Queer by Choice

I saw a statistic that made me want to ask this. I'll tell you later what the statistic said.

Please note that the percentages of your waking moments that you spend feeling predominantly pleasant emotions or predominantly unpleasant emotions do not need to add up to 100%, because you may spend significant amounts of time feeling neither one.

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[Poll #587131]

This poll is doubly plagiarized: the questions on it were mostly inspired by two of the questions in this online personality test, and the idea of making the questions on that personality test into a LiveJournal poll was additionally inspired by fflo, who made one of the same questions into a LiveJournal poll a while back. But I'm making two of the questions into a LiveJournal poll, and I also rewrote some of the answer choices slightly, because I felt that my wording better conveyed the concepts they were trying to test than theirs did.

If you assign two items identical values, it should mean that you consider them to have exactly equal value as strengths or weaknesses. Try to differentiate the values as much as you can.

Now, satisfy my curiosity!

[Poll #542394]

Because I'm truly ridiculously and quite possibly unhealthily addicted to lengthening my already unrealistically long reading list (and because it's a terribly convenient way to procrastinate about julnawrimo), I'm already feeling a need for another Author Recommendation Poll.

As in the past, all of the following are authors I've never read any books by, but have been planning to try reading books by. Some of them write fiction and some of them write nonfiction. I expect to eventually get around to reading most of these authors, but I'm particularly interested in any negative comments you might have about them, because negative comments sometimes cause me to remove particular authors from my reading list. For example, if you told me that one of the many queer authors on this list writes books that have a particularly noticeable pro-"gay gene" slant to them, that would probably make me much less interested in reading them (although I did read Radclyffe Hall and actually sort of liked her in a "What an interesting lunatic you are" kind of way). Also, if a particular author gets very few positive recommendations, I generally look them up in Google to get a sense of how well-known they are, and if they seem to be very well-known yet they're still not getting recommended much by people I know, I move them to the bottom of my priorities list. Oh, and some people's recommendations are given greater weight than others' because I'm familiar enough with their literary tastes to have particularly great faith in them (gamesiplay, frankepi, theobscure, rekraft, I'm looking at you people).

[Poll #525152]

(As usual, don't worry if you haven't read any books by any of these people, because I haven't either.)

I have too many authors I want to read books by, and I want you people to help me prioritize them. All of the following are authors I've never read any books by, but have been planning to try reading books by. Some of them write fiction and some of them write nonfiction.

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(And if you haven't read any books by any of them, don't worry - neither have I!)

Because I'm curious, and I've browsed you people's friends lists often enough to have seen different befriending trends among different people.

(Note: the first demographic factor below is "age"; it got squashed into the preliminary introduction because LiveJournal's poll maker is stupid that way.)
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