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3ff3ct3r gave me these:
1.Homosexuals
2.writing
3.sex
4.larping
5.clumsiness
1.Homosexuals
I sometimes think that I'm the world's worst faghag. I love fags, I love hanging out with fags, I love squeeing over faggotry and I love reading faggoty fanfics, but here's the deal: I don't actually know any male homosexuals. I know a few lesbians and a mess of bisexual women, but somehow I just never got to know any acual fags in person.
I'd love to though. Anyone want to introduce me?
2.writing
I don't talk about it much, but I love writing. Ever since I was 12 I've been mapping out stories in my head and attempting to write them down on paper. I've always been told that I shouldn't pursue it too vigorously though, since it's something that my parents feel is a lovely secondary activity one can pursue in addition to a «real» job, and that «real writers» cannot help but write continuously and thus the way that you know you're a writer is if it comes even though you're stressed out and focused on something completely different.
In later years, I've realized that this is a stupid assumption my parents made, and that I should pursue my writing more actively, so I am attempting to finish my first large project. It's taking a long while since I am, like my parents wanted, doing it on the side of my studies, but I love letting the stories spin out in my head, I love making characters and then just seeing what they do after I put them in a situation, and I think writing is one of the most fun things one can possibly do.
But I can't seem to focus on my writing when I'm too busy. I don't know if it means that I'm not a «real» writer or if it means that I need time and energy to come up with great stuff, but I'm trying to actually set time aside for writing. I hope it will result in greatness.
3.sex
As a child I was always very interested in sex, and the first time I got an opportunity to, I tried it out. A lot of my childhood friends had quite traumatic first times, but although mine was a little anticlimatic, it turned out to be quite allright. I remember going to the bathroom right before it happened, staring into the mirror and thinking «let's just get this over with.» Yup, I've always been a romantic.
After that relationship ended 2 weeks later, I spent a couple of years not actually exploring my sexuality with anyone else, partly because I was too busy exploring myself and my fantasies, partly because I wanted to give everybody else a chance to catch up and thus avoiding becoming the biggest slut in school. I avoided that by getting into another relationship that actually enabled me to explore a lot of my sexuality and have more sex than your average teenager gets to have. But by the time I was 17 I started feeling a little weird about only having had sex with two guys and yet having done a lot of different things. And I had found out that I quite liked women too, and that was something I wanted to explore more as well. So we stopped being monogamous and started seeing other people.
After that my path of relationships, exploring the world of sexuality and one-night stands, porn and sex toys has been extensive, but also pretty much covered earlier in this blog. Safe to say I still love sex more than most people I know. I wouldn't call myself addicted, but it is definitely true that I am much happier if I get regular sex than if I don't. I've never really understood people who're not fond of sex. To me, that is a sign that you're doing it wrong. Either you need to come clean to yourself and/or your partner about what you like sexually and start exploring it, or you at least need to buy a sex toy to see if that can't help spice things up for you.
4.larping
It's hard to talk about larping without entering geek mode, at least for me, and there is so much I could talk about within the field of larping; parlour larps, collective larps, fantasy, sci-fi, White Wolf larping, Nordic larping versus Western European, Eastern European and/or American larping, whether or not larping can be considered art and of course anecdotes from larps I've attended/hosted/organized. I choose to talk about my experience with larpers.
Norwegian larpers are an interesting species. They consist of mostly white, middle-class people within the ages of 15 and 40 (there are of course both younger and older larpers, and I do have one example of a non-white larper, but the trend is clear) working predominately within the fields of history, social sciences, computer industry or as students. Young intellectuals, you might call them. It might therefore come as a surprise to you to realize that these people, who're skilled mostly in academic professions, not only go out camping but delight in the building of huts and practical organization of large groups of people. Diluvrien the Dream (my first larp) had 90 players housed in one cabin and a bunch of big-ass tents we put up ourselves. We also had whole roasted lamb and pyrotechnic effects. So interestingly enough, it would seem that these intellectuals go out in nature and do a lot of practically hard work to «play house» in a very elaborate way. Which is mostly what we do. It creates great stories, I would definitely call it participatory art, but we're still playing house.
I used to be proud of the amount of practicality we larpers showed every time be built something, but in 2006, we made the larp Constantinopel, where we built a small town. And as soon as a small group of larpers from Moss (a town in Norway) who did not have the traditional academic background of the rest of us arrived to our half-finished town, they built more in one day than we had managed in a week. So in closing, I'd like to say that if Norwegian larpers were able to recruit more hands-on people to their hobby, we'd have kick-ass sets to play in.
5.clumsiness
You know how some people get nicknames that seem ironic or humourous? Little-John is a big guy, and Joe «the brain» Henrichson will probably not be too bright. Well, much like the nickname Three-finger Pete is a play on the fact that the guy only has three fingers, my nicknames Slapstick-Svanevik, or Mishap-Martine as some people like to call me, are rightly earned. If there's a banana peel on the floor, you better hope I notice it or there will be an accident.
This is of course again because of my family. You see, we spill, we have a tendency to miss our mouths when we attempt to drink and we stumble and fall a lot more than other people. If it's genetic or learned behaviour, I cannot tell, but I have it just as bad as the rest of them.
I like to think that I provide humour in the lives of my peers, and hope the people who's laps I spill red wine on feel the same way.
