You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

Lots of people did this a while back, but I gacked it most recently from smallerdemon.

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 icons, for you to explain.

And here are the ones I was asked about.

Interests:

n ormous wandwielder - It started as a running gag on a Harry Potter website called Sugar Quill. We were listing "useless and possibly untrue Harry Potter facts" - still one of my favorite fandom memories, by the way - and h3llybean revealed to us that Gilderoy Lockhart, in addition to all those Dark Arts bestsellers, was also the author of several naughty wizard romances. He supposedly published the novels under a psuedonym (N. Ormous Wandwielder) to protect his good name.

soft core smut - This one is related to Wandwielder. Eventually, several of us started posting our favorite snippets from Wandwielder novels, and we ended up starting a community called n_ormous for this purpose. It's an interest because I find this writing style hilarious, and I love how you can really only read it in a breathy voice. :P

ragtime roast beefy - Another Potter reference, I'm afraid, but one you may have heard of. Brad Neely (you might know him better as the guy behind the "Washington" short animated film) did a commentary track to the Sorcerer's Stone movie called "Wizard People, Dear Reader." I think he even performed it at the Drafthouse once, since he lives in Austin. This is one of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. "Ragtime Roast Beefy" is one of the ever-changing names given to Harry's cousin Dudley Dursley - he's also called Roast-Beefy, Roast Beefy-Weefs, and Roast Beefy O'Weefy.

Icons:


This one's actually a picture of an airbrush t-shirt I had made. Airbrush t-shirts used to be a big thing when I was a teenager and we used to take trips up to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. You still see lots of airbrush shops on the main drag. So I had one made that I could wear when I go this summer and meet up with some friends. I've never used it, mainly because I'm saving it for future posts about my trip.


Gah! Another Potter one! And, even more pathetically, a "shipper" icon. I ... can't bring myself to get far enough into the shipper history to explain where the "Choco" and "Heron" parts come from, but it's a derogatory term that many Harry/Hermione shippers use in reference to Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny shippers. At some point, someone mentioned that it reminded them of the "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" bird, and I thought it would make a funny icon.


This icon was made by redwood7 and is a screencap of CNN's footage of the 2004 Democratic National Convention the night Kerry accepted the Presidential nomination, which we were watching while IMing each other. The microphone the organizer of the convention was wearing to give instructions to the crew was somehow connected to the live audio feed and his frustration at the balloons not falling was broadcast for the whole country to hear. There's YouTube video of this here. It went on and on and on, and he was getting more and more frustrated, to the point of profanity. It was HILARIOUS.