Top five meme answers #1
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juno_magic asked for the top 5 things I find funniest about Faramir1. He talks in parentheses.
2. When he finally has a captive audience (Frodo and Sam), he talks like someone who doesn't often get to talk much.
3. He pulls a girl by talking about darkness inescapable and then standing there looking all manly and strong.
4. You just know he got a real kick out of organizing the coronation.
5. He's so pleased when the new headmaster makes him Senior Prefect of St Tirith's.
edge_of_ruin asked for the top 5 reasons never to leave my house1. Any month other than January is, frankly, far too hot.
2. I have access to the university library catalogue here, plus the ability to request books online.
3. Sky Plus.
4. Brand new 10Mb internet connection.
5. 'Outsiders' will insist on interacting with me.
oursin asked for my top 5 pairings1. Avon and Anna from Blake's 7: Possibly not the best introduction to romance (thank you again Chris Boucher), but it dramatizes the tension between public duty and private love, which is extremely interesting to riff on. Plus I once got to act their final meeting with
cdybedahl, which was huge fun. 2. Gregor Vorbarra and Laisa Toscane from Bujold's Vorkosigan saga: Given what a sad time he's had, and how much crap he puts up with, it's nice to see something go right for him once.
3. Abbie and Miles from Heyer's Black Sheep: They're so grown-up about it; I love his proposal to her and the way she can't help laughing when he's there.
4. Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott: Second chances. It's never too late. "You pierce my soul." *Altariel melts*
5. Faramir and Eowyn: Two broken people fix each other is probably my favourite love story. In the words of the inestimable Aimee Mann: "You look like the perfect fit for a girl in need of a tourniquet."
paranoidangel42 asked for my top 5 reasons why DS9 is better than any other flavour of Star Trek1. DS9's ongoing storyline, combined with a large number of recurring characters (not just regulars), means the story gets increasingly complex and satisfying.
2. 'In the Pale Moonlight'.
3. DS9's two-parters generally manage to be good for the whole 2 parts (I'll grant TNG's 'Chain of Command').
4. Cardassia's tragic battle for its soul.
5. Garak.
Dwim asked for the top 5 things I wish I liked but don't
1. Wine
2. Mushrooms
3. Academia
4. Listening to music or the radio while I'm working
5. Exercise
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Date: 2006-01-15 04:41 pm (UTC)You don't like wine?
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Date: 2006-01-15 04:44 pm (UTC)My parents were teetotal, and I never really acquired the taste for any kind of alcohol. I like port, and I have the occasional half glass or so of white wine, but I really don't have a taste for red wine, sadly.
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Date: 2006-01-15 05:40 pm (UTC)Shiny Internet connection! I'm thinking about upgrading mine, though I suspect that it's one of those things that will *never* be fast enough.
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Date: 2006-01-15 05:41 pm (UTC)*lost in a blissful reverie*
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Date: 2006-01-15 07:51 pm (UTC)Though I like wine and mushrooms very much, and have some small appreciation for exercise, I love the significance of that list. There are so many things I "should" like but really don't. Your 3. and 4. are among them, and they capture a sort of "why can't I be like others? it would make my life so much smoother" feeling that I realize I live with quite a bit.
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Date: 2006-01-16 04:23 pm (UTC)I chime very strongly with that. I've learnt to (mostly) enjoy being an outlier, but it was a long and sometimes thoroughly depressing process of growing to self-awareness.
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Date: 2006-01-16 07:49 pm (UTC)One result--I forget which but it had to do with the (in)efficiency of our purchasing processes--was presented as a scatter graph. The dot for us was highlighted as a big yellow star, and it was an outlier. Way, way out. The consultant was swallowing his tongue trying to find non-judgmental ways of saying just how far out. To become more corporate, more mainstream, we must draw our star in among the masses.
One of the best theories of astrology I've run across in 30 years' study is that a peregrine planet--an "outlier" in a horoscope--is usually the key to the entire chart. Not every chart has one, but when it's there, bingo. The person's workings are demystified.
I wonder if outlier personalities are the key to whole societies.
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Date: 2006-01-17 10:07 am (UTC)My mind connects things together in weird ways. I read your post and then was sent a link to this article about Britain's declining hedgehog population, and it all came together in this bit from the article:
"What the biologists call the hedgehog's "generalism", its lack of slick speciality, the way it noses for beetles, caterpillars, earwigs and worms, sometimes eating frogs, baby mice, eggs and chicks, its happy existence at the bottom of hedges and in people's back gardens, its inability to cope with very large, chemically denuded arable fields - in other words its fondness for the private, the scruffy and the marginal - all make it a measure of the state of the landscape's health as a whole." [My emphasis.]
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Date: 2006-01-17 08:02 pm (UTC)Lovely connection. Thank you.
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Date: 2006-01-15 09:13 pm (UTC)Oh yes. I should read that again.
Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott: Second chances. It's never too late.
I should read that again too.
Faramir and Eowyn: Two broken people fix each other is probably my favourite love story.
We're doing an extended-version marathon of the movies today (first two today, last one on Wednesday). Mind you, we miss out on the Faramir/Eowyn too much in the movies...
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Date: 2006-01-15 09:55 pm (UTC)Amazing how well that works!
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Date: 2006-01-15 11:27 pm (UTC)Oh wow, that's definitely a reason not to leave the house!
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Date: 2006-01-20 04:03 pm (UTC)Yes! That's why Persuasion is my favorite of all Austen's novels (and I dearly love them all).
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