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[rivendellrose]

Finished the draft of my paper (yay!) and went back to the street fair with nekokoban and miss_arel, mostly to see if I could find a replacement for my favorite ring, which has been missing for almost a year. No luck. But I did see a lot of puppies, and watched a woman out in front of gargoyles carve a beautiful cat out of clay. Gorgeous stuff, really talented lady. And she said she loved my hair, which made me preen a lot. Good timing, since I'd been tempted to start dying it again.

Then went grocery shopping, got rained on a lot, and came home. Made instant raspberry lemonade as was very dehydrated. Oh, and Trader Joe's toasted sesame and ginger potato chips rock.

Also, a meme gacked from sjen: List ten fictional characters you would have sex with, then tag five friends.


1. Mal Reynolds. Snarky, sexy, and seems to like being snarked back at by tiny women. ;)

2. Zoe Alleyne-Washburne. Gorgeous, dry wit... just plain sexiest woman ever.

3. Susan Ivanova. I seem to have a thing for military women, which is odd. But come on - sexy, funny, dry-witted and sardonic but terribly earnest, and canonically bisexual. Sounds perfect to me.

4. Methos. Snarky, British accent, gorgeous nose profile, and knows practically the entirety of human history fist-hand, which I find remarkably sexy. Plus, he loves to travel, and is endearingly single-minded in everything he does, including falling in love.

(Ten? Really? Holy crap I'm having a hard time with this all of a sudden. Oh, right...)

5. Aragorn. Shut up, it was my first fandom ever, and he's all tragic and solemn and... kingy. Not to mention kickass and outdoorsy. Those are big qualifiers for me. XD

6. Mr Darcy. What female English major doesn't want him? Honestly.

7. Snape. Yes, I know - greasy and unpleasant. But... but... snarky bastard!

Also, 8. Remus. Because thinking of one always makes me think of the other. Anyway, what better than a really sweet, thoughtful, intellectual sort of guy with a legitimate understanding of what it's like to have a ragingly nasty bad side?

9. I'm having a hard time thinking of a character, but Liam Neeson? So hot. Motivated by jayneaintagirl, I'm forced to recant this - Inara, damn it. There's something to be said for professional know-how, and she's certainly gorgeous...

10. What the hell - Haruka from Tactics. Because I've covered just about every other dry, sardonic character I can think of, and... there's just something about tengu.

That was weirdly hard. And as ursule pointed out, I forgot to tag people. So I tag ursule, seachanges, coralia13, bluerose16, and, out of the desire not to leave anyone out, whoever else wants to do the meme!

Comments

[ursula]

You should tag me so I can procrastinate by ranting about why stealing Darcy from Elizabeth is bad ;)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* Darn it, that's right, I forgot to tag people! I was so desperate by that point... I had a really hard time coming up with 10 people. And I intentionally neglected whoever the charcters would've been paired with in canon, otherwise I would've been left with only one or two. ;)

Consider this my tag to you - I'll edit and add the other four in just a minute!

[ursula]

You want Poul from the Lens of the World series. And the heroine :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lens of the World series? I don't think I've heard of that one before...

[ursula]

Most people haven't. It's by R.A. MacAvoy. The first book is mostly about Poul teaching the hero to meditate by tying him to a wall.

My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing list! I would only make a couple changes, I would change Susan Ivanova to Wash, and I would change #1 to Book, and put Mal to #10. THAT would make it perfect. Oh I would make Wash #2 and Zoe #3. Now it's perfect.

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. Just wait until you've seen Ivanova, you might change your mind. I've yet to see someone who doesn't think she's wonderful. ;)

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

point taken. I think this is a cute Theo icon if you want to use it. It's plain, but he's so cute!

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awww, he is cute! I need to play with some of the pictures I have of him, but I might snag that to use as a base. If anything good comes of it, I'll send it back your way. *g*

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you have this picture, do you want me to send the whole picture to you?

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Sure, that'd be nice! If you wanted to send me that picture of Ron Glass as well, I can do stuff to it so it's not all fuzzy, too. ;)

Re: My revised version of your very nearly perfect list!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

ok, thanks! Did you know there was a bear in the U didtrict yesterday? I just heard it on the news. They killed the poor thing.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

ermmm, perfect for me I mean!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I figured. XD

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

OHMIGOD! can I steal that icon? I'll give much credit!
That is great!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

This one? Of course!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Thanks! you're so good to me!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm just glad you like it!

