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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[john_amend_all]

Duplicating my answer to clocketpatch:

The question about what attracts me to fandoms is difficult to answer, because I don't think of it in those terms. I don't think I've ever gone looking for a fandom as such - only for 'something interesting' related to a work I like. That might turn up a page of trivia, a wiki entry, a recap blog, or a forum. Maybe I'll stick around: a lot of the time I won't.

(I note that just about everyone else who's replied has got round this by answering the question "What three things most attract you to a show?". I think for that I'd say intelligence, humour and escapism).

[justice_turtle]

Hmm! I hadn't even thought of "fandom" as distinct from "show", that way. *thinkyface* I believe I was thinking of it as a catch-all term for "show/book/movie/thing to be fannish about".

Anyway. Five questions!

1: Several times, I've seen you pick up a prompt from a discussion and produce a hilarious comment!fic in just a few hours. Do you have to work at those, or do they just pop into your head?

2: *looks at your interests* What's retrocomputing? (And why does it interest you, but most people manage to fit that into "what _____ is". *g*)

3: Which are your three favorite icons?

4: If you could choose any Who writer to use a prompt from one of your hacked Random Generators as the inspiration for an episode, whom would you choose, what generator do you think they'd choose, and what might they do with the prompt? (Er, sorry, that got long...)

5: How did you get involved with This Time Round?

[john_amend_all]

Answers are here.

[idlewild_]

I am a simple soul. The three things:
Number 1: Partners. Like woah.
Number 2: Explosions
Number 3: Smart dialogue that makes it hard for many writers to really flourish in the fandom but the ones who do, watch out!

[justice_turtle]

I love these things too. XD (Especially the partners - LIEK WOAH, indeed - and the smart dialogue. Although it's very hard for me to write for fandoms that qualify on #3. *sigh*)

Okay. Five things!

1: Going to shake this up a bit - which are your five least-used icons, and why do you like them?
2: How did you get into knitting?
3: What is your favorite thing that you've knitted? (Or made with another craft, if you prefer.)
4: What is your favorite fandom?
5: Who is your favorite fictional character ever - or top three, if that's too hard - and why?

[idlewild_]

Oooh. Tough questions.

1. Does LJ have a way to quantify least-used or am I guessing? So, um guessing because it's Friday and my brain is tired:

[pedanther]

[nenya_kanadka]

Three Things:

1) Spaceships! Aliens! The future! Anything that means this show is not quite the regular ol' world we live in. Spaceships + Aliens can occur separately from The Future, but Spaceships are not nearly as interesting if they are solely human-built (even though in the real world, I adore NASA and all the human attempts at space travel). Apparently I imprinted heavily on Star Trek and the X-Files, or something

[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

[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

[pedanther]