Gishgoches
This was a lot of fun! Awesome challenge.
1. Scene with a character asleep
Molly in Marvel's Runaways.
2. Screencap of animation in a non animated show/movie
The Chronicles of Narnia (1988), season 1 episode 5. I fixed up the colors so that it wasn't completely black but I didn't do anything else to it. I hope the animation is visible enough. I remember watching it in the 90's and thinking "huh, why are there suddenly animated creatures flying around in a live action series?" Fun!
3. A link to the number 1 song the week you were born
I was born on 18th of October 1982. The Number 1 of the US American billboard charts was Jack & Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp.
And seeing as I was born in Germany, here is also the number 1 of the German charts:Words by F.R David - I'm a little disappointed that it is not Polonäse Blankenese, which was number 1 earlier that year and is a really fun song.
5. A scene with a crystal ball
Nico in Marvel's Runaways.
7. Three people hugging
Samantha, Lena and Kara in Supergirl.
8. A scene with twins
Lotte and Luise (Jutta und Isa Günther) in the original German Parent Trap movie Das Doppelte Lottchen (1950)
9. Someone making a phone call
Joyce Byers in Stranger Things.
10. An animated gif of someone laughing
Kaylee in Firefly.
11. Screencap of a character singing
Kara singing in episode 3x17 of The Flash (crossover episode with Supergirl). Fun fact, I totally didn't realize that both Melissa Benoist (main character of Supergirl) and Grant Gustin (main character of The Flash) have been in Glee before, and I was like, interesting that they can both sing. :P
12. An icon of your favourite character (cannot be an icon you made)
Moana by etherealnetwork
13. A picture of the view out your window
Rainbow! Photo taken by me.
14. A picture of a fancy hubcap
Rainbow again!
15. A song with the word darkness in the lyrics (must include link to lyrics)
May It Be by Enya
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home
16. Someone on horseback
Octavia in The 100
17. A pet with a hat
Mine and dance_the_dance's cat Kitty in a Santa hat. Photo taken by me.
19. What you had for lunch today
Spaghetti with onions, spinach and cheese. Would have photographed it myself but forgot, so have a random relatively accurate photo off the internet.
21. People playing a game
Mezoti and Naomi playing Kadis-kot
23. A cat having a nap
Have two. dance_the_dance's and my cats Tuf Tuf and Octavia. Photo taken by me.
24. Holiday decoration
dance_the_dance's and my first holiday decoration after we moved in together. Photo taken by me (via a timer, obviously :P).
25. A picture of a Christmas jumper (sweater)
The awesome dance_the_dance in an awesome Christmas sweater. All those little doors are openable, fixed to the sweater with velcro. :D Photo taken by me.
26. A scene with your favourite animal in it
There are a lot of animals in this picture of My Little Pony, but most importantly, a blebs seal (or more accurately, a sea lion), my favourite animal.
27. Picture of a building mural
Lots of pretty murals on the web, but this one I liked the best, it's so bright and shiny.
28. A funny car license plate
Lots of funny license plates too, took one that made me laugh.
29. A child feeding birds
Random cute child feeding random cute birds.
30. A scene with someone opening a gift
Tara opening her birthday presents in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
31. A famous celebrity who either shares your first name or your initials
My initials are MJ so, have a Milla Jovovich. :D
32. A picture of a superhero
Seeing that I am watching two superhero shows right now, Supergirl and Marvel's Runaways, this decision was hard, but in the end I picked the one I like the best right now, which is Molly from Runaways (haven't watched the whole show yet, but so far, she's super awesome). I don't know if it counts already if you don't have an outfit yet, but hey, who cares, she's a superhero, I mean, she's lifting cars up and ripping steel bars out of windows, that's a superhero, right?
33. Someone(s) in a hot air balloon
This is me and my mother in a hot air balloon shaped like an elephant (that ride was fun! A bit scary, but fun). Photos taken by my father with my camera.
