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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.
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1. My favorite character.
River. Really, I love her more for her potential as a character than for the character she actually is for the majority of the series. I saw Serenity before I actually saw Firefly, and she is by and large a very different character in the film than in the show. In the series she does have her occasional moments of awesome (NO POWER IN THE 'VERSE CAN STOP ME), but most of the time she's limited to brief angsty scenes with Simon, and quirky little one-liners or moments where she does weird things as like a reminder that "HEY GUYS SHE'S STILL CRAZY!!" In the film, though, she's much more lucid and she really gets to develop as a character, and I just love her; she's terrifyingly strong and painfully fragile all at once, and beautiful either way.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
Mal! I love how he is so staunchly "DAMMIT I'M NOT THE GOOD GUY I'M NOT THE HERO" all the time and yet he SO IS TOTALLY A HERO. JERK WITH A HEART OF GOLD. He tries so hard all the time to not caaaare and have feelings~ and fails spectacularly most of the time. He is awesome.
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!
Wash and Zoe. What do you mean, it's possible to have a healthy relationship between an on-screen couple where there is no angst and no WILL THEY GET TOGETHER OR WON'T THEY OH GOOOOOSH and they are just a normal married couple who bicker and fight on occasion but basically just love the shit out of each other and are super happy together, and it's still interesting to watch? LIES YOU SAY? WELL HERE IS THE PROOF.
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
Honest to God, I was hooked before I ever saw either the series or the film. At one point in the Serenity trailer, they show the exchange between Jayne and Mal where MAL is all "YOU WANNA RUN THE SHIP?" and Jayne is all "YEAH!" and Mal is all uhhhhhh... "...WELL, YOU CAN'T!" And I knew right from that line on that this was destiny.
5. One of my favorite moments.
Mal and Jayne's conversation at the end of Jaynestown, where they talk about heroes and how Mal reckons basically all of them were "one
kind of sommbitch or another" and Jayne is just like helplessly confused and saddened over the whole thing... "Don't make no sense." I love that entire conversation, but what really gets me is how the music in the background is "The Hero of Canton" from earlier in the episode, but a sad, melancholy rendition of it. It's just perfect. All of it. Perfect.
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"100 Years" by Five for Fighting. There used to be a Firefly AMV for this song that was one of my favorites ever, but sadly it looks like it was taken down by 20th Century Fox (sure Fox, go ahead and just take away EVERYTHING I EVER LOVED :|), and I can't find it anywhere. Le sigh.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
How utterly quotable it is. I am in love with all of the dialogue and am pretty sure not a day goes by that I don't quote the series or movie at some point. There is just something for every occasion! It's grand.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
The more I muse about Joss's other works, the more I've come to believe that it might actually be a good thing in the end that the series was canceled so soon. We only got 14 episodes, but they were fourteen perfect episodes. Flawless. Joss never got a chance to fuck with the audience and break up characters a and b, and put character c together with character d, and kill off character e, and traumatize character f so hard that they turn into a completely different character, and so on. And if you think about it, the one chance he did get to expand on the canon afterward, he killed off twenty percent of his cast... so yeah. XD
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.
(yeah okay so it isn't actually fan-created or anything, but on the other hand it is basically my favorite picture ever, so close enough :P)
♥
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Aw that is an epically beautiful song! ♥
LOL It's true. There is a Firefly quote for almost every situation.
IDK. I would have liked to see Firefly around for at least another season. I know there's this whole 'Quit while you're ahead' thing but IMO Firefly never even got the chance to get ahead. :( Even though it's like everyone and their dog knows it now. XD It even turns up in other shows. I'm amazed they never thought about picking it back up. But then again... it's FOX. They kill everything we love because they can.
DAMN, LOOK AT ALL THEM BADASS GIRLS. Seriously, Firefly had my all-time favourite female characters. I liked each and every one of them which, sadly, I cannot say about most other shows, not to mention movies. THEY ROCK.
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HAHA ALL THE AWARDS FOR MAL. \o/ I adore Nathan Filion for how he portrays these characters. He makes them so charming and likeable even though you're like 'Dude, this guy's an ass WHY THE FUCK DO I LIKE HIM?'. XD
Man, Wash and Zoe are the best EVER. If all on-screen het relationships were like that I would have a lot more fun with some TV shows. <3 Plus, Gina Torres is the biggest BAMF no matter in which series she shows up.
So, basically: ALL THE LOVE.