Suddenly, memes! Memes from nowhere!
Firstly, via everyone, a meme that looks like fun:
Name a fandom you know I'm familiar with, and I will tell you:
1. OTP
2. Runner-up pairing
3. Honourable mention(s)
4. Crack pairing(s)
5. Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.
Secondly, here are my answers to the Top Fives Meme from the other day the other week fucking ages ago actually. Oops.
Top five het ships (suggested by spacefragments)
1. Harry/Luna (Harry Potter, obvs). I'm repeating myself here, but fuck it: it should have been canon.
2. Gwen/Lancelot (Merlin). THEY ARE SO FREAKING ADORABLE TOGETHER. Yes yes yes, we're getting Arthur/Gwen, or at least I'll be very surprised if we don't, but, as I've said before, it would be awesome to just cut out the middleman. *g* (My only criticism of Gwen/Lancelot is, of course, that it gets in the way of Gwen/Morgana... but I'm sure they'll figure something out between the three of them. *evil grin*)
3. Han/Leia (Star Wars). Because anything else is just WRONG. :D
4. Lyra/Will (His Dark Materials). Philip Pullman, you broke my heart with these two. You bastard.
5. Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash. Does this one count? I think it does. I love them and I sort of wish they'd been my aunt and uncle, or grandparents or something.
Top five things that I think JKR really nailed in Deathly Hallows (suggested by matt_writer)
1. Harry's death and subsequent resurrection (or whatever that was - I don't have the energy right now to argue over whether he actually "died" or not). Made perfect sense and while I saw it coming a mile off, it still had impact.
2. The alternate trio of Neville, Luna and Ginny bringing the resistance at Hogwarts: FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE.
3. The Malfoy family were brilliant in that book. They might have been Voldemort supporters and all, but ultimately they cared the most about each other. There's a great bit in the very first chapter where Voldemort is picking on Lucius about something or other, and Narcissa reaches under the table and squeezes his hand. And after the last battle, the three of them just sit huddled together, glad that they're all alive and mostly unharmed, and it's lovely.
4. Killing Fred. So many of the deaths in that book were too obviously in there to just tug at the heartstrings, but Fred's death really did have bollocks.
5. Luna's bedroom and her paintings of her friends. I know this provoked mixed reactions, and some people found it creepy, but I found it awesome. Luna! ♥
Five people Tonks should have hooked up with (suggested by oddsbobs)
1. Ginny Ginny Ginny! I have a real weakness for Ginny having a giant crush on Tonks, and while I have reservations about hooking them up (given that Ginny is what, 16 when Tonks is killed, younger when Tonks is still awesome enough for Ginny to have a crush on her), I am, of course, a big fan of AU endings.
2. Mystique from X-Men. They already have shapeshifting in common. :P
3. Harry. I don't think it would do much for her, but I think she could teach him a thing or two. (FWIW, I like to think of Tonks as bisexual, or at least... not discriminating in matters of gender? I could go on about why but I suspect it wouldn't be interesting.)
4. Toshiko Sato from Torchwood. According to ongoing discussions between lefaym and me: Tonks finds herself in the Whoniverse, where she is picked up by Torchwood, who assume her to be a shapeshifting alien. The rest practically writes itself. ^_^
5. A hypothetical person who is, like, as far from Remus Lupin as it's possible to be. (Yeah, still bitter, I guess. Meh)
Top five endings that should've happened in Harry Potter (suggested by mushroom18)
1. No camping. The horcrux search takes longer than a year and takes in much more interesting places. No hallows. Harry stays dead.
2. Harry kills Voldemort in a much more long-winded and gory way than in the real book. Afterwards, there is a lot of talk about how the world will need to be repaired, because it's so damaged. Harry realises that the same applies to him, because he has never been normal or ordinary and hence has no idea of how to have a normal life. It is implied that he never marries or settles down, and he spends many years travelling and studying. Basically, he becomes Dumbledore, but for different reasons.
