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[doyle]

The Semi-Annual delurking/tell Doyle things/help me procrastinate, bitches Post

Anybody feel like delurking? Or pretending to lurk so you can delurk and comment?


I would like to know any of the following: (unnumbered since I don't expect people to answer them all)
- what's the last movie you saw that you really loved or really hated?
- is there a fic/pairing/scenario/cracked out AU, in any fandom or crossover, that plainly needs to be written but so far hasn't, to your great distress?
- show off your favourite icon.
- what's your favourite season finale of any show ever? Feel free to spoil me.
- if there's a TV/movie/book moment that just gets to you, whether to make you bawl your eyes out or fall about laughing, tell me about it. (*) (Note that this is a footnote mark, not a single pierced nipple boobicon.)
- confess your deep fandom shame. It's good for the soul.
- what upcoming movie/TV show/book/comic/whatever are you excited about? (I think we'll take Serenity as a given...)
- who's the best character in The Simpsons? This would be a poll if I weren't lazy. (It's Reverend Lovejoy, of coure, but I would also accept Sideshow Mel or the gestalt entity Carl-and-Lenny.)
- obscure character love yay! Who needs the love, in any fandom?
- and speaking of obscure, tell me what rare fandoms you have, or what you'd like to see good fic for.

(*) My emotionally crippling moments: I mentioned this when miggy did her meme a few weeks back, but the Simpsons episode Lisa's Substitute tears me up every single time. Argh, the note, "this is everything you need to know" and it just says "you are Lisa Simpson." I have to watch that episode every time it's on TV. I own it on DVD, I've seen it maybe 30 times, but if it's on TV I'm compelled to sit and watch for that one moment.

And don't get me started on Lilo and Stitch, because then my rampant immaturity will be out there for all the world to see.

ETA: I'm off to bed so if you don't get an immediate response, remember your hitchhiker's guide advice and don't panic. I'll be answering these tomorrow. But keep your towel on standby just in case.

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[anonymous_sibyl]

- show off your favourite icon.

Done. Perhaps not my favorite, but the one that tickles me most at the moment. It's Gabe Kapler of the Boston Red Sox and it came out of a late-night joke with alixnoorchis. Still cracks me up every time I use it.

- if there's a TV/movie/book moment that just gets to you, whether to make you bawl your eyes out or fall about laughing, tell me about it.

Have you ever read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay? This is by far my favorite book ever. The basic premise is that the sorcerer king Brandin attacks the kingdom of Tigana and, in the attack, his son is killed. His vengeance is swift and horrible. He defeats them, kills the royal family (supposedly) and makes it so if the name of their kingdom is spoken, it cannot be understood by anyone. He hates them so much he wipes the very name of their kingdom, their people, from memory.

There is a moment, in the end, when Brandin is fighting for his life. Desperate for power, he releases all his spells. Once again the name of Tigana can be understood. But.. he releases one other spell. Rhun, the king's fool, a twisted wreck of a man, who serves as the outlet for Brandin's emotions and has no will of his own, is free. Free to kill Brandin in revenge for what Brandin did to his kingdom, for Rhun was once king of Tigana.

Every. Single. Time. Breaks me.

- and speaking of obscure, tell me what rare fandoms you have, or what you'd like to see good fic for.

Wanted and The Inside. Also I would have loved it had there been more Playmakers fic.