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1. andrew/xander: theirloveissogeeky!

I even run an Andrew/Xander list. And yet I've never written it...

2. spuffy: I really liked seasons 5 & 6, actually, but the spuffy FANDOM makes me want to claw my eyes out. (sorry.)

*g* Spuffy was my first, my biggest OTP. I still have a soft spot a mile wide for them. But yeah, I think extreme shippers of any stripe can be scary... (me, I'll ship anything. Obviously)

3. ben affleck, I guess, just 'cause fandom fandom fandom hollywood!

I didn't even realize that was on there! I both like and mock Affleck. Like mostly in a Ben/Matt theirloveissofictionalbuthot way.

4. good omens is something you should tell me about.

Ooh, my favourite book ever! Collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about ~~Giles and Spike~~ a bookshop-owning angel teaming up with a snarky demon to stop an apocalypse, which is happening because the demon accidentally lost the baby antiChrist.

5. unconventional 'ships 'cause you're the queen of finding the good stuff.

Must add that.

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moireach.livejournal.com

3jane is mostly to be blamed for my Xandrew love, 'cause *oh*, the perfection of it.

Like mostly in a Ben/Matt theirloveissofictionalbuthot way.

Ha!! Did you see the Will & Grace with Matt? Where he talked about his boyfriend since highschool named Ben? Theirloveissositcomcanonical.

And Good Omens is even higher on my to-read list now, whee. 'cause Giles & Spike, ha!

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Yes! I loved that Will and Grace episode. Made me squee out loud *g*

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I definitely second the Unconventional Ship's recommendation.

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mosca.livejournal.com

1. Math. It's fascinating, it's useful, and it almost always works.
2. Spuffy. Before it was canon, I used to complain about how ludicrous it would be if they actually got together. Then S6 happened, but I'm still not really convinced. At least it was dysfunctional and emotionally destructive for all involved.
3. Will and Grace. Didn't realize you were a fan. Maybe I should be paying more attention.
4. Quantum physics.
5. Uhh... bear people? Because.

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3. Will and Grace. Didn't realize you were a fan. Maybe I should be paying more attention.

Yep, have most of it on DVD, it's one of the few American sitcoms I follow. Though Will and Grace themselves mostly irritate me. I want reversible DVD covers for The Jack and Karen show

4. Quantum physics.

When I work it out I'll let you know. For now: very very useful for writing Fred fic.

5. Uhh... bear people? Because.

Ooh, bear people!

Unless that leads to more furries friending me, because once was enough.

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1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.

neil gaiman - I love Gaiman. Sandman was the first comic that I ever loved and will always hold a special place in my heart. (Though I also later developed a passion for Transmetropolitan which rivals that for my first crush.) Startdust, American Gods, Neverwhere, and Good Omens are also great books that I recommend to everyone. He is a damn amazing writer. Plus he has a livejournal (http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=officialgaiman) that I love.

2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.

This is a hard one. Probably I would have to say ben affleck, but that is only for lack of choices. I have yet to see any gripping performances of his. I have significantly higher standards when it comes to male actors (which is woefully unfair, since my standard for female actors tends to be: damn, I'd do her!), and he just doesn't make my cut. But I don't hate him, just don't particularly care for him.

3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?

eve6. Never pictured you as an Eve 6 lover. Maybe I just have the wrong impression of the group. Any songs that you recommend that I check out?

4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).

father ted. Elluciate please?

5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?

Wesley/Connor? B/c oh, the hotness of that. (though it's rather obvious that you have interest in that. *snort*) I don't know much about your interests outside of fandom, so maybe adding in more of those? (maybe "writing fic that slays one's readers with teh pretty"? too bad it doesn't fit.)

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Eve6: I just love their music. I had never heard of them - they're beyond obscure in this country - till I saw a Spuffy music vid to 'Promise'. Favourite song of theirs is probably Amphetamines

Father Ted: absolutely hysterical British comedy about three Irish priests on a tiny island, banished there for various sins (going to Vegas with money embezzled from a charity for sick children, an incident with a ferry that left many people in therapy - "they were only nuns" Father Dougal offers in his defence, and something else that I can't remember, but probably due to the fact that Father Jack is a mad old lecherous alcoholic whose vocabulary consists of 'drink', 'arse', 'feck' and 'girls'.) The three priests get themselves into a variety of surreal situations. I'd be quite surprised if it's been shown in America given some of the humor (the "only about ten percent of priests are paedophiles" line in particular). It's brilliantly funny and I adore it.