3. I'd have liked it if Snape's whole being-a-good-guy-all-along thing had been to do with the life debt he had with James, and not because of Lily. I didn't mind the Lily thing at all, all things considered, but I feel like from a literary point of view it didn't make enormous amounts of sense; YMMV, of course.
4. Harry sits alone in a diner while Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" plays on the jukebox. He orders onion rings. Hermione, then Ron, and finally Ginny arrive in turn. Mid-sentence, everything stops, and the final page is blank. A legal battle subsequently ensues between JKR and the creative team behind The Sopranos.
5. Voldemort acquires an atomic bomb and the book is over in three pages.
Top five children's books heroes (suggested by ivakas)
1. Ramona Quimby. IMO one of the most perfect children's book protagonists of all time.
2. Sophie Hatter. She's just brilliant. So brilliant that the most pimpin' wizard in Ingary falls in love with her when she's disguised as an old woman.
3. Laura Ingalls, if she counts (given that she was a real person). For the record, I firmly believe that I could survive after an apocalypse, because I can still remember - via these books - how to make cheese and butter and sourdough bread, how to butcher a pig, how to make maple sugar, how to make your own bullets, how to build a smokehouse and smoke meat, and how to cut ice and store it in sawdust for the summer. :D
4. Jeremy James. My dad used to read me these books when I was a kid and we would always get the giggles. (And, for the exact same reason, William Brown.)
5. Tracy Beaker. I read this book when I was ten, the same age as the protagonist, and it made me cry for reasons that were new.
Top five crossover OTPs (suggested by red_squared)
1. Tonks/Tosh (see above).
2. Remus/Sirius/Link. Canine forms optional (although I don't necessarily wanna see what happens in that case).
3. ... This is really hard, as I don't generally do crossover pairings. Uh... The Enterprise vs the Death Star.
4. Derren Brown/The Master from Doctor Who, assuming that they aren't the same person, which I admit is a dubious assumption to make.
5. Ah hell. Gandalf/Magneto.
Name a fandom you know I'm familiar with, and I will tell you:
1. OTP
2. Runner-up pairing
3. Honourable mention(s)
4. Crack pairing(s)
5. Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.
Secondly, here are my answers to the Top Fives Meme from the other day the other week fucking ages ago actually. Oops.
Top five het ships (suggested by spacefragments)
1. Harry/Luna (Harry Potter, obvs). I'm repeating myself here, but fuck it: it should have been canon.
2. Gwen/Lancelot (Merlin). THEY ARE SO FREAKING ADORABLE TOGETHER. Yes yes yes, we're getting Arthur/Gwen, or at least I'll be very surprised if we don't, but, as I've said before, it would be awesome to just cut out the middleman. *g* (My only criticism of Gwen/Lancelot is, of course, that it gets in the way of Gwen/Morgana... but I'm sure they'll figure something out between the three of them. *evil grin*)
3. Han/Leia (Star Wars). Because anything else is just WRONG. :D
4. Lyra/Will (His Dark Materials). Philip Pullman, you broke my heart with these two. You bastard.
5. Johnny Cash/June Carter Cash. Does this one count? I think it does. I love them and I sort of wish they'd been my aunt and uncle, or grandparents or something.
Top five things that I think JKR really nailed in Deathly Hallows (suggested by matt_writer)
1. Harry's death and subsequent resurrection (or whatever that was - I don't have the energy right now to argue over whether he actually "died" or not). Made perfect sense and while I saw it coming a mile off, it still had impact.
2. The alternate trio of Neville, Luna and Ginny bringing the resistance at Hogwarts: FUCKING AWESOMESAUCE.
3. The Malfoy family were brilliant in that book. They might have been Voldemort supporters and all, but ultimately they cared the most about each other. There's a great bit in the very first chapter where Voldemort is picking on Lucius about something or other, and Narcissa reaches under the table and squeezes his hand. And after the last battle, the three of them just sit huddled together, glad that they're all alive and mostly unharmed, and it's lovely.