3ff3ct3r gave me these:1.Homosexuals
2.writing
3.sex
4.larping
5.clumsiness
1.Homosexuals
I sometimes think that I'm the world's worst faghag. I love fags, I love hanging out with fags, I love squeeing over faggotry and I love reading faggoty fanfics, but here's the deal: I don't actually know any male homosexuals. I know a few lesbians and a mess of bisexual women, but somehow I just never got to know any acual fags in person.
I'd love to though. Anyone want to introduce me?
2.writing
I don't talk about it much, but I love writing. Ever since I was 12 I've been mapping out stories in my head and attempting to write them down on paper. I've always been told that I shouldn't pursue it too vigorously though, since it's something that my parents feel is a lovely secondary activity one can pursue in addition to a «real» job, and that «real writers» cannot help but write continuously and thus the way that you know you're a writer is if it comes even though you're stressed out and focused on something completely different.
In later years, I've realized that this is a stupid assumption my parents made, and that I should pursue my writing more actively, so I am attempting to finish my first large project. It's taking a long while since I am, like my parents wanted, doing it on the side of my studies, but I love letting the stories spin out in my head, I love making characters and then just seeing what they do after I put them in a situation, and I think writing is one of the most fun things one can possibly do.
But I can't seem to focus on my writing when I'm too busy. I don't know if it means that I'm not a «real» writer or if it means that I need time and energy to come up with great stuff, but I'm trying to actually set time aside for writing. I hope it will result in greatness.
3.sex
As a child I was always very interested in sex, and the first time I got an opportunity to, I tried it out. A lot of my childhood friends had quite traumatic first times, but although mine was a little anticlimatic, it turned out to be quite allright. I remember going to the bathroom right before it happened, staring into the mirror and thinking «let's just get this over with.» Yup, I've always been a romantic.
After that relationship ended 2 weeks later, I spent a couple of years not actually exploring my sexuality with anyone else, partly because I was too busy exploring myself and my fantasies, partly because I wanted to give everybody else a chance to catch up and thus avoiding becoming the biggest slut in school. I avoided that by getting into another relationship that actually enabled me to explore a lot of my sexuality and have more sex than your average teenager gets to have. But by the time I was 17 I started feeling a little weird about only having had sex with two guys and yet having done a lot of different things. And I had found out that I quite liked women too, and that was something I wanted to explore more as well. So we stopped being monogamous and started seeing other people.
After that my path of relationships, exploring the world of sexuality and one-night stands, porn and sex toys has been extensive, but also pretty much covered earlier in this blog. Safe to say I still love sex more than most people I know. I wouldn't call myself addicted, but it is definitely true that I am much happier if I get regular sex than if I don't. I've never really understood people who're not fond of sex. To me, that is a sign that you're doing it wrong. Either you need to come clean to yourself and/or your partner about what you like sexually and start exploring it, or you at least need to buy a sex toy to see if that can't help spice things up for you.
4.larping
It's hard to talk about larping without entering geek mode, at least for me, and there is so much I could talk about within the field of larping; parlour larps, collective larps, fantasy, sci-fi, White Wolf larping, Nordic larping versus Western European, Eastern European and/or American larping, whether or not larping can be considered art and of course anecdotes from larps I've attended/hosted/organized. I choose to talk about my experience with larpers.
Norwegian larpers are an interesting species. They consist of mostly white, middle-class people within the ages of 15 and 40 (there are of course both younger and older larpers, and I do have one example of a non-white larper, but the trend is clear) working predominately within the fields of history, social sciences, computer industry or as students. Young intellectuals, you might call them. It might therefore come as a surprise to you to realize that these people, who're skilled mostly in academic professions, not only go out camping but delight in the building of huts and practical organization of large groups of people. Diluvrien the Dream (my first larp) had 90 players housed in one cabin and a bunch of big-ass tents we put up ourselves. We also had whole roasted lamb and pyrotechnic effects. So interestingly enough, it would seem that these intellectuals go out in nature and do a lot of practically hard work to «play house» in a very elaborate way. Which is mostly what we do. It creates great stories, I would definitely call it participatory art, but we're still playing house.
I used to be proud of the amount of practicality we larpers showed every time be built something, but in 2006, we made the larp Constantinopel, where we built a small town. And as soon as a small group of larpers from Moss (a town in Norway) who did not have the traditional academic background of the rest of us arrived to our half-finished town, they built more in one day than we had managed in a week. So in closing, I'd like to say that if Norwegian larpers were able to recruit more hands-on people to their hobby, we'd have kick-ass sets to play in.
5.clumsiness
You know how some people get nicknames that seem ironic or humourous? Little-John is a big guy, and Joe «the brain» Henrichson will probably not be too bright. Well, much like the nickname Three-finger Pete is a play on the fact that the guy only has three fingers, my nicknames Slapstick-Svanevik, or Mishap-Martine as some people like to call me, are rightly earned. If there's a banana peel on the floor, you better hope I notice it or there will be an accident.
This is of course again because of my family. You see, we spill, we have a tendency to miss our mouths when we attempt to drink and we stumble and fall a lot more than other people. If it's genetic or learned behaviour, I cannot tell, but I have it just as bad as the rest of them.
I like to think that I provide humour in the lives of my peers, and hope the people who's laps I spill red wine on feel the same way.
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even though i don't really identify with the whole 'gay' term. I can deal with the term faggot.
you should do me, as well, if you can.
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1. Sydney
2. Faggotry
3. Paris Hilton's new bff
4. Regina Spektor
5. Harry Potter