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OMG, I completely *must* find this Father Ted show. I love crass British humor. *crosses fingers and hopes that it's on kazaa somewhere*

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You may notice that the priests' housekeeper is called Mrs. Doyle. Coincidence? *g*

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Hehehehe! *underlines Father Ted on _must download_ list*

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avrelia.livejournal.com

1) Kevin Smith
I like his sense of humour, and generally find him huggable.

2) physics
Not that I don’t like it exactly, I never liked to study it, and tried to keep as far as possible.

3) Latin

4) father ted
I have no clue

5) Monty Python
because they will be in a good company of other your interests

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Ooh, I do love Monty Python...

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topazangel.livejournal.com

1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.

angel/cordelia. They are my very much OTP. I love them for many reasons.

2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.

knox. I don't know why. He just kinda irked me.

3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?

math. *shudders* I didn't think anyone liked math. ;p

4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).

blackadder. Whassat?

5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?

Vincent Kartheisar. Cause he's Connor?

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You've never seen Blackadder? You must see it! Tremendous British sitcom with four series set in four different time periods - the middle ages, the time of Elizabeth I, the time of George III and the first world war - with actors playing much the same characters. Edmund Blackadder's always the lead, a weaselly down-on-his-luck character always trying to make things better for himself but never managing it.

My favourite's the last series, the war one, because as well as being funny it's so bleak. I'm going to go ahead and spoil you: every week is about an attempt by Captain Blackadder to get a transfer out of the trenches, and every week he almost makes it before something sends him back. In the last episode they finally get the order to go over the top, and you're sure that this time his plan will work and he'll be saved. And it doesn't. And every character goes over the top and dies, as the sound fades out and the action slows, then freezes and fades, coming up to show the battlefield as it is today - a beautiful field of poppies.

It's a gorgeous ending and it recently got voted the best end of a TV show ever, but I'm frightened the 'everybody dies' thing will be the Angel finale... :wibbles:

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There was a crying meme going around recently. One question was about a scene in a film or TV show that made you cry. That one there... every time. When It was originally on tv I remember being shocked into stillness and then just loosing it. Comedy does sad and shocking with such force when it does it right.

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Oh, I know. I think it's on the line "who would have noticed another madman around here?" when you realize they're actually going to go over that I lose it...

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::chinwobble::

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I agree with you. The Medieval and Elizabethan ones are wonderful, and I enjoy the Christmas Carol one, but the WWI one is the best by far. "Blackadder Goes Forth". It is by inspiration of Capt. Blackadder's attempt to get out of the attack that I pronounce "www" as "wibble".

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astridv.livejournal.com

1. Angel/Cordelia? You like Angel/Cordy? That was gonna be my answer for 5. 'cuz there's not enough C/A fic around and I'm selfish that way.
Have you, by any chance, written C/A?

2. Father Ted. Tried it, but too broad, the humour. Or too British, maybe. But I do like Drop the Dead Donkey.

3. I don't really get the Aragorn love. I mean, the actor fit the role well, but still I though the character was a bit shallow the way he was written. I thought that about all the LoTR characters. I know, unpopular opinion.

4. I know next to nothing about quantum physics, but even less about Beaker. Is it a bird muppet? (might be faster to explain than quantum physics... I've tried to read 'Brief History of Time' - easy to understand for the layman, my ass, lying critics bastards... completely lost the red thread in the chapter about black holes.)

5. C/A fic writing

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1. Angel/Cordelia? You like Angel/Cordy? That was gonna be my answer for 5. 'cuz there's not enough C/A fic around and I'm selfish that way.
Have you, by any chance, written C/A?

Not yet, but it's a pairing I'd love to tackle. The first Angel episode I ever saw was Waiting in the Wings, followed by Birthday. C/A just had me at hello.

If I ever get inspiration for a plot, will definitely give it a go.

4. I know next to nothing about quantum physics, but even less about Beaker. Is it a bird muppet? (might be faster to explain than quantum physics... I've tried to read 'Brief History of Time' - easy to understand for the layman, my ass, lying critics bastards... completely lost the red thread in the chapter about black holes.)

Beaker is... I'm not sure what he is, but he's the bestest muppet! He talks entirely in 'meep' and if I was making Muppets Go Middle Earth he would be Gandalf.

5. C/A fic writing

Hee!

