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Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

A few of my fandoms off the top of my head (though I can't promise they're all very fresh in my mind, or that I'm caught up on them...heh):

Battlestar Galactica
The Borgias
Dublin Murder Squad
The Goldfinch
Harry Potter
Hunger Games
IT
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Stand
Star Trek (AOS/TOS)
Tiger & Bunny
Welcome To Night Vale

Since everyone seems to be doing this meme... (I confess I haven't really been asking people anything, but you can assume I've been stalking everyone's answers to other people's questions because I'm curious.)

Ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious but you have no idea about, or something obscure you just have to know. Ask away. All topics, within reason, are open for discussion.

Meme I gacked from somewhere...

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

1. soulbonding
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU


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Joanna Newsom is not for everybody but I'm a little obsessed with "Go Long" right now. It's like my entire day has to stop to listen to all eight minutes of it every time it comes on.

sci_fi_shipper asked:

Top 5 Romantic Pairings in any fandom (I surprised myself with this list. Are you ready for this?)

5. James T. Kirk/Nyota Uhura (Star Trek)
4. Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger & Bunny)
3. James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek)
2. Kara Thrace/Lee Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
1. Cassie Maddox/Rob Ryan (Dublin Murder Squad)

(For the record, I agonized over the definition of "romantic pairing" because when a ship is more ambiguous or subtextual or just too far from canon it's difficult for me to consider them romantic? I stopped thinking too hard about it and just went with my gut.)

cosetteferaud asked for:

Top 5 Things I Am Looking Forward to (God, these will probably mostly be fandom-related because nothing is happening in my life right now...)

5. A probable upcoming trip to Pennsylvania with my boyfriend's family/family friends. Last time we went there we ate all this amazing homemade food and went four-wheeling through the woods all day, so I'm up for more of that.
4. Prometheus! (There are a number of movies I'm looking forward to but this one's right around the corner)
3. Reading the several books I recently bought, including this really beautiful-looking box set of the Millenium Trilogy.
2. Finishing In Our Nature/participating in startrekbigbang
1. Finishing my novel (whenever that might be)

Top 5 In the Woods/The Likeness moments

( guess I should cut this for spoilers )

Top 5 Literature-Film Adaptations

5. Atonement ties w/ Fight Club
4. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
3. The Lord of the Rings
2. Brokeback Mountain
1. Jurassic Park

For flowrs4ophelia...

Top 5 rock-your-face-off music albums

5. The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash
4. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Tool - Undertow
2. Stone Temple Pilots - Core
1. Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal

Top 5 most attractive Game of Thrones characters (Okay, but I'm not going by personalities here)

5. Robb
4. Theon (He's so funny-looking but IDK, I can't explain it)
3. Catelyn
2. Viserys (Harry Lloyd looks a hundred times better with dark hair, but he's still Harry Lloyd)
1. Gendry

(And she gave me a couple others that I don't have the energy to think about right now. Sry, sry.)


We unexpectedly have a new kitten.

( kitten sitting on my arm! )

He was hiding in Shep's dad's barn when he went to go return these tables he borrowed, so of course he went "He's so cute and all alone!" and came home with it. We named him Jones (A+ if you get the reference) and we're grateful the other cat hasn't killed him yet ( D: )

Meme the first:

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

flowrs4ophelia gave me...

The 80s. I am often irritated with the stigma against the 80s that has always been in my generation. Especially the common statement that the music sucked, as if all of the popular (and unpopular) music that was made in all of ten years can be encapsulated by crappy new wave. The most regrettable thing about the 80s was a lot of the fashion, but that's fashion for you.

James "Sawyer" Ford. I don't know what I can say about Sawyer that I haven't probably already flailed about on teh LJ except that he's probably the one character I would keep in if I ever wrote that pan-fandom crossover craziness based on Lost that I'm pretty sure I've talked about before. And his love of reading continues to amuse me throughout the show. I like to imagine that he's never actually bought a novel in his life but has always been incapable of being in the same room as a book without picking it up and reading from page one and on until someone demands his attention.

your dream house. I don't really have one. Living on the beach would be pretty cool, but that'll never happen. Or, you know, a hobbit hole would be awesome.

Don/Peggy. This is one of those pairings I "ship" more in the sense that one of them can just...accidentally sneeze on the other and I'd be like THIS IS AWESOOOOME (I'm really only slightly exaggerating). Even when I feel it's too limiting to say that it's a completely 100% platonic relationship, if Don was to somehow grow into a person who could make a relationship like that work romantically and they were to fall in love and get married it would probably have to happen in a way that's an afterthought to all the other ways they more transparently love each other. And anyway...I just don't know yet if Peggy would ever go for it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. I liked The Great Gatsby but I have almost no memory that would serve to help me explain why other than that I liked the writing style. (I'm useless at book reviews, seriously. I rarely hate books.)

marriage. I'll get married sooner or later but I'm just not excited about actually having a wedding and putting my personal life on parade so that everybody can gush at me with supposedly universal sentiments about emotions that I don't really think are universal at all? A lot of my friends pretty much agree that it's not really crossing any threshold you shouldn't have already crossed if you're that committed to someone and that it's basically just a good excuse to have a big party and yes, weddings are lots of fun, but the mere thought of being the center of attention at one just makes we want to crawl into a hole. Probably the biggest reason I'm so hostile to the idea of getting married is because as soon as I do, the questions about when I'm getting married will turn into the unexplainably socially acceptable harassment about when I'm going to have children, which is ten times more of a sore spot. And then if you make the case to me about it being financially practical, I point you to the fact that that isn't something everyone who's in a committed relationship is able to enjoy in my country, sooo.

