Only In My Brain

[ladysprite]

Anyone can dream about totem animals. It's a standard symbol.

But it takes someone truly.... special, I guess, to dream about totem vegetables.

Noone wanted the iceberg lettuce as their totem - it's kind of the frog of the vegetable world, not as trendy and hip as the other options. I'm not sure why, though; Joe Two Spears, Broccoli Warrior doesn't sound any more prestigious. Tasty and nutritious though they may be, I'm pretty sure almost all vegetables are intrinsically uncool....

Comments

[multigeek.livejournal.com]

Ahh, well at least you could pass sixth grade.

Assignment: write an autobiography for a vegetable.

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

I'd cast my lot with Broccoli Warrior!

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

Better than the wild spud, known only for his sloth and his many eyes...

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

I'll take your veggie totems over 19th boys' school literary fiction (kept switching between reading it and living it) - eeeeurgh! I wanna be an Eggplant Shaman! (there's a filk in there I am SO not doing!)

oh oh oh, a challenge!

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

Take some salt in your hand
Add it to a green that's bland
Spinach or a fine, small pea
But don't you mess with broccoli.

Try eggplant for a snack
Buy some peppers by the pack
Vegetables aren't wild & free
Except the bravest brocolli.

All the veggies can agree
One deserves a jubilee
All hail the totem brocolli...

Re: oh oh oh, a challenge!

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!!!! Apparently there was more than one filk hiding in there! Thank you!!! That was much fun!

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

As long as you aren't an Eggplant Wizard - he works the villainous side.

[98.livejournal.com]

Actually iceberg lettuce went through a period of being somewhat trendy a few years ago. Chefs who had not grown up sneering at it rediscovered its basic crunchy water nature and developed dishes to exploit it as a desirable characteristic.

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Agreed, almost all... but not all.

I cite for consideration:
- Popeye's Spinach
- Corporal Carrot Ironfoundersson (Terry Pratchett, Discworld), among others with red hair who have that Vegetable moniker
- Veggie Tales
- Bugs Bunny's carrots (especially those with lotsa Iron in 'em, or otherwise made to imbue super powers)

[keshwyn]

I totally want a hot chili pepper totem! :)

For some reason

[whiffert.livejournal.com]

Asparagus comes to mind as a powerful totemic symbol.

[goldenoak.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's a whole section of alternative medicine called Plant Spirit Medicine. I know a practitioner who has several totemic plants. They're not garden vegetables, granted, but I don't see why they couldn't be.

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

I vote for jicama or maybe brussel sprouts!

[jiggliusceasar.livejournal.com]

I summon my mighty Pumpkin Avatar.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Mightiest on October 31, the Pumpkin Avatar, also known as the Great Pumpkin...

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've been watching too many Veggie Tales episodes.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Your totem was tasty.

[anandi15.livejournal.com]

All I can see is zombroceli

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Better than being were-cabbage, I assure you.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I want to meet the character whose totem vegetable is the rutabaga.

[iralith.livejournal.com]

I have met him! In this LARP I play in, OK, there's this sort of insane berserker/farmer character who spent about half an hour thinking he was a rutabaga. I think it was something that had been at the back of his mind for a long time; I had extensive discussions with him re his fronds. It was quite late at night.

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine had a dream a few months back that she was celery.

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

I was running a World of Darkness RPG several years ago, and in a fit of weirdness introduced an NPC who was a were-pinetree. I wondered, y'know, if the Garou are Gaea's immune system, what would the rest of her body be -- and it seemed at the time to fit so well for her lungs.