I Saw The Plough In The Sky, And Then This Happened.

[rionaleonhart]

Poll #31697 I need to go to sleep, but I just have so many questions

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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You're singing along to a song, but the chorus is out of your range.

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I switch octaves for the chorus; I pitch my voice lower or higher so I can continue singing. I generally find this easy to do.
25 (53.2%)

I try to switch octaves, but I generally find it tricky.
7 (14.9%)

I try to sing along with the original notes, even though I know I can't hit them.
15 (31.9%)

I just don't sing the chorus.
1 (2.1%)

I have no sense of pitch and probably don't even notice it's out of my range.
6 (12.8%)

I stop playing the song and throw my music-playing device out of the window in a rage.
1 (2.1%)

I don't really sing along to songs.
2 (4.3%)

Something else?
6 (12.8%)

If you do something else, what is it?

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Of the very limited number of constellations I can name off the top of my head, what's your favourite?

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The Plough/Big Dipper
4 (9.1%)

The Little Bear/Little Dipper
1 (2.3%)

Orion
16 (36.4%)

Cassiopeia
11 (25.0%)

The Southern Cross/Crux
3 (6.8%)

The zodiac constellation corresponding to my star sign
1 (2.3%)

The zodiac constellation corresponding to my favourite Homestuck troll
0 (0.0%)

A different zodiac constellation
1 (2.3%)

I wouldn't say I have a favourite of these
7 (15.9%)

What's your overall favourite constellation, if it isn't in that list (and assuming you have a favourite constellation at all)?

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Tell me a fictional character you're currently weird about and the way in which you're weird about them. (Feel free to define 'being weird about a fictional character' in whatever way you choose.)

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[conuly]

I answered that I would easily switch octaves when singing along to a popular song, and that's mostly true unless it's only one or two notes that's out of range in which case I'd probably just skip them or, if I can swing it (not always guaranteed, my musical knowledge is haphazard) switch to something that harmonizes, which I would loosely define as "not an octave lower/higher but it sounds nice and doesn't clash".

[rionaleonhart]

That makes sense! I'd probably also just skip notes if there were only a couple I couldn't manage. And you're not the only person to mention harmonising, so evidently I should have included it in the poll!

[wolfy_writing]

I love the Southern Cross! When I was in Fiji, I could see it from my house, and I'd go nightswimming in my pool and float around and look up at it, and it was really nice.

[rionaleonhart]

I've never been to the southern hemisphere, so I haven't seen it in person, but it does look like a lovely little constellation! Simple and striking: both great qualities. And seeing it while floating in a pool sounds so nice!

[apiphile]

Hooray, participation! It should be noted that while I can tell whether something's in my range or not, my adherence to "tune" and "key" is very. Debatable.

[rionaleonhart]

Delighted to have posted a poll that's suitable for Dereks! And I love how many respondents are weird about their OCs.

[apiphile]

What indeed is the point of having OCs if not to be weird about them?

[magistrate]

I generally don't notice that a song is out of my range until I start singing it, and then I try to shift up or down an octave and notice that that causes a different part of the song to fall out of my range, and then I get flustered and try to restart the song shifted by a half-octave or something, and then I remember why I just don't sing.

And my favorite constellation is Orion because it is the only constellation I can reliably identify. 😐 I love astronomy, but I am not a skilled observer.

[rionaleonhart]

I'm sorry for your singing woes, but also I found this comment very funny.

Regarding your Sam Carter answer: I've actually been rewatching the first season of Stargate SG-1 off and on recently! This was possibly a mistake. These characters are so good, but they're trapped in such a bad show!

[magistrate]

I mean, season 1 is definitely a mistake! I feel like they had 2.5 good episodes in the whole season, and they're at the bookends of the season, and they're a 1990s value of "good". XD

Stargate: SG1 definitely has its moments, and I am forever grateful to it for being a longtime fannish home, but it sure does have a lot of moments which are really not its moments. But a whole bunch of its characters live in my head rent-free, and they're welcome to stay as long as they like.

(Disconcertingly, recently they've been teaming up with an extraordinarily AU'd Jack Harkness who sometimes turns into a demon, and who is also busily misleading everyone around him into thinking he's a perfectly normal 30-something civilian who just happens to not be able to die because of some alien stuff. It's... kinda both more creepy and more adorable than it has any right to be? Come to think of it, I may also be currently weird about Jack Harkness, but a version of Jack Harkness who's been filtered through one massively multifandom AU into a massively multifandom LiveJournal RPG and out into a third significantly less multifandom AU. It's AU turtles all the way down.)

[aestivalis]

snubsnubs off a cliff, switching octaves wildly all the way down

[rionaleonhart]

Your snubsnub confession is my favourite of all the answers and you therefore win this poll. (You've also made me want to pay more attention to Lumina if I ever revisit Lightning Returns!)

[shinsengumi]

I do not do anything as effective as intentionally switching octaves, I just Go For It and regret nothing. I find it most comfy to sing along with contraltos (provided I've warmed up) but I'll also do that thing that I want to call falsetto but I am unconfident that's the right word for it. Anyway that thing where your voice sounds weird and strained.

[rionaleonhart]

Your 'SOUND BAD BUT ENTHUSIASTIC' answer absolutely delighted me. Going For It is probably the correct approach!

I am very curious about your non-answer to the fictional character question.

[shinsengumi]

Damn right! Having fun is the most important.

Well right now I am all about a young man named Yoru from an explicit BL oneshot and I expended a lot of my social capacity promoting it for an exchange, so I did not want to do it again. Apologies for the vaguing on your poll, though! That was a bit rude of me.

