I like this meme...

Comment to this post, and I will choose 7 of your interests that I am curious about. You post about them in your own journal and we continue from there.

charlycrash asked me about these:

ailurus fulgens Icon is related. The family of Ailuridae, along with the Manidae and Canidae, is one of the Mammalian Triumvirate of Awesome. It's a family with only one living species, namely the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, which itself has two subspecies; I like styani, but I'm really not fussy. There is nothing about these creatures that is not AWESOME. They have OPPOSABLE THUMBS, proving that our days as co-masters of the planet are numbered. They own your soul. They own the Mozilla Foundation, so world domination has clearly already begun. Thinly-disguised versions of them run one of my fictional countries, because I'm ahead of the game and quite prepared to welcome our effulgent new overlords. Watch them and weep, for you will never be this cute.

gummy ninjas Eh, a boring one. I just stole this interest from someone else because it's funny. I suppose you could call my character weft a ninja, in that he's a martial artist, spy and assassin. He prefers pink silk to black scarves, though.

guytrash Hellhounds and Black Dogs are one of my enduring loves, and the Guytrash is one of their many names. Here's a general article. Here's a short one specifically about the Guytrash. Here's Trubshaw's "Black dogs in folklore", to which I habitually point people who are interested. Had you ever wondered why my site is called HellHound.net or my username HellMutt? Wonder no more. My LiveJournal subtitle of "A straunge and terrible Wunder" is also a reference to the Blythburgh and Bungay Black Dog, immortalised in song by The Darkness.

innfidelity (not a typo) An injoke with my friend and occasional writing partner, msree. Her character and mine hooked up at an inn. I would say something more interesting about this, but things are kinda stalled on that front. Here's a short bit of cuddling and minor evil.

the pezzies My unbrother Paul keeps gerbils. One time he and Slen were playing Golden Axe and didn't get a very good score. They asked me what "Rank: Serf" means and I told them a serf was a peasant. (I didn't mention that "rank" is an occasionally-accurate descriptor too.) For some reason, after this, the gerbils were called the Peasants, quickly abbreviated to Pezzies, or Pez. Despite this, these things are royalty and have a whole royal family tree. Past names of the royal family have included Fliss Valentine, Sickle (as in weasel) Hawking, Eddie Wesker, Nemesis, Macbeth, Caliban, Rock Turtle (quickly modified to Cock Squirtle), Capulet (similarly, Crapulet), Baron Rankle the twice-inbred thumbnail (the fault of the aforementioned rat Sickle) AND the legendary, the one and only, Mistral "Misty" Branson. She was a foxy-golden queen with a white spot on her head (this colouring) and a habit of climbing downstairs and scaring Paul's mother. When his parents were away, we used to let her run around the kitchen and give her Crunchy Nut cornflakes, which she would carry over to her corner under the dresser and devour. THIS IS MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BEAUTIFUL DESERT RATS. I shall paint a portrait of Mistral soon, probably to give Paul as an xmas peasant.

twiglet-induced violence Bah, another one I liked the look of and stole. Twiglets induce nothing but violent vomiting in me. In not-very-related news, Princess Ziggy, one of the cats who visit our house, is nicknamed Twiglet. He doesn't visit much any more; I don't think he likes the new kittens across the road.

we had loki first We did! The final boss in Ghouls 'n' Ghosts on the Megadrive is a seated, naked, red, genitalless demon king called 'Loki'. I don't normally have much time for the whole "your trickster god is our new scapegoat devil-figure" business, especially when badly translated from Japanese, but hell, Slen and Paul and I were young, and so we decided Loki was a sex god (possibly literally). Then, we named the First High King after him. (He was an argente spotted gerbil like Mistral, his daughter, above.) That's why Loki is an injoke to us. I also like the real guy from Norse myth. (Anyone who turns into a mare and gives birth to a millisteed to avoid paying off a building contract is epic best.) Anyway, this still doesn't answer why on earth I claim "we had loki first" when the Scandiwikings clearly actually did. This dates back to someone with whom I used to be good mates and now am not; they started writing a story that had Loki in it for no good reason. I don't like fanfiction much when it involves characters that aren't mine, and am a bit protective of characters I like, and that's when I added the interest, because I found it funny. I still do, so it's still there.

If you want to know more about Loki, ask at lokeans.