kali

OMG resetting the router worked. Thank you thank you thank you.

Part 3 is coming soon. Caveat for these: my brain's pretty swiss cheese at the moment. Might have forgotten some totally apt response, and will curse myself later. Decisions are hard!

For lefaym
( top five moments of AWESOME FAIL - that is a plot hole, bad acting, etc, that turns out to be awesome because it provides an opening for fic, or simply because you love the cheesiness of it, etc. )

For stardragonca
( top five things a TV show/movie got right )

For laughingacademy
(  Top five things I did not see coming. ) [Contains spoilers for: Doctor Who, The Prestige, The Mist (film), Julian May's Pliocene Exile & Galactic Milieu series, Supernatural.]

For neifile7
(  Top five bunnies that ate your brain -- whether they turned into fic or not. )

Okay, all the cool kids are doing it.

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post. Possibly with pictures.

gacked from everywhere...

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

If you pick something I've co-written, consultation will be necessary.

You'll find all my fic listed here.

I always wanted to do this one...

gacked from demotu this time.

( sheepsheep )

Meme can be found here.
Answers from A through D found here. I'm still especially fond of "caesura." Thanks for noticing, askeladden

from faris_nallaneen
ellipses. In function, they are probably my very favorite punctuation mark...or ought that to be marks? I know not. I am addicted to the pregnant pause, and it's close cousin, the serial comma. If I had my way, sentences, like stories, would never end. Suffice it to say, that I do not believe brevity to be the soul of wit...although perhaps its good left hand. I'm also plagued with the memory of a certain Piers Anthony novel, Isle of View (say that out loud, and be treated to an "excellent" specimen of his humour) in which there was a pun on ellipses that implied orgasm. I'm older now, and have had more experience with such things, but I must confess, I still don't get it. Unless it's about that pregant pause thing, but I don't think that it is...

from austenheroin
frisson. This may be my very favorite moment, although it often comes without the slightest apparent particularity of taste. When I am watching something in a movie, or a television show, or reading something in a book - sometimes, the hair on my arms will lift with static electricity, and I can look down and see goosebumps. And then I know, for whatever reason, that this is IT. I trust this feeling more than almost any other - but I don't know why. It happens to me at the oddest times - a shop window, curated properly, a commercial elegantly done, a small special effects moment that shouldn't leave a lasting impression, something cheezy and heartwarming, something shocking but oh-so-right. That little lift, the fingernail on the edge of my spine, and I am lost.

from rm
honour. I have read too many stories, and they shape my internal landscape. So...I am Shylock - my word once given, is my bond, but I will obey it in letter - not always in spirit. Even with that caveat, I try not to give it out often, because once given, well...that's that.  Other than that, you can't, perhaps, trust me not to lie, or cheat, or steal, or betray (although perhaps you can...), but by and large, what I hate more than anything is hurting other people. I am no physician, but like Galen, I wish to do no harm. I fall short, but I pick myself up and try again. I think of a code of honour as a fierce and frightening thing; I learnt it, perhaps, from my parents. My mother is not honourable, but she is unstintingly kind & merciful. She moves, and flexes - she can change her mind; she can give in. My father, to my knowledge, has never told me a lie, never invaded my privacy, never once compromised or deviated from this code. He is neither kind nor gentle. Honour can be very terrible.  So I keep that one line - my promise - that can't be crossed. For all else, I try to keep to the other. Do no harm. It doesn't always work.

from sykii
Incubi. Demons. Sex! What could be better? I actually used to (now this is really embarrassing) fantasize about incubi when I was small, and not that small either - eight, or ten. I don't think I used the word incubi, but demon lover is MUCH worse, regardless. I wonder what work of fiction I first got it from - or did it just spring out of the ether, like the slave auctions I used to dream about when I was four or five, and couldn't even read. You know, the succubi always got names - Lilith, Jezebel etc...why did none of the Incubi? I can't think of one proper Incubus name.

from austenheroin
Jacaranda. I think I recall hearing that Jacaranda trees bloom twice in California, but I don't recall ever seeing them. For me, they're a wild profusion of blossoms in India, and I always thought of them as tropical flowers. I also remember having to memorize flower names and spelling in India, when I went to school in the convent, and had to study among other things, botany - and yet the flowers always sounded so weird and unfamiliar, and I always found it hard to connect names to pictures. Still I found them fascinating, and would spend hours playing flower word games, and telling my small cousins stories about the different flowers and the various royalty that inhabited them - the duchess in the Jacaranda flower, the prince and princess who lived in the lotus, and rode sea horses, etc...

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G K M R T U Y

if anyone else wants to play.

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Meme:
1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."''

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