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meghanc):
Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books I might get around to writing one day, women in my fandoms, fanfic I'll never write or finish, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures or music or snippets of writing or whatever.
meghanc):Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books I might get around to writing one day, women in my fandoms, fanfic I'll never write or finish, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures or music or snippets of writing or whatever.
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You have also failed to say I must ask only one question, so you get lots.
Top five...
...fandoms
...books
...songs to write to
...songs, full stop
...comfort foods
...taken-to-work lunches
...poems
...movies
...things you'd wish for if you got a genie. (And none of this world peace stuff--you have to ask for things that are at least a little selfish.)
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(this is because my first thought was "top five colours of the week!", and I decided that it has been a rather looooong day)
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I can probably do this right off the bat, because I am in fact blogging tired.
1. Because you make typoes (I originally posted this as "Because it's about time to posted something of substance")
2. Because you ramble into incoherent sentences.
3. Because you ramble into incoherent sentences and they tend to lead to things you didn't want to say.
4. Because you tend to repeat yourself, apparently!
5. Because you run the risk of falling asleep mid senten
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Top five quotes?
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Top five...
...fandoms
...books
...songs to write to
...songs, full stop
...comfort foods
...taken-to-work lunches
...poems
...movies
...things you'd wish for if you got a genie. (And none of this world peace stuff--you have to ask for things that are at least a little selfish.)
Also: five things you would like to write, but won't or can't
I heart you. Especially because I’m at work and I don’t want to be, and this is looking like work, right, because I’m typing it into a word document?
Fandoms:
And now I’ve paused, and am figuring out the difference between my favourite shows, and my favourite fandoms, which is not something I’ve done before <3
Stargate SG-1: My first ‘proper fandom’, now that I think about it: I was fannish about X-Files, but I wasn’t involved in its fandom. I was part of the Alpha Gate, and read the yahoo digests, and even emailed people off list and the like. I miss that whole sparking process, of engaging with several different people over a fic.
Supernatural: I friended a whole bunch of people based on SPN, it’s the bulk of my flist, actually, when you look at a common theme. Weirdly, I cannot think of a current love moment.
Firefly: An offshoot, sort of, because most people on said flist also love Firefly. I loved, loved going to the cinema and watching Serenity, both times. And getting a little teary over the cancelled con in the US that all the actors still turned up to and hung out in the bar.
Harry Potter: I never wrote fic, but read almost all of book 6 curled up on a friend’s couch in Melbourne one day; I queued for the 7th book at 7:01am, and we hosted a reading day at our house; I got a kick out of reading people’s speculation, and McTabby’s summary executions, and her poll about possible first lines for the 7th book – I still really want to read the 7th book that started: “It was a warm afternoon in June, and all the clocks were striking ‘mortal peril’.”
X-men: I feel like this sort of should be a fandom, because I’ve written several fics in it, but actually I’m not involved at all. *throws it in to make five*
Books:
The fifth sacred thing by Starhawk, because it’s a witchy, green future and even when they’re getting invaded and things are *awful* they still stick to their principles and not so much win, even, as convince the other side that their way is better, and welcome them in and get to keep their utopia.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, because it’s all about discovering the magical world underneath, and being allowed in, and allowed back to stay, because you want to go.
The time traveller’s wife by someone Audrey N-someone: It’s been pointed out how problematic the whole thing is from a free will and agency of female characters perspective, but it still pushes so many of my pleasure buttons: the...short hand you can do with ‘strangers’ in a mutually known situation (um, I could explain, but that would turn this into paragraphs of rambling examples); Claire’s disbelieving, ecstatic delight in bumping into Henry; their daughter, the book’s language, everything. Her fearful symmetry was a deep disappointment by comparison.
Secret scribbled notebooks by Joanne Horniman (see here: http://maharetr.dreamwidth.org/141792.html)
A hat full of sky by Terry Pratchett, which I think I’ve babbled about plenty before :P
Songs to write to
Heh. Sometimes I’ve found a song that IS the fic, for all intents and purposes, and I will play it obsessively in the background. I think I’ve only done that twice, but damn did it work.
Answer, by Sarah McLachlan for my SG-1 fic ‘Keeping Vigil’. I don’t have the play stats from when I wrote the fic, but it notched up at least 150 plays.
