Friending Meme

[cloverdew]

friending meme

10 simple questions, potential for tons of friends. Feel free to pimp in your own fandom communities or in your own journals cuz who can't use a few more friends?!

1. Your name, age, and location

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[deadsilent]

1. Your name, age, and location: Val. 19. Yay Area!

2. Favourite fandoms (and characters or pairings): Spitalfield, Mark Rose, Anna May Wong

3. Favourite music: Spitalfield, Saves the Day, Relient K, Eagles of Death Metal, Street to Nowhere, Sondre Lerche. I am a rock omnivore.

4. Favourite movies: The Producers, West Side Story, Almost Famous

5. Favourite books: anything by David Sedaris

6. Hobbies, activities, etc: curling my hair, sewing

7. An interesting fact or two about yourself: I'm getting a degree in fashion design.

8. Your journal: open or friends-locked? What kinds of things do you usually write about? semi-public. I write public fashion and style entries occasionally. Finished sewing projects. The rest is f-locked: school, music, hairstyles, sewing.

9. A photo of yourself cuz it's always nice to know what your friends look like:

[cloverdew]

Wow! Your hair is definitely Page-style! So cute!

[deadsilent]

Thanks, it's a fun style!

[cloverdew]

1. Your name, age, and location:
Sara, 25, Washington, DC area

2. Favourite fandoms (and characters or pairings):
Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Chuck, Grey's Anatomy, Harry Potter, How I Met Your Mother, Wonderfalls, The OC, Bones, 30 Rock, Chronicles of Narnia, Psych, Tin Man, Buffy, Angel, Batman, Firefly/Serenity, Twilight, Veronica Mars

3. Favourite music:
Everything, but at the moment: Sara Bareilles, Rachael Yamagata, Rilo Kiley, Tegan & Sara, Fleetwood Mac, Jeff Buckley, David Cook, Regina Spektor, Kate Nash, Boy Kill Boy, Apocalyptica, Duffy, In This Moment, I could go on for days...

4. Favourite movies:
Batman Begins, Transformers, Iron Man, Stardust, Juno, Shrek, Ronin, American Beauty, The Weatherman, Persepolis, Talk to Me, The Forbidden Kingdom, The Princess Bride, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, American In Paris

5. Favourite books:
The Red Tent, Ragtime, The Dante Club, The Secret Life of Bees, Twilight, The Mists of Avalon, A Moveable Feast, The Great Gatsby

6. Hobbies, activities, etc:Art, music, movies,

[deadsilent]

If you like Apocalyptica, you might like a band called Judgement Day. They play cello metal as well!

[cloverdew]

Very cool. Thanks for the rec! I just discovered these guys this week. I'd heard OF them before, but this week was the first time I'd heard their music. It's awesome!

Sonia

[simplysonia]

1. Your name, age, and location: Sonia, 26, Chicago Illinois

2. Favourite fandoms (and characters or pairings): I'm a non-slasher/someone who loves Het, just to let you know right off the bat. Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel the Series (Buffy/Angel forever!), Supernatural (I adore the Winchesters, but not WITH each other), Heroes (I love the Petrellis, again, not WITH each other, and Hiro is so my favorite)

3. Favourite music: AVENGED SEVENFOLD!! My 2 other favorite bands are Good Charlotte and Simple Plan.

4. Favourite movies: rom-coms with John Cusack, anything with Johnny Depp (Chocolat is my fave), martial arts movies, Iron Man jumped to the Top 10 today, and I am one of those horrible people who loves & constantly quotes Napoleon Dynamite & Juno.

5. Favourite books: I'm into the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer at the moment. I also read trashy Harlequin and Silhouette romance novels.

6. Hobbies, activities, etc: writing fanfic, traveling & going to concerts, taking photos

7. An interesting fact or two about yourself: I

Re: Sonia

[cloverdew]

OMG, Wasn't the Forbidden Kingdom awesome? It had EVERYTHING! Also, I totally agree on being against Petrelli-cest and Winchester-cest - I just don't get it. *shrug*

Re: Sonia

[simplysonia]

It was totally brilliant! My whole family are martial arts buffs and have been watching Jackie & Jet for years, so to finally see them together? Dream come true :]

I don't know why, but I seem to fall into all the fandoms that not only slash, but love brother-cest, lol.

Re: Sonia

[cloverdew]

YAY!

Also, I'm a big het fan. I'm not sure what all the slash is about... I mean what's with hetero females writing gay men? *curious*

*adds you*

[cartoondoggy]

1. Your name, age, and location:
Sara, 25, Maryland suburbs of DC

2. Favourite fandoms (and characters or pairings):
Veronica Mars (Veronica/Logan, big Veronica fan), Wonderfalls (Jaye/Eric), Scrubs (no pairing, fav character- JD), Smallville (Clark/Chloe, favorite character-Chloe), Dark Angel (no pairing)

3. Favourite music:
Travis, Weezer, R.E.M, The Strokes, Creeper Lagoon, Matchbox Twenty, Placebo, Brown Recluse Sings, oldies, Juno soundtrack

4. Favourite movies:
Aladdin, Gattaca, Back to the Future, Pleasantville, The Lion King 2, Garden State, Bambi 2, Saved!, V for Vendetta, Blood Diamond, Babe, The Naked Gun 2.5

5. Favourite books:
Animal Liberation, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, When Elephants Weep, Living with Our Genes, How to Clone the Perfect Blonde, 1984, More than Human, The Science of Good and Evil, Good Natured, Drawing the Line, Why People Believe Weird Things, A Long Way Gone, Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, Dispatches from the Edge

6. Hobbies, activities, etc:Running (5Ks are my newest thing

[cloverdew]

That picture of you is totally adorable. We have a lot of fandoms in common and I just started going to the gym regularly recently and want to be a runner, so I'm starting a plan to see if I can eventually run a 5k myself. Mind if I add you?

[cartoondoggy]

Thank you! I do love baby goats. :)

Sure! I'll add ya back.

[elizabethswan_]

We seem to share our love for Zach Braff. Friends?

[pixiequeen10thk]

1. Your name, age, and location:
Kirsty, 28, UK

2. Favourite fandoms (and characters or pairings):
Stargate Atlantis (McShep!), Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me

3. Favourite music:
KT Tunstall, Green Day, The Manics, The Rolling Stones, The Cream, They Might Be Giants, Snowpatrol, some movie soundtracks...

4. Favourite movies:
Serenity, Apocalypse Now, Garden State, Stardust, the Labyrinth, Shaun of the Dead

5. Favourite books:
The Dresden Files Series, Catcher In the Rye, Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes, The Stand by Stephen King, LOTR, Harry Potter,...

6. Hobbies, activities, etc:
Conventioning, Jewelry making, iconing, reading, drinking!, eating chocolate!

7. An interesting fact or two about yourself:
Studying for a PhD in Astrophysics (though I'm on extended sick leave as I have CFS), I've met all the cast of Firefly and Joss Whedon

8. Your journal: open or friends-locked? What kinds of things do you usually write about?mostly friends-locked but I will friend anyone I share interests with. I write about

[thesoulwithin]

You like the Stones and Shaun of the Dead :D Wan' be frannns?

[pixiequeen10thk]

Sure :) *adds*

[cloverdew]

We have tons of similar hobbies, etc. I would love to add you as a friend. :)

Also, that's a cute picture!