Ambrosia

I'm not a Nazi!

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:56:17 GMT

The Expatriate

Achtung! You are 15% brainwashworthy, 18% antitolerant, and 28% blindly patriotic

Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values
and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind
Patriotism does not reach unhealthy levels. If you had been German in the 30s, you would've left the country.

One bad scenario -- as I hypothetically project you back in time -- is
that you just wouldn't have cared one way or the other about Nazism.
Maybe politics don't interest you enough. But the fact that you took
this test means they probably do. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the
doubt.

Did you know that many of the smartest Germans departed prior to the
beginning of World War II, because they knew some evil shit was
brewing? Brain Drain. Many of them were scientists. It is very possible
you could have been one of them.

Conclusion: born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would not have been a Nazi.

The Would You Have Been A Nazi? Test

- it rules -

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on brainwashworthy
You scored higher than 99% on antitolerant
You scored higher than 99% on patriotic

Link: The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

O.O

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:43:10 GMT

Noncategorial

You scored 41% femininity, 49% masculinity, and 33% uncertainty!

Your soul isn't really girly, manly, or anything else! You are unclassifiable! You're probably asexual or nonsexual.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on femininity
You scored higher than 99% on masculinity
You scored higher than 99% on uncertainty

Link: The What Gender Is Your Soul? Test written by Catdracona on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:52:04 GMT

Some guy is spouting off, claiming that various cities are going to collapse today. One he mentioned was Las Vegas.

Does this mean I shouldn't go to the gym today?

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:10:34 GMT

I think the world would be a better place if every transwoman on the planet had a bitchy bio-girlfriend to point out the errors of her ways. The worst mistakes I've seen made are:

- Poor makeup choice, particularly when it comes to colors. Always remember that the harsher the color, the harsher it makes your face look. Lots of bio-girls use dark, contrasting makeup colors, too, and either they have a soft enough face that it works or they look pretty gnarly. If you weren't born with XX chromosomes, then dark lipstick and raccoon eyes are going to look even worse on you than they do on bio-girls. Lots of rouge is just going to draw attention to masculine cheekbones. And pick a foundation that matches your real skintone, for God's sake. If your face is orange and your neck is pale pink PEOPLE WILL NOTICE.

- Being too skinny. Seriously, now. What do you think those hormones you're spending a fortune on are supposed to be doing? Aside from making hair removal easier and stimulating breast growth, the most helpful thing they do is redistribute your body fat. This means you need some. The fat will fill out your face, making your bone structure softer, and will also add additional padding to your breasts, hips, and thighs. Yes, I know, all of those curvy models in magazines claim to be 5'7" and 110lbs. They are lying. Go eat a sandwich.

- Hair styles. Biological males have higher foreheads than women. This means that long, straight hair styles that are parted in the middle are going to showcase a big ol' man head. Some of the most stunningly beautiful transwomen I've ever seen have had boy haircuts that they grew out and styled a bit. Long, straight hair will make your facial bone structure look sharper. Straight hair, no matter how glossy and pretty you think it is, also looks a lot thinner than curls. Guess who has thinner hair than women? Bingo! Invest in a curling iron or a perm, and learn how to do something with your hair other than swinging it around, rejoicing that it's long.

-Clothes. Dear God, if you have no hips, no breasts, and no waist do NOT wear lowrise jeans and a baby doll t-shirt. You know what you look like when you do that? A crossdresser. Congratulations. Until you have a bit of padding on your belly don't go showing it off, seriously, because all of those girls out there wearing those clothes don't have six packs, I assure you. In fact, the women that do have six packs don't often wear such clothes because they make them look less feminine. Lowrise makes the ass look flatter and the hips look narrower. Until you've got enough curves that you can handle hiding a few don't do this. Jeans with a slightly higher waist will add emphasis to your hips. Shirts that go past your waist and have longer sleeves will help make your torso look longer and your shoulders narrower.

All of these are mistakes that some bio-girls make, too, except that most bio-girls will not have the combination of flaws that you do coming into this. Maybe transwomen have a better idea of what you're going through, but a bio-girl has the best idea as to what the end product should look and act like.

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:55:11 GMT

It's been a long time since I've really been on LiveJournal, but I was reminded that it existed and wandered back over to it today.

I don't really have anything new to add here, though. I've been writing a lot lately, but my field guide is kind of languishing. See, the field guide is this book I'm writing, based on a certain type of community here in the Las Vegas area. People calling themselves vampires are the main focus of what I'm writing about. All of the books out there on the topic now are pretty ridiculous for the most part. There are, generally speaking, just three stances found in non-fiction books:

1. People claiming to be vampires are lying/crazy. These are really just a bunch of goth kids looking for attention.

2. Vampires exist metaphorically/spiritually, but there's no such physical being as a vampire.

3. Psi-vampires exist and they are dangerous. You must guard yourself against them.

Seeing as there's nothing written by someone who's actually attempted to understand these communities (aside from what vampires write for themselves) I'm trying to go for a sort of field guide here, separating fact from fiction. I don't want to expose anyone, so I'm avoiding real names or favored pseudonyms and other identifying features.

I've got a lot of material right now, but nothing really put together in a coherent fashion. I'd hoped to kind of use this as my writing journal, but that hasn't worked out so well.

Lord Davidian

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:54:35 GMT

Lord Davidian keeps showing up, making plays for power, and then disappearing again when people recognize who he is. He's from Romania and keeps using different names in the Las Vegas vampire communities, but...everybody always remembers the vampire from Romania, I suppose. Personally, if I was trying to hide who I was I wouldn't keep mentioning the strange country of my origin.

God. I couldn't make this up if I tried.

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 04:41:12 GMT

"Psychic" vampire implies that the vampire in question has psychic powers, not that the vampire feeds psychically. It's the most common term used by the layman, but considered inaccurate by those who consider themselves to be vampires. Their preferred term is "psi-vampire." "Pyschic" refers to how the feeding takes place, while "psi" is what they feed on--psionic energy, also often called prana, chi, or etheric energy.

Sometimes, psi-vampires are fairly ordinary people who are suffering from some sort of illness, which has caused a loss of natural etheric energy, and so they begin to draw upon the energy of those around them to sustain them through the illness.

The symptoms of this include weakness, lethargy, frequent illnesses, and depression.

Since it's been scientifically proven that there are physiological differences between how an extrovert and an introvert react to social situations, all of this isn't really that surprising. An extrovert, by definition, gains energy from being around other people, while an introvert creates his own energy and is drained through social interaction. A psi-vampire could just be some extreme from of extrovert, incapable of sustaining herself energetically she must seek out those who create energy on their own to survive.

Now, this energetic extroversion doesn't have to manifest itself through perky behavior and social butterflyism. It simply means that in order to gain energy this psi-vampire must seek out creators of energy. Other vampires won't be good enough, because it isn't that being around other people creates energy for them, as it would for a normal extrovert. Instead, they literally drain energy, and so can only take it from renewable sources, lest they quickly starve.