interview questions from accioslash

[arcanetrivia]

1. You have a "big" birthday coming up. Is there anything you really want to do before you turn 30? Tell me about it.

Nope. I've never been a life goals/ambitions type of person. There are things I would like to do, but it doesn't seem important to get them done in the next seven months. 30 is going to creep up really fast (I'm surprised January is half-shot already) and I'm probably barely going to notice it. My co-workers are probably going to notice it more, and I only pray they don't decide to do some stupid surprise party. I hate those. (My birthday being at a time of the year half the staff are already absent because they are 11-month faculty, and not 12-month classifieds, helps out there.) I'm not sure if I'm going to care very much about 40 or 50 when they get here, either.

2. Why Snape? And canon!Snape or fanon!Snape?

He is just made of awesome. Great witty lines. Good fashion sense ;) . Brilliant and full of presence in a book where a lot of people are not. Complex storyline. Backstory that gets me right there. An agent within the story for voicing my frustrations with its protagonist. ;)

I like them both but most of the time what I am thinking of is probably a fanon!Snape. What I see in my head is not Alan Rickman (nor is it Alec Hopkins, for that matter), yet I know I have managed to romanticize and even eroticize him to an extent that isn't really supported by the text (except in the sense that everyone has their preferences and kinks, and some of his details push certain buttons for me). There's so much material to work with when it comes to Severus, and so many people do such a great job of it.

3. What would you see if you looked into the Mirror of Erised?

Hrm. Probably me in a body that I actually thought was attractive. (Which is not the changes most people think of when I say something like that -- I have no desire to look like, oh, Angelina Jolie.)

4. What would be your boggart?

I think I might be a bit like Molly here, and that it would probably be a dead enotsola.

5. So what's in Canada that keeps/kept you going back?

Oh, sorry -- this is a bit of a "duh" to me, but I guess it's not very clear to people who have only seen a few months of posts online. enotsola is Canadian (born in Nova Scotia, living in Ontario) and we've been engaged since 2001. I applied in 2003 to immigrate to Canada as a permanent resident, but when the visa was finally approved in 2006 and I moved, I wasn't able to find any full-time work and after five months we decided I should stop spending savings, I would move back to California, and we would do immigration the other way around. I applied last April to sponsor him, and his interview for that visa is in three weeks.

Comments

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

Ah, good answers. I was never one for "big birthdays" either. Turning 20 was probably my biggest since there were some things at that time I really hoped to have accomplished by them. Now, not so much. There's time enough for everything I need to do. And what I don't get done must not have been something I was meant to do.

I like that you can acknowledge that you romanticize Snape. Some people assure me it's 100% canon!Snape they love, which seems a bit unlikely. Primarily because we really don't have a lot of information beyond what we see from Harry's rather biased pov and Jo's limited one. But he really is larger than life and totally made of win. ;D

Oh, you're right. I didn't know you were engaged. For some reason I was thinking you might have grown up/had family in Canada.

You seem amazingly patient. Engaged since 2001? I suppose there really isn't much that can be done to speed up red tape, but I would find that to be a very frustrating experience. And I'm not sure I'm built for long-distance relationships even with frequent visits. I'm naturally very demanding and high maintenance though almost no one believes it of me when I say it.

[elethian.livejournal.com]

Turning 20 was probably my biggest

I think 25 was the last one I really paid any attention to. 21 is usually a biggie in the US, but my then-boyfriend's 21st, two years earlier, was enough for me, I think.

And what I don't get done must not have been something I was meant to do.

Pretty much. What, us worry? I have a peculiar sort of fatalism: whatever I did was something I must have been meant to do. It's not predestination, but "inevitability": the present grows out of the past. There are few things in my past I genuinely regret, even fewer as my perspective gets longer.

For example, at the time (~1996) I rued the choice not to apply to UCLA's film program; now, I know that if I had gone there, I would have stood a good chance of not having met aforesaid long-fiance, whom I consider my soulmate. (And then again, if that's really what he is, wouldn't I have met him anyway? Who knows! Schroedinger's universes! It's far too much for any one brain to worry about. Do what stirs you, and be excellent to each other; the rest falls into place.)

I like that you can acknowledge that you romanticize Snape.

SEVERUS IS HOT

There. I said it; I'd say it again if I had to. (And I'm sure I will. They card you every time you post in do_me_profsnape, donchaknow.)

Srsly tho. Brains are hot (or, I should say, are a minimum requirement). Snark is hot. A thin/scrawny build is hot. Dark hair hanging in dark eyes wrapped in dark clothing is hot. ("Greasiness" doesn't really bother me; there's a number of perfectly natural reasons for that, some of which my own real, live, Y-chromosome-bearing fiance suffers from, and hey, it gives more opportunities for fun activities like baths.) Long, thin fingers are merely icing on the cake.

As I said, he pushes a number of buttons. And I know from personal experience that if you hit a certain five out of ten, so to speak, the other five are a lot less strictly adhered to. Being accepting of me gets points in itself, even if you could use a visit to the orthodontist. ;)

For some reason I was thinking you might have grown up/had family in Canada.

In the future tense, I do (...oh dear, in-laws), but not until that piece of paper is signed.

You seem amazingly patient. Engaged since 2001?

February, in fact, so seven years in almost exactly a month. :) The class of immigrant he's going to be requires us to get married within 90 days of his entering the US, so I should be a "Mrs" within 6 months, for sure. (Ah, reducing my 11-letter maiden name to 4 letters. Such a timesaver!)

Erm, anyway. I seem amazingly Virgo with a Moon in Taurus, maybe. ;) Which is to say, yes; if I think something is important -- which I definitely think enotsola is -- I can display huge amounts of patience (what others might call "stubbornness" and "pigheadedness"). If I set my mind that I want something, unless you can logically convince me it's a bad idea, then you better just settle in and/or get out of the way.