Who needs content when you have memes!
I have no deep thoughts about the latest White Collar episode, in fact my review can be summarised by Sara's clothes *______* and the world would be a better place if someone steals all of Neal's shirts.
There are things I should be doing, but I am avoiding those, so memes!
nova33 tagged me in the 12 questions meme.
What song are you currently addicted to?
I don't really get addicted to songs (or rewatch movies/reread books/fic very much.. no idea why), but I saw Legally Blonde The Musical last week and the chorus from the opening number is CONSTANTLY in my head. I don't think this counts though, as I want it to go away.
What's your favorite season?
Late spring/early summer, it's so full of possibilities.
What’s the latest movie you watched?
Toy Story 3! So awesome, though I don't get why people cried.
What is the one skill you wish you had?
Organisation, like I want to be able to set goals and achieve them and stop wasting my life. That would be nice. Failing that, and slightly more plausibly I'd rather like to fly!
What is your favourite time of day?
After dinner, before bed time! Or Friday afternoon.
What's your favourite musical instrument?
Guitar, probably, never thought of that before. Also violins are seriously pretty.
What Web sites do you always visit when you go online?
Gmail, LJ, Twitter, Facebook, BBC, bloglovin, Go Fug Yourself, delicious, lots more!
What was the last thing you bought?
Groceries, before that a sheer pink top from Zara.
Most awesome book ever? Currently reading?
I just finished The Handmaiden's Tale (it was £3 in HMV and I'd never read it before!) and about to start the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
What's the last thing that made you happy?
It's probably not a good sign that this is the question I am finding hardest to answer, because I don't want to point to the Outtakes from Johnny's photoshoot or the Southland fic where Ben is psychic, or anything else that is fandom related. Um. I'll get back to you on that one.
Do you want to learn another language?
I want to improve my Russian, so that I can speak it again and I want to learn French, so that I can find a job I'll like.
Five things you can’t live without.
1. Family and friends
2. My phone
3. The internet
4. Popcorn
5. Books
(not tagging anyone, as most people seem to have done it already, but if you haven't and want to, please consider yourself tagged!)
Icon meme! alexthegreat picked six of my icons.
Univ! My college. This is our crest and one of my oldest icons, the last time I used it was when I posted graduation pics, but I don't think I'll ever get rid of it.
Drinking! Yeah, that's pretty much it, this is the icon I would use if posting when drunk, which hasn't happened to me in a while (both getting drunk and posting about it, sadly.)
Lily Cole is awesome. I love that she is modelling and making movies and going to Cambridge, and I love so many of her photoshoots, always have. Her looks is so unique and interesting. Also redheads. I love redheads! I got this icon after she sat in front of me on the train, because I wanted to illustrate my post about it, haha. I don't use it nearly enough.
One of a number of Generation Kill icons that I have. Nate Fick has really pretty eyes, doesn't he? I like the cropping, apparently parts of faces (in icons!) are an aesthetic preference of mine As lauds likes to say FLF!!!! (that's Fick's little face) I do love Nate, not quite as much as I love Brad (or Ray, actually) but still an awful lot. Who can resist that face?
CUPCAKES! Who needs a reason for cupcakes? This is my generic food icon, I use this one pretty often.
The Dreamers is where my epic love of Eva Green originated. And I did love the movie, in all its gorgeous pretentious incestual glory, though I don't actually remember it very well any more, might need to rewatch it. Anyway, when I saw this icon I had to have it. I like the quote and the cropping. I think I've only used it once. Maybe?
Let me know if you want to do this meme! I do like looking at people's icon.
And finally, the answers to the 5 questions meme
hildigunnur asked Top five comfort read books (or comfort viewing films).
Like I said above, I don't really re-read/re-watch things very much. When I was younger, it was definitely the Little Princess, I had read it so many times it was falling apart, but I wouldn't be able to do a list of current top fives, so I'll go with movies.
1. Chocolat - chocolate + Johnny Depp = ultimate comfort movie!
2. Love Actually - it's a bit ridiculous how many times I've seen this.
3. Lord of The Rings - I put it on, not planning to watch the entire thing, and inevitably do.
4. Pretty in Pink - I do have a slightly obsessive love of all things John Hughes, but this one is my favourite.
5. Ice Age - I know, I know, but I love it!
extemporally asked top 5 skating fics you want to read!
