User:Fancy Dan
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Real Name: Daniel Youngren
Alias(es): Fancy Dan, Danimagus
Camarilla Number: US2007101268
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Age: 21.
Contact Information
AIM: danimagus
Email: danielyoungren@gmail.com
Personal Info
Favorite Activities:
Religioning, arting, dancing, reading, imagining, being, non-being, and a great many other verbings. Being: a soldier of fortune, a modern gentleman, a Rabelaisian bon-vivant, a sourcerer, a knight-errant, a survivor of grievous mortal perils, and the world's second-greatest lover (I try harder). Also, LARPing.
Other Interests:
Anachronism, eccentricity, ill-conceived philosophy (and ill-conceived people), metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology, pyrokleptomania, quests, breaking into song and dance, walking purposefully in slow motion, mysticism, croquet, swirloluminous allurabliss, vindictive astronomy, incense, peppermints, LARP, meaningful glances, the art of the sword, cruel and unusual geography, drinking hot tea, taking hot showers, taking hot showers of hot tea.
Favorite Music:
Early Music, Medieval, Baroque; Antony & the Johnsons, Bach, Belle & Sebastian, Imogen Heap, Jefferson Airplane, The Decemberists, Big Mama Thornton, Aretha Franklin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Beatles, Ian Bostridge, Pat Benetar, X-Ray Spex, Pink Floyd, Scissor Sisters, Björk, Keane, Queen, Air, Album Leaf, Sigur Rós, David Bowie, Iron & Wine, Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Fiona Apple, many many more.
Favorite TV Shows:
Doctor Who, Daria, Buffy/Angel, Blackadder, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, House, Family Guy, Veronica Mars, Golden Girls, Project Runway, Arrested Development, Carnivale, Rome, South Park, Firefly, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, So You Think You Can Dance. I don't watch TV, though -- thank goodness for the librarium and its vast DVD collection.
Favorite Movies:
Beautiful, profound ones. Beautiful, stupid ones. Generally, though, I'm not interested unless a movie's got crazy kungfu, obtuse philosophy, pretty colors, an apocalypse, Meryl Streep, Katharine Hepburn, Anjelica Huston, or shoes.
Favorite Books:
The works of Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, Buber, Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett.
Favorite Quotes:
“I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.” ~Emile Verhaeren
“But the world is full of zanies and fools who don't believe in sensible rules and won't believe what sensible people say. And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, impossible things are happening every day.” ~Oscar Hammerstein II
"I wish..." ~________
“It was completely wrong to want to provide the world with something. An enlightened man had but one duty—to seek himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led… each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself… His task was to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness?" ~Hermann Hesse
“So, waiting, I have won from you the end: God's presence in each element.” ~Johann von Goethe
“If I face a human being as my Thou, and say the primary word I-Thou to him, he is not a thing among things, and does not consist of things. This human being is not He or She, bounded from every other He and She, a specific point in space and time within the net of the world; nor is he a nature able to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. But with no neighbor, and whole in himself, he is Thou and fills the heavens. This does not mean that nothing exists except himself. But all else lives in *His* light.” ~Martin Buber
“What possesses the bar-tailed godwit to migrate annually from Alaska to New Zealand by hitching rides on gale-force winds?” ~The Book of Pronoia
“The fiery stuff of all my ability to will seethes tremendously, all that I might do circles around me, still without actuality in the world, flung together and seemingly inseparable, alluring glimpses of powers flicker from all the uttermost bounds: the universe is my temptation, and I achieve being in an instant, with both hands plunged deep in the fire, where the single deed is hidden, the deed which aims at me – now is the moment!” ~Martin Buber
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” ~Neil Gaiman
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.” ~Neil Gaiman
“We all not only *could* know everything. We *do.* We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.” ~Neil Gaiman
About Me:
I am a gentlemanly, pronoid (like paranoid, but in reverse), faunal, postmodern, and unpredictable bon-vivant with a firm belief in something or other. I am an avid and accomplished adventurer and traveller, and I give massages known in seven countries to bring about ecstatic union with God. I am defined by words.
I'm from San Diego, CA, and lived in Toulouse, France before that, but not very well. Nowadays, I study art and magic and God and stories and stuff and things at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Character Information
Changeling: The Lost
- Doctor Houx - Fairest, Artist A Beautiful Mind, the Doctor is a Master Fetchsmith, Roboteer, Ringsmith, and Swordsmith, and the Red Wizard of Bloom Town. Also a computer programmer and general mad scientist, but always stylish.