[rionaleonhart]

That manga sounds wild and incredible. I love your 'the narrative relevance happens outside the pages where you can see a lion's sex face' reassurance.

[rionaleonhart]

A short tragedy in one screenshot:



Got a real interrogation from my housemates after this.

[shinsengumi]

10/10 tragedy, my work here is done, I am so sorry (。_。)

[althea_valara]

Cassiopeia is my favorite constellation, because I used to have a set of beauty marks on my arm in the same shape of it. (alas, one of the marks has faded enough that it's no longer there. shame, because I got such a kick out of it)

[jecca_mehlota]

ALISAIE ADORATION HIGH-FIVE

[althea_valara]

I LOVE HER SO MUCH THAT I KNITTED HER!

[jecca_mehlota]

omggggggggg she's so cute of course I would never accuse her of being cute fierce aaaaa alisaaaiiie

[rionaleonhart]

Aww, that's such a cute reason to connect with a constellation! And I'm also delighted that this poll brought you into contact with a fellow Alisaie fan. (Your knitted Alisaie is extremely cute.)

[night_owl_9]

If it's sonically sound, I'd be able to switch octaves without much difficulty.

Orion is my favorite constellation. My mom would point it out to me when I was little.

[rionaleonhart]

Regarding your fictional character answer: I've actually seen the first season of Vox Machina! Vax was my favourite, but I remember enjoying Percy as well. I should go back and watch the rest of it at some point.

Orion is my favorite constellation. My mom would point it out to me when I was little.

Aww, this is lovely! I think the Plough is probably my favourite largely because it was the first one I learnt to identify.

[newbie1990]

Reading through the poll answers and snorted at your pride in Light Yagami. Don't know enough about the character to know how he'd respond to that pride, but sadly based on what little I do know I don't think he's the kind of murderer who'd be fixed by someone being proud of him. Which I guess is fortunate for you, a person who likes their characters wildly dysfunctional.

[rionaleonhart]

Don't know enough about the character to know how he'd respond to that pride

Probably outraged, to be honest. He'd feel patronised by the fact that I'm proud of him. What right do I have to be proud of him, like a parent or teacher or equal? I should respect and fear him, as should the rest of the world.

sadly based on what little I do know I don't think he's the kind of murderer who'd be fixed by someone being proud of him. Which I guess is fortunate for you, a person who likes their characters wildly dysfunctional.

I smiled pretty hard at this.

Your Judas Iscariot answer is incredible and, to be honest, does make him sound compelling!

[tellshannon815]

There is one particular song where I can't hit the notes, and that's Rest in Peace from Buffy the musical, I just sound flat.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, wow, I used to sing that at secondary school! There was a period of time where my friends and I would just sing songs from the Buffy musical episode in the classroom during lunch breaks; I think I played Spike and Giles. (At the time, the musical episode was the only episode of Buffy I'd actually seen.) It's a challenging song; I don't think I did it justice!

[driftwood_thangs]

i love the southern cross just bc it’s a bit of an iconic symbol for australians like me and also southern hemisphere ppl in general >:) + the only other constellation i can recognise is one i don’t remember the name of lol

[rionaleonhart]

I'm curious about how I know of the Southern Cross, because I've never been anywhere I might be able to see it from! But I can't remember how I learnt about it at all.

EDIT: Wait, just remembered it's on the New Zealand flag! That might be it.

EDIT AGAIN: AND ALSO THE AUSTRALIAN FLAG, SORRY FOR FORGETTING ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY

[driftwood_thangs]

it really is one of those constellations that are just kinda known by most people somehow haha

also don’t worry about forgetting abt the australian flag LOL it happens sometimes 🫡

[necrophilia]

I am filling in this poll eight days late... and wanted to announce it so you may thank your lucky stars that I've finally arrived.

[rionaleonhart]

I've spent all this time wondering which constellations you like! And I'm still wondering, because you chose the 'a different zodiac constellation' option but only mentioned the non-zodiac Cygnus in the write-in bit. What's the zodiac constellation you're fond of?

My first thought was Mark Corrigan of Peep Show, who definitely does some crazy dancing; are you sure it's not that Mark? Which Mark were you thinking of?

[necrophilia]

I am running on four hours of sleep, so I might have gotten muddled re: the constellation question—I was trying to figure out if you used the term constellation correctly or not (I'm pretty sure you did!). For zodiac constellations, I'm pretty fond of Ophiuchus, if only because no one can agree how it is meant to be pronounced.

The answer is definitely not Cepheus, though—! As that little jerk cost me a mark on an astronomy quiz a few months ago.

And I was thinking of Mark from Persona 1!

[rionaleonhart]

Aww, everyone's so unkind to Mark! I support your crazy dancing, Mark.

Henceforth, I will hold a grudge against Cepheus in your honour.

[unsraw]

Hello!
I just realized how weird it must be on dreamwidth to have a complete stranger participating in your poll. I am sorry!
I was browsing the Explore page and stumbled upon your blog. I wasn't thinking I just immediately filled out the poll because I am used to public/shareable poll posts on tumblr and twitter. I did not realize how the culture in dreamwidth might be different from those social media sites. Sorry again!

[rionaleonhart]

That's absolutely fine; you're very welcome! If I'd wanted to avoid strangers filling out the poll, I would have locked it to my access list. It's nice to meet you!

[unsraw]

Thank you!! I still don't know the etiquettes on dreamwidth because I have been active only on tumblr and twitter.
I hope you have a nice day!