OoCT Answers, part the second, from shortest answer to longest

For infintysquared: Cylons, all the way.

For beckygardens: I was 18, and I did it by myself in my college dorm room. I tried to get my boyfriend at the time to do it with me, but he wouldn't.

For adammaker:The bit in music where something has been discordant and suddenly goes all tonic (there's a name for that, but I can't remember what it is), drinking a good scotch, and Pop Rocks. Don't ask about the Pop Rocks.

For celtic_elk: As far as the religious aspect of the thing goes, I'm practicing a monism that often looks like polytheism and/or animism from the outside. As far as the magical aspect goes, I do what works. I was trained in a Brit Trad Wiccan coven, and I'm still into the high ritual frou-frou approach. I'm drawn to Western Mystery Tradition stuff -- ceremonial magic, cabala (in its various spellings), and so on. I'm also the sort that wants to boil things down to their concepts and rebuild new forms onto their bones, so I'm just as likely to be invoking The Tick as St. Michael the Archangel, and so on there. That's one half of my magical practice. The other half has a lot to do with analyzing systems of things I wish to effect change on, finding the right place to push in order to make the change with least effort and least backlash, and pushing gently. I also have a drive to be competent in many systems, keeping the magical toolbox full, so to speak. I have three deities/powers that I work with/worship/focus on primarily, and the thing they have in common is the ability to find a way to solve any problem, and often it's an unconventional way. So I try to manifest that ability in myself. You can probably see why people glaze over. :)

OoCT Answers, part the second, from shortest answer to longest

For infintysquared: Cylons, all the way.

For beckygardens: I was 18, and I did it by myself in my college dorm room. I tried to get my boyfriend at the time to do it with me, but he wouldn't.

For adammaker:The bit in music where something has been discordant and suddenly goes all tonic (there's a name for that, but I can't remember what it is), drinking a good scotch, and Pop Rocks. Don't ask about the Pop Rocks.

For celtic_elk: As far as the religious aspect of the thing goes, I'm practicing a monism that often looks like polytheism and/or animism from the outside. As far as the magical aspect goes, I do what works. I was trained in a Brit Trad Wiccan coven, and I'm still into the high ritual frou-frou approach. I'm drawn to Western Mystery Tradition stuff -- ceremonial magic, cabala (in its various spellings), and so on. I'm also the sort that wants to boil things down to their concepts and rebuild new forms onto their bones, so I'm just as likely to be invoking The Tick as St. Michael the Archangel, and so on there. That's one half of my magical practice. The other half has a lot to do with analyzing systems of things I wish to effect change on, finding the right place to push in order to make the change with least effort and least backlash, and pushing gently. I also have a drive to be competent in many systems, keeping the magical toolbox full, so to speak. I have three deities/powers that I work with/worship/focus on primarily, and the thing they have in common is the ability to find a way to solve any problem, and often it's an unconventional way. So I try to manifest that ability in myself. You can probably see why people glaze over. :)

The Junkyard of Ideas

That phrase floated up from ritual planning last night, and it stuck to my brain. I have a junkyard of ideas, some salvageable, some obsolete, some so incomplete that they could be broken down for parts and fitted to different ideas altogether. I'm spending some time exploring that junkyard today, apparently, and here's some of what I've discovered.

( Trash or treasure? )

The Junkyard of Ideas

That phrase floated up from ritual planning last night, and it stuck to my brain. I have a junkyard of ideas, some salvageable, some obsolete, some so incomplete that they could be broken down for parts and fitted to different ideas altogether. I'm spending some time exploring that junkyard today, apparently, and here's some of what I've discovered.

( Trash or treasure? )

OoCT Answers, part the third

For ysabel, round two:
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
Cohen: Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
featherynscale: Creative sex, ludicrous machinery, and LSD.
I mean really, what do you want? I'm not a barbarian, I'm a gnome!

For gamera_spinning: I'm thinking about a story of Dionysos. Dionysos will be played by Jaye Davidson. Maybe it could be an adaptation of The Bacchae, except that I'd want to have the pirate story in it, too. So it's a Dionysos mash-up. :) It's pretty much going to be in historical/mythic context, except it's in English, because I'm not hardcore enough for subtitles.

Mmmm....Jaye Davidson. He's so fucking hot.

For microwench: Part One: Actually I can't quite answer that. The top ten certainly include good sex, in-house referee/counseling services, and the fact that anything you want to do, one of the other two will probably want to do it with you.

Part Two: Getting feedback from the 'outside world' that the relationship somehow invalid or impossible, and therefore anyone can feel free to disrespect the boundaries of the relationship, or condemn us or, on some occasions, both.

OoCT Answers, part the third

For ysabel, round two:
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
Cohen: Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
featherynscale: Creative sex, ludicrous machinery, and LSD.
I mean really, what do you want? I'm not a barbarian, I'm a gnome!

For gamera_spinning: I'm thinking about a story of Dionysos. Dionysos will be played by Jaye Davidson. Maybe it could be an adaptation of The Bacchae, except that I'd want to have the pirate story in it, too. So it's a Dionysos mash-up. :) It's pretty much going to be in historical/mythic context, except it's in English, because I'm not hardcore enough for subtitles.

Mmmm....Jaye Davidson. He's so fucking hot.

For microwench: Part One: Actually I can't quite answer that. The top ten certainly include good sex, in-house referee/counseling services, and the fact that anything you want to do, one of the other two will probably want to do it with you.

Part Two: Getting feedback from the 'outside world' that the relationship somehow invalid or impossible, and therefore anyone can feel free to disrespect the boundaries of the relationship, or condemn us or, on some occasions, both.