Nenya Kanadka

I'm just. I'm really relieved. Like all of you, I think. <3

Two comments on the 2020 election:

A president whose response to the deaths of so many of his fellow-citizens is the urge to offer COMFORT is making me choke up a little bit. Basic human decency! Yeah, there's too much religion in American politics, but one of the good uses of religion is comfort in sorrow. And that raw genuine expression of my-sorrow-to-yours, I grieve with thee--can we have more of that, please? While we get to work.

On a lighter note, I glanced through my few remaining memes from the 2008 election to see if I had any that were still relevant, and I found this one and cracked up. (Note to self: attempt to find out who created it.) So for all my old RahmBamaRama peeps, in fondness and in celebration, I give you--

(cut to spare your eyeballs from lolarious shirtless photoshop, lmao)

( JOEY'S GONNA CELEBRATE )

These have been fun so far on other people's journals. :D

Comment with one of my fandoms, and I'll tell you:

the character I least understand
interactions I enjoyed the most
the character who scares me the most
the character who is most like me
hottest looks character
one thing I dislike about my fave character
one thing I like about my hated character
a quote or scene that haunts me
a death that left me indifferent
a character I wish died but didn't
my ship that never sailed

If you could have me write a fic specifically for you, what would it be like? Fandom, characters/pairing, genre, plot elements, kinks (if applicable)... what's your ideal fic from me?

This may or may not produce fic, but I am curious.

Your main fandom of the year? Doctor Who. Mostly Classic Who, really, since Twelve didn't come out until the fall and I've been ambivalent on him anyway. But the 50th anniversary special brought my love for the show roaring back, and I spent a lot of 2014 reading Eighth Doctor Adventures novels (I'm up to book 30 of 73!) and watching Third Doctor serials (very slowly), with occasional other things thrown in.

Your favorite film watched this year? The Sum of Us, with Russell Crowe as a young gay man in Australia in the 1990s. Sweet relationship with his dad and a happy gay ending! And The Rainbow, the coming-of-age story of a young bi woman in 1901 (there's a lot of gay in it for a movie starring the gorgeous young Paul McGann as the het love interest).

Your favorite book read this year?
Nonfiction: The Curiosity rover book and the Sally Ride book (my thoughts on same here).
Fiction: Ancillary Sword, tied with the Raksura books by Martha Wells and Courtney Milan's Brothers Sinister series.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? Mostly n/a because I'm deaf, but I loved purplefringe and such_heights's Doctor/Master vid set to Taylor Swift's "Blank Space". I don't really have an opinion on the song, but the vid is brilliant. I've watched it six or seven times at least.

Your favorite TV show of the year? I want to say Doctor Who, but I feel like I haven't been watching Doctor Who television that much. (Even the Three serials have been one episode at a time separated by weeks.) So probably either Murdoch Mysteries (steampunk cops!) or Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos? So many tardigrade jokes!

Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Bunnicula! :D

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? That I turned out to not totally love Twelve. I really liked that Clara got to be more of a person this year, and I loved several of the episodes, and was surprisingly into the new Master, but the show as a whole and Twelve himself haven't really clicked for me. It's not like I totally hated it. I just hoped to fall in love, and I didn't, largely because I didn't feel like I could emotionally connect with the Doctor. Ah, well. I loved the Christmas special at least.

Your fandom boyfriend of the year? Paul McGann. In many incarnations including the Eighth Doctor. Or possibly the Eighth Doctor and the Third Doctor making out with each other.

Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Jade from the Books of the Raksura. Strong and loyal and kind and sensuous and, well, blue... ;-)

Your biggest squee moment of the year? When settiai sent me and Mucca a pile of Doctor Who action figures, who have spent fall 2014 climbing all over our coffee table in various poses. (At the moment, Eight and Jack are making out while Three and Sarah Jane are stargazing and Delgado!Master and Jabe set up a picture of a lighthouse and Jamie from "The Doctor Dances" looks on, for the record. I still owe y'all pics.)

The most missed of your old fandoms? Babylon 5. <3 This was the fandom of my heart from some time in 2011 to late 2013, and I will never stop loving it (or its fandom) even though the fannish fires have been banked for now. <3 And on that note, babylon5_love is setting up a mini-rewatch over here--go vote on your favourite episodes!

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? Legend of Korra. I loved AtLA, and have heard good things about Korra, including its ending.

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Because I can...

Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

So apparently there is this game called 2048 where you match tiles with people's faces on them? And it used to be about numbers only now it's not?

There is a Doctor Who edition where you get the First, Second, Third, etc Doctors all in order. There is a Kathryn Janeway edition which proceeds more or less chronologically through Star Trek: Voyager.

And then, because anyone can make one, I made an Eighth Doctor edition. I must say it's very soothing to spend half an hour staring at little pictures of Paul McGann's face. Totally worth the couple of hours I spent picking out photos, too.

2048: Eighth Doctor Edition

:D

(Week 2 having been pre-empted by Porn Battle, I shall do it next week instead.)

Week of February 16, 2014: seascribe: Russian? You learned Russian, didn't you? Tell us what you liked about it? Or didn't like? Or teach us to swear? Or all of the above?


I did study Russian! Study being the operative word--I wouldn't say I've actually learned the language, since I've forgotten huge swathes of what I once knew, and I only got basic grammar and simple vocabulary as it was.

But I did indeed study Russian, a couple of times in fact. ( herds of teal deer )

Instructions:

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.


Answers:

Fifteen Characters:

1. River Song (Doctor Who)
2. The Third Doctor (Doctor Who)
3. Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
4. Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower (TV))
5. Lieutenant William Bush (Hornblower (TV))
6. Captain Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
7. The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)
8. The Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who)
9. Spock (Star Trek)
10. Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
11. Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
12. Delenn (Babylon 5)
13. Jeffrey Sinclair (Babylon 5)
14. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
15. Abbie Mills (Sleepy Hollow)

( Eight wacky crossover scenarios within! )

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I suppose this counts as a retro post, given it's my tenth LJ anniversary? :P

Mostly posting this to talk about the icons picked for me, but people can join in if they like.

1. Reply to this post with "not today," and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

And muccamukk picked these five:



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Your turn (if you like).

Which has been going around.

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

Hee! :D

ETA: And the answers are here!