Five Things meme

[altariel]

From oursin: Ask me for "top five" lists of pretty much anything, and I will list you my top five of that thing or things. (Assuming that I have a top five, or even any five, of the thing in question.)

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[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Cheeses.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love cheese, hard to pick five, always willing to try any kind of cheese. Particular favourites:

Stilton
Emmental
Very mature cheddar on toast with Worcestershire sauce

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Vacations? Or, rather, holidays?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Madrid, 1988
Cornwall, 1993
Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sydney, 1997
Boston, 2001
Paris, 2005

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Body parts.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hands
Feet
Mouth
Eyes
The bit of the neck from below the ear down to the throat

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who stories (any Doctor[s])

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Day of the Daleks
Kinda
The Caves of Androzani
The Happiness Patrol
The Doctor Dances

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Movies

[altariel.livejournal.com]

A Matter of Life and Death
Badlands
Brazil
The Fellowship of the Ring
Legally Blonde

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I'd considered asking you the one that you've now asked espresso_addict! So I won't. :-) Feel free to do any, all or none of:

Companions in Doctor Who
Film/tv adaptations of books
Fictional female characters

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Liz Shaw
Sarah Jane Smith
Turlough
K9
Captain Jack

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Fellowship of the Ring
I, Claudius
Persuasion
The Remains of the Day
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (tho' am hard pressed between this and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Galadriel
Éowyn
Sara Crewe from A Little Princess
Anne Elliot from Persuasion

And I did have a fifth one, but I thought up the list in Pizza Express and now I'm home again I've forgotten, gah.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I remembered the fifth fictional female character: Flavia from A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford.

And the top DS9 episodes are:

Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast (yes, yes, I'm cheating, but it's a two-parter!): because the moral choices that both Odo and Garak face are so beautifully shot.
Our Man Bashir: "Kiss the girl, take the key. They never taught me that in the Obsidian Order."
In the Cards: because it's such a romp, and manages to pull off the feel-good factor by being set on the eve of a terrible war.
In the Pale Moonlight: this is such a no-brainer that I should probably just skip it and put another one in its place - in which case I'll have the other Garak two-parter, In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light: Garak! Tain! Bashir! Claustrophobia! Angst! Irritating light bulbs!
Tacking Into the Wind: it just sums up all that's best about DS9 for me; hard choices, unwilling loyalties, Cardassia's mad dance with death... and Kira and Garak rock throughout. I even don't mind the Klingon bits, because the regime change stuff works thematically.

[(Anonymous)]

(Katlinel at work)

Pre-twentieth century poems.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Anon., The Ruin
Anon., Donal Og
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Emily Bronte, No Coward Soul is Mine
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Scents

[(Anonymous)]

Dwim

Re: Scents

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Coffee
New-cut grass
Curry
Lavender
Rain on hot tar

[kerravonsen]

Future histories.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

This was really hard; I couldn't decide what I wanted "future histories" to mean, and then it was difficult to whittle them down. Anyway:

A Very British Coup for mixing politics, a near-future setting, and utopian dreaming.
Metropolis for defining what the city of the future will look like.
Riddley Walker for being a work of genius.
Swastika Night for understanding the link between patriarchy and militarism.
ST:DS9: because I've spent so many happy hours there.

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

Fallacies

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Employed by me or employed by other people?

[trixieleitz]

Letters of the alphabet :D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Z
Q
X
V
U

I like underdogs.