gacked from janeturenne


1. Write down the names of 10 characters.

2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less (a limitation I cheerfully ignored, although I did try to keep them short) for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. DO NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

( This would have been easier if I'd chosen characters from only one fandom )

From half my flist:

( List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns. )

Patterns? Lots of dialogue, lots of complex or compound sentences. Lots of first person, lots of angsty hints. Holmes, NCIS and New Avengers all mixed up together.

samena challenged me to do this.


The meme and questions: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find three fandoms you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

And as for me:

( Sherlock Holmes )

( The New Avengers )

( Howl's Moving Castle )

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.


janeturenne gave me these words:

Maiwand, Mary, movie, drabble, books

( Let's start with the M's... )

( drabble )

( books )

I should have known, LOL!

( and this is the one that isn't nonsensical? )

My Harry Potter Spoiler of Doom is: Severus Snape is turned into an ice cream cone by Voldemort with help from the Nose-Biting Teacup Get your Harry Potter Spoiler of Doom

Okay, I cheated a little... my first spoiler said that a man with an orange on his head was going to found a fiendish religion in the Forbidden Forest... And one of them said that Ron gets pregnant by Harry with a cackle... Or that Hermione kills Hermione with Mooncalf Dung...

But this one I liked.

gacked from surgicalsteel among others.

You scored as Professor Dumbledore, </td> Professor Dumbledore 90% Professor Lupin 70% Hagrid 70% Professor Trelawny 65% Professor McGonagall 55% Professor Snape 25% What HP Professor Is Your Teaching Style? created with QuizFarm.com

*waggles eyebrows*

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In other news, I'm flying out to Colorado tonight and hopefully *knocks wood* am going to spend part of the trip in the hills camping. Haven't camped in twenty years, so this should be catastrophic interesting...

When you see a quote from Shakespeare in a journal, post one in yours.

gacked from several people now...

"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was."

Now this article raises an interesting question for me. If I were asked to make a list of the top ten books I'd ask straight away my top ten or the world's? Do I choose the books which have influenced my thinking the most or the ones which I reread with the most delight? Do you want "literature" or just pleasure reading. The website for the book under review doesn't help. Although it does give me a list of titles I mean to read, and incentive to go out and buy the book for the summaries.

And even if I came up with ten titles, putting them in order would be... well, difficult.

If I were to ask the question, I'd say, name ten books which you think will still be of interest to readers in fifty years...

Here are mine. Mind you, I'm restricting myself to books I've actually read!

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Even though I like Tom Sawyer better, myself.)
The Lord of the Rings (Because I can't imagine it going out of style!)
The Canterbury Tales (Because they make the middle ages real!)
The Sherlock Holmes stories. (Because a good mystery is always worth reading.)
Shakespeare. (As if I have to explain that one!)
Les Miserables (Utterly absorbing, actually, once you take the time to start reading it.)
Homer (Both the Iliad and the Odyssey. It's hard to argue with that many centuries of storytelling goodness. I'd add in the Aeneid by Virgil, but I must shamefacedly admit that I haven't read it. Although the new translation by Robert Fagles has gotten the kind of reviews that tempt even a lazy soul like me.)
The Secret Garden and A Little Princess (Ah, my love of children's books overcomes me.)
The People of the Deer or Never Cry Wolf (Farley Mowat taught me to love the arctic tundra.)
A Christmas Carol (Never mind that it was meant for a bit of holiday fluff, if you ask me it's the best, tightest writing Dickens ever did.)

Mind you, that's a very different list than it would be if I'd asked myself which books I wished would still be of interest to readers in fifty years. Guadalcanal Diary anyone?

Edited to add ( Okay, great literature aside, here are twenty-one (or so) books which (if I owned them all) you would have to pry out of my cold dead fingers because I live in the certainty that it would be a stone bitch to replace most of them. Books I love to reread, or which have left me shattered or amazed and unable to forget them. )