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Joie
Tue, Sep. 29th, 2009 11:35 pm

Thanks to Naruto fandom, I've taken to calling them "pairings" rather than "ships". Other than nomenclature, not much changes between fandoms when it comes to "pairings"--both the good and the bad.

Anyway, just for fun, a meme, stolen from quite a few of you:

NAME A FANDOM AND I'LL TELL YOU MY:
♥ OTP
♥ Runner-up
♥ Honorable mention(s)
♥ Crack pairing(s)
♥ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't


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Joie
Sun, Jun. 21st, 2009 11:52 am

From [info]umadoshi:

So, we hear a lot about how most male/female relationships in fiction are romantic, and most memes that involve relationships focus on shipping. So here’s something a bit different: list 10 (or more) platonic male/female relationships in fiction that you enjoy.

Rules:

1. They interact in canon, preferably in a significant (apply your own interpretation of such) way.
2. They are not related. They can, however, view each other as surrogate family.
3. Neither has confessed or implied romantic love for the other in canon.
4. They have not dated, been married, had sex, or made out in canon, on purpose, and over their own free will.
5. A popular fanon ship is ok (though preferably not your ship) but a canon pairing you wish were just friends is out.
6. Try to avoid character/canon overlap.
7. They don’t have to be friends.


Many of these are popular fanon ships, so I might get some flack for declaring them non-romantic. I'll at least admit that there are some things between some of these pairs that can be interpreted as romantic, but I don't feel there's anything in canon that says any of these must be seen as having a romantic element.

1. Harry and Hermione (Harry Potter)
2. Rukia and Ichigo (Bleach)
3. Katara and Zuko (Avatar) (Runners up: Toph and Aang, Zuko and Ty Lee)
4. Kyo and Hana (Fruits Basket)
5. Obi-Wan and Padme (Star Wars)
6. Kaoru and Yahiko (Kenshin)
7. Laurie and Beth (Little Women)
8. Veronica and Wallace (Veronica Mars) (Runner up: Veronica and Weevil)
9. Shuurei and Eigetsu (Story of Saiunkoku)
10. Hotaru and Prez (Gakuen Alice)

Side note: This almost feels like a corollary to the Bechdel Test (aka The Rule), since it's hard to find good, multifaceted, totally non-romantic relationships between a girl who's "the girl" and anybody—male or female. If she's "the girl", then she tends to become a romantic object in a variety of situations, not just the main romance. Cases in point: Leia in Star Wars, who has at least some kind of romantic element with Luke, Han, and Lando; Elizabeth in PotC, who has some kind of romantic element with Will, Jack, and Barbossa.

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Joie
Tue, May. 26th, 2009 10:23 pm

Distract me from my laryngitis/horrible hacking cough, plz!

Swiped from [info]umadoshi:

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

1. Tohru/Kyo (Fruits Basket)
2. Gambit/Rogue (X-Men)
3. Remus/Tonks (Harry Potter)
4. OBHWF (Ron/Hermione + Harry/Ginny - Harry Potter)
5. Jesse/Becca (Life Goes On)
6. Willow/Oz (BTVS)
7. Anakin/Padme (Star Wars)
8. Mai/Zuko (Avatar)
9. Renji/Rukia (Bleach)
10. Logan/Veronica (Veronica Mars)

These aren't really "absolutely" my favorite couples. Since the point of this meme is to invite discussion I favored more well-known pairings over, for example, Ryuuki/Shuurei from Story of Saiunkoku.

Hmmm...I can already see some common threads. What do you think?

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Joie
Sun, Feb. 15th, 2009 11:19 pm

My authentic japanese name is 道重 Michishige (heavy journey) 歩 Ayumu (walk, deeper meaning: walk your own way).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.



(Swiped from [info]penny_sieve.)

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Joie
Thu, Feb. 5th, 2009 10:18 pm

From several of you:

When you see this, post your favorite poem.

Of course I don't have just one favorite poem, but here's one I recently--joyfully--re-discovered. It was a great comfort to me in my teenage years:

Advice to a Girl

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed;
Lay that on your heart,
My young angry dear;
This truth, this hard and precious stone,
Lay it on your hot cheek,
Let it hide your tear.
Hold it like a crystal
When you are alone
And gaze in the depths of the icy stone.
Long, look long and you will be blessed:
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.


~ Sara Teasdale

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Joie
Sat, Nov. 29th, 2008 12:02 pm

Swiped from [info]peachespig and [info]connielane:

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING! Though, really, can I stop you?
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.