34. A link to a trailer for a movie that came out the month you were born
I know exactly two movies that came out in 1982, both of them in June, not October, but here, have a really funny (even more so because I think it wasn't supposed to be funny? Or was it? It's really hard to tell) trailer of Q: The Winged Serpent, a trailer that looks so awfully cheesy, it's amazing this was actually a real movie and not a parody. :P
Men against Monster! Wow!
35. Screencap with nobody's face showing, but at least 3 peoples backs
Marvel's Runaways.
36. A picture of the Women's March (or other peaceful protest) from your town or area. (+1 bonus point if you made a protest sign yourself)
dance_the_dance and me at a protest on international women's day. We made the protest sign together, as in, dance_the_dance designed it, a printing place laminated it and I helped glue it onto the stick. The two pictures are of the two different sides of the same sign. Photos taken by me.
37. A bookmark, either a screencap of one or one you have made. Should be holiday themes or fandom
Supergirl Christmas bookmark made by me for this challenge, for the 5 points option.
38. Your favorite bumpersticker or magnet
This is my favourite fridge magnet, because it has dance_the_dance, me and Tricia Helfer on it. :D Photo taken by me.
39. A picture of a clock
Seal clock. Because blebs.
40. An animal in the snow
Surprise! It's a blebs! Hehe.
41. A scene with someone playing cards
Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation
42. A scene or link from a favourite tv show/movie
Took the scene with the song Who You Are from Moana, for easy accessibility, since the scene is basically the song and therefore on youtube. But it's also my favourite scene from my favourite movie, so definitely counts. WARNING: major spoilers, seriously, huge ones, click at your own risk. Sadly, they cut off right before "The chicken lives", but ah well, the other important parts are all there.
Who You Are
43.A scene where two or more characters are clearly from different eras
Bonnie and her ancestor Emily in The Vampire Diaries.
44. A link to a vid of your favourite ship (relationship/friendship)
Kara and Alex from Supergirl are at this moment my favourite relationship (until I've watched more Runaways that is, or so I guess :D). It wasn't as easy as I thought to find a nice vid for them because a lot of the vids are all about cutting together scenes and while I don't mind that (they have awesome scenes together), I really wanted a music video that was actually a music video. So, in the end I took a vid to Keep Holding On by Avril Lavigne.
Keep Holding On
45. A scene with a character reading a book
Nico in Marvel's Runaways.
47. Two screencaps, each featuring the same two actors in a scene together in TWO separate/unrelated projects. (Example: Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson in HP5: Order of the Phoenix and Love Actually, but not HP5: Order of the Phoenix and HP3: Prisoner of Azkaban)
This was far harder than I expected it to be. I was determined to find two actresses together in two projects that I actually know, which proved quite difficult. I found a lot of actors and actresses (Nathan Fillion invited basically everyone he had ever worked with onto Castle) and a few actors and actors but no two actresses.
Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan (both from Star Trek Voyager) were especially funny, since they both play in Warehouse 13 the mother and ex-wife respectively of one of the main characters and are both in several episodes but never in the same one, therefore they never share a scene.
In the end, I found these two, Amanda Tapping and Venus Terzo, who play together in the episode Frozen of Stargate SG-1 and the episode Sanctuary For None Part 1 of Sanctuary. This was a fun exercise though and I'm still looking for more.
48. A picture of an action figure in your possession
Here's a few having a nice tea party. Photo by me.
49. A screen shot of a character at the beach
Kara at the beach. Header made by me for this challenge, counting for the 5 points option.
51. A picture of a historical marker in your town
I decided to take the old crane (that's literally what it's called, the old crane) in Lüneburg, because I always liked it a lot as a child. I once had the chance to go inside with an excursion group and it was quite awesome. And funny enough, it also was the first thing coming up when I searched for Lüneburg on the internet, so…
52. A link to (or picture of) your favorite recipe
I don't ever cook with recipes, but I do use them when I bake, so here is my favourite fudgy brownies recipe (that is, they are my favourites when I don't forget the sugar, ooops).
Yummy brownies!