1. This is a direct result of all the time I spend yesterday collecting pictures of Meryl and reading about her and Charlie, but what I really want right now is Meryl's pov about her and Charlie and their story. About growing up and facing challenges, culminating with Tanith/Meryl/Charlie, or gen. (Still not sure who else to pair Meryl with). It's just, they are the longest ice dance pair in the US ever, have been together almost 14 years. For years Charlie practices and competed as a singles skater and claimed that was his priority. He also played hockey until 2005, when he broke his ankle whilst playing it, which resulted in him and Meryl missing an entire season! They have trained in the same rink as Tessa and Scott for six years, Tanith and Ben were also there until 2008. When Tanith and Charlie started dating they were direct competitors! Meryl says that it took her years to speak to him when they first started skating together, years! There is so much more, but basically I want a fic about them, and all the other team Detroit skaters.
2. Ensemble tour fic! Preferably during COI! I want lots of drinking games, pranks and random hookups!
3. I feel a little ashamed about still wanting this, but it's fiction dammit and I am not going to let Evan's fail ruin my fandom. Johnny and Evan: the saga. I want a developing of their relationship from when they were teenagers till now, (an AU where Evan is a better person) and I am undecided about the ending.
4. There are so many pics of Johnny with Sasha and Tanith from when they were younger and it looks like the three of them were really close for a few years, and then no longer. I want Sasha/Tanith from that period, right until Tanith freaks out and starts dating Evan and Sasha pretends she doesn't care. It started on tour/prior to a competion, so they never named it, it's meant to be stress relief/casual fun, and they both pretend that's all it is, even thought they are lying to themselves and each other. It will obviously be an AU, because I want a happy (Evanless) ending!
5. Johnny/Drew reunion An AU where Stephane wasn't injured, and stayed with Galina until the Olympics, he and Johnny have to deal with each other in the long term and relations are strained. I want more tention than there usually is in Johnny/Stephane and lots of denial! :D
katienyc asked Top 5 cliches that you love to read in fic?
1. I hate you means I love you, where antagonism turns to love, ie the Harry and Draco.
2. I love you, but I don't think you love me (even though it's really obvious that you totally do) so I am going to sit here and pine, until you have to jump me!
3. Misunderstandings and confusion that IRL would mean you are too stupid to live, but in fic makes me melt.
4. Everyone thinks they are a couple, they deny it and deny it until they suddenly realise that it's true, or it should be!
5. Stuck alone together, have to share body heat.
aurora_84 asked Top five OTPs!
This is very hard, as I have so many, so will stick to ones that I don't ship with other people and won't include OT3s.
1. Harry/Draco - always and forever. <3
2. Chris/Zach - I still love you!
3. Ryan/Seth - a totally breaking my rules, because I do love Seth/Summer as well...
4. Merlin/Arthur (bonus Gwen/Morgana)
5. Peter/Nathan - oh Heroes, why did you have to ruin that for me.
...Top five favorite fruits!
1. apples - nothing beats a good apple/
2. watermelon - perfectly ripened, nothing better for a summer day.
3. bilberries - especially ones I've picked myself in the mountains in Bulgaria, I wish they sold these here, because they taste better than blueberries.
4. wild strawberries - small, but so sweet!
5. mushmula (medlers) - someone in the site I linked to describes their taste as spiced apple sauce, that is not quite accurate, but it'll do. My grandparents have a tree and used to send them to us, but it's been years since I've eaten them, but I love them so much.
...Top five favorite places on the internets.
1. LJ! - yeah, far from perfect but I am in my sixth year and don't plan to be going anywhere else soon.
2. Tumblr - I don't go there as much as I did for a while, but it is a magical place, full of pretty pretentious things I enjoy looking at.
3. Facebook - I don't use it as much as I used to, but I do a lot of my RL fun times organising on there and it does help me keep in touch with a bunch of people.
4. Twitter - I can't believe I am saying that! I don't use it for anything apart from stalking purposes, but I do love twitter.
5. Garance Dore - visiting her blog is like looking through the entryway of another world, a magical fashion world, but wuthout any of the bad things that reality is doubtlessly filled with.
trolleys asked Top 5 music videos!
Haha, impossible or what? Instead of thinking too hard about this, I just listed the first few that popped into my head!
1. Beautiful, Christina Aguilera. I love this video so much, I remember when I first saw it on MTV and how desperately I wanted to catch another glimpse of it. It is simple, but it conveys it's massage fantastically well. I can't think of another mainstream video that deals with being different and acceptance quite as well.
2. Coffee and TV, Blur. The little milk carton goes to heaven! Haha, I know, but it is so wonderful!
3. I think the visuals are amazing and I love how they add to the message. I remember when this came out before the election, how in awe I was. I hadn't watched it in years, but I immediately remembered it.
4. I think I was too young the first time I saw this, because it seriously disturbed me, now I think it's awesome.
5. I had no idea what the song was called, or who is it by, had to google 'girl with giant heart' to find it, but I thought of it straight away so that must count for something. It is so simple, but it almost makes me cry.
