DPP: Friending Meme!

[shah_of_blah]

Alright you lot, for today I have something a little different.  The thing is, some of us remember fandom before this comm, and some joined just after the finale, and some have only just discovered the show...and just about every time I read the comments on this site I find new and unfamiliar faces (by faces, I of course mean usernames).  So I

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[shah_of_blah]

Name/Callsign: Shah of Blah/Sunshine
Age/Location (if you want): Twenty-something/US
What got you into BSG/Kara&Lee? Various people convinced me to watch the show, and they were just inevitable.
Favorite character(s): Kara, Lee, Helo, Laura...maybe Baltar. Mostly just Kara though.
Favorite episode: Kobol's Last Gleaming
Favorite scene: The "I'm a screw-up" scene.
Other fandoms: Jossverse, Doctor Who, Chuck, Lost, Glee, Community, etc. But BSG is my primary fandom, in that I talk about it incessantly.
What do you post on your journal? fic, rambling, rambling about fic, fangirly things.
Three random facts about you: I cheat at solitaire. I like hiking. I was named after a Beatles song.
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? I change my answer to this question all the time, but for now I'll say Ursula K. LeGuin, in the hopes that some of her awesome would rub off on me.
Anything else you'd like to share? I don't know. I'll probably think of something later.

[workerbee73]

Michelle?

[ninjamonkey73]

I forgot that one! All I had was Prudence and Eleanor. :)

[workerbee73]

I thought about Penny too....

[rayruz]

Name/Callsign: Ray or Rachel/Deathray
Age/Location (if you want): 21/NY
What got you into BSG/Kara&Lee? My housemate got me into BSG in my junior year of college. I realized I was a K/L shipper when it got to LDYB2 and all of a sudden Kara and Sam were married and I screamed at the TV.
Favorite character(s): Kara, Lee, Helo, Baltar, Caprica Six, Tigh, Ellen, Leoben (shut up!!), Cottle
Favorite episode: either Colonial Day or Downloaded
Favorite scene: Kara and head!Daddy on the piano playing the cylon song.
Other fandoms: Whedonverse, Doctor Who, Chuck, Community, Caprica, The Hunger Games
What do you post on your journal? Memes, fannish musings, work things, thoughts on TV shows and movies, fanfic
Three random facts about you: My brain is malformed (it has no effect on my functioning but it's true), I work with mentally ill children, my mother and brother are both Jeopardy winners
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? someone willing to help me start my acting career. ;)
Anything else you'

[workerbee73]

No way!!! I had no idea about the Jeopardy thing. That is just BADASS.

[kag523]

Send me the link to said podcast!

[rayruz]

Go to either geekshow.us or iTunes and look up the show Geek by Night.

[rachelindeed]

Name/Callsign: Rachel
Age/Location (if you want): Late twenties/US
What got you into BSG/Kara&Lee? I like sci-fi, I was a fan of Jamie Bamber, and someone else owned the DVDs :)
Favorite character(s): Characters I love: Lee, Kara, Helo. Characters I think are interesting: Adama, Roslin, Tigh, Gaeta, Tyrol.
Favorite episode: The Oath/Blood on the Scales
Favorite scene: "Whatever it takes" in Maelstrom
Other fandoms: Doctor Who (old and new), Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Buffy, Firefly, Star Wars, Man from UNCLE (bonus points if you have any idea what that show was!), sort-of House (I like Wilson), sort-of Batman (I like Dick Grayson), Terry Pratchett's Discworld (I like Vetinari).
What do you post on your journal? Just fanfic I've written. The most recent stuff is all Kara/Lee. Before that there is some Sherlock Holmes stuff, and quite a lot of Harry Potter stuff about Snape. And a few random little snippets, like a Simon character study from Firefly.
Three random facts about you: I grew up in Texas. I'm a

[workerbee73]

You're into Doctor Who too? Awesome. I haven't seen much of the old series, but I've been a fully devoted fan since 2005. What did you think of this last season?