53. A link to a song (youtube or other version) that featured in a show that you will forever associate with the scene it was played in (+1 bonus point if includes a brief explanation)
Goodbye To You (Michelle Branch)
The artist is performing the song in this scene, which might make it too obvious to associate that song forever with this scene, but that is not the reason I do. I associate it with this scene because this scene changed a lot for me. This needs a little explanation and it's gonna get long and quite personal, mentioning suicide (relatively) graphically to explain what this is about. I'll put it in a spoiler tag for those who don't want to see it.
[What Buffy and especially this scene means to me]I have been watching Buffy since it came out in Germany, and being basically the same age as the characters, it was one of the first shows I related to very much. I've watched it together with my sister whenever possible.
Then, in the fifth season, my sister committed suicide by jumping off of a building, mirroring (without the end of the world scenario) Buffy's death in the last episode. After that, I did watch on, but the first episode of the sixth season was (and still is) very hard for me, since my sister obviously did not come back, but Buffy did.
Which means the entire sixth season is still unwatchable for me except for Once More With Feeling and Tabula Rasa. These two episodes touched something inside me that none of the others did, before or after, they brought a light that I so desperately needed and this song playing at the end of Tabula Rasa felt like a sort of catharsis. It was the goodbye that I had not been able to say before that, and that was still quite hard for me to say even then.
That goodbye, albeit in the show in a very different context, was very important for me and therefore, the scene in which this song plays with everyone hurting but also trying to start fresh, be free from the old wounds, will forever be associated with the song and my own wounds. I made my peace with a show I had loved for so long but had not been able to connect with anymore due to what had happened in my own life.
And despite the fact that I still cannot watch the rest of the sixth season and Buffy could only really redeem itself to me in the seventh season, I still hold this moment dear as part of the starting point of me actually trying to let go.
54. A picture of a sunset
Nothing better than an awesome beach sunset. Photo taken by me (yes, that's my shoes in there, LOL).
55. A scene with a castle
Once Upon a Time castle.
56. A picture of a schoolbus
Last scene of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
57. Screencap of Free Rice proving you've donated 1000 grains of rice
59. Your favorite meme
Any incarnation of the "The last fuck I give" meme, especially this one:
60. A sunflower!
1. Scene with a character asleep
Molly in Marvel's Runaways.
2. Screencap of animation in a non animated show/movie
The Chronicles of Narnia (1988), season 1 episode 5. I fixed up the colors so that it wasn't completely black but I didn't do anything else to it. I hope the animation is visible enough. I remember watching it in the 90's and thinking "huh, why are there suddenly animated creatures flying around in a live action series?" Fun!
3. A link to the number 1 song the week you were born
I was born on 18th of October 1982. The Number 1 of the US American billboard charts was Jack & Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp.
And seeing as I was born in Germany, here is also the number 1 of the German charts:Words by F.R David - I'm a little disappointed that it is not Polonäse Blankenese, which was number 1 earlier that year and is a really fun song.
5. A scene with a crystal ball
Nico in Marvel's Runaways.
7. Three people hugging
Samantha, Lena and Kara in Supergirl.
8. A scene with twins
Lotte and Luise (Jutta und Isa Günther) in the original German Parent Trap movie Das Doppelte Lottchen (1950)
9. Someone making a phone call
Joyce Byers in Stranger Things.
10. An animated gif of someone laughing
Kaylee in Firefly.
11. Screencap of a character singing
Kara singing in episode 3x17 of The Flash (crossover episode with Supergirl). Fun fact, I totally didn't realize that both Melissa Benoist (main character of Supergirl) and Grant Gustin (main character of The Flash) have been in Glee before, and I was like, interesting that they can both sing. :P
12. An icon of your favourite character (cannot be an icon you made)
Moana by etherealnetwork
13. A picture of the view out your window
Rainbow! Photo taken by me.
14. A picture of a fancy hubcap
Rainbow again!
15. A song with the word darkness in the lyrics (must include link to lyrics)
May It Be by Enya
May it be when darkness falls
Your heart will be true
You walk a lonely road
Oh! How far you are from home
16. Someone on horseback
Octavia in The 100
17. A pet with a hat
Mine and dance_the_dance's cat Kitty in a Santa hat. Photo taken by me.
