Ask Anything, fandom stuff and in other news

[misscam]

Just a reminder that my offer from over a month ago if I can help you out in any way still stands.

And in the spirit of friendly on the LJs and because I am vaguely bored, a Ask Anything Meme:

Comment to this entry with something you'd like to ask me (fandom, real life, opinions, anything) and I will respond with an answer to it and a question that you have to reply to. You can choose to ask another and go on if you so want, or just inflict it on your own flist instead.

In fandom:

- Whoever posted this to fandomsecrets is on my wavelength, because I totally mentioned John Hannah as my choice for the Eleventh Doctor a little while back. YES PLEASE. And I think Helen Mirren should play a companion and Hugh Grant play her toyboy secretary that (accidentally) gets taken along and gets laid a lot. This is since I can't have Adama and Roslin be companions, obviously.

- Been reading cleolinda's Twilight reviews and specifically the Breaking Dawn ones for the fun of it. Am I the only one to find the concept of werewolves kinda hotter than vampires? Not that I'm that into either, just... Wolves are awesome, is all I'm saying.

- Whut. Pirates of the Caribbean still causes the wank? Wandering into other people's shipping wars is always a very dizzying experience. Especially when there are mushed ship names (KILL THEM WITH FIRE) all over and yeah, drink anyone? (The rum is never gone here.)

- Oh bugger, debate about whether or not rape can be forgiven in fanficrants just can't go well. This sub-thread rather wanted to make me throw up a little. Erk.

- I miss my BSG. Woe. But mingsmommy made an interesting post on why Battlestar Galactica ate her brain and you know, I rather do think sometimes stories set in a world not quite our own can show us our world all the more clearly. Because then we properly look at it - set in our world, we think we know what the world is like already. We can be blind to things that are familiar, you know?

In other news:

- Dogs may catch yawns, study suggests.
- 'Please kill me', says suspect in the bus beheading murder.
- Texas executes Mexican despite protests from the International Court of Justice.
- A US study of instant messaging suggests 'six degrees of separation' theory has something to it.
- Iraqi Palestinian refugees to settle in Iceland and Sweden.
- Berlusconi in breast cover-up row. (Oh BERLU)
Man tries to get rid of wasps; ends up burning down garage with car inside. (Totally LOL at his comment: "Maybe using lighter fluid wasn't such a good idea, but it was an accident all the same and the wasps are gone!")

Comments

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

Are we talking John/Hugh, John/Helen, John/Helen/Hugh, or all of the above?

Cleolinda does it better than SMeyer. I'm just saying.
But wolves are hotter because of the whole animal thing and the fact that they're only dangerous once a month and can go in sunlight.
So there's that whole appeal.
(However, the whole throat+mouth=yes does it for me, so I've still got a thing for Vampires.)

Anyway:
Of course dogs can catch yawns. They also spread them, too, like some sort of viral, oxegen-intaking STD. Trufax.


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How have you been?
And did you, by chance, get a postcard from Hong Kong?


♥

[mad-troll.livejournal.com]

Wheee! cleolinda's rewriting is hilarious!

Uhmm..question:
What do you think of the "six degrees of separation" theory?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I am totally open to all possibilities there.

I think I just like wolves because for one thing, they live in Norway and for another I always, always asociate them with winter, snow, northern lights and quiet evenings but for the howling. It's a very specific image in my head and it feels like a part of me. Probably sounds bonkers, but there you are.

And oooh, yes I got your postcard last week - I'm very sorry I forgot to mention it. Thank you very much :)

Been all right - working and living and all that jazz. You up to something funky?

[kittycatness.livejournal.com]

hahhaha.
Sounds like it could get interesting.

It doesn't sound bonkers at all. It's something that actually means something to you instead of "They're big" or something. They're the big cats of the canine world.

I'm glad you got it. The hotel wasn't very reassuring about mail.
You're more than welcome. I'm glad you got it!

Sounds pretty dandy. Hows WoW?

I'm moving out Saturday-ish. As far as "funky" in my life, I'm pretty much skint. Just normality.

♥

Of course dogs catch yawns!

[gargantua29.livejournal.com]

It is quite funny. I'll yawn and then a few minutes later one or more of my dogs will give a big yawn. So then I catch it back from them and yawn again, and then the next thing you know we've got a regular yawn train going.

LOL, even talking about yawning makes me yawn!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I think it's the expression of an idea that the world is becoming more interconnected and with more communication and interaction possibilities, but I don't think it specifically is true. There are parts of the world where Internet is not something everyone has, for instance, so be hard to connect people that way. The idea resonates, but I don't think it's a truth of our time. (Yet, anyway.)

What do you think Gandhi would have had on his iPod (if he had gotten the opportunity to have one)?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I do actually prefer cats to canines generally, but I really do like wolves. I hope we can protect ours because I think the world is emptier without them.

Heh, know that feeling - did you have a nice stay there, though?

