via firecat.

How it works: You comment, and I give you an age to ask about. Please let me know how old you currently are!

I was given 32. This was 5 years ago (2008). Not much has changed since then!

I lived in:
A 4-bedroom house in suburbia.

I still live there.

I drove:
A silver '05 Mini Cooper S.

Same.

I was in a relationship with:
kirin

Same.

I feared:
Sharing personal information with anyone, presenting vulnerability.

Same, with added fear that someone I love will die without me being able to say goodbye (including the cats). Being stuck in a rut.

I worked at:
A local health department, as a pharmacist.

I am currently not gainfully employed. I'm writing, though.

I wanted to be:
A writer.

I still want to be a writer, and I want to live in Berlin.

Day 11 - Favorite Gundam series

Uh, I liked 00 a good bit, and G is awesome and ridiculous (and very serious at times).

Day 9 - Saddest Gundam scene

The ones where my favorite characters die? Or the entirety of Victory (by reputation, anyway).

(Cheating, maybe. I'm in a hurry.)

Day 7 - Favorite Gundam

I assume this means the mech, since there's a favorite series later on.

You think I'd say RX-78GP02A Physalis, but you'd be wrong. It's unwieldy and kind of slow.

The first Gundam I dug liek whoa was the XXXG-01D2 Deathscythe Hell and the Custom version of it (which I built a model or two of). I still have a soft spot for the Wing mechs, including Epyon (which I hate in Musou 1; it has no range!)

GAT-X303 Aegis is a successor to Epyon, and I have a kit of it upstairs I think.

For cool names, though, GFAS-X1 Destroy and GAT-X252 Forbidden get my vote.

Day 5 - Gundam character you relate to

Yzak Joule (Destiny era), I suppose. Anger management issues, wants to be in charge, hates lazy people.

Or Sumeragi Lee Noriega, who has a serious case of imposter syndrome.

Day 3 - Favorite Gundam character

Anavel Gato*, the Nightmare of Solomon. He's the extremely idealistic antagonist in 0083 Stardust Memory, whose devotion to the Zeon cause is terrifying. (He just wants the Spacenoids to be free from the oppressive Earth Federation...) He's also a terrifying badass who actually gets done what he set out to do with a minimum of emo whining and angst: the complete opposite of pretty much every Gundam protagonist or antagonist ever. (There's one scene, right before the start of Operation Stardust, where he's sitting in the window with his hair loose around his face and thinking about the ghosts of his comrades in the Solomon Sea.)

He steals the RX-78GP02A Physalis (prototype), the Gundam designed by the Feddies to launch a NUCLEAR WARHEAD (which is against the treaty they signed, of course), which is huge and slow and has ridiculous armor, and he still kicks Uraki's ass. Terrifying, competent badass.

*spoiler alert for the entire plot of 0083 and what Operation Stardust is all about

Also in contention: Lockon Stratos (S1), Yzak Joule, Sumeragi Lee Noriega

Jung Explorer Test
Actualized type: ESTJ
(who you are)

ESTJ - "Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.

Preferred type: ESTJ
(who you prefer to be)

ESTJ - "Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.

Attraction type: ESFJ

(who you are attracted to)

ESFJ - "Seller". Most sociable of all types. Nurturer of harmony. Outstanding host or hostesses. 12.3% of total population.

Take Jung Explorer Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

(I'd say I'm more the ESFJ than TJ, but whatever. The breakdown was like this:
Extroverted (E) 72.41% Introverted (I) 27.59%
Sensing (S) 53.33% Intuitive (N) 46.67%
Thinking (T) 56.76% Feeling (F) 43.24%
Judging (J) 65.63% Perceiving (P) 34.38%

Probably because I didn't "strongly" agree or disagree for a lot of things.)

Via acari, the record yourself saying things meme.

dialect meme by feuervogel-dw

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

And because acari wanted me to, here's me reading some things in German.

First, Goethe's Erlkönig,
Erlkoenig by feuervogel-dw

Then an excerpt from Das Paradies am Rande der Stadt.
Paradies by feuervogel-dw

Ms. kittenspyjamas tagged me on this.

First: if you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

Second: tag eight sexy people.
I'm going to skip taggage? If you want to do it, do it.

( meme )

Via several people: Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/TV shows and put their summaries from Better than it sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

1. Three Funny Animals of indeterminate species live in a refurbished water storage device and spend their time driving people insane, making fun of their writers, and breaking the Fourth Wall at every given opportunity. Also features shorts of mobster pigeons, a jack-of-all-trades giant chicken, and a Genre Savvy retired actor.

2. A pizza delivery boy goes on a one-way trip to the future, where he meets and befriends a physically deformed orphan and an alcohol-fueled criminal. They all quit their jobs to work for the delivery boy's senile nephew.

3. Amnesiac with shitload of money tries to figure out exactly who was phone. Johnnies ensue.

4. A heavily tattooed kung-fu Dalai Lama, his Eskimo pals, a blind Chinese loli of mass destruction and some animals that don't exist (but should) take on an army of arsonists who wear giant shoulderpads.

5. In A World where not-terribly-nice people can kill you with their minds, a fat guy, a talking cat, an emotionless girl and a man with a bulletproof jacket take on odd jobs every two episodes.

6. Good-natured college kid wishes that he could find a girl, finds God instead.

7. A salaryman quits his job to run errands for and with unstable foreigners who frequently try to kill him. He still dresses like a salaryman, though.

8. A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime.

9. A poor girl is forced to pretend she's a boy and hang out with obnoxiously rich Bishonen as punishment for destroying private property.

10. An effeminate boy sells his soul for a highly skilled butler.

11. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles.

12. Two bishounen wage war against each other for 110 episodes.

13. A math teacher convinces her class she's a fan of yakuza films.

14. Kids play while wearing glasses. This often causes major problems across the city and has the potential to be life-threatening.

15. A big guy with an unfortunate tattoo tries to get therapy for the girlfriend who hates him after his pretty-haired, ex-best friend sells out the world for a makeover and a spiffy new Batman outfit

16. A girl falls in love with a man who once bought her a book.

17. A pair of fast-flying couriers get dragged into a war against their will.

18. Scientist makes his dead son the best robot in the world.

19. An immature computer geek gains possession of a giant steel samurai, and uses it to fight off Space Nazis.

20. What if Lupin the Third kidnapped adopted an 11-year-old rich girl?

bonus:
21. A boy who can talk to microbes attends an elite agricultural university.

22. On her first day of school, a girl falls in love with a drug addict who grabs her on the bus.

23. Moving is Serious Business. A one night stand nearly dooms the world. Giant robots dance the monkey.

24. Garbage collectors IN SPACE!.

25. A Japanese company can't build a rocket capable of lifting a full grown man into space, so they use a teenage girl instead.

26. Jesus and Buddha celebrate their divine bromance by moving to Japan and renting an apartment together.

27. A cold war between a sentai hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.

28. A drone Dragon and a fiery Tiger neurotically fight to understand their purpose relying on breast enhancement, fine dining, life between vending machines and crystal chards as their map. Oh and Santa is a dejected teddy bear. Awesome!

29. A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making a scythe out of his blood. Nanomachines started it.

30. A World War II-era battleship is equipped with a really powerful gun and sent off into space to fight alien invaders.