There are things I should be doing, but I am avoiding those, so memes!
nova33 tagged me in the 12 questions meme.
What song are you currently addicted to?
I don't really get addicted to songs (or rewatch movies/reread books/fic very much.. no idea why), but I saw Legally Blonde The Musical last week and the chorus from the opening number is CONSTANTLY in my head. I don't think this counts though, as I want it to go away.
What's your favorite season?
Late spring/early summer, it's so full of possibilities.
What’s the latest movie you watched?
Toy Story 3! So awesome, though I don't get why people cried.
What is the one skill you wish you had?
Organisation, like I want to be able to set goals and achieve them and stop wasting my life. That would be nice. Failing that, and slightly more plausibly I'd rather like to fly!
What is your favourite time of day?
After dinner, before bed time! Or Friday afternoon.
What's your favourite musical instrument?
Guitar, probably, never thought of that before. Also violins are seriously pretty.
What Web sites do you always visit when you go online?
Gmail, LJ, Twitter, Facebook, BBC, bloglovin, Go Fug Yourself, delicious, lots more!
What was the last thing you bought?
Groceries, before that a sheer pink top from Zara.
Most awesome book ever? Currently reading?
I just finished The Handmaiden's Tale (it was £3 in HMV and I'd never read it before!) and about to start the Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
What's the last thing that made you happy?
It's probably not a good sign that this is the question I am finding hardest to answer, because I don't want to point to the Outtakes from Johnny's photoshoot or the Southland fic where Ben is psychic, or anything else that is fandom related. Um. I'll get back to you on that one.
Do you want to learn another language?
I want to improve my Russian, so that I can speak it again and I want to learn French, so that I can find a job I'll like.
Five things you can’t live without.
1. Family and friends
2. My phone
3. The internet
4. Popcorn
5. Books
(not tagging anyone, as most people seem to have done it already, but if you haven't and want to, please consider yourself tagged!)
Icon meme! alexthegreat picked six of my icons.
Univ! My college. This is our crest and one of my oldest icons, the last time I used it was when I posted graduation pics, but I don't think I'll ever get rid of it.
Drinking! Yeah, that's pretty much it, this is the icon I would use if posting when drunk, which hasn't happened to me in a while (both getting drunk and posting about it, sadly.)
Lily Cole is awesome. I love that she is modelling and making movies and going to Cambridge, and I love so many of her photoshoots, always have. Her looks is so unique and interesting. Also redheads. I love redheads! I got this icon after she sat in front of me on the train, because I wanted to illustrate my post about it, haha. I don't use it nearly enough.
One of a number of Generation Kill icons that I have. Nate Fick has really pretty eyes, doesn't he? I like the cropping, apparently parts of faces (in icons!) are an aesthetic preference of mine As lauds likes to say FLF!!!! (that's Fick's little face) I do love Nate, not quite as much as I love Brad (or Ray, actually) but still an awful lot. Who can resist that face?
CUPCAKES! Who needs a reason for cupcakes? This is my generic food icon, I use this one pretty often.
The Dreamers is where my epic love of Eva Green originated. And I did love the movie, in all its gorgeous pretentious incestual glory, though I don't actually remember it very well any more, might need to rewatch it. Anyway, when I saw this icon I had to have it. I like the quote and the cropping. I think I've only used it once. Maybe?
Let me know if you want to do this meme! I do like looking at people's icon.
And finally, the answers to the 5 questions meme
hildigunnur asked Top five comfort read books (or comfort viewing films).
Like I said above, I don't really re-read/re-watch things very much. When I was younger, it was definitely the Little Princess, I had read it so many times it was falling apart, but I wouldn't be able to do a list of current top fives, so I'll go with movies.
1. Chocolat - chocolate + Johnny Depp = ultimate comfort movie!
2. Love Actually - it's a bit ridiculous how many times I've seen this.
3. Lord of The Rings - I put it on, not planning to watch the entire thing, and inevitably do.
4. Pretty in Pink - I do have a slightly obsessive love of all things John Hughes, but this one is my favourite.
5. Ice Age - I know, I know, but I love it!
extemporally asked top 5 skating fics you want to read!
