Avoiding work? Me?

[weewarrior]

Here is yet another meme, which has been going around for a bit; I stole it from being_fulfilled

1. My username is wee_warrior because ...
   grim squeaker was taken. No, really, that's about it, grim squeaker was my main internet nickname at that point (seeing that my presence was almost exclusively restricted to TWOP and message boards shared with people I knew from TWOP) and when I couldn't get that one, I invented one that is likewise inspired by Terry Pratchett characters. His Tiffany Aching series - which, as a random aside, is rather awesome and well worth reading - features a certain kind of fairy-like tribe, the Nac Mac Feegles, also known as "pictsies," or wee free men. They basically look and behave like stereotypical picts or celts - red-haired and covered in blue tattooes and always fighting and drinking, only that they are quite tiny. They also steal everything that isn't nailed down and believe that they are already dead, which makes them excessively fierce warriors. All of this was very appealing to me, thus the name.


2. My journal is titled The Noble Geek because...
   I'm a geek, and a Sherlock Holmes fan; specifically I'm a fan of a rather spiffy BBC series from the 1990s starring the esteemed Jeremy Brett as Holmes and at least two different people as Watson. "The Noble Bachelor" is a somewhat labyrinthine short story featuring the detective which was turned into a very inspired, extremely trippy outing by the TV show. Totally worth watching, and since I remembered it even 13 years later, I decided to name my journal after it. I'm not quite sure what that says about me, actually.


3. My subtitle is and though she be but little she is fierce because ...
   I'm kinda short, you might notice that in my choice of internet nicknames, or maybe because I told you. (I can also be somewhat belligerent and have a morbid kind of humour, thus all the violence/death connotations in the nicknames. Needless to say, I also simply like Pratchett a lot.) In addition, one of the most pivotal experiences of my next-to-last highschool year was playing Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; the line is actually something she says while quarrelling with Hermia about girl stuff. In our case that was kind of hilarious, as our Hermia towered over me by roughly one foot. That created merry entertainment, I can tell you.


4. My friends page is called friends page because...
   I was too lazy to change it. It used to have a name several layouts ago, but I've forgotten what that was.


5. My (current) default userpic is Elizabeth Bennet from the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice because ...
   I quite adore the series - if more for Jennifer Ehle than for Colin Firth, although he certainly isn't bad here - and she has a very delightful expression in this icon.I'm currently in good spirits, so she's my default, for now.

Comments

[never-evil.livejournal.com]

Its always interesting reading people's answer to this meme! and just so you know I am short too. But we shorties be smarties let me tell ya!

Yay P&P though that version I have yet to see. I know ...scandolous :o

I had the Sherlock Holmes books/stories in a box set but I had to leave it behind in India ;_; I gotta say I loved reading those.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

But we shorties be smarties let me tell ya!

Definitely. :)

Yay P&P though that version I have yet to see. I know ...scandolous :o

Not scandalous for me, as I'm neither Brit nor American. I didn't see it myself before I was 29...

Holmes stories are nice: you should be able to get them in New Zealand though, I'd think?

[never-evil.livejournal.com]

oh yay someone who does not think it totally unnatural that I'm a Jane Austen fan and yet have never seen the BBC version.

Of course I can get the Holmes love in NZ but my preeettty boxset....;_;