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[darchildre]

Hey, let's do a meme.

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, ice cream flavours, cartoon moments, women in my fandoms, OTPs, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.

And...go!

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[finch]

Top Five things about Babylon 5 that are awesome, pls.

[darchildre]

Five is not enough.

1) B5 was my first big non-Trek sci-fi show. And as much as I love Trek, B5 gave me things in sci-fi that I didn't realize I was missing. In the future, humanity still has religion. In the future, humanity still struggles with problems of poverty, of political conflict, of tolerance. B5 didn't give me a utopia - it gave me a next step. I love that.

2) They told me (part of) how the show was going to end in the first frelling episode and then made it make sense all the way to that ending. How badass is that?

3) Londo Mollari. Londo, you hilarious tragic bastard, you make me weep.

4) When B5 does creepy, it does creepy quite well. Shadow ships and Psi Corps and Nightwatch, oh my.

5) There is seriously an episode that involves both David Warner in space randomly seeking the holy grail and evil brain-sucking space squids. That is amazing.

[finch]

Re: 5 - I saw that episode! :)

[darchildre]

It is not actually good episode, but I admit to having an especial fondness for it. Much like my fondness for the Farscape episode about the mind-control turnips or the B7 episode with the lettuce people and the telepathic potato. I just love things that are so bad they become utterly ridiculous.

[finch]

Lettuce people?

[darchildre]

Lettuce people.

I imagine that, in the context of the show, they're not actually made out of lettuces, but they certainly look as though they are.

Blakes 7 is a weird show in a lot of ways, really.

[scheherezhad]

Top five things about Batman: TAS. Episodes, characters, dialogue bits, whatever. :D

[darchildre]

1) Kevin Conroy. No one else will ever be Batman in my head and every other Batman always gets compared to him (and comes up short). All the voice acting is fantastic but Kevin Conroy is like magic.

2) The opening sequence! With the shadows and the beautiful explosion and the police blimps and the Deco buildings - it's just perfect. I love the animation on this show in general (well, until it turned into The New Batman Adventures after which I do not love it so much) but my god, I could watch the opening sequence over and over and over again.

3) The entirety of Almost Got 'Im which is, I think, my favorite episode, but especially, "I threw a rock at him! ...it was a big rock."

4) The way that it manages to be really damned disturbing in places while remaining a children's show. So much of the show is just fantastic nightmare fuel.

5) This is kinda cheating but the spin-offs. I never got into Batman Beyond but Superman: TAS is pretty damned awesome and I love Justice League and JLU. None of which would have happened if not for B:TAS. So there's that.

[amethystfirefly]

Top five favorite foods. :)

[darchildre]

1) Bread and butter is my absolute favorite food, usually eaten in the form of bagels. Lord, but I eat a lot of bagels.

2) Roast chicken.

3) Steamed broccoli

4) My mom's apple cobbler, which is not like any other apple cobbler in the entire world.

5) Likewise, her chocolate raspberry cheesecake.

[amethystfirefly]

Hee. Our tastes seem pretty similar. :)

[nan]

Top five favorite songs!

[darchildre]

Oh, god, too hard! Okay. Here are my five favorite songs of today. And we'll upload them, because that makes it more fun.

1) This Year by the Mountain Goats. And then Cathy showed up and we hung out, trading swigs from a bottle, all bitter and clean. Locking eyes, holding hands: twin high-maintenance machines.

2) Täss'on Nainen by Hedningarna. When but I begin my chanting, I'll sing seas to mead and honey, bottom gravel all to salt grains, sands of seas to beans uncounted. This song is in Finnish, so the quote is a translation, but it may give you a bit of the feel of the song.

3) Phantom Doll by Tracy Grammer. Midnight, the struggle is over. Rise up, lily-white delicate shoulders. Outside, the poets all know her and all of her children are waiting.

4) Orphans by the Gaslight Anthem. Goodbye, circus wheel. May you rest along the seas. I have given you the fire of my youth and the triumph of my enemies.

5) Oh hell. They are my favorite band, after all. No Children by the Mountain Goats. I am drowning. There is no sign of land. You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

[tricksters_queen]

Top 5 favorite book quotes!!! <3

[darchildre]

Oh, goodness. Umm. I can't promise that these are my top five, but they're what's coming to mind right now. And, for whatever reason, they appear to all be horror related. Ask again, if you like, and I'll pick another genre. 8)

1) "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." From The Gunslinger, by Stephen King. Isn't that a wonderful first line?

2) "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone." From The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. You almost don't need the rest of the book, do you? That's nearly a perfect haunted house story all by itself.