19. What you had for lunch today
Spaghetti with onions, spinach and cheese. Would have photographed it myself but forgot, so have a random relatively accurate photo off the internet.
21. People playing a game
Mezoti and Naomi playing Kadis-kot
23. A cat having a nap
Have two. dance_the_dance's and my cats Tuf Tuf and Octavia. Photo taken by me.
24. Holiday decoration
dance_the_dance's and my first holiday decoration after we moved in together. Photo taken by me (via a timer, obviously :P).
25. A picture of a Christmas jumper (sweater)
The awesome dance_the_dance in an awesome Christmas sweater. All those little doors are openable, fixed to the sweater with velcro. :D Photo taken by me.
26. A scene with your favourite animal in it
There are a lot of animals in this picture of My Little Pony, but most importantly, a blebs seal (or more accurately, a sea lion), my favourite animal.
27. Picture of a building mural
Lots of pretty murals on the web, but this one I liked the best, it's so bright and shiny.
28. A funny car license plate
Lots of funny license plates too, took one that made me laugh.
29. A child feeding birds
Random cute child feeding random cute birds.
30. A scene with someone opening a gift
Tara opening her birthday presents in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
31. A famous celebrity who either shares your first name or your initials
My initials are MJ so, have a Milla Jovovich. :D
32. A picture of a superhero
Seeing that I am watching two superhero shows right now, Supergirl and Marvel's Runaways, this decision was hard, but in the end I picked the one I like the best right now, which is Molly from Runaways (haven't watched the whole show yet, but so far, she's super awesome). I don't know if it counts already if you don't have an outfit yet, but hey, who cares, she's a superhero, I mean, she's lifting cars up and ripping steel bars out of windows, that's a superhero, right?
33. Someone(s) in a hot air balloon
This is me and my mother in a hot air balloon shaped like an elephant (that ride was fun! A bit scary, but fun). Photos taken by my father with my camera.
34. A link to a trailer for a movie that came out the month you were born
I know exactly two movies that came out in 1982, both of them in June, not October, but here, have a really funny (even more so because I think it wasn't supposed to be funny? Or was it? It's really hard to tell) trailer of Q: The Winged Serpent, a trailer that looks so awfully cheesy, it's amazing this was actually a real movie and not a parody. :P
Men against Monster! Wow!
35. Screencap with nobody's face showing, but at least 3 peoples backs
Marvel's Runaways.
36. A picture of the Women's March (or other peaceful protest) from your town or area. (+1 bonus point if you made a protest sign yourself)
dance_the_dance and me at a protest on international women's day. We made the protest sign together, as in, dance_the_dance designed it, a printing place laminated it and I helped glue it onto the stick. The two pictures are of the two different sides of the same sign. Photos taken by me.
37. A bookmark, either a screencap of one or one you have made. Should be holiday themes or fandom
Supergirl Christmas bookmark made by me for this challenge, for the 5 points option.
38. Your favorite bumpersticker or magnet
This is my favourite fridge magnet, because it has dance_the_dance, me and Tricia Helfer on it. :D Photo taken by me.
39. A picture of a clock
Seal clock. Because blebs.
40. An animal in the snow
Surprise! It's a blebs! Hehe.
41. A scene with someone playing cards
Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation
42. A scene or link from a favourite tv show/movie
Took the scene with the song Who You Are from Moana, for easy accessibility, since the scene is basically the song and therefore on youtube. But it's also my favourite scene from my favourite movie, so definitely counts. WARNING: major spoilers, seriously, huge ones, click at your own risk. Sadly, they cut off right before "The chicken lives", but ah well, the other important parts are all there.
Who You Are
43.A scene where two or more characters are clearly from different eras
Bonnie and her ancestor Emily in The Vampire Diaries.
44. A link to a vid of your favourite ship (relationship/friendship)
Kara and Alex from Supergirl are at this moment my favourite relationship (until I've watched more Runaways that is, or so I guess :D). It wasn't as easy as I thought to find a nice vid for them because a lot of the vids are all about cutting together scenes and while I don't mind that (they have awesome scenes together), I really wanted a music video that was actually a music video. So, in the end I took a vid to Keep Holding On by Avril Lavigne.
