Ah, what the hell.

[sour_idealist]

I swear that fic will return to this space one of these days! Really! I'm working on stuff!

IN THE MEANTIME:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post in the comments of this post, because I am lazy.

Swiped from... well, a number of people, but most directly from 1st_eggokage.

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[simply_shipping]

Top Five... I dunno. Fandoms-to-write-fic-for.

[sour_idealist]

That I write for, as opposed to how much I love the canon itself? Uhm. Going by the numbers, it's something like: Inception, Final Fantasy XIII, Brick, Merlin... and The Traitor Game, looking at the numbers?.

Three of these are Yuletide-sized. WHAT ARE MY LIFE CHOICES.

[simply_shipping]

Your life choices are awesome, obviously.

[sour_idealist]

It is SO HARD TO FIND FIC THOUGH. Also I feel guilty too guilty to write UTTER RIDICULOUSNESS when no one else is writing real stuff to balance it out, and for spamming AO3 sections and whatnot. Silly, I know.

[sour_idealist]

Hmmm. Glee songs:

1. Don't Rain On My Parade (Raaaacheellll.)
2. Faithfully ("Circus life/under the big top woorrlld/we all need the clouds to make us smile...")
3. Somewhere Only We Know (♥♥♥ and also some tears)
4. Marry You (just adorable!)
5. Valerie (lady-love!)

Firefly quotes:
1. "No power in the 'verse can stop me."
2. "I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."
3. "I need this man to tear all my clothes off."
4. "I'm very sorry if she tipped anyone off about your cunningly concealed herd of cows."
5. "Some people juggle geese!"
("Light it," almost made the list, but it's really the moment rather than the quote that I love there. Similar honorable mention to "Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the hell down."

Pretty people (subject to change at any moment):
1. Angel "Loveliness" Coulby
2. Nora Zehetner
3. Jamie Chung
4. Emma Watson
5. Fine, fine, Mr. Gordon-Levitt

[sour_idealist]

I'm slightly behind on the recent ones, but yeah, Rose's Turn is AMAZING. (I'm not a huge fan of Finn's voice either, but he only really has a little bit of "Marry You," and I loved the whole dance setup.)

And I would not be surprised!

[wake_the_dragon]

Top 5 ships.
Top 5 crowning moments of heartwarming.

[sour_idealist]

Ships: OH I WAS HOPING FOR THIS ONE.
- Revy/Rock
- Michael/Francis
- Gwen/Morgana
- Serah/Snow
...and I don't know, actually. There are a bunch of others that don't instill the desire to write or to look for fic, but I will still accept no substitutes when it comes to them. I guess for #5 I'd go with John/Sherlock (BBC incarnation), as I am evidently actually incapable of writing fic for that series that isn't mostly about the two of them. And isn't really slash.

Crowning Moments of Heartwarming (subject to change at any moment):
- Cigarette kiss in episode 7 of Black Lagoon
- The end of The Last Battle
- The end of Kingdom Hearts II
- The end of Final Fantasy XIII
- The castle scene and the very end of The Traitor Game

(Have you noticed I like happy endings?)

[wake_the_dragon]

Happy endings are great, especially in a series that doesn't seem like it's going to have a happy ending.

What's a cigarette kiss? Is it similar to an indirect kiss with a glass?

[sour_idealist]

Those are hands-down my favorite, as long as it's not pulled out of the blue.

A cigarette kiss - the simple definition is lighting Alex's cigarette off of Leslie's while both cigarettes are in their respective owner's mouths, but it's also about how it's set up and shot. Done right and it really does look a lot like a kiss, only with more UST.

Or I could just use a picture: