A meme!

[justice_turtle]

A Five Questions meme from sophia_sol! (Because I am all stuffed up in my head with this evil cold and cannot think straight. And because it is fic_rush and I am nowhere near clear-headed enough to write fic.)

If you want to join in the meme:

What are the three things that most attract you to a fandom

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[justice_turtle]

Ooh, I love tying together disparate narratives - although often it makes the second half of the book disappointingly less awesome than the first, especially in the sort of book where there were actually about seventeen different narratives and a kitchen sink. (I think I could happily read a gigantic book that was four to six different cracky books not really connected at all, except by taking place in the same time periods. If it was cracky enough. *g* I'd have to be in the right mood.)

Erm. Five questions!

1: If you don't think I'm being too nosy, please tell me something about how you and Mucca met / got together?
2: How did you choose the Stevenson quotation "half full of water and stars" for your journal subtitle?
3: The Librarian (yes, from Discworld) teams up with someone from DS9. Who, why, and what happens?

(On a tangential note: damn, I still need to finish The One Where Odo Meets Vimes. I am hampered by a complete inability to write Nobby or Fred Colon...)

4: Please explain "imperial librarian revolution", from your interests. *puppy eyes*
5: Were you the one who told me John de Lancie is going to be on My Little Pony? If not, what do you think of this news? (Also, is the first season out on DVD yet? Everyone keeps telling me to watch it, and I don't have telly. ;P)

[nenya_kanadka]

There should be Odo meeting Vimes! Was this a fic you were writing?

I quite like collections of stories that all take place in the same universe/world/era, although I prefer it if they are at least slightly connected. Stuff like Kira meeting Janeway, or--okay, sometime you need to read Lives of Dax (after you've seen all of DS9, of course). It's got stuff like, first contact with the Romulans, or that time when Leonard McCoy was a teenager, or when Ben Sisko met that dancer on Pelios Station. All intertwined with the various previous Dax hosts. Pretty much written with me in mind, oh yes. :D

OK, questions! :D

1: If you don't think I'm being too nosy, please tell me something about how you and Mucca met / got together?
We can't remember exactly where we first met, but it was somewhere online in, I think, LotR fandom a good 5-6 years ago. We knew some of the same people, followed the same fandom fights, etc. She was also one of the first people I knew who was both queer and Christian, which at the time surprised me. We're both from BC, but had moved around a lot, so didn't end up in the same city until 2009. We finally met in person & went out for coffee, and when I needed a place to stay for a few weeks she put me up. We were attracted to each other, but were both seeing other people, and didn't get together until the next spring. We're still both terribly fannish, and I kind of love that we met through fandom in the first place. :)

2: How did you choose the Stevenson quotation "half full of water and stars" for your journal subtitle?
I stumbled upon the poem somewhere, and thought the line was pretty and slightly obscure, and stole it. :) (This is rare for me, I'm usually more concrete in my allusions.) I love the idea of stars reflected in a bucket of water. Also, the name "Nenya" means "ring of water", so it seemed to fit.

3: The Librarian (yes, from Discworld) teams up with someone from DS9. Who, why, and what happens?
Oh, ooh, let me think. The Librarian obviously comes to DS9 through the wormhole while wandering through L-Space. He completely perplexes Sisko, and ends up in Quark's eating bar pretzels & conning free drinks by the simple expedient of threatening people if they try to make him pay. He doesn't get called "monkey" much (most aliens don't know the word), but when it happens he trashes the bar. Quark appeals to Odo for help. Odo is grimly amused, but isn't keen on the Librarian destroying the rest of the station either. Meanwhile Dax is deeply involved in a scientific mystery, which it turns out is related to why the Librarian is there. Eventually, through much OOK-ing, he communicates to her the salient information, mystery is solved, and the Librarian disappears, leaving behind a bananary aroma.

4: Please explain "imperial librarian revolution", from your interests. *puppy eyes*
Ahaha! That's windcedar's fault. We met when she was in library school. We are both of us both fantasy and sci-fi fans, so she invented this universe with spaceships but also scrolls & quills & deep reverence for paper books. She was the Empress of the Terran Empire, who was also a librarian; I was Admiral of the Imperial Spacefleet. The Imperial Librarian Revolution was the great watershed event that had overthrown the modern-day nation-states to form the Terran Empire. We wrote each other letters dated with Julian calendar. I believe there were also aliens who were bright purple and hated chocolate. It was a whole thing. We roped in a few of our friends (Mad Scientist and head of Intelligence being the ones I remember)--I think there were even LJ icons.

5: Were you the one who told me John de Lancie is going to be on My Little Pony? If not, what do you think of this news? (Also, is the first season out on DVD yet? Everyone keeps telling me to watch it, and I don't have telly. ;P)

I don't think it was me? But maybe. I know my little sister (who I was trying to talk into watching MLP:FiM) told me. I am completely delighted, though I have a hard time envisioning Q as a Pony. :D I don't know if the first season is out on DVD yet, but I have *ahem* acquired episodes, so I know they are out there. (I don't get TV either.)