Snowflake Day Two

[tabaqui]

*waves*

So, this challenge is:In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.My goodness, that sounds...dire. Heh. A mark on my sooooooul. (Yes, it just sounds a little pretentious. But in thinking it over...there is a

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[fireheart13]

There are 8 thousands things I could revel in with you there, but let me just say - TANITH LEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tabaqui]

Whooooooooooooo!!

It is *so hard* to find Tanith fans! I absolutely adore her work. She has definitely been an inspiration to me.

What's your favorite? I think the thing(s) i've read the most are Don't Bite the Sun/Drinking Sapphire Wine, but her Paradys series and the Flat Earth books and 'Sung in Shadow' and 'Silver Metal Lover' and the Unicorn series and 'Heartbeast' and 'A Heroine of the World' and 'Sabella' and 'Days of Grass' are also amazing....

:)

[fufaraw]

We had a brand new cinema with four widescreen theaters not a quarter mile from our house (where the pond and the goat farm used to be. I used to play with the baby goats!), and they charged $2.00 a ticket. Mom offered to keep the babies and OH and I scarpered off to the theater to see something called "Star Wars." The crawl was intriguing, and we were engaged right from the moment it started. But when the screen went black, and the theater started rumbling, and then that star cruiser powered implacably past overhead, I knew we'd entered a whole new universe. We must have seen that movie a dozen times before it finally left the theater--it was close, it was cheap, and it was a fantastic getaway for both of us

[tabaqui]

I think we saw it twice - we lived out in the country, and mom hated driving into town if she didn't have to. But oh, yes, that music as we drift down from the star field to the haze of the planet's atmosphere, and then that ship, that *cruiser*, that huge, huge, huge battleship that simply eclipsed everything....

*flails*

Even now, thinking about it, it was just so incredible...gives me chills.

OH, CHERRYH. I've read everything of hers a dozen times over. Downbelow Station is probably my favorite, with Forty-Thousand in Gehenna close second, and then, yes, Merchanter's Luck and the Eldwood stories and the Chanur stories and the Mri wars and the Fortress and Foreigner stories.... She's had quite an impact on my own writing, as well.

The Right Stuff...every time we get to the place where John Glenn (Ed Harris) is orbiting Earth, and sees the little 'sparks'...man I just burst into tears. Half of that movie makes me cry, it's all just so amazing.

[lunabee34]

I love it!

I think Star Trek or Star Wars was that pivotal moment for a lot of us.

[tabaqui]

Me, too. And wth, LJ? It keeps duplicating random comments of yours.

[lunabee34]

That is weird. :(

[brunettepet]

I got goosebumps remembering that first time sitting in that dark theater in San Francisco reading the words scroll by. My best friend and I saw it a dozen times that summer, minds blown each and ever time.

[tabaqui]

Yes! It still can make me get all *flail* when I think about it.

[amypond45]

The summer of '77 was made forever memorable by those long lines at the Beaverton Valley Cinema with my little brother (age 7) in tow. I remember my mom running over to McDonalds to get us something to eat while we waited hours and hours to get in, over and over. A different time, but so life-altering!

[tabaqui]

It really was! I remember the line going all the way around the building, and we just waited and moved up, waited and moved up. My sister's best friend had seen the movie already, and she was so excited for us to see it, too.

I'll never forget that day. :)