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Fannish Five Meme Answers!! (FINALLY)
Sorry this took so long. Don't ask me why. It really shouldn't have.
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diachrony
Your top five favorite female characters, & a bit of what you love about them.
(and can I say how difficult this is):
- Aeryn Sun (Farscape). She's kick ass from top to bottom, and gorgeous in her ferocity. I love that she is vulnerable and resists being emotional all the while totally falling in love with John Crichton. I love that she can hurt people and use weapons and blow shit up. That she's capable and active and smart. I love that her character grows and changes, that she becomes more than the sum of her parts. I LOVE how she falls apart when Talyn!John dies and how she resists Moya!John but still loves him anyway.
- Cordelia Chase (BtVS/AtS). In a way, I love Cordy more than I love Buffy (and that's obvious cause the Buffster is not on this list). I love her character arc, the way that she evolves from Queen C to Vision Gal. She was so off the cuff and self-centered and I loved that she said whatever the fuck just because she could. Then she grew up and still said whatever the fuck, but she said it because she could and because she CARED. Even more, I love Cordelia because she CHOSE to be a champion. Even though she could have walked away, she wanted to help, without the accolades and the fame and without having been destined for the job, she stayed. Cordy became the heart of Angel in a very real way and I missed that when they wrote her off.
- Faith (BtVS/Angel). I loved how broken and rebellious Faith turned out to be. She's beautiful and tough and fragile, but not in the ways that we expected. Faith went there, she was SO Buffy's foil and it gave us a place to see the ways that slayerhood destroy the girls who are chosen. She was isolated and lonely and needy and always on the outside looking in, but she hated that weakness. I love Faith for all of her flaws and for how, in the end, she fought her way back.
- Sarah Connor (Terminator). When I say Sarah Connor, I mean Linda Hamilton AND Lena Headey. I love her arc, how she evolves from this nurturing mother into a fierce protective, destructive mother. I love the idea of her going insane and being broken and how she loved her son and Kyle Reese and humanity. I love how Linda Hamilton became lean and strong to play her in T2, how out of control she was. In the series, I loved how Headey carved away the soft parts and then the ways that she tried to nuance them back in.
- Leia Oragana (Star Wars). Leia is where I learned how girls could be totally kick ass. She is STILL kick ass!
forthawrecka
Top five favourite relationships (of any kind) on TV.
- Go Eun Chan/Choi Han Kyul (1st Shop of Coffee Prince). OMG with the angst and the cuteness and they are just the awesomest couple that ever dared to be awesome! Han Kyul thought Eun Chan was a boy and was all tormented but then decided to love him anyway! Then it turned out that Eun Chan was girl and Han Kyul was tormented and betrayed and loved her still!
- John Crichton/Aeryn Sun/Zhaan/Chiana (Farscape). John with pretty much any girl on Moya is made of win. I love him and I love him with them. Every relationship was different and very distinct. With Aeryn it was romantic, filial with Chiana, and Zhaan was so maternal. I can't seperate them.
- Trip/T'Pol (Enterprise). I love how antagonistic they were and then they were in love and then they weren't together and then he died. It was always the beginning of something with them, always on the edge and the waiting made me crazy.
- Buffy/Angel (BtVS/AtS. Cause, duh!
- Catherine/Vincent (Beauty and the Beast). I cut my teeth on Catherine and Vincent. They were the beginning of my kink for tortured, star-crossed lovers.
Very special honorable mention for Charlie Crews and Dani Reese (Life) cause they are the bestest partners that were friends and coulda been lovers, like, ever.
fordarlas_mom
Top five fannish pet peeves.
- Flame wars and the people who indulge in them.
- Shipper wars.
- If you don't love slash then you are homophobic.
- OOC fanfiction and OOC characterizations.
- The way that some people use the distance between cyberspace and meatspace to be complete and total asshats. As if the fact that they are not speaking to someone in the real gives them the right to treat people poorly.
forchrisleeoctaves
Top five B/A fics and why. (OMG!! This is another hard one and changes with alarming regularity. Although, I ended up listing the ones that I read over and over again, I still don't think that this is really representative of what I love best about B/A. Possibly because my favorite BtVS/Angel fics aren't usually B/A fic.)
- I'm going to lump them all together because I think of them as one long narrative divided into parts as opposed to separate stories. I also think of them very implicitly as B/A stories despite the fact that there is very little B/A in them (or maybe there's too much).