1. This is a direct result of all the time I spend yesterday collecting pictures of Meryl and reading about her and Charlie, but what I really want right now is Meryl's pov about her and Charlie and their story. About growing up and facing challenges, culminating with Tanith/Meryl/Charlie, or gen. (Still not sure who else to pair Meryl with). It's just, they are the longest ice dance pair in the US ever, have been together almost 14 years. For years Charlie practices and competed as a singles skater and claimed that was his priority. He also played hockey until 2005, when he broke his ankle whilst playing it, which resulted in him and Meryl missing an entire season! They have trained in the same rink as Tessa and Scott for six years, Tanith and Ben were also there until 2008. When Tanith and Charlie started dating they were direct competitors! Meryl says that it took her years to speak to him when they first started skating together, years! There is so much more, but basically I want a fic about them, and all the other team Detroit skaters.
2. Ensemble tour fic! Preferably during COI! I want lots of drinking games, pranks and random hookups!
3. I feel a little ashamed about still wanting this, but it's fiction dammit and I am not going to let Evan's fail ruin my fandom. Johnny and Evan: the saga. I want a developing of their relationship from when they were teenagers till now, (an AU where Evan is a better person) and I am undecided about the ending.
4. There are so many pics of Johnny with Sasha and Tanith from when they were younger and it looks like the three of them were really close for a few years, and then no longer. I want Sasha/Tanith from that period, right until Tanith freaks out and starts dating Evan and Sasha pretends she doesn't care. It started on tour/prior to a competion, so they never named it, it's meant to be stress relief/casual fun, and they both pretend that's all it is, even thought they are lying to themselves and each other. It will obviously be an AU, because I want a happy (Evanless) ending!
5. Johnny/Drew reunion An AU where Stephane wasn't injured, and stayed with Galina until the Olympics, he and Johnny have to deal with each other in the long term and relations are strained. I want more tention than there usually is in Johnny/Stephane and lots of denial! :D
katienyc asked Top 5 cliches that you love to read in fic?
1. I hate you means I love you, where antagonism turns to love, ie the Harry and Draco.
2. I love you, but I don't think you love me (even though it's really obvious that you totally do) so I am going to sit here and pine, until you have to jump me!
3. Misunderstandings and confusion that IRL would mean you are too stupid to live, but in fic makes me melt.
4. Everyone thinks they are a couple, they deny it and deny it until they suddenly realise that it's true, or it should be!
5. Stuck alone together, have to share body heat.
aurora_84 asked Top five OTPs!
This is very hard, as I have so many, so will stick to ones that I don't ship with other people and won't include OT3s.
1. Harry/Draco - always and forever. <3
2. Chris/Zach - I still love you!
3. Ryan/Seth - a totally breaking my rules, because I do love Seth/Summer as well...
4. Merlin/Arthur (bonus Gwen/Morgana)
5. Peter/Nathan - oh Heroes, why did you have to ruin that for me.
...Top five favorite fruits!
1. apples - nothing beats a good apple/
2. watermelon - perfectly ripened, nothing better for a summer day.
3. bilberries - especially ones I've picked myself in the mountains in Bulgaria, I wish they sold these here, because they taste better than blueberries.
4. wild strawberries - small, but so sweet!
5. mushmula (medlers) - someone in the site I linked to describes their taste as spiced apple sauce, that is not quite accurate, but it'll do. My grandparents have a tree and used to send them to us, but it's been years since I've eaten them, but I love them so much.
...Top five favorite places on the internets.
1. LJ! - yeah, far from perfect but I am in my sixth year and don't plan to be going anywhere else soon.
2. Tumblr - I don't go there as much as I did for a while, but it is a magical place, full of pretty pretentious things I enjoy looking at.
3. Facebook - I don't use it as much as I used to, but I do a lot of my RL fun times organising on there and it does help me keep in touch with a bunch of people.
4. Twitter - I can't believe I am saying that! I don't use it for anything apart from stalking purposes, but I do love twitter.
5. Garance Dore - visiting her blog is like looking through the entryway of another world, a magical fashion world, but wuthout any of the bad things that reality is doubtlessly filled with.
trolleys asked Top 5 music videos!
Haha, impossible or what? Instead of thinking too hard about this, I just listed the first few that popped into my head!
1. Beautiful, Christina Aguilera. I love this video so much, I remember when I first saw it on MTV and how desperately I wanted to catch another glimpse of it. It is simple, but it conveys it's massage fantastically well. I can't think of another mainstream video that deals with being different and acceptance quite as well.
2. Coffee and TV, Blur. The little milk carton goes to heaven! Haha, I know, but it is so wonderful!
3. I think the visuals are amazing and I love how they add to the message. I remember when this came out before the election, how in awe I was. I hadn't watched it in years, but I immediately remembered it.
Click to view4. I think I was too young the first time I saw this, because it seriously disturbed me, now I think it's awesome.
5. I had no idea what the song was called, or who is it by, had to google 'girl with giant heart' to find it, but I thought of it straight away so that must count for something. It is so simple, but it almost makes me cry.