"Just sitting here watching our barren lives pass us by...

[lettered]

Oh, look, a cockroach."

Can we do that thing where you give me a subject and I list TOP 5? Please? Because I'm bored, and needs should definitely be met. As long as it doesn't require ointments the next day.

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[a2zmom]

top 5 favorite birds (that's what you get)
top 5 favorite foods
top 5 favorite BtVS episodes

And why aren't you working on my story, missy?

[lettered]

Because I'm drained. (I gave blood today and I just finished writing a fic, which always makes me feel unficish. It'll be a day or two more. ;o)

[a2zmom]

You gave blood! Excellent. (I'm usually too anemic.)

And I still have to respond to your mail, which I will do tomorrow, but short response regarding the Bar Mitzvah.

The actual affair is June 10 but since Zack-a-doo finally decided where his wants his party held, I have to make catering arrangements, party decorations, hire a DJ, find a hotel, etc. etc. So, I'm doing some running around over the next few days.

Which is why I'm not working on your story, either. Hee. (But, send the new one. No prob.)

[lettered]

If I give blood more than 4 times in a year, I can write a personal note to someone who recieves my blood. So, I was thinking of what I would write, and lit upon a fabulous notion: I could just send them a copy of that fic I wrote "Blood Types," and my recipient would be so thrilled.

Ooh! Sounds like a lot of work, but it must also be so exciting.

I'll send it over tomorrow. No rush.

[stultiloquentia]

Five fictional characters (from different 'verses) you'd invite to the same dinner party cuz they'd get on like a house on fire.

[lettered]

If I was allowed to invite fictional characters, I wouldn't care whether they got along or not. I'd just invite who I most wanted to see. But, in light of your prompt:

To romanticize:
-Marianne Dashwood
-Anne of Green Gables
-Maria (from The Sound of Music)
-Sara Crew (from A Little Princess, older, so I can see how she grew up and who she ended up with)
-Tatyana (from Eugene Onegin)

To be sparkly, witty, misguided, and human:
-Elizabeth Bennet
-Buffy Summers
-Isobel Archer (from Portrait of a Lady)
-Lorelai Gilmore (from the show "Gilmore Girls")
-Prospero (only because I don't believe Shakespeare is fictional)

To brood, say nothing, not look at each other, and say how much they hate themselves when I've plied them with too much booze:
-Angel
-Jean Valjean
-Erik (from The Phantom of the Opera, after he last sees Christine. Not the book version or the musical version or any version but the one in my head

[lettered]

Those last 5 wouldn't get on well at all.

[stultiloquentia]

No, they wouldn't. The idea is cracking me up, however. Got any Plotbunny-B-Gone on ya?

[entrenous88]

Five favorite one-episode appearance characters on Ats and/or BtVS

Five top ways to while away a free hour

Five ways you'd redecorate your living space

[lettered]

Five favorite one-episode appearance characters on Ats and/or BtVS

What an interesting question.
-Tina, the waitress in "City of" because she was pretty and Angel couldn't save her.
-the Gentleman (creepiest ever)
-the chick from "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been". Loved the actress, love the parallels to Angel, and love that she turned on him.
-actress in "Eternity" --I like how she played off Angel
-the foot tall fear demon, cause gee, that was unexpected

Five top ways to while away a free hour
-read fanfic
-write fanfic
-make lj people entertain me
-pop bubblewrap
-try to figure out what other people do with free hours

Five ways you'd redecorate your living space

Since I'm a slob, these would be like a total renovation:
-do my laundry
-clean it
-vaccum it
-dust it
-spend lots and lots of money on candles

Thank you for participating in this bid to keep tkp entertained. Your life time supply of free monkeys should be arriving shortly.

[entrenous88]

All those are great answers, but I like 1, 3, and 4 because they're these striking but never-again-mentioned figures in Angel's life, and all women who twisted the expectations of the girl who gets saved by the hero in the end.

Loved the bubble wrap thing (which for some reason I first spelled bbbbuble wrap -- the extra b's make it tastier!).

YAY MONKEYS!!!

[lettered]

all women who twisted the expectations of the girl who gets saved by the hero in the end.

I didn't even notice that theme. Except in "City of". You just don't open a series with the hero not saving the damsel, and yet this ep does and it sets the tone for the whole show. AtS isn't about saving people; it's about dealing with all that you can't save.

the extra b's make it tastier

Always did like my bbbbuble wrap with fondue.

YAY MONKEYS!!!

Yes, but do be careful. Sex with monkeys is overrated.

[kita0610]

Five story ideas you would love to read but will never write
Five stories someone else already wrote that you wish you had written
Five reasons you love B/A

[lettered]

Five story ideas you would love to read but will never write

-post NFA Buffy/Connor, every one else is dead. I just finished writing the closest I'll ever get, and it wasn't what I had in mind.
-Spuffy in which all their issues are settled to my satisfaction and they can be happy together. I'm convinced it can be done but I'm shit out of ideas as to how. I just don't see it.
-that Connor/Connor fic
-Amber Benson RPF/S (if there's any I want to read them NOW)
-I don't have ideas I don't think I'll write, because I'm immoderate and arrogant like that. If other people have ideas, I steal them and want to write them for myself, because I'm thieving and arrogant like that.

Five stories someone else already wrote that you wish you had written
-"Vicarious" by germaine_pet (anything by her, really)
-"Losing My Religion" (same goes)
-"Mystery Play" by glossing
-"Phoenix Burning" by Yahtzee
-"The Nature of the Beast" by Jo (it was one of the first B/A fics I ever read)

Five reasons you love B/A

You and chrisleeoctaves are voyeuring my brain. I'm writing a thingy about

[semby]

5... hmm. I'm running low on ideas. Five historical figures you wish you'd met? Five favorite cities? Five favorite shades of lipstick?

[lettered]

Five historical figures

(with English translators)
-Jesus
-Muhammed
-Confuscius
-Dostoevsky
-Victor Hugo

Five favorite cities

-Traverse City, Michigan
-Norwich, England
-Rome, Italy
-London, England
-New York, New York (I was only ever there for 3 days. But I like the idea of it.)

Five favorite shades of lipstick?
I don't wear make-up. Ever. Last time I wore lipstick it was Halloween and I was 16. It was black.

Thank you for participating in this bid to keep tkp entertained.

[semby]

Ooh, very interesting choices in historical figures. And the last three on your cities list would be on mine as well. I'm assuming the first two have a more personal significance?

I know the shade "harlot" from Buffy. I don't know if I'd like it. I generally stick to gloss.

Your participation rewards rock my socks.

[lettered]

Traverse is near where my Granny lives. SHe actually lives out in the country, near a neat little town that's my favorite town in the world (Leland, it's called). But I felt guilty calling it a city so I just put the closest city.

Norwich was where I studied when I was abroad. University of East Anglia.

I was thinking about putting the harlot shade down. And wasn't there a trollop shade mentioned several times in Gilmore Girls? Did I dream that?

I'm glad you like the rewards. Guess it shows I'm really, really bored. Actually, there are other things I should be doing, I just want to waste time.