Not doing a meme properly

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The idea is that you comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. But I'm off on holiday tomorrow for a week, so I won't be around to give prompts - feel free to comment anyway, if you feel like doing the meme a week later. :-)

alitalf said

1. Stargate Atlantis.
2. That fancy sewing you do.
3. Tolkien (unavoidable, really).
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or anything else you want to comment on by Joss Whedon (couldn't avoid that, either).
5. The most important topic: Books! Stories! Reading in general and/or writing (if you do).

1. Stargate Atlantis.
When Atlantis started, I was pretty irritated with the Stargate writers. They'd demonstrated that they didn't have any idea what a lot of fans watched the show for and didn't care. So I wasn't in the least interested in their wonderful shiny new series. I stuck with that for a year or so, but I was running out of things to read and I knew that a number of my favourite authors were writing SGA. After mainlining fic for a couple of weeks, I decided that maybe I'd give the series a chance. And it didn't take long before I was hooked. I'd still take the fic over the show, any day but David Hewlett found a place in my heart for being so much one of us, and I learnt again that I don't really care about plot holes and hokey science, if I have characters I can love.
2. That fancy sewing you do.
Cross-stitch? I had a friend at university who was a stitcher, and I was interested enough to take up the hobby. It's the ideal creative form for me as it doesn't actually involve any artistic talent - just the ability to follow a pattern. :-) And people still seem to like the idea of receiving a hand made gift.
3. Tolkien (unavoidable, really).
You've probably heard most of my Tolkien stories but I'm not sure I've ever confessed in public before that I used to write out and combine the family trees in the back of the Silmarillion to make sure that I could tell how all the elves were related. *blushes* Middle-earth just interests me - I can't entirely explain it, but then I don't have to, there are hundreds of scholars out there, finding out new things for me to be interested in.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or anything else you want to comment on by Joss Whedon (couldn't avoid that, either).
In the UK they released the pilot, the two parter from the middle of Season Two and the Season Two finale on video, before they were shown on TV. So that was my first exposure to Buffy, the series, and by the time I'd stopped sobbing my heart out at the end of Becoming Part II, I knew it was something pretty special. Funny, thoughtful and exciting it made genre television worth watching again at a time when I was starting to get tired of yet another Star Trek.
5. The most important topic: Books! Stories! Reading in general and/or writing (if you do).
When it comes to books I was pretty much doomed. Both of my parents were readers and I grew up in a house where we never had enough bookcases (we've bought about half a dozen in the last year and we still don't have enough :-D) When I was ten or so, the library gave me more tickets, because I was getting through my allotted three books in a day, when I wasn't at school. My first sci-fi was probably Doctor Who novelisations, but I loved all sorts of books, except the "realistic" ones. Then I got older and found there were a lot more "realistic" novels and those were supposed to be the best. I decided this was nonsense, and have stuck to genre (and children's books) ever since.

while pellegrina said

1. Tolkien (inevitably)
2. Stargate
3. gayalondiel and what a good friend she has in you
4. The colour red
5. Enjoyable dinners in restaurants



1. Tolkien (inevitably) I read LotR at the age of 10 but got stuck somewhere in the Dead Marshes, when I had to hand the book back in at the end of term. I tried again the following year, and this time it took - before long I was borrowing Return of the King from the library regularly to read the Appendices, which weren't in our copy.
2. Stargate I saw the film when I was a student, quite enjoyed it, and wasn't sure about the idea of a TV series. But I thought I'd give it a try and it didn't take long for me to fall for Michael Shanks' Daniel Jackson - brillant, brave and beautiful, what's not to love. ;-)
3. gayalondiel and what a good friend she has in you I met gaya at Tolkien 2005 and found out she was moving back here after University. I like to think I've been a good friend, as she has for me - from taking me along to dance classes to coming round and holding my hand when Grandma died. She's taught me a lot.
4. The colour red It's always been my favourite, and since I think it suits me, I've been doing the red shirt thing since long before Plymouth. :-)
5. Enjoyable dinners in restaurants One of the less expected side effects of being on the TS Committee is the chance to eat in all sorts of places I wouldn't normally have tried - from Lebanese to Thai, Moroccan to Polish, I've had a lot of interesting meals over the years.

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