McCoy/Chapel. This is probably my favorite Star Trek pairing that admittedly has very little basis in canon. I have this thing for characters having unrequited (or otherwise ~not-meant-to-be crushes) that make them miss out on the possibility of what's right in front of them, so I wish there were more (or any) fics that actually explored Chapel going from having the Spock crush to finally starting to uh, notice McCoy. My favorite McChapel fic which is unrelated to that but still amazing is this one.


Meme the second (snagging this from pikasafire):



The RULES:
Give me a fandom/pairing and I will make you a mini fanmix of between 3-6 songs! (It would be cool to leave a couple to choose from, but whatever. If I really like the idea it may end up longer and in a separate post.)

Fandoms I feel fanmixy about:
Star Trek XI, Sherlock, Battlestar Galactica, Tiger & Bunny, Mad Men, Harry Potter, Dublin Murder Squad. Cracky/crazy crossover ideas welcome.

Post a bunch of snippets from all the WIPs on your hard drive.

I have a lot of unfinished crap, so it's not everything. These are somewhat in the order of priority/the likelihood of them ever being finished. Also, since one or two of these is kinda spoilery (I mean more for the fics than the fandoms) and it's also quite a mix of fandoms, I'm specifying what they are.
And I guess I could "answer questions" about them but I left that part out too X |

( Let's see...one ST, one T&B, one DMS, two SPN WIPs...oh and that crossover. With some tiny bits of commentary n stuff. )

Delicious needs to stop changing things. Just when I think "OK, I miss the way it used to be but I guess I can get used to this" something else goes wonky. Ever since they added the feature so that you can have spaces in your tags, tags that weren't filled out with commas are all smushed in as one tag (the tags are still searchable somehow, I think, but it still bugs me). And while I'd formerly had issues with bookmarks refusing to be deleted, I had the much worse horror of being unable to find a link that I swear I had bookmarked, which is going to make me lose sleep wondering how many of my links have disappeared.

There's no way I'll be able to remember much of everything I had to say about Lost buuut here are some random disorganized and overlong thoughts about s3 and 4... ( Jack fans be warned... )


My New Year's Eve was fiiine. We went down to Carbondale to see my brother's 70s rock tribute band...He changes up his bands/genres all the time but he always has the same kickass drummer and of course he's not a shabby bass player so it's always a good time. I was a leetle disappointed they didn't play "Cracked Actor" after he said they were learning it but they hit a couple of my favorite Stones tunes so I cannot complain. The irrefutable highlight of the evening was that my brother's girl (who is now his BETROTHED :D) got my dad to dance with her. There were plenty of people over fifty, if not sixty, getting down in this bar. Cardondale isn't a rowdy town because of the school; SIU is a party school because of the town.

Let's do this meme:

Give me a fandom and I'll answer the following:
Favorite character:
Least Favorite character:
5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):
Character I find most attractive:
Character I would marry:
Character I would be best friends with:
a random thought:
An unpopular opinion:
my canon OTP:
Non-canon OTP:
most badass character:
pairing I am not a fan of:
character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):
favourite friendship:
character I want to adopt or be adopted by:

When you see this, comment with a poem you love or post one in your own journal to encourage the proliferation of random poetry through your flist.


I say I say I say (Simon Armitage)
Anyone here had a go at themselves
for a laugh? Anyone opened their wrists
with a blade in the bath? Those in the dark
at the back, listen hard. Those at the front
in the know, those of us who have, hands up,
let's show that inch of lacerated skin
between the forearm and the fist. Let's tell it
like it is: strong drink, a crimson tidemark
round the tub, a yard of lint, white towels
washed a dozen times, still pink. Tough luck.
A passion then, for watches, bangles, cuffs.
A likely story: you were lashed by brambles,
picking berries from the woods. Come clean, come good,
repeat with me the punch line 'Just like blood'
when those at the back rush forward to say
how a little love goes a long long long way.
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-Pennsylvania Trip was fun. We did a lot of four-wheeling in the woods (LOL, no, we're not really the hiking type) while we were at camp, and the last day we were there we drove through New York to go see Niagara Falls (I'd never been. It was fun, but I wished we could have crossed into Canada. Fuck passports.) And on the way back we stopped into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, which was actually way cooler than I expected.

-Finally saw X-Men First Class, and oh my god. OH MY GOD. ( somewhat spoilery stuff... )




AND NOW THIS MEME.

Comment with "Come at me, bro!"
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

( Q's and A's )