Set fire to the third bar, by Snow Patrol for a recent fic challenge one, the actual challenge escapes me, and I feel like I should remember it, but the fic was ‘Finger widths and map creases’ (SPN). Something like 170 plays says iTunes
Both are very quiet songs, and on a low enough volume (and enough repeats!) they function like lyric-less songs which are what I tend to prefer to write to.
Lover’s Spit (the Beehive version) by Broken Social Scene fits the above bill well, too.
I can’t remember writing to other specific music – I tend to go for background noise, something that I’m not going to notice mostly, but will stop me from noticing the rest of the world. I haven’t tried writing to RainyMood but it would probably be excellent. Spiegel von spiegel by Arvo Part is a gorgeous minimalist series of piano pieces, too. ( I can get you Spiegel, if you like what you hear on Youtube or whatever).
Songs, full stop
I’m not sure I have, like, absolute-forever-favs, but Joyful Girl by Ani DiFranco has to be right up there.
Comfort foods
Hah. Mostly deserts, the sort I make in single serves in ramekin dishes: apple crumble, rice pudding, baked custard (and its relative, bread pudding), I think shepherd’s pie, if I could be motivated to make it more. Also, for those nights when it’s cold and I need something hot in my stomach Now, these are brilliant http://www.campbellsoup.com.au/brands-products/our-products/chunky-fully-loaded/beef-stroganoff.aspx?size=505g you’re getting the raw html, because Word does not play nicely with html.
Taken-to-work lunches:
Hmm, actually, thinking about it, I’m not sure I have that much variety.
- Potato and salmon salad, which is basically potato salad with beans and a mustardy dressing and salmon. It’s really good as long as the beans are good.
- Garlic breadcrumb pasta. It’s very messy, because the breadcrumbs tend to go everywhere, but mix it in with some veggies and it’s fantastic.
- Stew-type things, as long as the sauce is thick and full of flavour.
- Frittata: roast vegetables baked in egg. Usually with a bag of salad greens next to it :P Not my most favourite, maybe, but it gets the job done.
- Honestly, $5 for whatever is on for lunch at the canteen that day. Often not-great food, but meh.
Tell me yours! <3
Poems
God says yes to me, by Kaylin Haught
Litany by Billy Collins
The raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The quiet world by Jeffery McDaniel
There was a poem posted to
Movies
Sherlock Holmes
The Losers
Aeon Flux
Lord of the Rings trilogy (is *so* one movie! :P)
I know I had an ‘aha! That one!’ moment a few days ago, but I cannot now remember what it was. I’m going with My neighbour Totoro.
Genie wishes!
1. I want a share of a great big sprawling house that I share with lots of friends on a large block of bush land near a commuter train station. In it I want a little studio with big windows where I can go hang out and be creative and there will be lots of trees and greenery and birds.
2. I don’t actually want to win the lottery, as such, but I would like to somehow be in a financial position where I didn’t *have* to work, and therefore volunteered somewhere so I had a sense of purpose, and could go traveling at the drop of a hat, and could take months off to write, or whatever I felt like, whenever I felt like.
3. I want a really fit, flexible, agile body.
4. I want a culture that I don’t really even know how to describe: where it’s okay to take the afternoon off because the weather is particularly beautiful. Where there’s no alienation or falling through the cracks and a general assumption of good will, and of things and people being okay and of helping each other.
5. I want to work for an organisation like the Talamasca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talamasca_Caste
>Things I wish I could write, but won’t, or can’t
Wow, good question. I got part way through this and realised I wasn’t so much thinking in terms of ‘wont or can’t’ as ‘I want to get there someday’ so it shifted slightly.
I wish I could write a bigbang: or rather, I wish I had 20,000 words worth of fandom idea, you know? Does ‘I wish I had a full novel’s worth of original idea’ count as a separate thing? I’m saying not. :P
I wish I could really get inside the heads of Sam or Dean – I felt like I was inside Jack’s (SG-1) head near the end of writing in that fandom with ‘A Thousand Memories’, but I don’t have anywhere near that certainty here in SPN.
I wish I could write something really, really sexy.
I wish I could write something emotionally honest. It’s one of those things that I know it when I see it in other people’s writing, but I don’t know how they got there, or if it’s something I can access in myself.