I decided to skip songs that had the title in the first line. Also, I skipped instrumental songs and songs that are not in English.
Read more... )

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Joie
Tue, Oct. 14th, 2008 07:14 pm

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

"Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha..."

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Joie
Mon, Oct. 1st, 2007 10:25 pm

Swiped from [info]umadoshi and others:

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of today). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (149)
Anna Karenina (132)
Crime and punishment (121)
Catch-22 (117)
One hundred years of solitude (115)
Wuthering Heights (110)
The Silmarillion (104)
Life of Pi: a novel (94)
The name of the rose (91)
Don Quixote (91)
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)
The Aeneid (45)
Watership Down (44)
Gravity's rainbow (44)
The Hobbit (44)
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)
White teeth (44)
Treasure Island (44)
David Copperfield (44)
The three musketeers (44) (I liked Disney's version better, to be honest.)

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Joie
Tue, Apr. 17th, 2007 06:34 pm

Stolen from pretty much everybody (even my mom):

-Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 TV shows you like(d).
-Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
-Have your friends guess the show names.


1. High School – Wheelchair Basketball – Supernatural = Joan of Arcadia/[info]ginnytoo
2. Girl – Curse – Cross Dressing = Fruits Basket/[info]springdove
3. AIDS – Young Love – Special Needs Child = Life Goes On/[info]tesgirl123 and [info]major_dallas
4. Time Travel – Necklace – Sibling Rivalry = Inuyasha/[info]springdove
5. Dead Girl – Social Conflict – Character Name In Title = the ubiquitous Veronica Mars/[info]prettyannamoon
6. Swordplay – Compassion – Redemption = Rurouni Kenshin/[info]markbrannan
7. Ensemble Cast – Blood – Chicago, Illinois = ER/[info]tesgirl123 and [info]major_dallas
8. Religion – Genocide – Brother-Brother Relationship = Full Metal Alchemist/[info]springdove
9. Medieval – Family – Historical (a further hint: these were the ONLY keywords for this show) = Covington Cross/[info]markbrannan
10. Life After Death – Cat – Fight = Bleach/[info]meahtsingan

Five are anime and five are non-anime, if that helps anyone.

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Joie
Wed, Oct. 11th, 2006 10:50 pm

Swiped from [info]springdove:

You'll Find Love Through Friends

Your friends get you better than any guy ever has, and they're the perfect people to introduce you to your soulmate. So look and act your best with them, even if it's a girls' night out. You never know who they might find for you!


You guys better get to work finding me my soulmate, because I'm getting impatient! :P

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Joie
Wed, Sep. 13th, 2006 08:41 pm

Two memes swiped from various friends:

Linguistic Skillz )

Personally, I would love to see the answer key for that one. I may not know much about languages, but I sure am curious about them.

ETA: [info]prettyannamoon did some research and has posted the answers in the comments! Yay!

And another one:

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance does it have.

Icons )

In other news, Oklahoma is now half done (one weekend down, and one to go), and I'm pretty tired. The following two weekends I'm in yet another play--The Legend of Robin Hood, Sort Of. I'm the Assistant Director, which is a lot of fun, but I'm also going to have a little cameo as a lady-in-waiting to Maid Marian.

I still plan to write up the rest of my stories about the end of summer--AFO, cosplaying, NYC, JKR, etc. But it may not happen for another couple of weeks. I got pics of AFO from one of my friends yesterday and they are really good. I can't wait to share them. But...not tonight.

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Mon, Aug. 21st, 2006 09:55 pm


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Joie
Thu, Jul. 20th, 2006 12:47 am

Fandom questionnaire

Yes, another meme. Isn't it exciting?! Stolen from [info]alphabet26.

Pick six fandoms and answer the following questions. Don't look at the questions first.

1. LOTR
2. HP
3. Star Wars
4. Veronica Mars
5. Fruits Basket
6. Full Metal Alchemist

The Questions )

Mom and I watched Out of Africa this evening. It's a beautiful movie.

On a completely different note, I would like to recommend another AMV, mainly because the song is funny (the choice of characters/clips adds to the humor if you are an anime fan, but it should be funny even to people who are not anime fans, because the song itself is amusing and appeals to anyone who knows general pop culture): The Ultimate Anime Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

Must go to bed now. Good night!

Joie

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Joie
Tue, Jun. 6th, 2006 12:40 pm

Gacked from [info]ashavah and [info]prettyannamoon

Yeah, it’s another one of those guess the lyrics memes. What can I say? I like this game. :D

I have too much weird stuff in my complete library, so I used a playlist of about 90 favorites instead. Um…if a lot of these sound weird and unfamiliar, it’s probably because you don’t listen to much Tori Amos. ;)

Step 1: Put your iTunes on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, not matter how embarrassing. (I won't cheat; you can't cheat)*
Step 4: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.