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool you've got a Trader Joe's near you too. I must try those chips!

I like that you gave Zoe a hyphenated last name...now that I could better accept. :-)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes! I love Trader Joe's. ♥ The chips are kind of... not exactly sweet, not exactly salty, just a wonderful mellow spot in between.

I thought it was appropriate. ;) And I love your icon!

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

And I love your icon!

I had forgotten which episode it's from, but just this evening my partner and I were re-watching "Our Mrs Reynolds" and I nearly giggled at the scene from which that shot is taken.

(btw, not to go off topic, but I like that episode as it sheds a bit more light on Zoe/Wash's relationship).

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I like that episode as it sheds a bit more light on Zoe/Wash's relationship

It certainly does. I love how irritated Zoe is by Saffron exactly up until the point that it becomes clear that Wash isn't at all falling for her charms, and then she goes right back to thinking the whole thing is funny. And of course there's nothing funnier than the whole bit with her at the beginning, calling everyone down to the cargo bay. Sheds a bit of light on her relationship with Mal, too. ;)

...Seriously, I apparently can't do html tonight. :P

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

That scene was classic. That whole eppie was awesome! I love Wash's face when Mal finally wakes up. "Is it Christmas? and "What happened about me?" -giggles-
I think wecan all say that Wash got Wife Sex that night. And I think it was good!

p.s "Hey I just got kicked in the head."

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I loved poor Inara in that scene, too. "I just fell is all." *Shifty-eyes*

"Is it Christmas" has to be one of my favorite Mal quotes of all time, though. Gods that man is silly.

Oh, and icon-love. I need to rewatch that gag-reel. XD

[razycrandomgirl.livejournal.com]

Inara was so cute! "I hit my head, but Mal went through that." lmao
My favorite line of Mal's in that one was (and I have to set ot up).
Saffron: "But you know I am to cleave to you?" -looks up "cleave" giggles incessantly-
Mal: "To wabba who?" -falls over-

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes! That poor girl. "Mal! Mal Mal Mal Mal... Oh. You stupid sonofa--"*THUD*

Ohhhhh yes. &heartss for Mal. He's so adorably spastic. It's like in "Serenity" - open box, see naked girl, long silence... expectation of something truly eloquent... big lead-up, and then: "Huh."

May he never change. XD

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I am, as always, an outlier. I am basically indifferent to Darcy -- and to that novel generally.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Well, I did at least partially mean that as a joke... but I'm still surprised. I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of Austen's storytelling style, but Darcy... mmm. Anyway. XD

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

My lack of interest in Austen is basically that (a) it's social commentary on a society I don't care about and (b) I'm not all that into that sort of romance genre. Oh, and I basically don't care about any of her characters. (Mansfield Park was the exception -- wherein I was actually actively wanting the main couple to get together.)

I remain firm in my claim of outlier status as I feel like near everybody (at least the females I knew in high school and college) who reads that book has mad love for Darcy. I can't think of anything specific to argue against him, but the fact that I can't remember much of *anything* about him I think speaks for itself ;)

[scearley.livejournal.com]

I put about 90 minutes into thinking about this and then I realized I only had to come up with fictional characters, not just literary ones. Because I couldn't think of anyone except Shaw characters and all of his female characters are real dumb.

1) aeon flux.
2) Christine Kochanski. either version
3) the girlfriend on "Fight Club"
4) every female James Bond temptress
5) Yeardley Smith's charcter on "Herman's Head"
6) whatsherface on "House" -aw heck both female doctors who am I kidding
7) the oldest daughter in "Eat Drink Man Woman"
8) Geena Davis in "a League of Their Own"
9) the maid in "Fawlty Towers"
10) every stripper I've known. ROFL I crack myself up.

[coralia13.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fun! I like this meme! Thanks for tagging me. :) Ten was not enough. My fictional life is much more active than my real life, it turns out! I think this prompt reveals a lot - it did about me, anyway!