WoW is awesome. We had a go at Archimonde yesterday, who is the last boss of Mount Hyjal (we've killed the four others in there now. Muhahaha). It was... Interesting, yes. But yeah, having fun and I've been made official raid leader in my guild, which is a bit daunting.

Ohnoes moving or yay-getting-out-of-here? I say that as someone who loathes packing.

[mad-troll.livejournal.com]

Is it still valid if I answer that he wouldn't have had one(iPod, I mean)?
Also, I don't know much about him but I consider him to be[have been] a person who, y'know, listens at all time..and iPod for me means shutting out/muffling the sound of the rest of the world.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yawning is like a mental virus, I reckon.

My cat has made me yawn, I know, but not sure I've made him.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Heh, sure.

Read an interesting book about him the other day though, pointing out he wasn't quite the icon he's been built as. At home, he was apparently a bit bullyish. Just goes to show we're all human, I guess.

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

Hugh Grant and Helen Mirren in Doctor Who? I totally support this notion (mind you, my dream Eleven is still Damian Lewis. Partly because hey, the Doctor gets to be ginger).

And Twilight recap makes me snigger, albeit in a slightly "what the hell is going on" kind of way (seriously, sparkly vampires?).

If there was one place in Norway you'd recommend people seeing, what would it be? (bought to you by Olive who is vaguely planning European adventures *g*).

[ice-feather.livejournal.com]

Mushed ship names make me vomit anyway but some of the POTC ones are especially awful. Norribeth? Sparrowbeth? Pass the bucket.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I take Scottish over ginger. Sorry :P

(Seriously. I don't know.)

Pulpit Rock. Gives you a nice look at the fjords as well. Alternatively, Lofoten is also dear to my heart.

And what would be your dream holiday for two weeks, then?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I still shudder at "Drose". No no no NO.

[melliyna.livejournal.com]

Fair enough (I'm definitely not adverse to Scottish, particularly Mr Tennant type Scottish *grins*)

Oh pretty fjords.

A week in the UK (London and Oxford) and then a week in the USA (New York and Boston) at the moment. Of course Syria and Turkey are also favourites and lately, I've fallen for India in a big way.

[ice-feather.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Worst.Ever by a long shot.

It sounds like a cleaning fluid.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

(I like Scottish in general. Always have. Maybe it's my inner Viking liking to plunder the Gaelic.)

I so want to see Cambodia and Angkor Wat. Oh, to win the lottory and be able to see everything, huh?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I remember when someone posted using 'Drose' to T&C and everyone just went 'say what?' It was totally hilarious.

I think the worst part was when someone discovered people who liked 'Drose' also had a tendency to like Doctor/Rose babyfic and referred to this as 'drabies'. I think my *headdesk* gave me brain damage at that point.

[ice-feather.livejournal.com]

I think I remember that. I was only a lurker back then but I remember being pleased that the more respectful fen were completely appalled by the idea.

There's a good reason I will only read fic that comes or is recced by respectable sources. I don't search for fic on my own any more and haven't for a long time.

[sliven.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna test the border of your Ask-anything meme, and ask of you that you do the Rearview mirror-meme that I just posted here.

Otherwise, I'll just ask you to list about six things that separates the teenage you from the present you. But the meme's a lot more fun. ^_^

[mingsmommy.livejournal.com]

Question: You get a chance to go into any of your shows as a character. Who are you and how do you impact the storyline?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I can't draw. Like seriously, I can't draw. But I can list six things that separates the teenage me from the present me sure enough.

1. Teenage me wore a lot of tights and black t-shirts. Present me wear a lot of jeans and tops with a little more colour and cleavage.
2. Teenage me liked long hair. Present me cut it when it starts brushing my shoulders.
3. Teenage me voted Socialist Left, present me vote Labour.
4. Teenage me liked to paint my fingernails, present me like to paint my toenails.
5. Teenage me had X-Files posters, present me have mostly photographs of nature motifs.
6. Teenage me liked blond guys, present me have a tendency to prefer them dark-haired.

Your drawing was very nice, BTW.

Question: You can rule your country for one day. What one thing would you like to change?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*That* is a seriously tricky question, wow. Oi. Obviously, it would be tempting to say BSG, but that world would probably depress me a great deal to exist in, even as a fictional exercise. Still, if I were there, I'd like to be the person who, 100 years into the future, the story of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies is taught to in school, just to see how the story retold as history would compare to the story as seen happening. It's something that interests me, how history is also telling for how we tell it.

Why do you think fiction is so appealing to us that we constantly create and get brain-eaten (as it were) by invented stories?

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

- Dogs may catch yawns, study suggests.
Me and my cat have yawn offs quite often.

[keskt.livejournal.com]

ok-

Xbox 360
WoW
LG Voyager cell phone

hmmm. That should do it. Feel free to throw in anything else you think of :P

ok, I kid, I kid.

Who are your most "shameful" fandom crushes?