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[mari4212]

I'm taking a bit of a break from writing to check out my flist, and one of the first things I see is a lovely quiz from gibbsgirl

Israfel So you need Healing (12%), Knowledge (50%), Inspiration (60%), and Strength (37%)?

Archangel Israfel is the Angel of beauty, song, counsel, sympathy, and resurrection. He is a compassionate Angel, always inclined to offer comfort and guidance to those who are feeling lost and abandoned, and bring joy and laughter back to those who are without hope. He wants us to know that we are never alone and inspires us to love ourselves and to be confident and have faith. Israfel is the Patron Angel of entertainers who brings mankind the gift of song, and with it the joy that will inevitably follow. He is a special Angel to musicians and those concerned with beauty, be it beauty in art or the beauty of life. His most famous instrument is the trumpet, but he is also mentioned playing the lute. Those two represent all string, pluck and wind instruments. If you are the kind of trumpeter that’ll “wake the dead” in the middle of the night, you may have more in common with Israfel than you though. For he is also the Angel of resurrection, and what does he use to awaken the dead from their slumber at the end of the world? That’s right. A trumpet. His role at the final judgement makes him the Angel of life and new beginnings, representing the kind of hope that fills us when the sun rises over the horizon to drive away the darkness of the night. A Bit of Trivia: Israfel is a very compassionate Angel indeed. He “looks three times each day and three times each night into the depths of Hell, and is so stricken with horror and grief at the plight of the damned souls that he weep so that his tears would flood the earth, if God did not prevent them from flowing.” He is also said to be very beautiful and the master of music. Edgar Allan Poe once wrote in his poem Israfel: “In heaven a spirit doth dwell / Whose heart-strings are a lute; / None sing so wildly well / As the angel Israfel.” Jophiel - Michael - Israfel - Raziel - Ariel - Uriel - Gabriel - Raphael - Zadkiel - Jeremiel

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 3% on Healing You scored higher than 28% on Knowledge You scored higher than 63% on Inspiration You scored higher than 22% on Strength

Link: The Angel Test written by Nitsuki on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

As for the Midrash, currently it's coming along well. I've just started page seven out of nine, (okay, flashbacks of Voyager hit me as soon as I wrote that phrase) and so far it's going well. Jonathan has just been born. I'm counting on a paragraph or so describing him, then his death, and Anna's frantic journey to save him. I've got about four pages of commentary done, so that should be fine as well.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I've just started page seven out of nine, (okay, flashbacks of Voyager hit me as soon as I wrote that phrase)

Which is as it should be :)

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of good memories about that show.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

One of these days I really need to get library DVDs or something and watch it full through as I didn't see much of the latter seasons 'cause the airtime conflicted with Orchestra rehearsals -- though I did see the series finale.

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the latter seasons on the whole as much as I did the earlier ones. There were great episodes, but there were also a few where I swear I didn't recognize the characters. Different ideas got emphasised, for good or ill.

And now looking back I keep wanting to make comparisons to Firefly, which isn't fair to either show because they're starting from very different worldviews, even if a few of the characters are similar.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

There were great episodes, but there were also a few where I swear I didn't recognize the characters. Different ideas got emphasised, for good or ill.

Hmm. I've heard people expressing less-than-fond-ness for the latter seasons, but mostly in the context of cracktastic pairings. I'll be interested to see how the show develops, though.

Comparisons to Firefly can be valid. I mean, there obviously have to be caveats, but it can definitely be interesting to see how different people react to simiilar situations (or vice versa, or really any comparison).

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

I did not like where they went with some of the characters, Janeway in particular. And yes, certain cracktastic pairings were annoying. But there also was some genuinely good stuff in there, it was just more buried. I remind myself of that every time I start ranting about B&B.

With Firefly, I keep wanting to compare the Maquis to the Browncoats. In some ways, they are very similar, but many of the similarities are surface. But I do have a burning desire to introduce Wash to Tom Paris. Those two would have so much fun together.