makeste: [a shark with a beach ball on its nose] (First word: Jail)
makeste ([personal profile] makeste) wrote2011-11-30 10:42 pm

THE LAZY FANPERSON'S MEME

HI EVERYBODY HERE AT LIVEJOURNAL, HOW Y'ALL DOING.

Not going to spend a lot of time listing the new and improved methods of flaking out that I discovered during this most recent month, but needless to say yet again I am behind on KHR reviews, and this is mostly the fault of work, tumblr, and Skyward Sword (in that order). And to top it off I derped out on NaNoWriMo as well, though I did manage about 12,000 words of fic out of it, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately the fic in question is long enough that it's still like maybe halfway done, if that. But I'm gonna try to get that finished in December anyway because I feel really weird not having posted at least one (non-crack) fic during this whole year. AND HEY WHAT DO YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT OF SAID YEAR, WHAT IS EVEN UP WITH THAT ANYWAY.

But before that! I've been craving a good meme lately, but the thing about memes is that I keep derping out on them too. And I got to thinking that one of the main reasons for that is because when it comes to typical fandom memes, there are always parts of the meme that I LOVE, but also parts of the meme that FEEL LIKE HOMEWORK. Like for example, I will ramble on endlessly about my favorite characters, but with most fandoms I really do not have an OTP (because in a lot of fandoms I'm either PANSHIP...UAL, or I do have one or two favorite pairings but I'm not HARDCORE SHIP-IT-TILL-I-DIIEEEE enough to have any interesting insights or opinions regarding those ships), and I don't know enough about the online fandom to know what my unpopular opinion regarding the series is, and I don't remember enough about the canon to pick my favorite quote or top three scenes, etc.

So I was pondering all of this and then I thought WELL FUCK IT, THEN I'LL JUST MAKE UP MY OWN MEME. A MEME FILLED ONLY WITH QUESTIONS THAT I LIKE TO ANSWER! MANIACAL LAUGH, MANIACAL LAUGH.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE IS THAT MEME:

Comment with one of my favorite fandoms and I will tell you the following:

1. My favorite character.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
5. One of my favorite moments.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.


HMM, that seems like enough questions, I should probably just STOP NOW ALREADY. So anyways, please post some fandoms if you are so inclined and I will GET TO ANSWERING over the next few days or so. :)


P.S. Since I still did not get to the HS question on my last long-since-died-who-am-I-even-trying-to-kid-anymore meme, for this meme HOMESTUCK IS A GIVEN. Meaning YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO ASK THAT, I am already typing out my Homestuck response to this meme as we speak, because lol THAT SHIT'S OVERDUE.

o/

[identity profile] makeste.livejournal.com 2011-12-02 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
OR, I could just quickly half-ass the rest of this while trying to remember my answers from before. XDD

5. One of my favorite moments.

I love the flashback to when Ed and Al first started apprenticing under Izumi. HEY SOME KIDS WANT TO BE MY APPRENTICES... I KNOW, I'LL STRAND THEM ON AN ISLAND FOR A MONTH AND HAVE THEM TRY TO SOLVE CRYPTIC RIDDLES WHILE ALSO STRUGGLING TO JUST STAY ALIVE, LOL. Except that of course she was really looking out for them the whole time, and then later on when we found out about her own angsty past (FMA--everyone's got one!) all her reluctance to train these two kids suddenly made sense and looking back on it the whole thing just kind of makes me go T_T. As a bonus, I adore little!Ed and Al, so any scenes involving them are like automatically my favorite, heh.

6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.

"Hollow" by Submersed, which is entirely the fault of this awesome, awesome fanvid.

7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.

FMA is one of only a few series that I don't get embarrassed about reccing to non-anime fans. Really, the only other two I can think of are Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE GATEWAY DRUGS. |D

8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.

I've actually only seen the series one time, and it was the first anime only (never got around to reading the manga or watching Brotherhood, much to my shame as I hear tell from countless people that I am missing out on epicness), and that was about 6 or 7 years ago.

And! The thing about most of the fics that I've read is that the vast majority of them are set early-to-mid-series, possibly because the vast majority of fandom struggles with denial over Hughes's death. XD So, as a result of all of this, I have fairly clear memories of everything in the series right up until Hughes dies, and then afterwards my memory is like, "LALALALALA." Like I am so fuzzy on the later details of the story that it's pathetic. And it's not like I lost interest in the series after that point or anything; quite the opposite! But since I haven't seen the anime in so long, and I kind of marathoned the whole thing back when I did watch it, and virtually all of my later canon-reinforcing comes from the aforementioned fics... yeah. TO SUM UP, MAKESTE IS SENILE.

9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, fanvid, or piece of art that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.

Sadly I've actually lost all my bookmarks to the glut of Roy/Ed genstuff I was rambling about earlier, so I'll just link to another videos. This is one of my favorite AMVs for any series, ever. So much love. <3


Anyway! HOPEFULLY LJ WILL ACTUALLY POST THIS THIS TIME. MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN.

hi this is another person come to tell you that you're missing out on awesome

[identity profile] ojuzu.livejournal.com 2011-12-03 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Although I am restraining myself hugely here, you have no idea. (I also have a giant thing for Roy/Ed genstuff, btw. If you should happen to have any links lying around.)

The manga is THE BEST THING EVER, you would love it. I say this totally unironically, because I really do think Hiromu Arakawa's story is perfect. If you have buttons, IT WILL HIT THEM.

One of the things I love most about it is (unlike the first anime, or so I hear) that if you don't give up, if you refuse to just let bad things slide and you refuse to hurt people, maybe things won't be perfect but you can be happy. Another thing is the large and diverse female cast! And the Ishvalan characters, and the people from Xing, whom I hear do not exist in the first anime. Boo.

I will leave you with a masterpost, two bits of the manga, and a picture of Major General Olivier Armstrong.

Re: hi this is another person come to tell you that you're missing out on awesome

[identity profile] ojuzu.livejournal.com 2011-12-05 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
OH AND ALSO, I meant to say this is a good meme and you should feel good. Totally snagging when I actually have time to answer people's questions again!

[identity profile] metisket.livejournal.com 2011-12-05 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
:D Ed is my favorite also. And you should really, really read the manga, because it's just so...my God, WELL-PLOTTED, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, GRATUITOUS AWESOMENESS ALL OVER THE PLACE. All the potential awesome that built up in the first half--ARAKAWA DELIVERED. *giddy just thinking about it*

And it became clear that while Ed is liable to do crazy things in a fit of rage, Al, cool, calm, and collected, is willing to do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING if it means saving his brother. ALPHONSE, YOU ARE ACTUALLY QUITE SCARY. I SALUTE YOU.

And the older Ed gets, the more he and Roy turn into bratty siblings. Brattier than Ed and Al ever were. It's AMAZING.

Ed: Stop having a fucking tantrum and burning everything. What is WRONG with you?
Roy: Get the hell out of my way or I'll burn YOU.
Ed: BRING IT!
Hawkeye: There is nothing to stop me from shooting you both.

:D :D :D

Thanks for the links to the AMVs! Especially that first one, because I found it once years(?) ago and then lost it and couldn't find it again, so YAY!