More Memeage
Edit: Sorry, LJ was refusing to cut everything the other day and now it's done it again. Sorry about the long entry, but I am not playing about with it any more. And it's eaten the links again. *goes off to hit things*
I got this off
persiflage_1 a couple of days ago and have been busy. In fact, really I am still busy, but there we go.
Meme One
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favourite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
And persiflage_1 gave me these three: Doctor Who, Spooks, Chalet School
1. My friend told me to watch it and I'd secretly wanted to for years, but no one else in my house did. I was instantly hooked (by the last five minutes of The Happiness Patrol and Silver Nemesis if you want to no. So no one is the Doctor for me quite like Sylvester).
2. I haven't moved on yet and that was 1988. Doctor Who? Move on? DW can be just about anything. It's a bit big to avoid even if I tried.
3. Ohh, don't ask. Ghostlight, Robots of Death, Caves of Androzani, the first episode, The Aztecs, Androids of Tara, The War Games, DW & the Silurians, Inferno, Enlightenment, Vengeance on Varos, Curse of Fenric, Blink, Genesis of the Daleks, Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars, The War Machines. So, so many. It would be much quicker to list the ones I don't like. (Um. 42 and... well, I do get upset by The Nightmare of Eden, because there's a really nice script that's been buried in there, but for once there's no rescuing it. And some of the Doctor-less 60s episodes I keep myself occupied by knitting at the same time. And that's not even starting on the audios (The Chimes of Midnight, DW and the Pirates, The One Doctor?) or the books.
4. Fanfiction, as anyone reading this will surely know. Some discussion, I suppose, but I don't hang on forums because of experiencing 90s internet fandom where explaining that you like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor left you wide open to nastiness and abuse.
5. It's certainly big enough to take them.
*
Spooks:
1. My attention was caught by the trailers when it started. Plus, I'd just seen Matthew Mcfadyen in The Way We Live Now and he was so good in it, I was interested to see him in something else.
2. I'm happy to keep watching for the moment. There are few other drama shows around as good as this one. (Just please some more of that so wry humour in S8, and if the current casting rumour going round isn't true, well... Spooks fans will send in terrorist postcards to Kudos or something. Heh.)
3. I actually waffled for a whole post about my favourite episode, because it is brilliant, here. I also love 4.5 The Book, which has a nice plotline and the Ruth/Harry subplot really comes out into the open for the first time and it's a long time before Jo gets to be this fun again; 4.10 (Diana: another trapped on the grid episode and a lot of it centred on Ruth); the first episode got me hooked. (I love the bit with the cat, if nothing else) and others.
4. I have written DW/Spooks crossovers and visit spooky_doings occasionally.
5. Yes. It's not really obscure, although British, I suppose. But yes. Even in the misery of S5, it was still sharper than most other things.
*
Chalet School (Oh dear...) (This is the Chalet School series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer).
1. I bought The New Mistress at the Chalet School at a school book fair and read a couple more out of the library. Then when I was ill as a teenager, for a bit my Granny would often buy me one when she came up during the week. (I'm only 2 short of the full set - Armada, I hasten to add, before someone thinks my house is worth breaking into, which it would be if I had the full set of hbks!!) I used to read them to remind myself that I did want to get well and go back to school, sometimes. (All the details about lessons and handing out of stationery and things.)
2. Well, I was probably about 7 then and I'm now [...] and I'm not giving away the books. They're just rather addictive. They go into such detail of the running of the school and all the characters and there's just something about them, especially the Austria books. Comfort reading? Plus, once you get into it, you can't help but love the Chalet School Cliches, without which no CS story is complete.
3. The Chalet School in Exile used to be my favourite, far and away. Now maybe The School at the Chalet, The Head Girl of the Chalet School, Gay Lambert at the CS and The CS Reunion. Really, I like Madge, Grizel and Miss Wilson a lot, among others. And wonder to myself what happened to Polly Herriot.