3) "We never even kissed or looked into each others' eyes. Our lips just trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our ears. Filled them with the private music of wicked words. Hers in many languages. Mine in the off color of my only tongue. Too bad dark languages rarely survive." From House of Leaves, by Mark Z Danielewski. Have you read House of Leaves? If you haven't, you really should. It's amazing.

4) "You're not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You can't be, you know, for she's dead." From Dracula, by Bram Stoker (of course). If there comes a day when I don't think that's funny, I'm probably dead myself.

5) I'm torn on this last because I have two Lovecraft quotes and can't quite choose between them. So I'm cheating.

5.1) "...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." From "The Silver Key".

5.2) And man, I'd love to quote the whole bit from the Necronomicon in "The Dunwich Horror" but we'll pare it down to this: "Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold." That's beautifully shivery. I liked it so much, I made an icon and all.

[tricksters_queen]

I have to say that those are some pretty awesome quotes.
I actually remember the one from Dracula! ::laughter:: Yay, me! :)
Also, your clothes sound awesome. I need to make you and another of my friends here just make me all sorts of cool clothing that I can wear all the time... ::laughter::

[darchildre]

The Dracula one is oddly memorable. (She says, like she hasn't read the book enough to have stupid amounts of it memorized.)

And, well, I could make you socks. My making of other garments is still on the experiment and tentative side. I am, however, getting a little better at finding awesome things at Goodwill. 8)

[tricksters_queen]

I adore socks, actually. I have so many with adorable designs on them and such...
I especially like warm snuggle socks that I can run about the house in. I usually don't wear them out, as they are usually thicker than I care for in shoes, but mmm, warm and snuggly, and soft... ::laughter::
And, actually, more than clothing, I am actually considering asking you to make me a Katina doll to match my Puck doll of adorable. ::cough:: Yeah. 'Cause I'm kinda nuts like that. Do you like all the places I've taken him so far? :D

[darchildre]

Hey, you give me specifications and I would be happy to attempt another doll for you. 8)

[ex_pippin880]

Top five articles of clothing.

[darchildre]

Hmm. Let's see. These are all costume items, I think - not that I don't wear them as day-to-day clothes, but I thinking of myself as playing dress-up when I do.

1) I have a black linen skirt that buttons all the way up the front and goes down nearly to the floor. It moves wonderfully and has a very pleasant snapping sound to it.

2) There's a brown leather vest I found at Goodwill that fits me perfectly. I wear it buttoned up, with suspenders and a tie, and the...structure of it, the slight feeling of confinement, makes it wonderful.

3) My sock garters. This goes with that structure thing, and also with my slight pretentiousness when it comes to clothes. No one ever sees the sock garters, because I don't often wear skirts that are shorter than tea-length, but I know they're there and they please me.

4) And, along with that, my green knee socks. I made them myself with no pattern - the first time I'd ever tried knee socks - and they came out beautifully. They're lovely and warm and I feel happy wearing them.

5) I bought a jacket-y thing at the fannish flea market at Norwescon this year. It's navy blue and is vaguely military looking, with a marvelous buttoned placket up the front. It is possibly my best flea market purchase ever.

[ex_pippin880]

They all sound amazing!

[silveradept]

Your top five things that make a day awesome.

[darchildre]

I am going with day-to-day awesome, rather than special-occasion awesome, as the latter is more difficult to predict.

1) Getting up and eating breakfast before anyone else. I don't mind eating other meals with people, but breakfast should be quiet and solitary. My breakfast is maybe a little boring - I have a bagel and a cup of tea pretty much every morning - but there's a rhythm and ritual to it that I enjoy celebrating alone.

2) Good music. Especially good car music. I like to rock out in the car and the day is always more awesome when the music is a little bit fresh and new and makes me want to dance.

3) Good clothes. I'm not at all fashionable but I like to play dress-up and let's-pretend and when I can wear my costume clothes, I always feel happier.

4) Good stories. I tell myself stories pretty much all the time, especially when I'm doing something that doesn't require conversation. Sometimes they get a little tattered and lack-luster but sometimes they're perfect and compelling and unroll themselves beautifully for days on end. They never get written down because if they did, they'd become ridiculous, but while they're in my head they're wonderful.

5) Fannish squee. I am happiest when I have something to obsess about, fannishly. Doesn't matter what it is - that kind of obsessive, geeky love gives me greater joy than pretty much anything else. If whatever I'm into at the moment gives me that, then my day is pretty much awesome from beginning to end.