fannish5 lists
Name five fandoms that you're not (yet) in, but which seem intriguing.
1. Angel Sanctuary manga. (...silverfyshxin disapproves, but the Kaori Yuki addiction will lead me there eventually. Also I like stuff with plays on Christianity.)
2. Fables comics/graphic novels. (Given Kaori Yuki's peaking my interest in fairy tales and Neil Gaiman's thing with mythology, it'll probably happen sometime.)
3. Skullduggery Pleasant bookseries. (I like YA fantasy.)
4. DOGS manga. (The art is neat! And I like trauma. Uh.)
5. Trigun manga and anime. (I'm not sure how I haven't gotten into this yet.)
6. Cowboy Bebop. (I've seen the movie!)
7. His Dark Materials novels. (I liked the movie! Even if the author is apparently kind of a jerk.)
That went over 5.
I almost put Narnia on there, but I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the 7th grade and failed to see what the big deal was. Probably because it had been hyped so much. Maybe I should give it another try sometime.
I'm generally not into tv shows set in space, hence the lack of love for Stargate and Battlestar Galactica.
Name your five favorite fictional apocalypses (or near misses). (In the Buffyverse, someone says "I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'" So I limited myself to one from each show. And some of this is post-apocalyptic.)
1. Angel's fourth season: Jasmine's plot to bring world peace. ...technically this might have been an end to Apocalypses. So. Uh. Angel stopping her fiendish scheme.
LILAH: Think of it as a reward.
GUNN: Reward for what?
LILAH: Ending world peace.
FRED: That's not what happened.
LILAH: No?
WESLEY: Jasmine was creating a slave state.
LILAH: Right, where the slaves are full of giggly joy and love. Ugh, what a nightmare.
ANGEL: She was eating people.
LILAH: They knew what they were getting into.
LORNE: Her stomach?
LILAH: World peace comes at a price. Jasmine understood that. She consumed, what? Couple dozen souls a day? Now weigh that against ending the suffering of millions, but you fixed that.
FRED: No, we didn't. I-I mean, we did, we-we fixed it, but not in the way that you're trying to make it sound.
LILAH: Jeez, it's not like it was a criticism.
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season two plot. Angelus's evil plan to suck the world into hell. Yes. Spike's explanation of why he didn't want the world destroyed:
"We like to talk big. Vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' That's just tough guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Goodbye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester Bloody Square. You know what I'm saying?"
And Angelus and Buffy's final fight scene of badassery, and the heartbreak at the end.
3. Good Omens! So cute.
4. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Most of humanity being killed off is sort of an apocalypse. (The movie is awful.)
5. Shade's Children by Garth Nix.
1. Angel Sanctuary manga. (...silverfyshxin disapproves, but the Kaori Yuki addiction will lead me there eventually. Also I like stuff with plays on Christianity.)
2. Fables comics/graphic novels. (Given Kaori Yuki's peaking my interest in fairy tales and Neil Gaiman's thing with mythology, it'll probably happen sometime.)
3. Skullduggery Pleasant bookseries. (I like YA fantasy.)
4. DOGS manga. (The art is neat! And I like trauma. Uh.)
5. Trigun manga and anime. (I'm not sure how I haven't gotten into this yet.)
6. Cowboy Bebop. (I've seen the movie!)
7. His Dark Materials novels. (I liked the movie! Even if the author is apparently kind of a jerk.)
That went over 5.
I almost put Narnia on there, but I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the 7th grade and failed to see what the big deal was. Probably because it had been hyped so much. Maybe I should give it another try sometime.
I'm generally not into tv shows set in space, hence the lack of love for Stargate and Battlestar Galactica.
Name your five favorite fictional apocalypses (or near misses). (In the Buffyverse, someone says "I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'" So I limited myself to one from each show. And some of this is post-apocalyptic.)
1. Angel's fourth season: Jasmine's plot to bring world peace. ...technically this might have been an end to Apocalypses. So. Uh. Angel stopping her fiendish scheme.
LILAH: Think of it as a reward.
GUNN: Reward for what?
LILAH: Ending world peace.
FRED: That's not what happened.
LILAH: No?
WESLEY: Jasmine was creating a slave state.
LILAH: Right, where the slaves are full of giggly joy and love. Ugh, what a nightmare.
ANGEL: She was eating people.
LILAH: They knew what they were getting into.
LORNE: Her stomach?
LILAH: World peace comes at a price. Jasmine understood that. She consumed, what? Couple dozen souls a day? Now weigh that against ending the suffering of millions, but you fixed that.
FRED: No, we didn't. I-I mean, we did, we-we fixed it, but not in the way that you're trying to make it sound.
LILAH: Jeez, it's not like it was a criticism.
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season two plot. Angelus's evil plan to suck the world into hell. Yes. Spike's explanation of why he didn't want the world destroyed:
"We like to talk big. Vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' That's just tough guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Goodbye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester Bloody Square. You know what I'm saying?"
And Angelus and Buffy's final fight scene of badassery, and the heartbreak at the end.
3. Good Omens! So cute.
4. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Most of humanity being killed off is sort of an apocalypse. (The movie is awful.)
5. Shade's Children by Garth Nix.