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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.
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.