World Enough and Time

I come in as nymph as well.

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Yay! for the League of Nymphs.

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I just did a double-take on your icon. That is absolutely brilliant.

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Thank you! I've been planning on doing it ever since the first ep.

*Two different icons of mine being complimented by two different people in two different posts in the same journal - I feel loved!*

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Well, so you should. Credit where credit is due.

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*blushes*

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I'm a Nymph too!

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Hmm. Current theory: All Torchwood fans are nymphs.

It does make a certain kind of sense.

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care to explain that?

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Nypmhs are good things: attuned to nature, sensuous, intelligent beings. Torchwood is a good thing. Good things match together.

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I like the theory. *Tosh-style smirk*

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No counterexamples. It's not a rigorous enough proof for a mathematician, but if it's good enough for physics it's good enough for fangirls...

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*snort* Yeah ok.... and in English?

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I can't speak english - I'm a maths student.

A counterexample is a case where what you think should be a proof is untrue. If we found a torchwood fan who did not get nymph, that would be a counterexample, but we haven't, so we're fine.

Physics lives on this kind of proof. Mathematics thinks that it's a load of rubbish.

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Oh...okay.

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No, I'm an Elf!

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Well, there you have it. I thought sooner or later we'd find an non-Nymph Torchwood fan. Can we consider you the exception that proves the rule, or just the exception? (That expression never makes sense to me!)

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The meaning of proves in that expression is quite old, it could be replaced with "tests" in this context.

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So I've heard, but that doesn't make any more sense to me than the other meaning of 'proves'. I mean, by that argument, the rule fails the test, doesn't it? But the phrase is usually taken to mean the opposite.

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That's because people don't understand it. Yes, it does fail the test.

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I guess that's it. No wonder it confuses me.

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Just being your friendly neighbourhood pedant. ;)

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Clarity is everything.

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wijsgeer.livejournal.com

I am a changeling.

(emotional rollercoaster, cynical, depression, adaptable, creative, insightfull)

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I'm not myself a changeling, but in RL, family legend has it that one of my ancestors was a changeling. Which I've always thought was a very good thing to be.

I'm a little surprised that isn't the result I got, since I think I'm most of those things - but not, definitely not, cynical in the least.

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wijsgeer.livejournal.com

well, first I answered more or less optimistic mode and I got nymph. But then I did my depressed mode and I got changeling. I think as a base-mode that is more me, the unstable part, insightfull but not allways able to put it to good use in social circumstances. And yes, when I am depressed I find it often hard not to be cynical. Or, well, how to say, many of my thoughts will have a cynical edge to them.

I don't think for a moment I am a changeling as such, too many things I recognize I my family.

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firko.livejournal.com

Your theory must be true - I'm a nymph as well!

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Well. There we have it. Pending contrary evidence, but this is starting to look like a real pattern.

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(http://onnachance.com/quiz/fae.htm)

What type of Fae are you? (http://onnachance.com/quiz/fae.htm)

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Good one! I'm not sure why this is Elflike rather than other-creature like, but it does sound like you - pragmatic and realistic in ways I will never be!

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I'm certainly detail-oriented and obsessional. And yes, I can be callous with people whom I feel to be stupid/boring/antipathetic to my values.

And Elves are cool, anyway.
(And remember my previous thoughts about them, re: Boromir, the other day...?!)

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I agree, Elves are cool.

Never expected to be a Nymph - though I like it. I'm adjusting to the concept.

Actually, this whole game makes me think of the days I was in Brownies, and was Sixer of the Kelpies. I'm not otherwise sure what a Kelpie is (I know I've looked it up in the past) - okay, here it is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie. And how very interesting. I guess there's a thematic progression from Kelpie to Nymph - at least in that both are associated with water. Since I love trees, I wouldn't mind being a Dryad. But then, I'm a little unclear on the difference between a Dryad and a Wood Nymph... Hmm, seems that a Dryad is a specific subcategory of Nymph. Fine by me. (This is fun.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad/.

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Kelpies are Water-horses (each-uisge), and rather nasty beings that tend to drown people...

I was an Elf in the Brownies. Hell, I ended up as Sixer!
But I left the Guides before they could throw me out for avoiding church services and not being interested in doing anything for the 'little house' emblem (sissy stuff - I was aiming for Arts & Crafts!). There was also the Affair of the Non-Aryan Angels: the Captain of the Guide company told me off for colouring in my festive angels with a variety of hair and eye colours. "Angels are blond and blue-eyed," she said. How did she know?

I still have doubts about people who like to wear uniforms for fun...

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If going to church was a requirement in my Brownie pack, I guess I flunked out, too. I don't remember that being mentioned! I did fine on the badges - I liked the literature and artsy-crafty stuff and that was fine with them. I would have made my angels multi-ethnic too - and I hope that would have been okay with the Brown Owl - it seems incredible that it wouldn't be.

I did love dressing up in the uniform - tie and belt and beret and all. I thought it was a great game. Made me feel like a conquering hero. I think they had no idea of the fantasies it put through my head. I wanted to be a knight errant on my steed with my flashing sword - they wanted me to wash dishes for my mother. We had a basic difference of concept somewhere.

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If going to church was a requirement in my Brownie pack, I guess I flunked out, too. I don't remember that being mentioned! I did fine on the badges - I liked the literature and artsy-crafty stuff and that was fine with them. I would have made my angels multi-ethnic too - and I hope that would have been okay with the Brown Owl - it seems incredible that it wouldn't be.

I had been perfectly OK with the Brownies and then the Guides in Sutton. It was when we moved into the centre of Hull, and I changed to another Guide Company that there were problems: the Captain was a very bossy nurse, whom most of us hated.

I did love dressing up in the uniform - tie and belt and beret and all.

Guide uniforms were so horrible, though - with those silly little air-hostess hats that don't stay on very well...

I thought it was a great game. Made me feel like a conquering hero. I think they had no idea of the fantasies it put through my head. I wanted to be a knight errant on my steed with my flashing sword - they wanted me to wash dishes for my mother. We had a basic difference of concept somewhere.

That was my problem, too. At primary school, I read a lovely picture-book about Lancelot, and wanted to be the one charging around on a horse rescuing people, not some wilting damsel waiting to be rescued.

I still like rescuing knights... ;-D

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the Captain was a very bossy nurse, whom most of us hated.

The Captain? She does sound... draconian. By Brown Owl was a sweet woman - I don't remember her well, but she was good-natured and we had fun with her.

I confess, I never made it to Guides. Never had an air-hostess hat. I liked the way we were supposed to fold our beret and put it under the epaulette at our shoulder.

Rescuing knights is fun. I really haven't changed much since I was nine.

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duncanmac.livejournal.com

Interesting ... like

silverwhistle, I too ended up as an "Elf".

Given my tendencies and beliefs, I'm not too surprised.

I am perhaps *too* logical in my outlook on life, and I do have the habit of trying to make every concept fit my understanding whether the concept was likely to do so or not.

As a kid, I spent a year or two in Cub Scouts but never (for some reason) went on to Boy Scouts -- my parents, IIRC, disliked it [I somehow suspect a quarrel among the adults occurred].

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