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[trace_of_scarlet]

My God, but men have sucked hardcore these past few days. Eric, are you sure you’re male? You’re far too awesome to be male, judging by what I’ve seen of them of late. <3

Sule in particular really is kind of a dick, it turns out, but fuck him. When I came in last night the housemates were awesome at me and we sat in Michelle’s room with bucketmugs of tea (provided by Teaboy) and raspberry turnovers (provided by Teaboy’s dad) and bitched and then geeked. I have the best housemates ever, trufax.

Have now seen Star Trek twice, and just WOW. There is seriously not enough Simon Pegg in that movie, though. Admittedly, and as Michelle pointed out, it could have been The Scotty Movie (We Don’t Give A Shit About Kirk) and there would still not have been enough Simon Pegg in that movie, but nonetheless. More coherent thoughts coming when I have time.

And now I’m in London, so yay! I get to see Del des Anges be funny at an audience tonight. :D

Bonus meme. Snagged from half the flist, it seems like by now.

List three characters from ten favourite books. The challenge is to guess what the books are! (all first names, for consistency)

1. Neville, Dean, Stan
2. Nealan, Yukimi, Buriram
3. Briar, Rosethorn, Berenene
4. Oskar, Poldek, Itzhak
5. Anathema, Pepper, Brian
6. Lizzy, Jane, Charlotte
7. Sam, Cheery, Brick
8. Jenny, Agatha, Matilda
9. Annette, Sam, Gabriel
10. Jean-Baptiste, Violette, Clementine (I will hug you if you get this one...)

And another five, because I was bored on the train:
11. Sherlock, John, Henry
12. Cathaline, Alaizabel, Thaniel
13. Martin, Bella, Gonff
14. Hercule, Ariadne, Rhonda
15. Larry, Theodore, Spiro

Comments

[quinby.livejournal.com]

1. Harry Potter... something.
4. Schindler's List
5. Good Omens
11. is... one of the Poirot books by Agatha Christie, but that's all I've got.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

1. Yep, but I was after the specific book - it's Prisoner of Azkaban, as guessed downthread. I like all seven HP books to varying amounts, but I will always have a very special soft spot for that book.

4. Yep! My dad gave it to me when I was about thirteen on holiday in France and had read all the books we'd brought with us, and I powered through it in a couple of days. When we got back I leant it to my best friend, who also adored it... but she got told off by her mother for reading something 'adult'.

5. Yep! I knew that'd be guessed fairly easily, but I tried to use the less iconic characters anyway. I <333 Pepper.

11. It's Cards on the Table, also guessed downthread: I love almost all the Agatha Christie mysteries, but that one's always been my favourite. Took me ages to remember a third first name for that one...

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH.

1. Harry Potter
5. Good Omens
8. Matilda!
11. Sherlock Holmes series?
13. Martin the Warrior! And/or Redwall series at large! <3!
14. Agatha Christie. I want to say Cards on the Table, but...?

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

:D HI THERE YOU WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN.

8. Yep! I've been re-reading that recently.
11. Yep, but it's one book in particular...
13. It is Redwall, but not Martin the Warrior. I was never too keen on that one, for some reason.
14. Cards on the Table it is! I have a look of competing favourites (like The Big Four, for sheer silliness, and Murder on the Orient Express for the simplicity of the solution, and Sparkling Cyanide because of Anthony...), but that one's always been my favourite. I love the idea of four equally-possible murderers.

[minkhollow]

1) HARRY POTTER. Specifically, I'd say Prisoner of Azkaban, due to Stan.
5) Good Omens!
7) ...is a Watch book. Is it... Feet of Clay? Or Night Watch? I KNOW IT'S A WATCH BOOK. I just don't remember which one Brick was in!
8) Matilda!

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

1. Azkaban it is! I used Stan specifically because he doesn't appear in many books. That was my first Harry book, and will always be my favourite.
5. But of course. :D
7. Yep, it's a Watch book, but neither Feet of Clay nor Night Watch. Though the latter is probably my actual favourite Discworld book, it was harder to find characters who were only in that one, so I went with a close second.
8. Yep! A copy of it is in my handbag right now. *is so grown-up* :D

[oz-the-bobble.livejournal.com]

AND I SHALL DO THEM ALL. WELL. THE ONES I KNOW.