Pentimento, Camera Obscura, and Chiarosucro by lostakasha
- Five Ways Buffy and Angel Never Met and Never Have to Say I Love You by landrews
- All Ways by kita
- As Dark Things are Loved by redbrickrose
- But None I Think Do There Embrace by yhlee
AND
Top five BtVS episodes and why.
- The Body because it's all about reality. I have not re-watched this episode and I'm not sure that I ever will, but it was so painful and real the first time around that I was broken as a result. Quietly and elegantly done, everyone was superb, the sentiments were there and real. Anya's speech and Dawn's collapse at school. I love that there is no music in this episode and the sequence where Xander drives Anya to the dorm to meet Willow and Tara. The episode feels fragile and surreal and it connects and resonates.
- The Prom because Buffy got that Class Protector award and she just beamed! I loved that she was recognized. That despite her years in high school and how hard things were and how she was overlooked and labeled and categorized by the people in her class, at the end they saw her. Then there was that last dance between Buffy and Angel and it was everything you could ever have wanted your prom to be, right there! AND it was to frickin' Wild Horses! How can you beat that?
- Hush for just being so damn cool. All of the elements, stylistically. The use of music in the place of language, the floating Gentlemen, that awesome sequence with Giles and the overhead. Danse Macabre!! I love the way that it's all fairy tale and nightmare. The way those themes collapse into Sunnydale reality.
- The Gift because Buffy finds a way to let go being the slayer. Because she gets to make the choice and it's the most heartbreaking, tragic, obvious, selfless and selfish choice that she could make.
- Who Are You? because I love how destructive and broken Faith is. I love how Riley rattles her and the way that she comes totally unglued.
fortkp
top five reasons you are so awesome!
- I know you!
- I have lots of super cute shoes.
- I can wiggle my ears.
- I can do the "Live Long and Prosper" sign on BOTH hands!
- I can quote Disney's The Little Mermaid almost verbatim. (and The Neverending Story, too!)
AND
top five reasons fandom is important to you.
- It gives me the opportunity to be thinky and academic. The world at large doesn't really support that and this is an arena that does.
- I get to wave my geek flag and not feel out of step or out of place.
- Fandom gives me the reason, the excuse and the place to be creative and write!
- I have met people who are equally as passionate about being thinky and academic and geeky and writerly.
- Fandom is vast and varied in interests and background. It provides a great deal of exposure to things that I may never have encountered in my regular life.
for
diachronyYour top five favorite female characters, & a bit of what you love about them.
(and can I say how difficult this is):
- Aeryn Sun (Farscape). She's kick ass from top to bottom, and gorgeous in her ferocity. I love that she is vulnerable and resists being emotional all the while totally falling in love with John Crichton. I love that she can hurt people and use weapons and blow shit up. That she's capable and active and smart. I love that her character grows and changes, that she becomes more than the sum of her parts. I LOVE how she falls apart when Talyn!John dies and how she resists Moya!John but still loves him anyway.
- Cordelia Chase (BtVS/AtS). In a way, I love Cordy more than I love Buffy (and that's obvious cause the Buffster is not on this list). I love her character arc, the way that she evolves from Queen C to Vision Gal. She was so off the cuff and self-centered and I loved that she said whatever the fuck just because she could. Then she grew up and still said whatever the fuck, but she said it because she could and because she CARED. Even more, I love Cordelia because she CHOSE to be a champion. Even though she could have walked away, she wanted to help, without the accolades and the fame and without having been destined for the job, she stayed. Cordy became the heart of Angel in a very real way and I missed that when they wrote her off.
- Faith (BtVS/Angel). I loved how broken and rebellious Faith turned out to be. She's beautiful and tough and fragile, but not in the ways that we expected. Faith went there, she was SO Buffy's foil and it gave us a place to see the ways that slayerhood destroy the girls who are chosen. She was isolated and lonely and needy and always on the outside looking in, but she hated that weakness. I love Faith for all of her flaws and for how, in the end, she fought her way back.
- Sarah Connor (Terminator). When I say Sarah Connor, I mean Linda Hamilton AND Lena Headey. I love her arc, how she evolves from this nurturing mother into a fierce protective, destructive mother. I love the idea of her going insane and being broken and how she loved her son and Kyle Reese and humanity. I love how Linda Hamilton became lean and strong to play her in T2, how out of control she was. In the series, I loved how Headey carved away the soft parts and then the ways that she tried to nuance them back in.
- Leia Oragana (Star Wars). Leia is where I learned how girls could be totally kick ass. She is STILL kick ass!
for
thawreckaTop five favourite relationships (of any kind) on TV.
