top fives

[sholio]

Snurched from kristen999 -- ask me for my "top five" list of anything you like, and I'll list my top five of that thing or things.

(With the caveat that if you ask me for my top five somethings on two different days, you'll probably get two different answers. *g*)

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[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

1. Animals
2. SGA fanfic writers
3. Artists
4. Things to drink
5. Sayings

:D

[sholio]

Oh, how'm I supposed to answer #2? No fair! :D

#1. Animals

1. Dog, because I've always really enjoyed their company.
2. Raven, because they're smart, and tough, and fascinating in myth; and I love the way that they not only survive, but thrive on co-existence with human beings.
3. Fox, because we often see them in the yard, and it's always a treat.
4. Least Weasel, because Hubby and I agreed a long time ago that this is the cutest name for an animal EVER.
5. Dragon. 'nuff said.

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

#2 based on your proviso that your favourites change on a daily basis... so whose stories are you enjoying atm? :D

[sholio]

The WIP that's currently making me haunt my inbox for new updates is iamrighthere's Happy. What I love about her stories is that they're definitely h/c, but they're different -- I can never anticipate what each new chapter is going to throw at me, and I really love that. I think right now, for me, what I'm most desiring from fic (aside from a good old-fashioned h/c fix here and there *g*) is unexpectedness; I want to read stories with plots I haven't seen before, stories where I can't anticipate the ending from the first chapter.

[sholio]

Leaving the tough question for last ...

#3. Artists

1. Rembrandt
2. MC Escher
3. Salvador Dali
4. Vermeer
5. Michelangelo

#4. Things to drink

1. Black tea
2. Red wine
3. Hot chocolate
4. Alaskan Amber (a local microbrewed beer)
5. Lemonade. The real thing: crushed lemons, sugar, water and ice.

The others require some thinking...

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

Ooooh Dali's one of my favorites too! :D

[sholio]

#2. SGA fanfic writers (changes like the weather, this one...)
1. tipper_green
2. iamrighthere
3. kodiak_bear
4. auburnnothenna
5. dossier

For some reason I'm drawing a total blank on #5. Can't think of a single thing (except movie quotes ... lots of those. *g*). Sorry!

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

1. People you would like to eat lunch with alive or dead
2. Dream Jobs
3. CDs
4. Moments on SGA

[sholio]

#1. People you would like to eat lunch with, alive or dead
1. Mark Twain
2. Gary Trudeau
3. David Hewlett
4. Leonardo da Vinci
5. Jesus

#2. Dream Jobs
1. Embedded journalist on Atlantis :D
2. Author
3. Comic book artist
4. Archaeologist
5. Lighthouse keeper

#3. CDs
1. Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms
2. Paul Simon - Graceland
3. Eagles - Greatest Hits
4. Jimmy Buffett - A White Sport Coat & a Pink Crustacean
5. The Who - My Generation (best of)

#4. Moments on SGA
1. Rodney showing up to save John at the end of Doppelganger
2. "Know that we love you" in Tao of Rodney
3. Ronon hugging Carson in Sateda
4. John's little laugh at Rodney in Trinity
4. The exchange inside the jumper near the beginning of The Game ("I don't need beans. I need lumber.")

[argosy.livejournal.com]

David Bowie songs.

Well, you did say something *I* liked. :)

[sholio]

*snort* Good point. :D

1. Under Pressure (that counts, right?)
2. Rebel Rebel
3. Young Americans
4. Golden Years
5. Suffragette City

[sholio]

And special bonus answer: Least favorite David Bowie song - Space Oddity. Can't stand it. >_

[argosy.livejournal.com]

You can't stand Major Tom? But... ;D

Other than that, very nice list, hee. ♥

[sholio]

Hee! Sorry! :D I think maybe it's over-exposure or something, because it plays so often on the radio.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

(just to be difficult)
Favorite books

(and for fun)
Favorite h/c scenes (in TV, movies, books, anything!)

[sholio]

*g* You ARE difficult, aren't you?

(These are in no particular order.)

Favorite books

The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (weird but true)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Discworld novels - Terry Pratchett


Favorite h/c scenes (in TV, movies, books, anything!)

Ack! How can I choose?? This is always skewed in favor of whatever I'm fanning on at the moment, of course...

- Rodney's "death" scene in "Tao of Rodney" (SGA)
- the healing in "Fire Sea" (Death Gate novels)
- the climax scenes of the coma episode of "MacGyver"
- the last ten minutes or so of "SWAK" (NCIS)
- See icon. *g*

[naye]

1. Places you have been
2. Places you would like to go (and are not on list #1)
3. Fictional/impossible places you would like to visit

[sholio]

#1. Places you have been
1. Denali National Park (Alaska)
2. the Avebury Stone Circle (Great Britain)
3. Switzerland
4. the Alaska-Canada Highway
5. Wales

#2. Places you would like to go (and are not on list #1)
1. Australia
2. the Arctic Circle
3. Pompeii
4. Iceland
5. Nepal

#3. Fictional/impossible places you would like to visit
1. Atlantis (the SGA one, of course!)
2. the Ice Age
3. Ankh-Morpork
4. Hogwarts
5. the World of Two Moons (Elfquest)

[leesa_perrie]

1. Things to eat.
2. Super heroes.
3. Villians.
4. Children programmes.
5. Cartoons (of the Dilbert, Snoopy etc kind (ie print before TV) as opposed to the Tom & Jerry kind (ie TV before print) - does that make sense?).