Keep Holding On
45. A scene with a character reading a book
Nico in Marvel's Runaways.
47. Two screencaps, each featuring the same two actors in a scene together in TWO separate/unrelated projects. (Example: Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson in HP5: Order of the Phoenix and Love Actually, but not HP5: Order of the Phoenix and HP3: Prisoner of Azkaban)
This was far harder than I expected it to be. I was determined to find two actresses together in two projects that I actually know, which proved quite difficult. I found a lot of actors and actresses (Nathan Fillion invited basically everyone he had ever worked with onto Castle) and a few actors and actors but no two actresses.
Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan (both from Star Trek Voyager) were especially funny, since they both play in Warehouse 13 the mother and ex-wife respectively of one of the main characters and are both in several episodes but never in the same one, therefore they never share a scene.
In the end, I found these two, Amanda Tapping and Venus Terzo, who play together in the episode Frozen of Stargate SG-1 and the episode Sanctuary For None Part 1 of Sanctuary. This was a fun exercise though and I'm still looking for more.
48. A picture of an action figure in your possession
Here's a few having a nice tea party. Photo by me.
49. A screen shot of a character at the beach
Kara at the beach. Header made by me for this challenge, counting for the 5 points option.
51. A picture of a historical marker in your town
I decided to take the old crane (that's literally what it's called, the old crane) in Lüneburg, because I always liked it a lot as a child. I once had the chance to go inside with an excursion group and it was quite awesome. And funny enough, it also was the first thing coming up when I searched for Lüneburg on the internet, so…
52. A link to (or picture of) your favorite recipe
I don't ever cook with recipes, but I do use them when I bake, so here is my favourite fudgy brownies recipe (that is, they are my favourites when I don't forget the sugar, ooops).
Yummy brownies!
53. A link to a song (youtube or other version) that featured in a show that you will forever associate with the scene it was played in (+1 bonus point if includes a brief explanation)
Goodbye To You (Michelle Branch)
The artist is performing the song in this scene, which might make it too obvious to associate that song forever with this scene, but that is not the reason I do. I associate it with this scene because this scene changed a lot for me. This needs a little explanation and it's gonna get long and quite personal, mentioning suicide (relatively) graphically to explain what this is about. I'll put it in a spoiler tag for those who don't want to see it.
[What Buffy and especially this scene means to me]I have been watching Buffy since it came out in Germany, and being basically the same age as the characters, it was one of the first shows I related to very much. I've watched it together with my sister whenever possible.
Then, in the fifth season, my sister committed suicide by jumping off of a building, mirroring (without the end of the world scenario) Buffy's death in the last episode. After that, I did watch on, but the first episode of the sixth season was (and still is) very hard for me, since my sister obviously did not come back, but Buffy did.
Which means the entire sixth season is still unwatchable for me except for Once More With Feeling and Tabula Rasa. These two episodes touched something inside me that none of the others did, before or after, they brought a light that I so desperately needed and this song playing at the end of Tabula Rasa felt like a sort of catharsis. It was the goodbye that I had not been able to say before that, and that was still quite hard for me to say even then.
That goodbye, albeit in the show in a very different context, was very important for me and therefore, the scene in which this song plays with everyone hurting but also trying to start fresh, be free from the old wounds, will forever be associated with the song and my own wounds. I made my peace with a show I had loved for so long but had not been able to connect with anymore due to what had happened in my own life.
And despite the fact that I still cannot watch the rest of the sixth season and Buffy could only really redeem itself to me in the seventh season, I still hold this moment dear as part of the starting point of me actually trying to let go.
54. A picture of a sunset
Nothing better than an awesome beach sunset. Photo taken by me (yes, that's my shoes in there, LOL).
55. A scene with a castle
Once Upon a Time castle.
56. A picture of a schoolbus
Last scene of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
57. Screencap of Free Rice proving you've donated 1000 grains of rice
59. Your favorite meme
Any incarnation of the "The last fuck I give" meme, especially this one:
60. A sunflower!