4. Well, last year my friend made of a member of the Friends of the Chalet School for a year, which was fun. (I got her a prequel off the back of it this Christmas). But other than a half-written Xover, no, not really.
5. Erm. I think that depends how you feel about old-fashioned girls' school series, but these are definitely the best ones I've read. (And I did do Malory Towers, St Clares, Dimsie and a couple others.)
So: Meme Two
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
persiflage_1gave me these: Wodehouse, crossovers, Liz/Brig, humour, books
1. Wodehouse
What can I say I haven't said before? His books are just marvellous. I love 'A Crime Wave at Blandings' and 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend' possibly more than anything else, but they are the perfect books to read when you're ill and down, but they're still so inventive in terms of language that it's not just a switch-off-your brain read.
2. Crossovers
I do like crossovers. DW is just made for them. I have been putting together a sort of blog/website-ish thing called Star Crossed which has a lot of DW crossovers on it. I haven't done so much, cos I do feel it's probably time to look into some of the obvious ones and I'm not sure where to start. But it's got quite a few on now. *pats it proudly*
3. Liz/Brig
Funnily enough, I always think of this ship as Brig/Liz, but there you go. Last year's obsession? No, I wrote a lot of S7 stories with these two in. The Brig emains forever unflappable and Liz likes trying to get a reaction out of him. Aside from anything else. I had fun. Some people even read them. (And I'm not alone in 'shipping these two.)
4. Humour.
I have a strange sense of humour. I've crossed DW with Rainbow, Carry On films, The Two Ronnies, PG Wodehouse and write This Time Round stories occasionally. I am easily distracted by the ridiculous, which often turns into plot bunny. And classic DW is full of wonderfully bonkers things that do indeed distract me.
5. Books.
I like books. Books are good? I'm a librarian. I have 4 bookcases in my bedroom and one downstairs (and the NF are sort in Dewey order) so, um, yes...
*collapses, exhausted* This meme was supposed to be the short option of things I could do. LJ decided to be awkward and ate it and then my computer crashed and then my Mum rang... I really should have just gone ahead and started writing the story no one will want to read. In fact, I'm going to now!
I got this off
persiflage_1 a couple of days ago and have been busy. In fact, really I am still busy, but there we go.
Meme One
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:
01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favourite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
And persiflage_1 gave me these three: Doctor Who, Spooks, Chalet School
1. My friend told me to watch it and I'd secretly wanted to for years, but no one else in my house did. I was instantly hooked (by the last five minutes of The Happiness Patrol and Silver Nemesis if you want to no. So no one is the Doctor for me quite like Sylvester).
2. I haven't moved on yet and that was 1988. Doctor Who? Move on? DW can be just about anything. It's a bit big to avoid even if I tried.
3. Ohh, don't ask. Ghostlight, Robots of Death, Caves of Androzani, the first episode, The Aztecs, Androids of Tara, The War Games, DW & the Silurians, Inferno, Enlightenment, Vengeance on Varos, Curse of Fenric, Blink, Genesis of the Daleks, Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars, The War Machines. So, so many. It would be much quicker to list the ones I don't like. (Um. 42 and... well, I do get upset by The Nightmare of Eden, because there's a really nice script that's been buried in there, but for once there's no rescuing it. And some of the Doctor-less 60s episodes I keep myself occupied by knitting at the same time. And that's not even starting on the audios (The Chimes of Midnight, DW and the Pirates, The One Doctor?) or the books.
4. Fanfiction, as anyone reading this will surely know. Some discussion, I suppose, but I don't hang on forums because of experiencing 90s internet fandom where explaining that you like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor left you wide open to nastiness and abuse.
5. It's certainly big enough to take them.
*
Spooks:
1. My attention was caught by the trailers when it started. Plus, I'd just seen Matthew Mcfadyen in The Way We Live Now and he was so good in it, I was interested to see him in something else.
2. I'm happy to keep watching for the moment. There are few other drama shows around as good as this one. (Just please some more of that so wry humour in S8, and if the current casting rumour going round isn't true, well... Spooks fans will send in terrorist postcards to Kudos or something. Heh.)
