Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

Via ithiliana :

1. Comment on this entry, and I'll pick three things from your profile interests. If you don't have any listed, link your intro post or tags, and I'll choose three of your fandoms or other interests you've mentioned.

2. Make a post in your journal or comment here and talk about the words or phrases I picked.

She gave me: 

I haven't done a meme in ages, but here's one via minoanmiss: She asked me five questions, and if you choose to play, comment below and I'll give you five different questions!

1. What's the first book you remember reading?

This is a tie between when I was learning to read--which was a set of Disney storybooks based off of a bunch of Disney movies and cartoons that had cassette tapes of someone reading the text with intermittent sounds to turn the pages; I could pick up a word here and there but mostly looked at the pictures and listened to the reader--and the first book I remember reading ~~all by myself! towards the end of kindergarten, which was a book about Tutankhamun's tomb. The first pages detailed the elaborate funeral rites, and then it skipped ahead and talked about Howard Carter and archaeology, cementing a fascination with ancient Egypt (and all ancient cultures really) and a desire to be archaeologist that lasted until I was ten or so, when I decided I wanted to be a writer instead!

2. If you had to be a schoolteacher what grade/grades would you teach?

Yikes. Probably high school because I could do English lit? Also small children scare me a little so I'm probably better off with older ones.

3. Have you/would you color your hair? What color? What circumstances?

Oh yes! I have been variations of red, and sometimes done streaks of blue, red, or purple. I'm dyeing more often these days (which is to say, like once a year) because I started going grey at 13, but the grey is starting to show up more these days. Also I really like purples.

4. What are some (2-5) of your favorite Jamaican dishes?

Fried plantains, fat succulent squishy ones, are one of my all time favorite dishes! (Sadly, despite that I have never mastered cooking them for myself.) I also dearly love jerk pork. Those are the only dishes I really remember well--there was a Jamaican food vendor in DC and I would go there and get those dishes whenever I could, but I was poor then and never explored much beyond those two fabulous dishes. ONE DAY I will find another such place and probably gain twenty pounds embarrassingly quickly!

5. Tell me about two of your favorite characters meeting.

The Winchester bros from Supernatural meet Lucifer from Lucifer. (I have thought a little about writing a fic about this since SPN has actually used the idea of going to another "world" more than once.) I think Sam and Dean would be horrified that everyone around Lucifer 1) doesn't take his claims of being Lucifer seriously, 2) find him charming and amusing. I think Lucifer himself would be horrified when he finds that a him from another world is genuinely evil and has tortured and murdered people for fun. I think Amenadiel would also be horrified at this too, and would accept that his brother might be misguided and an ass, but he is not in fact evil--not by a long shot.

Via Feminist Jamie Fraser Tumblr.

Ganked from thistlerose:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing that I'm familiar with and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. high school / college

Any fandom/book/movie/etc I've mentioned before is fair game. *G*

Stolen from rubynye:

Is there anything you've always wanted to ask me? About my life, my views of the universe, my writing, anything?

Stolen from sharpestscalpel:

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between one and three sentences from that story.

Pick a fandom and I will tell you:

*Favorite Character:
*Least Favorite Character:
*Prettiest Character:
*Character I Wanna Marry:
*Character I Wanna Be Besties With:
*Favorite Pairing:
*Favorite Episode:
*Unpopular Opinion:

I'm doing this because gadgetorious wants me to. I HEART YOU, BONES!

OH LOOK, A MEME:

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
( Read more... )

I meant to do it over the weekend but forgot. My bad.

Also I hear tell there's going to be a fan version of the poll/list, and anticipate many more fun books, and gods willing, less DWGs.

Now then. Meme!

NPR conducted a poll to determine the top 100 SF/Fantasy novels of all time according to participants.

Bold for read
Italics for intending to read
Underline for partial read series/books
Strikethrough for never ever reading


1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fuck yeah.)

( Read more... )

Shamelessly ganked from browngirl: Post a comment, and I will reply with one or two reasons why I think you're great. In return, you have to post this same meme on your blog and comment for other people.

C'mon, gang. LET ME LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU.