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Name: Sin
Country: United Kingdom
Birthday: 4/5/1978
Gender: Female


Interests: Writing my novel, occult research, playing video games, metaphysical homewrecking
Expertise: Apocalypticism, postmodern feminism, the occult, (a)e(s)th(et)ics
Occupation: Student


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Member Since: 11/21/2003

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Friday, July 16, 2004

OK, I think I've tested this enough now...

Here's a link to my new journal on my own site.

So that this stays at the top, probably no more posting in this journal here. I hope the one extra click that's now required doesn't put anyone off.


Wednesday, July 14, 2004

I got an account on OkCupid, primarily on the basis of them having an entertaining quiz on their site.  This quiz classifies the taker as some combination of the following: Deliberate or Random, Brutal or Gentle, Sex or Love, and Master or Dream.  I got Deliberate, Gentle, Sex, Master, which earns the title "Dirty Little Secret."  It was accompanied by one of the more accurate descriptions I've gotten out of these sorts of things (right down to the frequency of being hit on by people I'm not attracted to) but no journal-friendly pictures.  Oh well.

The site in question also allows one to make one's own compatibility quizzes, which return a % result, so here's mine:

The Dark Angel Test

Would be quite entertained to hear what people get.  (It's aimed at guys in the vicinity of my age, but with sufficiently androgynous goth folk, you never know .)  Somewhat entertainingly, my own taking of the test suggests that I'm 82% able to satisfy myself.  Which isn't bad. really. 

In other news, I may have a journal on my own website soon, because I figure I can use it for site updates and keeping in touch with people.  That and some recent events have led me to believe that it may be better to have a journal that everyone explicitly knows about than one that some people know about and others who I don't expect to be reading it stumble across.  But we'll see how steep my .css/.php learning curve is for that.  It's going ok so far but I prefer to thoroughly test these things before publicizing them.


Sunday, July 04, 2004

I've been kind of annoyed lately re: flies and bees getting in due to the windows not having screens.  Then I saw this and it occurred to me that it could be worse:

A clip of a vole being annoyed by a deer fly (right-click and save to view)

i.e. At least I'm not a vole with little leather shoes (see last entry) or those flies would be a fair bit more annoying.  If that vole in the clip was human sized, the fly would probably be at least as big as a loaf of bread.  Not something I'd like to deal with. 


Saturday, July 03, 2004

Woo hoo!  Back to quiz theft!

1. Name: Tracy

2. Age: 26

3. Nicknames: Jinx, Sin, Thiyavat.  Although people sometimes pronounce the latter so differently from how I would that I don't realize they're saying it.  (I say it "THEE-ah-vat")

4. Eye colour: Brown

5. Do you fancy goblins?  No, but it's nothing against non-humans since I do and/or have fancied dragons, vampires, dark fay/elves and several lycanthropes.

6. What do you do if you can’t get to sleep?: Either take valerian, take codeine, or stay up and read or play video games.

7. What colour bed sheets are on your bed?: Standard-issue student rez white.

8. When did you last clean them?: Last time they looked dirty.

9. How long since you last shouted at someone? Last night I shouted at a boss in Final Fantasy V named Twin Tania.  Despite that pixie-ish name, it's actually a big, fat, gross dragonish thing with six limbs and three chins. 

10. Would you be seen in public reading harry potter? Sure, I don't care.

11. Has your day turned out as you thought it would? Pretty much, but I had no strong expectations.

12. What colour eyes do you prefer? I agree with PandaRosi that unnatural/unique is good.  I'd go with either one-green-and-one-blue, or both red.  Which conveniently covers the protagonist and antagonist of my novel respectively.

13. Personality or looks first?: Depends on the purpose.  I think maybe I'll leave that one there.

14. Would you go out with someone from a mental asylum? This makes me smirk a bit - Who here has read my play?  I also wouldn't mind being in a straitjacket myself, but never mind that...