- Go Eun Chan/Choi Han Kyul (1st Shop of Coffee Prince). OMG with the angst and the cuteness and they are just the awesomest couple that ever dared to be awesome! Han Kyul thought Eun Chan was a boy and was all tormented but then decided to love him anyway! Then it turned out that Eun Chan was girl and Han Kyul was tormented and betrayed and loved her still!
- John Crichton/Aeryn Sun/Zhaan/Chiana (Farscape). John with pretty much any girl on Moya is made of win. I love him and I love him with them. Every relationship was different and very distinct. With Aeryn it was romantic, filial with Chiana, and Zhaan was so maternal. I can't seperate them.
- Trip/T'Pol (Enterprise). I love how antagonistic they were and then they were in love and then they weren't together and then he died. It was always the beginning of something with them, always on the edge and the waiting made me crazy.
- Buffy/Angel (BtVS/AtS. Cause, duh!
- Catherine/Vincent (Beauty and the Beast). I cut my teeth on Catherine and Vincent. They were the beginning of my kink for tortured, star-crossed lovers.
Very special honorable mention for Charlie Crews and Dani Reese (Life) cause they are the bestest partners that were friends and coulda been lovers, like, ever.
for
darlas_momTop five fannish pet peeves.
- Flame wars and the people who indulge in them.
- Shipper wars.
- If you don't love slash then you are homophobic.
- OOC fanfiction and OOC characterizations.
- The way that some people use the distance between cyberspace and meatspace to be complete and total asshats. As if the fact that they are not speaking to someone in the real gives them the right to treat people poorly.
for
chrisleeoctavesTop five B/A fics and why. (OMG!! This is another hard one and changes with alarming regularity. Although, I ended up listing the ones that I read over and over again, I still don't think that this is really representative of what I love best about B/A. Possibly because my favorite BtVS/Angel fics aren't usually B/A fic.)
- I'm going to lump them all together because I think of them as one long narrative divided into parts as opposed to separate stories. I also think of them very implicitly as B/A stories despite the fact that there is very little B/A in them (or maybe there's too much).
Pentimento, Camera Obscura, and Chiarosucro by lostakasha
- Five Ways Buffy and Angel Never Met and Never Have to Say I Love You by landrews
- All Ways by kita
- As Dark Things are Loved by redbrickrose
- But None I Think Do There Embrace by yhlee
AND
Top five BtVS episodes and why.
- The Body because it's all about reality. I have not re-watched this episode and I'm not sure that I ever will, but it was so painful and real the first time around that I was broken as a result. Quietly and elegantly done, everyone was superb, the sentiments were there and real. Anya's speech and Dawn's collapse at school. I love that there is no music in this episode and the sequence where Xander drives Anya to the dorm to meet Willow and Tara. The episode feels fragile and surreal and it connects and resonates.
- The Prom because Buffy got that Class Protector award and she just beamed! I loved that she was recognized. That despite her years in high school and how hard things were and how she was overlooked and labeled and categorized by the people in her class, at the end they saw her. Then there was that last dance between Buffy and Angel and it was everything you could ever have wanted your prom to be, right there! AND it was to frickin' Wild Horses! How can you beat that?
- Hush for just being so damn cool. All of the elements, stylistically. The use of music in the place of language, the floating Gentlemen, that awesome sequence with Giles and the overhead. Danse Macabre!! I love the way that it's all fairy tale and nightmare. The way those themes collapse into Sunnydale reality.
- The Gift because Buffy finds a way to let go being the slayer. Because she gets to make the choice and it's the most heartbreaking, tragic, obvious, selfless and selfish choice that she could make.
- Who Are You? because I love how destructive and broken Faith is. I love how Riley rattles her and the way that she comes totally unglued.
for
tkptop five reasons you are so awesome!
- I know you!
- I have lots of super cute shoes.
- I can wiggle my ears.
- I can do the "Live Long and Prosper" sign on BOTH hands!
- I can quote Disney's The Little Mermaid almost verbatim. (and The Neverending Story, too!)
AND
top five reasons fandom is important to you.
- It gives me the opportunity to be thinky and academic. The world at large doesn't really support that and this is an arena that does.
- I get to wave my geek flag and not feel out of step or out of place.
- Fandom gives me the reason, the excuse and the place to be creative and write!
- I have met people who are equally as passionate about being thinky and academic and geeky and writerly.
- Fandom is vast and varied in interests and background. It provides a great deal of exposure to things that I may never have encountered in my regular life.