Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.Transgender Issues - I'm not transgendered (clearly), but I feel that of all the minority groups, this is one of those whichs get ignored the most. They don't fit in our neat categories of "masculine" and "feminine", and their very existence tends to be transgressive, so they really catch all the shit. A person is transgendered? Oh, no wonder that awful thing happened to them. It's difficult for someone trans to find a job in so many places, that the only job they have left to them is sex work (so it ties in to another pet cause of mine, sex worker rights), and it's simply not fair to ignore their existence. I don't know a lot of transpeople, but through my reading I'm kept aware of their existence. It's frustrating for me because sometimes I don't know what to do to help them, but I try to do my little teaspoon thing by highlighting transphobia here on my LJ, when I can.
Cheese Fries - I'm actually not fond of poutine, but I know why I remind her of this XD When I passed through Mississauga a couple years back on my way home to Malaysia, Zip and I spent a night at a hotel (gosh that sounds dirty) to hang out. It was the first time ever that I met her! It was pretty wicked ^^ We had cheese fries. Which were nummy. YAY!
Fairies - I honestly have no idea what Zippy was thinking when she wrote this. I do have a cup where if you pour in hot water, the leaves will fade to reveal a fairy bending over a toadstool. I bought it at a Beltaine fair a few years back, at a table run by
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tenchan. I also have an art book by Amano where he depicts all sorts of fairies.
EDIT: Zip reminded me of the poem I wrote for her in 2003 (it took me a while to find it). It was inspired by listening to a song on the Escaflowne movie soundtrack (track 9), the basic premise being a narrator minding his/her own business when suddenly fairies rush through the clearing. It's sort of weird considering the music track is accompanies a battle scene. However, Zippy was also, back then, a huge fan of Dilandau (can't blame her, Dilandau was psychotic-cool, AND gender-bending in the anime series).
Gold Flakes - This loses me more than the Fairies one does....
EDIT: OK, Zip had to remind me of this one too. Back in 2005, when I went home for Christmas, my family gave me this beautifully little glass ball pendant. Inside it was water with gold flakes which they'd bought for me in Australia. However, me being an idiot, I'd packed it into my check-in luggage. There was a narrow window at my stopover in Hong Kong - thirty minutes to get from one end of the airport to the next for my flight. Sam and I rushed there, and while we did get onto the flight, our luggage didn't. So when we arrived at JFK airport in New York, we were told that our luggage would arrive with the next plane.
Leftover luggage, I guess, tends to be subjected to a more thorough check (and no, locking my luggage doesn't do diddly squat, three bag locks of mine have been broken by US security), and I lost my jewelry. (Sam lost her new sunglasses, a new bag, all sorts of computer cords, a hard drive and something else.) Since then, I've told my dad that long stopovers are fine as long as I know they're actually on the same plane with me. I mean, I can see why they would find it pretty enough to steal - it was a very unique piece of jewellery and could fetch a pretty high price, but still, it had huge sentimental value to me. If it had been any random expensive thing I'd bought for myself with no thought at all, I wouldn't have been so upset, but there were gold flakes in this one, and my parents really hit the ball out of the park with this present (usually they can barely guess what my tastes are).
Airport Stopovers - AHAHAHAH! I do a lot of these. ^^; An example can be found
here. I do these at least twice a year, when I fly home and fly back to Canada. When I was younger I would ask my dad for a single-stop flight from KL to Newark, which was a 23-hour-straight flight except for a one-hour stopover in Dubai, and then I'd usually have to wait several hours before leaving Newark for a two hour flight into Halifax. I liked it a lot because there was a deli there with a killer Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich. I've stopped over in Vancouver (where I first met
palmer_kun, Ottawa, Hong Kong, Chicago, New York, Stockholm, Dubai and Japan. All without actually visiting any of these cities.
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