Five Things Meme
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Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, ice cream flavours, cartoon moments, women/men in my fandoms, OTPs, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs, anything else you might want to know. And I will answer them all in comments/in a new entry.
elrhiarhodan.Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, ice cream flavours, cartoon moments, women/men in my fandoms, OTPs, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs, anything else you might want to know. And I will answer them all in comments/in a new entry.
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Date: 2012-01-18 12:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 01:32 am (UTC)Speaking of...
2. The Joker. The Clown Prince of Crime is terrifying in all of his incarnations, but the Dark Knight and seeing him in the Nurse's uniform killed me dead.
3. Catwoman. We all know I have a thing for antiheroes.
4. Venom. For the same reason I like Dark Link from the Zelda games (but not actually beating him in the OOT version, because he's harder than freaking Ganon, and he's a stupid mini boss) I like Venom because he's the dark, corrupting force, the shadow archetype.
5. I'm going to cheat, and say Azula (Hey, fire bending counts, right?). I have mentioned on this journal that I was stalked beginning when I was ten and ending when I moved at fourteen by a girl my own age, and very effectively too. No one reminds me of her more or brings out the same kind of fear in me as Azula. She even played me against her older brother whom she also tormented. Azula represents the terrible truth that some villains start very very young.
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Date: 2012-01-18 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 01:40 am (UTC)1, 2, and 3. Gen from the Queen's Thief books. There wouldn't be any sand in his soup, either. Actually, I'd like him to bring Atollia and Eddis, with him. All three are brilliant brilliant people, in such different ways. And Gen and the Queens play politics together with such style.
4 and 5. Zuko and Mai, partly because they need soup, partly because I want to meet them, and partly because I'd love to watch them meet the above.
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Date: 2012-01-18 08:51 pm (UTC)Someone might lose their head, hehe.
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Date: 2012-01-18 11:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 02:02 am (UTC)1. Come to my Window by Melissa Etheridge. I like swaggering, self confidant love songs, something we don't usually get from woman musicians for a number of reasons. This has it, along with angst galore.
2. Can You Feel the Love Tonight, pop version by Elton John. Shut up.
3. Bring Him Home from Les Miserables, hey, paternal love counts, right?
4. Wasted Time by the Eagles, the heartbreak here, and the cynicism and the persuasion to try again gets me every time.
5. "You Must Love Me" from Evita, another one of those heartbreaking songs, Eva is dying, and after a life promoting fascism and helping her husband oppress their country, and doesn't want to be alone.
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Date: 2012-01-18 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 04:37 am (UTC)1. Near Eastern Studies. Not only was my teacher unbelievable, but it put me on my career path.
2. Eastern Religions. Same teacher, still awesome.
3. Central American Politics. In some ways it's very similar to Middle Eastern politics. I learned more about coffee than I ever wanted to.
4. International Relations Theory. All we did was argue! We had so much fun.
5. The Politics of Greenhouse Gas. We spent the whole year doing a model UN style greenhouse gas summit. I was Iran. It was surreal. (And Iran's energy positions are incredibly complex. More so than most countries.)
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Date: 2012-01-18 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-18 04:28 pm (UTC)1. The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. Unlike other lists that shift from day to day, these have been consistently my favorite books since middle school. Aside from a wonderful universe, the story is about a bunch of brilliant people being brilliant and political at each other. Plus it has one of the best disability narratives I've ever read. Technically they're marketed as Middle Grade, but that's a gross miss-characterization. They're older YA, crossing over into adult territory.
2. The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. Is there any question that the modern surge of popularity for YA, YA fantasy, and even YA Urban Fantasy can't be directly laid at the door of this series? Oh yea, and it introduced me to fandom.
3. The Westermark Trilogy by Lloyd Alexander. I love these books more much the same reason I love Megan Whalen Turner's books. They're a fierce, biting deconstruction of the monarchical nature of most fantasy, and of Alexander's own previous work particularly. They made me think more about my genre than anything else I've ever read. And they have wonderful characters.
4. The Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix. Secondary World fantasy with Zombies, two very different and very badass heroines, and bells. I'm not sure I can condense down what I love so much about these, but I love them.
5. Howl's Moving Castle and associated books by Diana Wynn Jones. Oh these are just so much fun. And I love Sophie to pieces.
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Date: 2012-01-18 08:47 pm (UTC)(Can you tell I'm using this as a way to get book recs?)
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Date: 2012-01-18 11:20 pm (UTC)