Meme Thing: Day 6
HP DAY 6: What House would you want to be in?
IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION WITH ME?
I'm the most sterotypical Ravenclaw you'll ever meet, and I'm damn proud of it. It's reached the point now where some describe the way I'm acting or something I'm doing as "[insert Ravenclaw trait here]" and someone on the other side of the room will chime in "Ravenclaw!"
And when I say Ravenclaw I mean to say the
AWESOME KIND
NOT THE LAME KIND
Ravenclaw is the best, we're awesome, and so is our common room. (aaaahhh i love that Ravenclaw had their day, as promised).
It's seriously the most under appreciated house though. I mean Gryffindor and Slytherin are considered the "main" houses due to the moives and the majority of the mian characters being in those houses. As for Hufflepuff... well there's just so many of them. Serious Hufflepuff pandemonium in the fandom. And then that leaves Ravenclaw. I know so few Ravenclaws, none of whom are among the people I see/talk to on a daily-weekly basis.
As for you Hufflepuffs who think your house is the best. You think that because you are Hufflepuff, just as I think Ravenclaw is because I'm Ravenclaw. You say it's because your house takes the lot while the other houses exclude, but that's not how I few it. Each House represents four patterns of thought, not ideas or ideologies, but the actual thinking process, how our brains find patterns and connect things. And because of these different thought processes, we develop traits, which leads us to the four houses. So I get what you Hufflepuffs are saying when you commend 'taking the lot' but that lot are all Hufflepuffs, not people who don't fit into the other houses. The Hufflepuff traits are just more subtle and far reaching. And if you don't like what I habe to say -throws glove down- I'll see you on the Quidditch Pitch.
Um, the end. Go RAVENCLAW! WOOO BLUE AND BRONZE!
DW DAY 6: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
NOW IS THE TIME to explain how I came do be a Doctor Who fan, and in which I realize I'm actually Amy Pond.
I am a second-generation Doctor Who fan. My dad started watching Tom Baker's Doctor Who in the 1970s, a time in which very good little sci-fi television was on (according to him, aka no Star Trek). I'm note sure how much of Who he watched after that, but his interest was rekindled after the movie came out. SIDENOTE: My Dad's screen name for years was The Master, and I always wondered why until a recent rewatch of the movie that the man the master possess shares the same first name as my dad, anyways... One year at Pin-A-Go-Go (yes, I got to Pinball Machine conventions with my Dad, and yes, I am the coolest person you'll meet), my Dad brought home the official Doctor Who pinball machine. I had heard about Doctor Who before, some good show with this fantastic Doctor that was canceled the same year I was born, but it wasn't until I played this pinball machine that I experienced Doctor Who. I spent years destroying the Daleks, getting super mad at the Master every time I lost a ball to the side rail, yelling for Ace to make it back to the Tardis in time, shuffling through the list of the seven doctors featured in the game, and always sticking with Four, listening to Seven tell me, as the companion, what needed to be done, and always be delighted when I caused enough damage to have Davrus personally challenge me at the end of a high-scoring game. It was magic, it was Doctor Who.
Click to viewIn those in-between years I had no way of watching the actual show because my Dad wasn't a super fan with a complete series collection of DVDs (or at the time VHS tapes), the internet was new and not so shiny yet, and I didn't live in the UK. I lived in America, a land where no one had ever heard of Doctor Who.
When the show was revived I was hesitant about watching it. It was a remake or something, wasn't it? How could it be good? I would catch glimpses of it here and there, but I soon learned that it wasn't a show you'd just watch, there were characters and arcs, and if I started I had to watch it in order.
So I met the Doctor when I was seven, and it was wonderful. But I had no way of seeing him after that, and I often thought about him. All that time I was alone, no one knew who the Doctor was, and maybe he was just imaginary from all those games I played. And then one day, when I was 17, he came back, but he had a new face, and I wasn't sure if he was my same-old raggedy Doctor. And then he seemed to disappear again, but this time I knew he'd come back because I knew he was real and I knew he was out there. And then when I was 19 he was there, and so was the TARDIS, and I got to go with him this time.
I'm Amelia Pond; I just lack the Gryffindorness, the crack, and the Rory (ummm can I not be lacking this last one, please?) And did I mention that depending on the weather, I'm sometimes a ginger?
UPDATE: I JUST DISCOVERED THERE'S AN EMULATOR FOR THE PINBALL MACHINE WHERE YOU CAN PLAY THE DOCTOR WHO PINBALL MACHINE ON YOUR COMPUTER. I WILL FIND IT AND REPORT BACK
THE LISTS
Day 1: Your Favorite book.
Day 2: Your Favorite movie.
Day 3: Is there any of the films adaptations that have made you angry because they've ignored important parts of the book?
Day 4: Least Favorite female character and why?
Day 5: Favorite male character and why?
Day 6: What House would you want to be in?
Day 7: Favorite female character and why?
Day 8: What do you think would be your Favorite lesson?
Day 9: Least Favorite male character?
Day 10: Horcruxes or Hallows?
Day 11: What character would you say you are most like?
Day 12: Favorite ship?
Day 13: Least Favorite movie? [but actually you already asked that so imma talk about biggest Hogwarts disappointment]
Day 14: Team Voldemort or Team Harry?
Day 15: Who would be your best friends at Hogwarts? (three only)
Day 16: Favorite professor?
Day 17: Are you excited about The Deathly Hallows movie or scared it won’t do the book justice?
Day 18: Least Favorite book?
Day 19: Do you prefer the books or films?
Day 20: If you had to meet one member of the cast, who would it be?
Day 21: Out of all the characters that died, if you could bring one back, who would it be?
Day 22: Harry Potter or Twilight?
Day 23: Any part of the books/movies that makes you cry?
Day 24: Any particular scene you wished would have been put in the movie but it wasn’t?
Day 25: Nineteen years later. Are you happy how it turned out, or do you wish something was different, ie Neville married Luna?
Day 26: If you could be able to work one spell without a wand what would it be?
Day 27: Would you rather own The Invisibility Cloak, The Resurrection Stone or The Elder Wand?
Day 28: Do you listen to Wizard Wrock, what do you think about it?
Day 29: Did you enjoy A Very Potter Musical?
Day 30: What affect has Harry Potter made on your life and how much does it mean to you?
Day 01 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 02 - Your Favorite Classic Who Fandom
Day 03 - Your Favorite New Who Episode
Day 04 - Your Favorite Doctor
Day 05 - Your Favorite Companion
Day 06 -- Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 07 - Your Favorite Piece of Music
Day 08 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Happy
Day 09 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad
Day 10 - A Who-Related Photo That You Took
Day 11 - Your Favorite Season (Classic or New)
Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 13 - Your Favorite Villain
Day 14 - The Villain Who Scared You the Most
Day 15 - Favorite Who-Related Tumblr
Day 16 - Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic
Day 17 - A Piece of Who-Related FanArt
Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 20 - The Character Who Is Most Like You
Day 21 - Your Doctor Who OTP
Day 22 - A Who-Related Fan-Site
Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy