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- Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
My questions are from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) black_rider, and there are ten of them because she accidentally asked me questions twice:
1. Do you think the use of Dolls could ever be ethical in the real world?
Yes and no. No if it's handled in so corrupt a fashion as is portrayed on Dollhouse, but inherently I actually don't have a problem with the concept. Maybe I'm a horrible person but I'm not at all squicked by the notion of someone voluntarily signing over five years of their life to become a mindless prostitute. Key word there being voluntary, with a contract that spells out both the risks and everything they will be subjected to during that time, and with full payment rendered on that contract at the date of expiration. Faced with the opportunity, I would honestly consider becoming a doll. However, even if the technology were within public knowledge and closely monitored I do agree that it has the ability to warp humanity as we know it and that corruption would no doubt be inevitable so... ultimately, no.
2. What one trait do you think most defines you as a person?
Intensity. I am obsessive, intensely affectionate, intensely optimistic and once I get it in my head that I want something, intensely driven.
3. Have you ever had an experience with the paranormal? Do you believe in the paranormal?
I've had dreams that exactly predicted future occurrences, but I don't harbor any particular beliefs based off those experiences, no.
4. What is the scariest dream you've ever had, and why was it so frightening?
No one dream comes to mind. I'm not generally frightened by my dream experiences, even though I die in a great number of them. As a kid I used to dream of the pipes in my basement coming alive and that was scary, but in recent memory the most common negative reaction I have to my dreams is disgust. For example, a couple weeks ago I had an intensely sexual dream about my ex-boyfriend, and in the dream I was not at all okay with the events that unfolded but went along with them anyway. Upon waking up I felt both turned on and nauseous - and extraordinarily bothered because I'd just managed to stop thinking about him frequently. The experience was super uncomfortable in all respects.
5. Would you choose the red pill, or the blue?
The red pill. Let's see just how deep this rabbit hole goes. I'll take hard truth over blissful ignorance any day.
And then the second set of questions:
1. How on earth do you get that fantastic shade of blue?
It's a dye called "Blue Envy", manufactured by Splat. Re-dying once a month preserves the current saturation of color. Any less frequently than that and my hair begins to fade to a bizarre silvery-purple.
2. What lead you to decide to be an animation major?
When I was younger I watched a documentary on the company Industrial Light & Magic and immediately decided that was my dream job. I've always loved science fiction and fantasy, and it seemed to me that animators were the people with the magical ability to take concepts found only therein and make them a living, visible reality. Though the work is tedious and often a huge pain in the ass, I'm certain I made the right choice because it excites me and my peers include all of the wackiest, geekiest, generally most enjoyable people at art school.
3. What artist or media is most influential on your style?
Being that I am a child of the internet and started actively drawing and considering myself something of an artist around the age of ten, the same period in time that I was also beginning to use the web with frequency, I'd say a wide variety of online artists have influenced my unique "style" moreso than any one given artist of real note or acclaim. My favorite media, however, is paint. Real, physical, traditional paint that you can get all over your hands, clothes and belongings as you work. Particularly watercolor and oils, but acrylics can be jolly too.
4. If you could meet one person from history, who would it be?
Probably Benjamin Franklin or John Adams, because both were fairly snarky bastards with interesting ideas who seem like they would be fascinating to carry on a conversation with. Though if there were any one dead person in general that I'd fancy meeting, it'd be Douglas Adams.
5. Does true love exist?
I used to think so but I don't know anymore. There certainly isn't one true "soul mate" out there for everyone, as much as it pains the utter romantic in me to admit that, because I can say I've honestly loved more than one person in only twenty years of life. Fated matches, perhaps though - persons who you just instinctively fit with, who possess some portion of what you as an individual are missing and vice versa, and together you make one whole. I've encountered a couple such people who fit with me personally, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there is one special person in the world who's meant for me above the rest and I just haven't met them yet. I suppose I won't know until I do.
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