1. HP.
5. Good Omens, Obv.
6. Urgh. I don't know if I can type it. Pride and Prejudice? SERIOUSLY. COME ON.
7. Feet of Clay, I think. I think that has Brick, mayhaps? Well, it's a Watch book, Feet of Clay or later.
9. YAY WAYWALKERS!
10. I refuse to believe anyone else in the history of the world has been saddled with the name Violette.
11. Sherlock Holmes.
13. Mossflower. Can't fool me, I had to look it up for Children's Lit.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

1. Pfft. Be specific, woman, although someone's already got it - it's PoA. ;)
5. But of course.
6. Hey, I like that book! I don't usually do period fiction (with certain very specific exceptions), but I love Lizzy Bennett.
7. Not Feet of Clay, but yes, a Watch book. I am seriously worried about my flist that nobody has managed the right book yet. D:
9. YAY INDEED! *squishes Sam*
10. I believe it's commonish, in France.
11. Yup, but you'll have to be more specific than that. :P
13. You got it!

[alas-a-llama.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure. It'd be very confusing if I wasn't.

Star Trek is my new favourite film! Scotty was awesome. So was Spock. So was Uhura. So was McCoy. Everyone except Kirk, who wasn't so much boring as just a tremendous jerk. Maybe even a jerkface.

1) Harry Potter.
5) Good Omens.
9) Samcanon, I believe.
10) Sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
11) Sherlock Holmes.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

SHINIEST MOVIE EVER. *gleeface* Kirk had his moments, but yes - I spent most of the movie wanting to beat him to death with that tiny starship model. I'm just glad that he was meant to be obnoxious, if you know what I mean - you weren't meant to think that everyone else was just MISUNDERSTANDING HIM in not automatically fawning over him. And awwwww, Chekov's accent. *pets him*

1. Yup! Specifically, PoA.
5. Yep!
9. Indeed 'tis. Did you ever finish that, by the way?
10. It's Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands, the French book I was squeeing at people over a while back - Gareth guessed it downthread.
11. Yep! But one book in particular. I tried to be specific, but it's difficult given the number of people with the same names in those books. It is one of the most famous, though...

[cherryfruit.livejournal.com]

1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. UMM a Redwall book? Haha, I don't know.
5. Good Omens
6. Pride and Prejudice (♥)
8. Matilda

I know disappointingly few of these.

[trialia]

3. UMM a Redwall book? Haha, I don't know.
I can tell you - nope, not Redwall. Tamora Pierce.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

1. Yup!
3. No, not Redwall. What trialia said.
5. Yep! I knew that'd be the easiest-guessed. Curse all those very unusual names...
6. Yep! I love that book so much.
8. Oh yes. I love Roald Dahl so much - the tiny Norwegian sailors' church he was baptised in is down the Bay.

[trialia]

*squeals with glee over #3* I didn't know you were a fan of those! :D I love Rosie and Lark so hard. If we're talking Berenene specifically, Will of the Empress. If not, just the Circle of Magic series in general, by tammypierce :D

[lienne.livejournal.com]

You got there before me! *shakes fist*

[trialia]

LOL OMFG. I had no idea you two knew each other! Gods, fandom's a small world!

(also, boosette wrote me fluffy Rosie/Lark which you should read. ;))

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Bethan is awesome. *cuddles her* We met through RP a while back.

Ooh, Rosie/Lark. This is relevant to my interests. :D

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

<3

Apparently Rosie/Lark is actually canon, per the Word Of God. I approve. :D

[trialia]

It is ;) and per canon, too. You don't remember Briar's conversation with Daja about it? "Why didn't you tell us you were a nisamohi? What with Lark and Rosethorn, did you think we cared?" Paraphrased, albeit only slightly ;) but I love that scene.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten. :D I just remembered her mentioning it in an interview somewhere a while back, I think at the same time as she said that Lalasa/Tian in the Protector of the Small books is also canon.

[trialia]

Oooh, I sees. I met Bethan in person at a convention with a whole gang of Who/Torchwood fans while I was cosplaying Elphaba, and wound up going to dinner with 14 of 'em. *G*

Hehe, I thought it might be. It's a sweet little drabble.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, they were the series I started with. I read Magic Steps because I found it at the library, and didn't really understand a lot of the plot because of being new to the series but liked it enough to pick up the earlier books, and promptly fell in love. But yes, Will of the Empress it is! I'm unreasonably fond of that book.

[trialia]

Hee! Magic Steps was my first of that series, too. I'm very fond of the Circle books, I enjoy them much more than I did Alanna. Not that I don't like Aly. I only got to read Will of the Empress for the first time a couple of months ago, it seems awkward to find cheaply.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the Alanna books (and also the Daine ones until her level of Mary Sueishness started to grate on me), but they're not my favourite of the Tortall lot: that's the Protector of the Small quartet. Kel is my favourite of her Tortallan protagonists, and she gets a whole book's worth of interaction with another of my favourites: Raoul.

I ordered my copy just after it came out, I think, so I got the hardback. I've very rarely seen it anywhere at all offline, so I can imagine it would be tricky to find for a sensible price.

