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A meme, xposted from Dreamwidth:

  • What do you think the five most important SFF shows for television newbies trying to get into visual media are?

New Who, ST:TNG, VR.5, Battlestar Galactica (both versions), Farscape.

  • First book you can remember reading?

Harry the Dirty Dog. Not the first book I ever read, but it stuck with me.

  • Is there a country you'd like to move to? Where and Why?

The UK. Though post Brexit, that's painful. Not only did I enjoy living in the UK for my brief time there, but also it's an excellent stepping off point for visiting the rest of Europe.

  • Do you have one O(ne)T(rue)P(airing) or many?

Many.

  • Favorite "comfort food"?

Pasta.

  • Favorite type of games?

Puzzles. Card games like Fluxx or Apples to Apples.

  • Is there something unique or unusual or just plain nifty about the area where you live?

So many cool museums...

  • What's been your best fandom experience to date? What made it great?

Supernatural when Gabriel/Sam was a thing. A) I was actually writing when the show was on, which is a novelty for me, B) There was an active group of fans of my pairing, and C) Lots of excellent writers and feedback.

  • Do you have a movie you love for one or more performances, even though the movie itself isn't that special?

Wimbledon. It's a trite movie, but Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst, James McAvoy, and Jon Favreau make it shine.

  • Do you read comic books? Why or why not?

I don't buy single editions of comics anymore (too expensive!), but wait for the graphic novel collections. So I'm always behind, and always missing out on the niche comics that don't get made into collections. Ah well.

  • Favourite ensemble show?

The West Wing.

  • Do you have favourite icons (aside from your default)?

I have so many favorite icons.

image-1480868780144.jpg by snarkel

image-1480868800052.jpg by neversince (Ocean's Eleven remake)

image-1480868822365.gif by cowboyhd (Torchwood)

image-1480868838140.png by otherpictures (Supernatural)

image-1480868852916.jpg by rexluscus (Harry Potter movies)

image-1480868889151.png by me from someone else's very clever picture

image-1480868908982.png by me from someone else's very clever picture

image-1480868924903.png by me, image from someecards

image-1480868935730.png by me (classic Dark Shadows)

image-1480868946053.png by me, pasted together from a photo shoot (Lewis)

  • Are you superstitious at all?

Sorta. So I guess yes.

  • Favourite science show/book?

Science book: David Feldman, How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? (What do you mean that's not a science book?

  • Off the top of your head rec an old fanfic favourite or two.

Everything About It Is a Love Song (19715 words) by pocky_slash
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Future Fic, Domestic, Marriage, Depression, Retirement, Canon Disabled Character, Old mutants in love
Series: Part 1 of Old Retired Dudes
Summary: Erik's spent fifty years being a figurehead and he's ready to leave that behind. Luckily, so is Charles. (aka Old Retired Dudes in Love)

When You Like, and Where You Like (1337 words) by canarypaper
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Summary: "It is messy and it is beautiful."Post "Game of Shadows". Spoilers for the entire film.

Threshold (10348 words) by divingforstones Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Lewis (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Hathaway/Robert Lewis, James Hathaway & Laura Hobson
Characters: Robert Lewis, James Hathaway, Laura Hobson, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hospitalisation, Major Illness, Disorders of Consciousness, Threats, Philosophical Discourses, Streams of Consciousness, Disputes, Promises, and pleas, References to Episode: S02e03 Life Born of Fire, References to Episode: S06e04 The Indelible Stain, First Kiss, Community: lewis_challenge
Summary: “I know you can hear me. I’ve still got you. And I’m still not going anywhere.”

Ignition (2253 words) by copperbadge
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones
Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper
Additional Tags: Car Sex, cannibals, Episode Related
Summary: Owen was still grumbling about camping and Gwen was hiding out in the medical bay most of the time and Tosh obsessively checked Rift activity to cope with what they'd seen but Ianto, gorgeous fucked-up Ianto, had taken control of the one thing from their misadventures in the countryside that he could control.

  • If you could be a FTL, indestructible spaceship, where would you go?

Tooling around the universe looking for the TARDIS.

  • Musical episodes. Do they work for you?

In Buffy, yes. Otherwise, probably not. Green Wing could have pulled it off.

  • Things that make you flail?

New fic by my favorite authors, new Doctor Who, new Sherlock, fic feedback that is more than "I liked it," gifts from my sweetie, dessert, Moscato d'Asti, Star Wars t-shirts, kitty purrs, puppies, new music by Laurence Fox.

  • What about WIPs? Love/hate/indifferent? Is there one that was never finished, but you go back to check on just in case?

I hate reading WIPs. But I'll do it for the right author. And yes, I have gone back to see if a WIP was finished. It never is.

  • When I say "power ponytail" you say what name. Tell me more.

Um. I think of "power tail" which makes me think of our cat Lily, who has the strongest tail I've ever come across. Whip! Whack! Thump!

  • What superpower/ability would you most like to have?

The ability to make it through job interviews without shaking like a leaf and babbling.

  • Favorite period of history? (Like, if you could go back and visit any place/era as a ghost, where & when would you go?)

If I could go back as a ghost and not have to live there, fifteenth-century England. I want to spy on Richard III.

  • Share a poem you love.

The Good-Morrow
By John Donne

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

  • Your favorite fictional world -- and would you want to live there if you could?

The Federation. Yes, but only if I could live on a spaceship and not on some dinky planet that is likely to be taken over by Romulans or destroyed by a space anomaly.

  • A hobby you enjoy. Your successes and your failures.

Cross-stitch. I have failed to finish anything since I was a teenager. I really should finish something.

  • Favorite fictional critter?

Pixel, the cat who walks through walls.

  • TV series you were saddest to see come to an end, and why.

Max Headroom. So many stories left to tell!

  • What's the most recent fic you remember reading and enjoying?

you've got the instruments of pleasure at the end of your sleeves (2646 words) by airspaniel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Additional Tags: Hand Kink, Gun Kink
Summary: As John gets in the car, he carefully does not look at Sherlock's hands, and realizes that he might have a problem.

  • What do you mean you don't love X? Let me tell you of its awesomeness.

You don't love classic Doctor Who? What do you mean it's cheesy? Yes, the effects are not spectacular and the stories are a bit silly at times, but the world building! The whole concept of a renegade Time Lord and the wonderful variety of the companions he picks up along the way! The time travel! You're missing out if you only watch New Who.

  • Hugs. Virtual and Real time. Yea or nay?

Virtual, yea. Real, it depends on the person.