4. Killing Fred. So many of the deaths in that book were too obviously in there to just tug at the heartstrings, but Fred's death really did have bollocks.
5. Luna's bedroom and her paintings of her friends. I know this provoked mixed reactions, and some people found it creepy, but I found it awesome. Luna! ♥
Five people Tonks should have hooked up with (suggested by oddsbobs)
1. Ginny Ginny Ginny! I have a real weakness for Ginny having a giant crush on Tonks, and while I have reservations about hooking them up (given that Ginny is what, 16 when Tonks is killed, younger when Tonks is still awesome enough for Ginny to have a crush on her), I am, of course, a big fan of AU endings.
2. Mystique from X-Men. They already have shapeshifting in common. :P
3. Harry. I don't think it would do much for her, but I think she could teach him a thing or two. (FWIW, I like to think of Tonks as bisexual, or at least... not discriminating in matters of gender? I could go on about why but I suspect it wouldn't be interesting.)
4. Toshiko Sato from Torchwood. According to ongoing discussions between lefaym and me: Tonks finds herself in the Whoniverse, where she is picked up by Torchwood, who assume her to be a shapeshifting alien. The rest practically writes itself. ^_^
5. A hypothetical person who is, like, as far from Remus Lupin as it's possible to be. (Yeah, still bitter, I guess. Meh)
Top five endings that should've happened in Harry Potter (suggested by mushroom18)
1. No camping. The horcrux search takes longer than a year and takes in much more interesting places. No hallows. Harry stays dead.
2. Harry kills Voldemort in a much more long-winded and gory way than in the real book. Afterwards, there is a lot of talk about how the world will need to be repaired, because it's so damaged. Harry realises that the same applies to him, because he has never been normal or ordinary and hence has no idea of how to have a normal life. It is implied that he never marries or settles down, and he spends many years travelling and studying. Basically, he becomes Dumbledore, but for different reasons.
3. I'd have liked it if Snape's whole being-a-good-guy-all-along thing had been to do with the life debt he had with James, and not because of Lily. I didn't mind the Lily thing at all, all things considered, but I feel like from a literary point of view it didn't make enormous amounts of sense; YMMV, of course.
4. Harry sits alone in a diner while Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" plays on the jukebox. He orders onion rings. Hermione, then Ron, and finally Ginny arrive in turn. Mid-sentence, everything stops, and the final page is blank. A legal battle subsequently ensues between JKR and the creative team behind The Sopranos.
5. Voldemort acquires an atomic bomb and the book is over in three pages.
Top five children's books heroes (suggested by ivakas)
1. Ramona Quimby. IMO one of the most perfect children's book protagonists of all time.
2. Sophie Hatter. She's just brilliant. So brilliant that the most pimpin' wizard in Ingary falls in love with her when she's disguised as an old woman.
3. Laura Ingalls, if she counts (given that she was a real person). For the record, I firmly believe that I could survive after an apocalypse, because I can still remember - via these books - how to make cheese and butter and sourdough bread, how to butcher a pig, how to make maple sugar, how to make your own bullets, how to build a smokehouse and smoke meat, and how to cut ice and store it in sawdust for the summer. :D
4. Jeremy James. My dad used to read me these books when I was a kid and we would always get the giggles. (And, for the exact same reason, William Brown.)
5. Tracy Beaker. I read this book when I was ten, the same age as the protagonist, and it made me cry for reasons that were new.
Top five crossover OTPs (suggested by red_squared)
1. Tonks/Tosh (see above).
2. Remus/Sirius/Link. Canine forms optional (although I don't necessarily wanna see what happens in that case).
3. ... This is really hard, as I don't generally do crossover pairings. Uh... The Enterprise vs the Death Star.
4. Derren Brown/The Master from Doctor Who, assuming that they aren't the same person, which I admit is a dubious assumption to make.
5. Ah hell. Gandalf/Magneto.