. teachers aren't around to compel me? Like, sometimes as much as one a week? C'mon, this one has so totally got to count!

So my list is sucks, but it took me a while to find "five ways" for... any type. (Even non-challenging ones like nerd also came up one short. GAH. Now I'm off with feelings of failure.)

This is a very fun thread to read, though. :)