there is a point where it just all becomes hysterically funny

[harborshore]

In the continuing saga of "How My Body Hates Me: Let Me Count The Ways," I'm pretty sure I have the flu on top of my Mystery virus right now. Possibly it's a horrendous version of my sister's mild cold, but the joint aches and headache are horribly suggestive. I guess I will know in the morning.

But in the meantime, because I could use a distraction from the joint aches and the possibility of imminent swine flu, you lot should come ask me things. Like, we could do that meme that's been going around again:

Ask me for my top 5 anything: fandoms, ice cream flavours, cartoon moments, women in my fandoms, OTPs, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs, ANYTHING.

And if you like, I'll ask you a top 5 in the comments!

Comments

[kickingrad.livejournal.com]

Top 5 smells:

1. Cinnamon rolls
2. Lasagna
3. Jasmine tea
4. Clean clothes
5. The sea (which should probably be number 1)

YES. Most of all for numbers 3 & 4. I love the smell of clean clothes, which is unfortunate because I fucking loathe doing laundry.

3. Characterization in the tiny things, like how someone wears their hat or doesn't tie their shoelaces or picks at scabs or...

MOST FAVOURITE THING EVER. I have so many of these things for my Brendon. What I really love is when a tiny detail like that from a fic fits so well that it becomes part of your personal canon for that character.

I could ask a follow-up question and ask your top 5 pieces of personal canon? Because, yeah, awesome.

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Okay!

Top 5 Songs for being furious:

1 Leathermouth - Bodysnatchers Forever (this is also my ultimate getting ready to go out, getting excited track. Multipurpose! It totally amps me up.)
2 Whiskeytown - Sit & Listen To The Rain (this is more for calming than for amping up)
3 Near Miss - Now Rectify
4 Against Me! - Animal
5 Thrice - The Flame Deluge

(Bonus: L7 - Shove, Temple Of The Dog - Pushin' Forward Back, Converge - Dark Horse, Kelis - Caught Out There.)

Top 5 artists OH GODDDD

1. David Downton
2. Georgia O'Keeffe
3. Tim Walker
4. James Jean
5. Shaun Tan

Top 5 kind of stories to write:

1. ROADTRIPS. ROADTRIPS ALWAYS
2. First-times and beginnings
3. Stories with, with a kind of universal feeling of truth to them. Like you read something and think, yes, that is true, I've felt that, I've been there. Bonus points if the story manages to put that feelings into words for you in a way perhaps you hadn't managed before. (THESE ARE SUPER HARD TO WRITE.) This includes stories with sex that is real and honest but also still hot. (I'm not sure if I'm there yet, but it's fun trying!)
4. Comfortable stories. Ones with no real conflict, just a gentle rise and fall.
5. Weird little fairytales.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Man, the only one I know out of those is Kelis--which is indeed awesome. *adds the rest to future dl list*

I do, however, know both 2 and 5 of the artists! In fact, I have met Shaun Tan--he came to a conference I helped organize and was generally awesome, and his art, jesus fuck, it was seriously fantastic.

I was like, I've never written a roadtrip! And then I was like, uh, self, first bandom story you posted. Ooops. But I agree with all of them, and probably especially 2, 3 and 5--I love trying to write 3 because the comments are so great, the people going, "Yes! That!" <33333.

Top 5 pieces of personal canon:

1. At some point, Lyn-Z had to sit Gerard down and tell him that, hey, it's great that you talk about feminism, but you don't actually know what it's like to be a girl in the scene.
2. Mikeyway is actually plenty good at smiling. He just hates it when people take pictures of him, so he tends to look away or look out of it or look dead to the world. (Like, the way he looks in his picture with Einstein? That's what he looks like when he's not uncomfortable about a photo being taken.)
3. Mikey is really smart. Like, really. Even if his brother talks a lot more than he does.
4. Gerard is actually not the one in his band who's had sex with boys.
5. The Bob I write about when I write him having sex likes it when people pull his hair. Yeah.

Now you!

ow my sinuses ooooooow