Talk to me!

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Stealing this meme from angearia, because I always like these kinds of questiony things. Means I don't have to come up with things to talk about! :)

Comment here with a question, any question.  It can be about fandom (tv shows, fanfic, anything) or personal.  I'll do my best to answer and then ask you a question in turn.  It can be silly (Bananas--yes or no?  Clowns eating bananas--scary or endearing?) or serious (What is the meaning of life?  And if you know why aren't you spreading the word, my god you are an awful evangelical!).  

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[clevermonikerr.livejournal.com]

when did you start watching buffy?

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Late 2005. Senior year of college, and one of my roommates and our pseudo-roommate had convinced my other roommate to start watching it, so it was ON all the time in both my bedroom and the suite living room, and they kept talking about it nonstop. Somewhere around the end of the fall semester, I gave in and started watching Season 1 just so I'd know what the hell was going on. I then watched Seasons 2-7 and all of AtS in the spring 2006 semester.

ETA: I forgot a question for you! Hmmm... favorite animal?

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

What's your favorite episode of Veronica Mars and why?

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Heh, would it surprise you that the first thing that popped into my head was Weapons of Class Destruction because of The Kiss? lol Except I don't really like the MOTW for that episode, so it's really ONLY about the kiss.

I think I might have to go with An Echolls Family Christmas for sheer quotability, plus the beginning of the Logan/Veronica thaw and the shocker ending. But I also love the use of unreliable narrators in A Trip to the Dentist (enough that I wrote a whole BtVS fic based on that episode). Hmmm. Dilemma.

What made you start writing fanfic?

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Okay, still giggling from seeing my parenthetical craziness repeated in the meme. I noticed how others edited that out. :D

What do you love about Chuck?

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Your parenthetical craziness is what makes it special! lol

Hmmm, my favorite shows tend to be either shows that make me think, or shows that make me laugh (but of course the best ones do both). Chuck is definitely in the laugh category, lol. I think it's mostly about the characters - Chuck has a great supporting cast. Casey is the craziest mofo who ever lived (what is it with Adam Baldwin playing these kinds of characters? lol), Awesome is... well, awesome (and I absolutely love that they have a character named Captain Awesome. It's like the best kind of Mary Sueing), and Jeffster! OMG I die every time they do a musical number. But I do like that there's some depth to it - Yvonne Strahovski can really bring it in the emotional scenes, and Zachary Levi is both talented AND adorable. (Spike is the kind of guy I'd lust over, but Chuck is the kind of guy I'd date, you know?)

What's the one thing you never want fandom to find out about you? *eg*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Okay, TV brain twins again. I tend to put TV into those two categories: Lulz and thinky thoughts. And it's the rare show that brings both. Probably why I love BtVS so much.

I love Casey--he never fails to amuse me with his badass demeanor. And I loved him saying he was proud of Chuck in last week's episode. And of course Sarah meanwhile was worried at how good a spy he was becoming. You're right, Yvonne definitely brings the emotions. I just love the entire cast. Remember the episode where a secret code was hidden in that game? And Chuck had to defeat it in front of that huge crowd? That ep had me rolling.

And your question is tricky! Because clearly such a secret is not meant to be revealed in virtual space. :P I don't think I have that many big secrets actually. Nothing really fandom-specific that I'd keep hidden. Mostly, I think I give this impression that I'm always an upbeat and nice person, but the truth is that I try to be that way but I've got all these inner pessimistic, bitchy demons I'm fighting. I procrastinate and I can be really judgmental sometimes and just bitch-bitch-bitchy.

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Because clearly such a secret is not meant to be revealed in virtual space.

Blast! You have caught on to my evil plan. I sometimes wonder how close my internet personality is to my real one. I'd like to think they're similar, but I'm pretty sure I'm much more clever and witty online. :)

[silverusagi]

What kind of bug do you fear the most? I hate those daddy-longlegs things. When I was four or so, I wandered into a nest of them.

