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[lyore]

3 things meme.

1 - Comment and ask to be tagged!
2 - I will pick THREE of your icons and THREE of your keywords I find odd or nifty!
3 - You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4 - People comment on your post!

I volunteered to be tagged by aizjanika, who picked

1. Hurt/Comfort.

Not as interesting as it sounds, I guess.For a while, this was one of my main genres for fic in the Stargate fandom, more by default than anything else. I liked both Jack and Daniel, but wasn't particularly interested in slash, and this was the next largest genre of fics featuring the two of them together. This comment is true of most of the fandoms where I have a strong interest in two male characters (Luke and Han in Star Wars, Darien and Bobby in Invisible Man. Plus, for Stargate, it had the added bonus of very rarely including any Jack/Sam (I love both the characters, but REALLY dislike the ship, mostly because of the attitudes and handling of it by the TPTB). The Danny-whumping was a nice added bonus.

Of course, you still often have the incredibly over-the-top emoting at times, but oh well, nothing's perfect, I guess :)

2. Full Metal Alchemist

The first anime I've ever watched. I really enjoyed the series, but was disapointed by the ending. I was hoping to find some good fic, but have never really gotten into the fandom, partly because I haven't read the manga (my inability to read comics extends to manga, apparently), and partly because I don't have any mutual friends in that fandom.

3. Martial Arts

I used to do Tae Kwon Do, but haven't been for a few years. With luck, now that I have a car, and no longer have theses and assignments, I should be able to get back into it soon. Apart from anything else, I miss the stress release of thumping things :)

1.

Ah yes. My Star Wars OTP :) necromage and I watched the Clone Wars cartoons together, and decided that a) Red Commander was so totally COOL, and b) Obi-Wan and Red Commando where so totally In Love. Why Red Commander is cool, and he and Obi-Wan are completey in love.

The cartoons are a hoot, if you haven't watched them, you should.

2.

This one was a quote icon, but I forget who originally said it. Sirius was my favourite character in the HP books, and needless to say I was not a happy camper after book 5. Still, I loathe that book for many more reasons than just the pointless death of my favourite character - what a over-long, convoluted mess. It didn't help that the book came out the day before my Quantum Mechanics exam - I wasted an entire day reading a novel reminiscent of badly-written fanfiction, when I could have been studying, or at least procrastinating by reading some well-written fanfic!

3.

One of my few serious OTPs. In Lego! Blushing Leia in lego! And a caption that always reminds me of The Princess Bride - what's not to love?


Actually did some writing today. Yay! Only about 1000 words, but considering I only had an hour in between everything else that had to be done, it's not bad. And no, bob_ette, it's not the SPN/SW crossover - it's the 'Han Solo and Darth Vader walk into a lift' one.

Today is ANZAC day here in Oz. I didn't get to any of the services, but still - Lest We Forget.

Comments

[psuedoskribe.livejournal.com]

Tag me! :D

[amethyste5.livejournal.com]

Oh, me please! I love to be tagged, and it's about time I wrote a new journal anyways.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

1. Hurt/Comfort.

hehe I love the hurt/comfort genre for both slash and gen in fic, so I wondered how you became interested in it. I love the angst, but, yeah, the over emoting could be a bit much sometimes. When I first started reading fic, though, I ate that up. *g* I knew it was OTT, but I didn't care. *g*

Even sometimes now, if a story is the type that I like, I can gloss over that and still enjoy the story much more easily than I could if the story contained lots of grammar or especially punctuation errors or any ship stuff, especially Sam/Jack or even a mention of Vala. *g*

2. Full Metal Alchemist

The first anime I've ever watched.

hehe So, I deduce that it's an anime series? What is "manga"? I've seen this word before and I am sure I've asked and someone's explained it to me, but I completely forget what it is.

I've never seen The Clone Wars cartoons, so I didn't recognize that in the icon. I actually thought the figure was supposed to be God or Jesus. *g* I see now that the other thing is a helmet of some sort, but originally I just thought it was a design of some sort. *g*

Sirius was my favourite character in the HP books, and needless to say I was not a happy camper after book 5. Still, I loathe that book for many more reasons than just the pointless death of my favourite character - what a over-long, convoluted mess.

I didn't love Book 5, but it was Book 6 that I felt read like some badly-written fanfiction. *g* Did you skip that one? Do you plan to read Book 7? I do just because, as with Stargate, I want to see it through to the end.

I think this has taught me something, though. I think I would have enjoyed the books more if I'd waited until they were finished to read them and had been able to read them all in quick succession. I still would have been thrown by 5 & 6, but I think it would have been less painful. *g*

Thanks for playing. :-)

What is ANZAC day?

[ashavah]

Ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!