[rachelindeed]

Yes, I was very charmed by this last season. I think Matt Smith is doing a lovely, slightly quieter turn in the role, and he's pretty adorable. And I've always enjoyed Steven Moffat's writing.

I've watched quite a bit of the old series (I love Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladen), but honestly it's poorly written, poorly shot, poorly paced, with horrendously bad special effects, and you can only fall in love with it if you're willing to accept that it's bad overall and then watch the way the actors transcend their material with oodles of charisma and a joyful sort of innocence. They won my heart long ago, but it's been a real delight to see the series so competently and dramatically reinvented. Plus David Tennant comes across as an absolute sweetheart, and he poured so much love into that role. I'm very grateful for all the creative passion that's gone into the new series.

[kag523]

I make up mental "friendsfic" for people I only know online. I'll have you know that in MY Rachelindeed world, you lived in London and had attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship.

[ninjamonkey73]

Name/Callsign: Amy/Ninjamonkey
Age/Location (if you want): I thought about being vague, but I'm the one that put a 73 on my username. 37 in a week and a half. Rhode Island, USA
What got you into BSG/Kara&Lee? My husband and I knew it was something we'd like to watch, but we were watching too many shows when it premiered, so we saved it to eventually watch on DVD if the reviews were good. Watched the whole series in 39 days in January/February of this year. The miniseries got me into Kara/Lee. The neverending handshake of you're-not-deadness. I started 'shipping right then, not knowing if they were canon or a figment of my imagination.
Favorite character(s): Kara is my #1, followed immediately by Lee. I also grew to love Baltar and Tigh immensely.
Favorite episode: I have to pick ONE? I guess UBEX, but I could go KLG part 1.
Favorite scene: I'm going to second Shah of Blah on the "I'm a screw-up" scene.
Other fandoms: Jossverse, Castle, Community, House, Big Bang Theory. I'm only active here and I mainly lurk in Castle

[workerbee73]

Okay, Stephen Hawking is a totally kickass answer. **seconds this**

And yes to Rock band. It's such good stuff. (Although I'm rubbish at everything except singing.)

[ninjamonkey73]

Every band worth its salt needs a killer lead singer. For reals, yo.

[kag523]

HUZZAH! I'm 37 later this year too!!!!! *high fives you*

[scifishipper]

Name/Callsign: Heather / sci_fi_shipper / Snappy
Age/Location (if you want): 35+ / Eastern Timezone
What got you into BSG/Kara&Lee? My BFF bugged me for four years to watch. When I did, I shotgunned for a couple of weeks and moved on. It got stuck in my brain and then I re-watched the entire series again and I was hopelessly lost in the BSG-verse. I discovered LJ and my world was rocked. Like whoa.
Favorite character(s): Lee, Kara, Adama, Romo, Tigh, Leoben
Favorite episode: The Son Also Rises
Favorite scene: Lee: Comforting Adama/Confronting Tigh in Revelations; K/L: EoJ outmaking; Kara: Scar fight with Kat
Other fandoms: Doctor Who, BtVS, LoTR
What do you post on your journal? Icons, Fic, Memes
Three random facts about you: I hate getting wet, I'm a hard sci-fi junkie, writing makes my soul happy.
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? The person who is going to give me enough money so I can play in my fandoms all day every day. :D
Anything else you'd like to share? I wish I could include

[kag523]

Here's my Heather friendsfic, which I (bizarrely) make up about my online friends.

You are in advertising. Office in the top of a high rise, though you always have to close up No_Takebacks and all the other shippy fics whenever you Bamber-lookalike PA comes into your office to offer to get you another latte. You are secretly addicted to sudoku and very expensive shoes. You turned down Harvard (too pretentious) to attend Cornell and took Journalism there.

Yes, probably none of this is real. But that's MY FRIENDSFIC on you. :>)

[scifishipper]

Can I say how ridiculously happy I am with my bamber lookalike assistant? He's, uh, very good at what he does....

*twirls you around in her executive suite*

[damao2010]

The person who is going to give me enough money so I can play in my fandoms all day every day. :D

If you ever meet this wonderful person, would you mind introducing him/her to me? :D