3. I actually waffled for a whole post about my favourite episode, because it is brilliant, here. I also love 4.5 The Book, which has a nice plotline and the Ruth/Harry subplot really comes out into the open for the first time and it's a long time before Jo gets to be this fun again; 4.10 (Diana: another trapped on the grid episode and a lot of it centred on Ruth); the first episode got me hooked. (I love the bit with the cat, if nothing else) and others.
4. I have written DW/Spooks crossovers and visit spooky_doings occasionally.
5. Yes. It's not really obscure, although British, I suppose. But yes. Even in the misery of S5, it was still sharper than most other things.
*
Chalet School (Oh dear...) (This is the Chalet School series by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer).
1. I bought The New Mistress at the Chalet School at a school book fair and read a couple more out of the library. Then when I was ill as a teenager, for a bit my Granny would often buy me one when she came up during the week. (I'm only 2 short of the full set - Armada, I hasten to add, before someone thinks my house is worth breaking into, which it would be if I had the full set of hbks!!) I used to read them to remind myself that I did want to get well and go back to school, sometimes. (All the details about lessons and handing out of stationery and things.)
2. Well, I was probably about 7 then and I'm now [...] and I'm not giving away the books. They're just rather addictive. They go into such detail of the running of the school and all the characters and there's just something about them, especially the Austria books. Comfort reading? Plus, once you get into it, you can't help but love the Chalet School Cliches, without which no CS story is complete.
3. The Chalet School in Exile used to be my favourite, far and away. Now maybe The School at the Chalet, The Head Girl of the Chalet School, Gay Lambert at the CS and The CS Reunion. Really, I like Madge, Grizel and Miss Wilson a lot, among others. And wonder to myself what happened to Polly Herriot.
4. Well, last year my friend made of a member of the Friends of the Chalet School for a year, which was fun. (I got her a prequel off the back of it this Christmas). But other than a half-written Xover, no, not really.
5. Erm. I think that depends how you feel about old-fashioned girls' school series, but these are definitely the best ones I've read. (And I did do Malory Towers, St Clares, Dimsie and a couple others.)
So: Meme Two
Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
persiflage_1gave me these: Wodehouse, crossovers, Liz/Brig, humour, books
1. Wodehouse
What can I say I haven't said before? His books are just marvellous. I love 'A Crime Wave at Blandings' and 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend' possibly more than anything else, but they are the perfect books to read when you're ill and down, but they're still so inventive in terms of language that it's not just a switch-off-your brain read.
2. Crossovers
I do like crossovers. DW is just made for them. I have been putting together a sort of blog/website-ish thing called Star Crossed which has a lot of DW crossovers on it. I haven't done so much, cos I do feel it's probably time to look into some of the obvious ones and I'm not sure where to start. But it's got quite a few on now. *pats it proudly*
3. Liz/Brig
Funnily enough, I always think of this ship as Brig/Liz, but there you go. Last year's obsession? No, I wrote a lot of S7 stories with these two in. The Brig emains forever unflappable and Liz likes trying to get a reaction out of him. Aside from anything else. I had fun. Some people even read them. (And I'm not alone in 'shipping these two.)
4. Humour.
I have a strange sense of humour. I've crossed DW with Rainbow, Carry On films, The Two Ronnies, PG Wodehouse and write This Time Round stories occasionally. I am easily distracted by the ridiculous, which often turns into plot bunny. And classic DW is full of wonderfully bonkers things that do indeed distract me.
5. Books.
I like books. Books are good? I'm a librarian. I have 4 bookcases in my bedroom and one downstairs (and the NF are sort in Dewey order) so, um, yes...
*collapses, exhausted* This meme was supposed to be the short option of things I could do. LJ decided to be awkward and ate it and then my computer crashed and then my Mum rang... I really should have just gone ahead and started writing the story no one will want to read. In fact, I'm going to now!