[sholio]

1. Things to eat.
-Chocolate
-Pasta
-Bagels
-Avocados
-Cheese

2. Super heroes.
Okay, I'm a longtime comics geek, so some of these are going to be very obscure...
- Blue Beetle
- Nightcrawler
- Wolverine
- Madison Jeffries (Alpha Flight)
- Jenny Sparks

3. Villains.
- Lex Luthor
- Magneto (X-men)
- Haplo (Death Gate novels)
- Vegeta (Dragonball Z)
- Xanatos (Gargoyles)


4. Children programmes.
- Looney Tunes
- Transformers
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Gargoyles
- Sesame Street


5. Cartoons (of the Dilbert, Snoopy etc kind (ie print before TV) as opposed to the Tom & Jerry kind (ie TV before print) - does that make sense?).
I'm taking this to mean "comic strips".
- Dilbert
- Calvin & Hobbes
- Boondocks
- Doonsbury
- Bloom County

[leesa_perrie]

Doh, comic strips, that was the term I was looking for!!! (Funnily enough, Dilbert is my favourite too.) Thanks.

[derry667.livejournal.com]

Top five times a character has said something and clearly meant something else (I'm thinking TV and movies, but it could extend to other things as well).

Top five quotes from Red Dwarf (just coz your recent comments got me in the mood for some more "Boyz from the Dwarf!")

[sholio]

Top five quotes from Red Dwarf (at least that I can think of at the moment)

-"Would you describe the accused as a friend?"
"Nah, I'd describe the accused as a git."

-"Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Lasts longer than any other type of milk, dog's milk."
"Why?"
"Because no bugger'll drink it."

- (about the pyramids) "But how did they move such massive, massive pieces of stone without technology?"
"They had whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips."

-"Like all who stand before the Inquisitor, your judge shall be ... yourself."
"Oh smeg."

-"So let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you're completely sane?"


I might have to get back to you on the first one; other than the quote on your friends page, I'm sorta drawing a blank!

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

Dude! I'm so impressed? I couldn't answer one of these!

So, I'll give you an easy one: top five movies of the last five years.

[sholio]

*laughs* Ironically, that's sort of a hard one! I don't know if this is a "best of" list exactly, more like the ones I can think of off the top of my head ...

-Finding Nemo
-Gangs of New York
-Identity
-Cars
-The Two Towers (oddly, my least favorite of the books, but probably my favorite of the movies!)

[sheron]

1. Top five things you like to see in gen fic
2. Top five things you like to see in slash fic (could be same)

[sholio]

I think it kinda is the same for both, though the relative proportion of various elements might be a bit different.

- good characterization that's true to how I see the characters
- plots that are fresh, unexpected and have twists I don't anticipate
- scientific and medical plausibility
- good technical skill at writing (i.e. accurate spelling & grammar, sentences that don't stop me in my tracks with their clunkiness)
- solid knowledge of canon

[sheron]

Heh, thanks. Can I do another one?

Top five fanfic peeves, which are not the reverse of the above 'likes'. (I'm just curious because you write a lot of good fic that I enjoy...sort of a 'what might be ahead for us'. *g*)

[sholio]

Ooh, that's a fun one!

- characters calling each other by the wrong names (although my top peeve in that area actually became canon ... Rodney calling John by his first name. It always sounded so wrong to me! But it's canon now!)
- inappropriate weeping, clinging or apologizing (inappropriate for the character, that is)
- Ancient technology as a magic fix for any problem (in the defense of fanfic writers, sometimes it does work in the plot, and the show does it too!)
- blatant mistakes with astronomical distance and/or how basic technology works in the Stargateverse (i.e. having the jumper fly between planets in different solar systems, having people pass both ways through an open stargate)
- Zelenka's supposed crush on Elizabeth (I think this has become a one of my big peeves not because it's problematic in a few stories, but because so many writers use it, and I don't personally see any sign of it in canon; it's just a fic cliche from where I stand.)

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Okay, you've already answered a lot of mine so I being from Melbourne (sporting capital of Australia, and thanks for wanting to come to Australia. Just don't use George Dubya's map 'cause we're not in Europe :))

top five sporting moments
top five fic crossovers (whether it's already done or not)

[sholio]

I can't answer the first one because I really don't watch sports at all and I'm pretty much clueless about them.

The crossovers one is insanely difficult as well, because I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of crossovers I've ever actually read. I can tell you what my absolute "favorite" crossover of all time is, in the "oh god I can't believe someone wrote this" sense: Gomer Pyle/Dragonball Z. I was browsing through the crossovers section in ff.net and I may have laughed for a full minute when I saw that. (No, I didn't read it.)