I can love the whole of you

[exsequar]

I just took the Daemon test (from the Golden Compass movie website) and the result brought tears to my eyes with its perfection. You have to understand - I've read these books 3 or 4 times, and I want nothing more than a daemon. It is the most enchanting idea I have ever come across in a fantasy book, and it really captured my imagination. And if I had a choice, I'd want my daemon to be a beautiful, unconventional wildcat, and one of my first choices would have been an ocelot. LOOK AT WHAT I GOT. And the name Brynn is just far too gorgeous. I am overwhelmed. I would have done the "do your friends agree?" thing but then there was a chance he could CHANGE, and I wasn't going to risk that. So here, my friends, is the other half of my soul. Beautiful, isn't he?

MY ORGO TEST IS DONE YAYE! \o/ He handed out an answer sheet afterwards, and like an idiot I LOOKED at it, and so much of it was different from what I did so I was freaking out a little, but Alyssa was like BREATHE, you know there are many different answers and he gives lots of partial credit, and I was like YES YOU'RE RIGHT I AM CALM. And lo I was! Well, not calm, but happy and bouncy and hyper because I'M DONE YAY! \o/ And a really lovely touch was that afterwards, when I had finished checking out my lab locker, my professor said in a complimentary voice, "Very nice job this semester, Anne." and he was all sincere and kind and I babbled a little about how much I loved the class and people thought I was crazy but I really DID, and I think he was amused and just reiterated his "good job" and it made me feel all warm and glowy. So, YAY. There are few things that make me happier than kind, praising words from a professor. *squirms giddily*

Comments

[nebulein.livejournal.com]

So I just did this test because I was bored, and I got an ocelot as well! Hee. It sounds like a really awesome mythology.

Yay for you doing well in orgo! :D I'm sure that test will just be awesome, as always. *hugs*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay! Our ocelots can frolic about together! \o/ It is the most gorgeous world that Pullman has built. I need to reread those books.

hee, thanks sweetie *huggles*

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

WHEE YAY!

I did that, too, and my daemon looked like yours! He's an ocelot, right? I love His Dark Materials. I reread them after I watched "Doomsday" and that was the first time in, like, four years. "Doomsday" was the season 2 finale of new Doctor Who, btw. I forget-- are you a Doctor Who-er?

And again-- YAY! To the stuff about your test and professor and EVERYTHING! *confetti explosion*

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Aw you got an ocelot too! He can frolick with Brynn and nebulein's ocelot :D That's so cool, hee.

I'm not a Who-er, alas. My best friend is though, so I have a sort of peripheral awareness of how things are going with it. :)

I'm glad you've read HDM too! Isn't it just glorious? The end of the third book leaves me a bawling MESS. Lyra! Will! My heart SHATTERS. One of the most memorable things about the book for me is that world with the... oh crap, what are they called. Starts with an m. The guys that ride around on giant seed pods, like motorcycles? They're just so ORIGINAL, those creatures, with their society and language and physical characteristics and it's really one of Pullman's coolest creations. And the armored bears! And the witches! And the subtle knife! And the phantom creature thingies! God, I love those books, and his mind.

*twirls in the confetti* :D

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

His name is Boreallus. I'm going to call him Aurora, and he will stick out his tongue at me. *grin*

Yes, yes, yes. Mulefas. I was reading something-- I think it was Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything-- talking about evolution and wheels and it mentioned them and I was like WHEEE! But yes. The reason I ask is that "Doomsday" ends almost exactly the same way as The Amber Spyglass does-- with the Doctor and his companion trapped in parallel universes. And it has Dust! Only they call it Void Stuff, and the Doctor sees it with 3-D glasses instead of an amber spyglass. And I bawl like a baby every time I read/see either.

True story: I actually haven't read anything else of Pullman's. And I meant to read the Sally Lockhart books, because Billie Piper, the actress who plays the Doctor's companion, Rose, in "Doomsday," is playing Sally Lockhart, but the first one was checked out of the library and I haven't made the time to go back and find it, and I have so much other stuff to read, and wow, longest sentence EVER.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yes yes Mulefas! Eee! They're the part of the books that really stick out for me, for some reason. And DUDE! Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything... I LOVE that book! I got it as my present for winning the Chemistry Award my sophomore year in high school, and it was so great! Hilarious AND informative! :D

Oh wow, sounds like someone on the Who staff has read HDM, hee :D

Ooooh they're making a Sally Lockhart movie? I read The Tiger in the Well (that's one of that series, right?) and I remember enjoying it very much. That's so cool that Billie's gonna be playing her! Nifty :D

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Do you have AIM or gmail or MSN by the way? We should chat!

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

GMAIL! hebrew.hernia [at] gmail [dot] com! I am totally logged in RIGHT NOW!

[trinity_clare]

Mine was named Brynn too (yay!) but it was a SPIDER, which, NO NO NO NO.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

EEK SPIDER EW NO. *shivers*

FUN

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Re: FUN

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

pft. It didn't let me post mine. I am, apparently, a tiger. Rwwr.

Re: FUN

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Rawr! ;D

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Awww, he's beautiful! I'm so running off to do that test... (I love that series)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Such a wonderful series, indeed :) Thank you! *pets Brynn lovingly*

[saekokato.livejournal.com]

We have the same type of Daemon! Mine's name is Pereus. Very cool.

And congrats on getting through Orgo! Yay! [At my school, Organic Chem used to be taught by this awful Professor and the class averages would never be above 30 (out of 100!).]

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Nifty!! :D

Orgo is murder without the right teacher. I got VERY VERY lucky and had the best teacher in the history of the world. But the other two orgo classes are taught by TERRIBLE teachers, and the people in those classes are MISERABLE, poor things. Thank you! :)

[benvolio-daemon.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I've never wanted something more in my whole life than a daemon. You just ache for one after reading HDM, like you really are missing part of your soul.

I got a mouse named Callum, and at first I was like, "...uh..." but the more I think about it, the more I like it. And Brynn is gorgeous. :)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

You really, really do. Oh, PAN. ♥

Aw, I like the name Callum! And a mouse would be so cute and it could snuggle inside your pocket and awww :D

[jamesinclair.livejournal.com]

A raven, bryanna

Meh

[sorchasilver.livejournal.com]

I got an ocelot too! Called Arian. There seem to be quite a few of us about, for such a "solitary" type.

[the5thmarauder.livejournal.com]

These books are just so beautiful. And the Daemon concept is such a glorious things. This is the best meme ever, and I'm completely smitten with Brynn :D He'd match you very well, I think. ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

heehee, it's comment flood time isn't it? ♥ you, baby :D

Daemons just capture my imagination like nothing else, I love them. I want Brynn to be my very own!