Twilight: funny

[aroraborealis]

A friend's recent post reminded me of this survey I wanted to do:

If you were designing a clan for Twilight, what would the animal be, and what would you do?

Active suggestions (some serious, some not, obviously):

Magpie: flitter around stealing people's shiny things
Coyote: among other things, go through the rituals in ritual headspace but breaking all the unspoken rules otherwise
Cuckoo: attend meetings of other clans and attempt to displace actual members ("Oh, yeah, today we're doing a solo walk. Someone will come get you when you're done.")

Others?

Comments

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Sloth clan. Sit around and do nothing. Move very slowly.

[redjo.livejournal.com]

Ha! (You got there first. :)

[randysmith]

Spend the weekend in trees?

[randysmith]

You sure you want to make this post unfiltered? They won't let you come back :-} :-}.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you can't have your religion with a healthy dose of irreverence, it's not much of a robust system, is it?

[redjo.livejournal.com]

Seriously! If pagans didn't have a sense of humour, I wouldn't want to be one. :)

[randysmith]

My comment on this theme is that I don't take the Goddess very seriously, as it's real clear looking at my life that she doesn't take me very seriously :-}.

[macthud]

uh oh.

I wonder when I'll get my disinvitation?

do you think they'll make it retroactive to when I started talking about the Kitty Cat Clan (not too far off from the Housecat Clan mentioned below...) in ... 1989?

[redjo.livejournal.com]

Sloth: lie around sleeping all weekend?
Actually, that's more of a post-TC clan ...

[lightcastle.livejournal.com]

Housecat clan: Lie in the sun, get petted a lot, and chase invisible bunnies.

[bluegargantua]

Yes. this is the clan I long for.

"Have fun out in the wet, cold, rainy woods. We'll be here snuggled up by the fire".

later
Tom

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

add in "menace the German Shepherd" and you have out housecat clan perfectly.

[dpolicar]

It is indicative of where my head is at that all the examples I can think of are of clans that, once identified, should be politely invited to spend the night at the local Marriot watching television instead:

Ant: volunteer to clean up and set up and do all the prep work and never quite get around to participating in the rituals

Anteater: spend all your time exhorting Ants to stop working so hard, without actually doing anything yourself

Armadillo: sit through the entire Covening superficially participating in everything while carefully making sure nothing touches you where you're vulnerable

Butterfly: really dress up for the occasion and flit from one group to another so everyone can admire you, distracting everyone's concentration in the process

Chimpanzee: wander around poking sticks into things, asking questions, taking things apart to see how they work, intellectualize everything

OK, OK, I'll stop.
Lord I'm in a bad mood this morning.

If this sort of thing interests you; years and years ago I started writing up my version of "personalities as animal totems" for some project or other.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Ant: volunteer to clean up and set up and do all the prep work

We were calling that the Schleprechaun clan.

Chimpanzee: wander around poking sticks into things
... like anthills, as has been observed in the wild...

[dpolicar]

Cool! I knew about termite-trunks, didn't know about ant-hills... though I suppose it's the same principle. (There's actually been some really interesting work done on how "good tricks" spread socially through chimp communities... I remember reading an article years ago on the subject that reminded me quite a lot of similar studies done about how information travels through offices.)

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

If this sort of thing interests you; years and years ago I started writing up my version of "personalities as animal totems" for some project or other.

I would love to see this!

[dpolicar]

heh. I don't seem to have your email address?
I'm my LJ-name at gmail, drop me a buzz?

[trom.livejournal.com]

Hummingbird: You rapidly flit from clan to clan drinking the nectar of members with the ummm brightest flowers.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Starlings: hang around in a group and never, ever stop talking.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Ha! Wait, I have gatherings like that...

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Virus Clan: A virtual clan made up of people already assigned to other clans, there to spread their viral philosophy as a sub-carrier to whatever the other clan is supposed to do.

Platypus Clan: You hang around and nobody has any idea what you are or how to classify you.

Um...and you wear duck bills.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

SACRED duck bills. Which you make during clan time on Saturday, charge by carrying around until Sunday night, and wear through the visioning.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

raccoon clan: wander around looking cute and dexterous but dumping out the garbage of all of the other clans out on the grass when looking for treasures

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Okay, seriously, I got here at 22 comments and
NOBODY suggested the Bonobo clan of gratuitous sacred sexuality?

I'm disappointed.

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

actually that came up in the original conversation. :) great minds...

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

shoot, i forgot to mention this one until today's partiallyclips reminded me: naked mole rat clan!

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

And the focus for that would be...? :)

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

yeah, i hadn't gotten that far, just as far as "ha ha! naked mole rat!" :) something about subsuming your identity into the hive, perhaps. :) or building elaborate living structures out of sight of other clans.