Me me me, let's talk about me! Or, There's two "me"s in "meme."

[bironic]

So theninth tagged me to do the meme where you list seven random facts about yourself, but you know what? I'm bored this week (sloooooow at work) and a little lonely, and I like you guys and I like talking about myself, so how about you ask me stuff? I reserve the right to pass if the question's too personal, but you can always ask another. Yeah? And then if you like, I'll ask you something back.

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Oh, I give in. Here are three random facts about me—two copied from a recent comment over at cryptictac's, and one I've been saving up in case a meme like this came 'round again. shut up.

1. Most of the time, if I can't remember a word, it starts with "con-." This makes me suspect that there are tiny areas of the speech centers of the brain responsible for particular morphemes.

2. I still sometimes work on years-old Mary Sue stories in the privacy of my hard drive.

3. If I'm reading a story and someone blinks, winks, nods, shakes or jerks their head, grimaces, shrugs, smirks, squints, raises their eyebrows, snorts, etc., I do the same thing before I've realized it. Like some kind of above-the-chest reader's Tourette's.

4-9. Here are six random facts from the last round.

Comments

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

True, crying is a little different. Depends on the kind.. But about the speaking out loud, I can contain that, if people are around me. lol But the facial expressions are harder to catch.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to say that it's different for you -- only that for me, crying doesn't provoke the same reflexive response as the other movements.

P.S. We are/were commiserating about your tricky screenname below. (I choose to blame it on the screenname rather than on my misapprehension.)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Crying, as I said, there are different kinds, I think... Sometimes it really is kind of reflexive for me. A character starts crying, and I've been playing along as the character the whole time, so I go ahead and do it too, because I'm them. (I'm weird, okay?!?! Leave me be! lol) But sometimes, no one is crying, it's just the sadness of the situation. I don't cry as often with that sort of story -- that's more like crying at a movie, which I don't do much. It's got to be beautiful writing and something really tragic to make that happen. Like pwcorgigirl's fic (can't remember the title now) where House fell and got brain damage and Wilson helped take care of him after.

And lol, I saw. I have thought about changing it from time to time, and even had a post in which I waffled about it at one point, but I deleted it immediately after (see? waffling). The gist of it was "I made it when I was obsessed with the Phantom of the Opera, but now I've moved on. PLUS it sounds like Steph an' Tom, when really, rest assured THERE IS NO TOM." lol

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha! When I first saw your SN around, I definitely thought you had a joint LJ with your boyfriend or husband or something.

I don't cry as often with that sort of story -- that's more like crying at a movie, which I don't do much. It's got to be beautiful writing and something really tragic to make that happen. Like pwcorgigirl's fic

Which was just wonderfully awful to read, wasn't it? Gah, it hurt.

When a fic makes me tear up, it's usually because of the situation rather than that close identification/sympathy it sounds like you build up with the character. It is just like crying at a movie; either the story has built to this point so effectively that you spill over when it wants you to (but it has to *work*, can't be too obviously manipulative or cliché), or it strikes a very personal chord that triggers the reaction to something in your own life as much as what's going on in the story.