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thelinesoflearning) wrote2013-08-18 05:33 am
thelinesoflearning) wrote2013-08-18 05:33 am
More memeing.
Top five meme. Ask me for my top five in any category, and I'll try to figure out answers. It might take me a bit, or might go quickly, depending on how detailed my answer is and how much I have to think about it.
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Top five songs you want to nest in.
Top five favorite myths.
Top five stories from your childhood (either about or from).
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Doing these as I manage to hit five, not in order
Both Hands, Ani DiFranco
Brother, Murder by Death
Far Away, Ingrid Michaelson
Take the Heartland, Glen Hansard
Were-Owl, SJ Tucker
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(Also, what are the chances we can do a call or a talk of some kind tonight? Nothing's wrong or anything, I just...would not mind a you, either through email or through the phone or...something. I'll take Plurk too, I don't really care.)
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The children's Shakespeare book I can't remember the actual title of; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; T*Witches (I'm just gonna lump the whole series here); The Horse and His Boy (not so much the rest of Chronicles of Narnia, though the Magician's Nephew was close)
(Bonus: I was too young to remember loving them, but I do know that my favorite stories from the age of under-one till about five or six, and the stories I learned to read off of, were Bread and Jam for Francis, and Huey, Dewey and Louie Go to Space. So that's a thing.)
Top five stories I still love from that time period:
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Circle of 3; The Horse and His Boy; can I just count Greek myths in general? If not, The Raven.
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-The full version of this.
-Also of this. Or just anything with Luna -- especially tiny, pre-Sylvester Luna -- and the Luidaeg.
-The cracky version of Phase 3, 4 + 5 I started rambling at you when I was over. As I read comics it just keeps coming into my brain. Though honestly, I want to make fake trailers for it more than write it. Or maybe a multimedia extravaganza.
-The Bisexual!Steve/Asexual!Clint/Aromantic!Natasha fic with bonus sexual identity exploration fic keeps drifting back into my brain lately.
-Every Welcome to Night Vale fic in the world. (But okay, if I have to pick one: The fic, based on but probably not actually filling a kinkmeme prompt, where nobody is in the wrong: Night Vale is just Night Vale, and Cecil is just Cecil, and Carlos cannot handle that, but it's not his own fault any more than it is Cecil's, it just is, and there's no great fix and there's no epic breakup and there's no villian, it's just how it is.)
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2. The time and the place to sing at the top of my lungs for as long as I please. Doubly so if I get to choose the music (although doing it with music other people choose but I know and appreciate can work too).
3. Theater. Being in it, just going to see it -- I tend to leave vibrating. Seeing good theater gives me the same show high as the few times I've been onstage, it's kind of ridiculous. Really, really awesome movies have done this when seen in theater once or twice as well, or going to see movies surrounded by a theater full of fans.
4. Pretty words, especially in short form for when I don't have the concentration for books -- god do I miss I Wrote This For You.
5. Cosplay, at least lately, both looking at it and planning things that I, unfortunately, do not have the money to even attempt at the moment.
5.5. Pretty sure Sunless Sea will be on this list when it comes out and I can manage to own it, but that's just conjecture at this point. But. Echo Bazaar that I don't need an internet connection for and don't have to wait for actions to refresh on = hours and hours and hours of pretty distraction from the world.
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-Persephone and Hades. Every version, every anything to do with it.
-Also the one myth while Persephone is gone where Demeter disguises herself and is taking care of a mortal child, and tries to make it immortal, and the mother sees and freaks out. I am not telling this very well.
-Artemis and Apollo slay the children of Niobe because she insulted their mother and that just doesn't go well for anyone.
-Day-old Hermes invents the lyre, steals his brother's cows, and then gets out of being punished for it because he gives Apollo the lyre. Hermes: smoother at one day old than most people (or gods) will ever be.
-Is Vasilisa a myth or a fairytale? If it's not, there's the compilation of moon myths in Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back -- technically that's 13 myths on a theme but I don't care.
This is so overwhelmingly Greek it's ridiculous and I don't care. It's the ones I'm most familiar with.
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Top five historical people.
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Cecil, Welcome to Night Vale
Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter
Luna Torquill, October Daye
Sophia Petrillo, Golden Girls
Tom Swale, Young Wizards (with Carl as a very close sixth option but if I had to choose one, it's Tom)
Historical people is kind of impossible in a very different way. I have to admit to some ignorance about historical figures. Partly because they don't tend to stay in my head when I learn about them, partly because studying history makes me want to curl up under a table and cry.