15. What would you do..: you see a small kitten run into the road into oncoming traffic. Its owner, a small child quickly follows behind narrowly missing a truck. Do you run out and try to save both child and kitten/ walk on by and turn your nose up at the distasteful squishy sounds/ run into the run shouting kitty, push the child into the nearest cars path pick up the kitten, and leg it…? I'd probably shout something, causing the child to stop, at which point they would get hit.  That'd be my luck/incompetance.  Either that or I'd be paralyzed for a minute and then make appropriate emergency calls after the fact.  If it was just the kitty and not the kid though, I'd probably do nothing.  (I wouldn't mind having a cat skull, but I'm guessing that might upset the child)

16. Can you see yourself with children? No.

17. Do they have blue eyes and blonde hair and small tashes? What the fuck is a tash?  As for the rest, that would be highly unlikely with my semi-oriental genetics.  Unless you had someone blond who somehow had more powerful genes... (thinking back to 14)... hmm, I don't like where this is going, so never mind.

18. Would you say your friends were slightly eccentric? Hell yes.  Usually in a good way, but failing that, at least in an honest way, which is appreciated. 

19. Do your friends call you eccentric? Hopefully.

20. Do you consider yourself proud? Lucifer ain't got nothing on me.

21. Violent? Yes, but not in a way that is always easy to perceive.  I could launch into some long philosophical bit about any encounter with the Other entailing violence, but I won't.

22. Do you find pleasure in dancing? if it's to music I like, definitely.

23. Would you say life would be better without time? I don't think life would be "life" without time.  Then again I just finished reading "Heidegger: a Very Short Introduction."  Still, I tend to think that without time, there would be no change, so while that condition might fulfill some traditional expectations of 'eternal life', in my opinion it would actually be more similar to eternal death.  All of which reminds me of a thought I had the other day about Eastern religious ideals of ending the cycle of reincarnation: I think with regard to that issue I'm perhaps aiming at being a sort of anti-Bodhisattva: "Salvation is for quitters" - Come back here and LIVE, you fucks! 

24. Do you often find yourself falling asleep in lessons and drooling on your desk? That's a bit difficult to do in a class with less than ten people when you're about five feet away from the professor. 

25. Have you made a mistake that you regret in the last couple of months?  Regret in the sense of "I could have done that better," yes.  Regret in the sense of "I would go back in time and fix that if I could," no.

26. Would you marry a tree for a grand: I think I would have to know more about what exactly this arrangement involves before agreeing.  Like: is this a civil or religious union?  Do both myself and the tree have to dress up?  What degree of consummation is expected - i.e. how rough is the bark on this thing?  etc.

27. What are you wearing? frilly black shirt, short black velvet skirt, fishnets.

28. Do you have any strange bodily disfigurements? No, but I probably have some spiritual ones. 

29. Are you special?  I can't think of an interesting rejoinder to this at the moment.

30. 2+79= 81.  8+1 = 9.  Which is considered the satanic number in some forms of numerology because it always returns to itself, i.e. all multiples' digits still add up to 9.

31. Would you want to ride a dragon or an owl (you are allowed to become a wee man in this case) to your destination? Depends on the dragon.  If it's a cool-looking evil dragon, I'll definitely ride it, but if it's some gay-ass fluffy toothless thing, forget it.  On the other hand, I could put up with the owl too, since owls are associated with Lilith, but it'd be cooler if it was a bigass owl, like an even bigger version of this one:


32. If you were a hat what would you look like? I would look like the hat below, but it would have a leather/vinyl band around it with some giant, loud peacock and/or purple feathers sticking out of it.

33. You suddenly become a small vole with leather shoes, were would you live?  Unless I could get out of my contract, I'd keep with my current room, which would seem hugely bigger than it does now - what a deal.  But obviously some adaptations would be necessary, and typing my dissertation could turn into quite the workout.  Also... **Picturing a vole with itty bitty goth clothes on** - aww!

Thanks to PandaRosi for the amusing quiz.


Friday, July 02, 2004

I remember one time playing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms II" on SNES that as an ancient Chinese lord, your advisor would sometimes give the advice:

"You needn't use a sledgehammer to kill a fly."

A good point, in most cases.  But I think once in awhile, if you don't mind some random collateral destruction, it can be fun to do, in a cartoon-violence sort of way.    Just a random thought.  Not that I ever over-react to things. 



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