*I did skip songs for the following reasons:
1) The song has no words.
2) The song title is in the first line.
3) Someone else on my flist who has done this meme already had that song.
4) I couldn’t figure out what the first line of the song says.

Lyrics )

So far, I’ve spent my summer break being really lazy. Yesterday I spent almost the entire day watching an anime series called Full Moon, which is 50-something episodes long, I think. It’s got quite an interesting plot device that really drew me in. I think it would actually make a good live action movie, if the story were streamlined a bit. Basically, it’s about this 12-year-old girl with throat cancer, who always dreamed of becoming a famous singer. She gets a visit from two shinagami (death spirits, kind of like Andrew in Touched by an Angel, who escort the souls of the dead into the afterlife). She’s not supposed to be able to see them, but for some reason, she can, and she finds out from them that she’s supposed to have only one year left to live. Hearing this news, she’s determined to make her dream come true, and she decides to go to this audition at a record studio, even though she’s not old enough (sixteen), and because of her cancer her voice, although pretty, is not very strong. One of the two shinagami feels compassion for her, and uses his power to temporarily transform her into a healthy sixteen year old, even though his partner warns him that messing with her fate will get him into trouble. He doesn’t really expect her to pass the audition, but—oops!—of course, she does, and he and his partner end up getting sucked in to helping her lead a double life as a sick little girl and a famous teen idol singer called Full Moon. As the story progresses, she learns some interesting things about the past—about her deceased parents, her grandmother (her legal guardian, who hates music), her doctor (an old friend of her father’s who was also a musician in his youth), a childhood friend that she fell in love with but hasn’t heard from in years, and, most significantly, the shinagami who changed her into Full Moon, who was once a human before his tragic death. It’s just a nice blend of teen dreams-come-true fluff, other-worldly mystery, and romance, and I think it would make an appealing film. I can dream, right? Hmm...I think I'll go look for some Full Moon icons now.

Joie

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Joie
Sat, Apr. 15th, 2006 04:33 pm

I was tagged for this meme by Christie via email a while ago. I'm finally getting around to answering.

The four things meme )

Four friends that I'm tagging:
1. [info]ginnytoo
2. [info]nessabutterfly
3. [info]solusfides
4. [info]mars_is_bright

Sorry if you've already done it and I forgot. I know this one went around LJ a while ago, and I wasn't really paying attention. Then I got tagged quite a bit later, and I'm having to rack my brain to think of who hasn't done it. Anyway, if anyone else wants to do it who hasn't been tagged, consider this your chance. ;)

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Joie
Mon, Apr. 3rd, 2006 06:57 pm

Swiped from [info]thewhiteowl and [info]rowena742:

LJ popularity meme )

I spent Friday and Saturday hanging out with old college friends--and their children (0_0)--and Sunday with church friends. It was a fun weekend.

Today I am happy because I have the new volume of Fruits Basket. And that is the reason this entry is short. *goes to read*

Joie

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Joie
Wed, Mar. 29th, 2006 05:22 pm

The Ultimate Livejournal Obsession Test )

I also have two more Sango pictures to share. These were from the convention in Daytona, where the photographer from The Rising Sun had an afternoon photo shoot for all the cosplayers. This guy seriously made everyone look like models or something. I made icons. *points to icon*

Two pics of me and one of Vanessa under the cut )

Joie

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Joie
Thu, Mar. 9th, 2006 06:23 pm

Music meme gacked from [info]buongiornodaisy. Other than starring the ones I find especially interesting, I'll let the song titles speak for themselves.

Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle.
Say the following questions aloud, and press play.
Use the song title as the answer to the question.

NO CHEATING.


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Oops! I'd better quit goofing around on the computer or I'll be late for yoga class...

Joie

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Joie
Wed, Mar. 1st, 2006 10:03 pm

I've visted the following U.S. States:



create your own personalized map of the USA

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Joie
Thu, Feb. 9th, 2006 08:39 pm

Tagged by [info]springdove.



Guilt
What is yours?
Explain yourself
Culinary: Chocolate! I just can't resist Teh Craving.
Literary: Comic books/manga I know I'm not the only adult who likes them, but it's still a little embarassing.
Audiovisual: Sexy HP fanart Shirtless!Ron is just too hot.
Musical: Eminem I can't really explain it.
Celebrity: Teen hearthrobs What can I say? I never outgrew them.


And now I tag...you! ;)


You can find the quiz here.

Joie

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