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1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.
I am going to assume that by Beaker you mean the Coolest. Muppet. Ever. His flappy chin mouth! the noises! The everything about him!
2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.
Harry Potter. Though that is not strictly true, it is just that I couldn't find anything on the list I actively disliked and I have yet to find the Harry Potter love.
3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?
Swimming. Only because everything else on there is so wonderfully geeky!
4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).
Watchmen. I love Preacher, Sandman and other comics but have never known anybody with the Watchmen series for me to borrow. Why should I search it out?
5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?
Sticking with the comics: Kabuki. So beautifully illustrated and the first comic I ever actively collected. If you haven't read it you should.

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Watchmen is set around a group of retired (forcibly, by the government) 'costumed heroes', who were basically just well-meaning vigilantes. It looks like someone is killing them off one by one and Rorsharch - who's psychotic - is trying to find the killer. It starts off looking like a simple murder mystery and then it becomes so layered and complex.

The ending... I won't give it away but there are six full-page spreads with no words. I first read the book before September 11th and thought those pictures were just the most chilling, incredible things ever. Since then they're really difficult and eerie to look at.

My (offline) friend

thecount_ha is a Kabuki nut, I'll have to borrow them.

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Cool. Watchmen bumped to the top of the to-beg-borrow-steal list.

Kabuki is a visual feast if it lacks some emotional impact. Lovely psychological puzzles and broken girls and the kind of shocking violence thrown casually in in that way we can only take in works of fiction.

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1. Pick something on my interests list that you also like and describe why.

Neil Gaiman. Because he is The Man. I was so happy to go to a booksigning in NYC and get my copy of American Gods signed by him. He is just a great writer. I'm trying not to fangirl here. ;-)

2. Pick something on my interests list that you don't like and describe why.

Ben Affleck. I'm still angry that he insinuated that the reason that nobody liked him and Jennifer Lopez together was because he's "a white man" and she is "Puerto Rican."

As someone who is the product of a Puerto Rican and Irish/English union, that deeply offended me. Because that's not the reason why people disliked them. In my parents' time, a biracial marriage was a bit controversial. Now? It isn't and he was just giving a shitty excuse for their backlash.

3. Pick something that is on my interests list that surprises you. Why does this surprise you?

Magic. I don't know why I'm surprised, but now I want to know why you're interested in magic.

4. Pick something that is on my interests list that you know next to nothing about (if you want me to give you details, let me know that, too).

Annie Sewell-Jennings. I've heard the name, but I'm drawing a blank.

5. Pick something that you think should be on my interests list. Why do you think it should be there?

I'm terrible at this. I see that you enjoy poetry, but you don't have that listed as an interest, any reason?

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Love the icon.

I've never heard that Ben and Jennifer thing. Gah, some people are idiots.

Magic: I think this is kind of like my love for Physics but in another direction. Like - could things like magic, telepathy, whatever, be real, and if they are, how do they work?

Annie Sewell-Jennings is

anniesj *g* I adore her.

Oh, I didn't know poetry wasn't on there... I love poetry. Got shelves full of anthologies. (If Pablo Neruda's not on that list, he should be) Except for Seamus Heaney. I don't know why, maybe because he's too much of a local writer (my mother went to school with him, for goodness sake) but his stuff seems so hackneyed. Apart from Mid-Term Break, which is beautiful.

Must update the poems in my sidebar.

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Isn't it the best? Because at the end of the day, What Would Kermit Do?

Interesting answer the magic question. And that is cool. I'm dearly fond of science, although my areas are more biology and anthropology.

Yeah, that quote turned me off Ben Affleck forever. Unless he gets back with Matt. Then some of it is forgiven. But not much.

Annie Sewell-Jennings is anniesj

Ah, thank you!

I love poetry, although I'm into the older stuff (Milton and others before him) because I just adore the earlier works in English canon. I'm a total geek. I've only recently started reading more contemporary works, but I'm enjoying them a lot.

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1) Physics -- because I've liked science since I was a kid, I had to pick one to study at university. Chemistry and biology smelled funny, and didn't have that whole "discovering the secrets of the universe" cachet to them either.

2) Chaos -- gives me a headache. I like things to be at least vaguely organized. (Haven't studied any chaos math myself, but I keep meaning to.)

3) The combination of physics and witchcraft is a bit unusual.

4) Was going to say Annie Sewell-Jennings -- but now you've linked to her journal in another comment, so I at least know what all your interests are.

5) Oh, I don't know. Personally, I like particle physics, and recommend it to anyone I know who's not completely committed to some other area of physics.

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