[trialia]

Mm. I'm twitchy about getting hold of the Protector of the Small books, given I read the prologue at the end of my paperback copy of WotE and it doesn't sound like something I'd like. I wouldn't call myself a Tortall fan in general, but I like Aly.

*nod* It is that. Cost me about £6 inclusive of postage, fortunately, which is more than I'm used to paying for new paperbacks, but it'll do me. Her paperbacks are unabridged, I asked to check :)

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Aly's books beyond the samples I've seen in different books/online, but I wasn't keen on her. Something about her bugged me.

I did the exact same thing as you with PotS, and as a result didn't read it for ages, but when I did I fell in love with them and now they're my favourites. Kel is much more grounded and down to earth than her other heroines, and I recommend giving her more of a chance than just the prologue - after all, it put me off too.

*nodnods* Shiny! :D

[trialia]

Eh, IDK. I can't stand Alanna, m'self, but I know there are a lot of people who love her. Each to their own, I'm guessing :)

Heh. How much Alanna is there?

Shiny indeed! ^_^

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

I like Alanna, but I don't adore her - she's definitely not a favourite character.

There's not much at all, actually! She gets mentioned in the first two (I think she might pop up very briefly in the second), appears a few times in the third, and gets a line or two at the beginning of the fourth but that's about it.

(And now the laptop appears to be dying, so I'm finally off to bed. Night!)

[synecdoche-and.livejournal.com]

Simon Pegg is in Star Trek? Shit. I might have to see it after all.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Indeed he is (as Scotty), and it's bloody brilliant. Shiniest movie ever: they did a hell of a job with it. Granted, you spend most of it wanting to give Kirk a good kicking, but other people do the job plenty for you and he's clearly meant to be an obnoxious little twit.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

2. and 3. are both by Tamora Pierce.

2 is one of the Keladry series, I think. I want to say the first one, Protector of the Small, but I'm not totally sure.

3 is in the Circle of Magic 'verse. It must be one of the Briar-centric books, but I can't remember who Berenene is. Oh wait hang on. Will of the Empress, right? And she's the crazy empress with the titular will? Was Rosethorn even in that one? Man, my memory is terrible.

[trialia]

Rosethorn was mentioned, even if she didn't appear, in the scene where Briar finds Daja with Rizu...

Edit: oh, and yes, Berenene's the Empress.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I do not remember this at all but I will take your word for it. :D My memory of that book basically goes "I think a megalomaniacal empress hits on Briar and then some awesome stuff happens and a magic shield might be involved."

[trialia]

Hee. *snugs*

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Rosethorn appears at the beginning. She and Briar angst at each other re: nightmares and suchlike, and it's terribly cute.

Berenene is indeed the empress.

[trialia]

*nod* I couldn't quite recall. Fibro!memory for the lose.

I know. *G*

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

2 is indeed from the Kel series, but it's not the first one. Yukimi isn't in that one.

3. Yep, Will of the Empress, although you've been beaten to it. Rosie does appear - she's in it at the beginning and gets at least one rather adorable moment with Briar.

[dowwdor-shal.livejournal.com]

Hey Stranger. How was London?

Why am I not surprised that you managed to sneak Good Omens into your book challenge?

...Yes Yes, I'm getting a copy. I'm ordering it as I type (who says men can't multi-task? ;P).

... No really, I am.

... Well, you can't expect me to read the first 100 pages in Borders and not finish it can you?

(Oh Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge)

As for number 10, I will hazard a guess with... 'Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand' (somebody's probably answered it already, but everyone else has already guessed the ones I know.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Hi you! :D London was bloody awesome, and there'll be an LJ post about it when I get chance. Am back in Cardiff now - the reason I rang earlier was to see if you wanted to come see Star Trek with us, but by the time you rang me back the movie had started. ;_;

YAY FOR GOOD OMENS. Of course I got it in there. :D

10 is indeed Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands, and you got it first. :D

[dowwdor-shal.livejournal.com]

Yay me! I actually got it. :D

Sorry about ringing during Star Trek, I was suffering from from a combination of P.E.B and P.E.N. That and my phone had gone walkabout.

(For anyone who shares my love of making unnecessary acronyms, these are Post exam burnout and Pre exam nerves.)

One question about Star Trek, did Chekov get to say "Nukular Wessels?" That always cracked me up in the classic series.

[trialia]

Also, the Watch book... it's Thud! :D I didn't guess 'cause I thought someone else would guess it and I was too giddy about WotE :D

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

YAY SOMEONE GUESSED IT.

&hearts

[trialia]

HEE.

*hearts Thud! muchly*