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Ohhhh, I hate the daddy-longlegs, too. But I think cockroaches might be the winner. I would flip out and DIE if I ever found one in my apartment.

I stole this one from someone on angearia's post: Who is your favorite Buffy character who only appeared in one episode?

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My house gets small cockroaches sometimes. They don't bother me as much as spiders or things that jump.

Hmm, one episode... I have to think. Weirdly, I think it's Marcie. Because I'm convinced the people who took her away at the end were from W&H and I think she's still an invisible assassin somewhere.

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Ohh, you know what might be worse than cockroaches? Stink bugs.

(Also, if you asked Chelsea, I'm pretty sure she'd say that ladybugs are the bane of her existence.)

I definitely think Marcie had a lot of potential. It would've been cool to see her turn up again.

[martzin.livejournal.com]

If you had to get arrested for a crime, what would it be?

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Hmm, that's a tough one, since I'm not very criminally-minded. I suppose it'd have to be something either really worthy or really awesome, to be willing to get caught. I'd think I'd probably go for a Leverage-esque heist of some kind.

If you had the choice to live in a space colony or an underwater colony, which would you choose and why?

[martzin.livejournal.com]

With books like der Schwarm and Watts’ rifters trilogy, underwater sounds the more interesting option. The sea has life, food, possibly energy.

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Haha, I just thought it was cool from watching seaQuest DSV.

[shinybaum.livejournal.com]

Favourite breakfast food. Okay whatever, I don't have a question. hi!

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LOL! It's weird, because I love breakfast foods, but I don't usually eat breakfast, so I end up eating them for lunch or dinner. My staple is an egg sandwich with cheese on a toasted croissant, with a side of hash browns.

Unless I'm at IHOP, in which case, I must get pancakes, because they have butter pecan syrup, and it is the best thing I've ever had in my mouth.

Most embarrassing thing you've ever done at a gig?

[shinybaum.livejournal.com]

Heart attack onna plate, sounds delicious \o/ I much prefer that sort of fatty breakfast to sugary ceral but sadly it's not v. good for me :D

Any gig or a JM gig? Any gig, got a backstage pass to a Manchester band and didn't recognise one of them, had a v. long conversation about how disappointing the gig had been. Oops. JM gig, took my kid to a gig and it was the most embarrassingly bad gig ever. Never lived it down :D

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Hee! Good thing I don't eat it all the time.

Silly children! Don't they know it's not about how good the gig is, it's about how pretty the manpire is!

[shinybaum.livejournal.com]

Except I'd talked up the music because he'd been really good just before that gig, so I was left looking like an insane fangirl :(

Medical Nanites....

[ravenholdt.livejournal.com]

Um...pro or con?
lol

Re: Medical Nanites....

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Well, this is far from an informed opinion, considering I had to google it first, but I'm gonna go with pro, especially if there are applications for Crohn's disease. :)

What was your first fandom, and when did you first get involved?

Re: Medical Nanites....

[ravenholdt.livejournal.com]

My first Fandom? lol
Star Trek OS at 7 yrs old. I watched and watched those 79 eps and came to the conclusion that something I usually associated with men and women was going on between Kirk and Spock.
lol
No lie!
I asked my mother and she laughed and explained that it probablyw asnt what Gene had intended, and then was my ever-amused and staunch supporter when I began writing K/S at the ripe old age of 12.

Did I mention Mercedes Lackey was a pivotal reading influence? Think the Last Herald Mage trilogy. :D

Re: Medical Nanites....

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LOL! Your mom sounds cool. I would never, ever want my parents to find out I write fanfic, lol.

Re: Medical Nanites....

[ravenholdt.livejournal.com]

She had her moments. lol
She was the strongest supporter of free speech and free literature that Ive ever met. I could read anything, from any part of the library...as long as I discussed the material in entirety with her afterwards.
:)

But there are definitely people in my life, who, the less known about my fandom preferences the better!