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Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
Coupling
Lesbian Spank Inferno. Right. Sorry. This was the series that made me an actual fan of Jack Davenport. I mean, I loved him as Norrington, but then I watched Coupling - oh Steve. Always managing to saying the wrong things. But those rants of his are so impressive.
Discworld
The first Discworld novel I read was Equal Rites, due to nothing more exciting than that being one out of a grand total of two Discworld novels translated into Danish when I was a kid (the other being The Colour of Magic, which I didn't particularly like - Rincewind isn't exactly my cup of tea). I loved it and wanted more. Then I started learning English - and forgive me, but I can never recall exactly what class I started that, but it was early. And what do you think the local library suddenly had on its new books shelves one day? The only English books I had read outside of school were a couple of those Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms novels that are mostly pretty crappy fantasy - but here was Discworld. So I read them - if I remember correctly it was the first books in the witch stories - read them with a dictionary within easy reach and probably missed a lot, but I read them and I loved them and I never looked back. I really need to get around to rereading those early ones, shouldn't I? :-)
Dragon eggs
Click?
Okay, so I admit they are silly, but I find them amusing. It's fun - seeing your dragons hatch and grow, trying to get them all. Of course, actually pretty much having them all has sort of made them less fun and then I got so frustrated about those Valentine eggs... :-( - lately I like Unicreatures more. They're cute and varied and you get to do stuff with them - which is good. Besides, both sites have the advantage of not really requiring a huge amount of thought - just click and go "awww". Well, on some of the creatures, anyway...
Sandman
Here's a truth - I discovered Sandman thanks to fan fiction. This was back when I didn't have Internet at home, so I used to sometimes spend half an hour after school randomly surfing on the gymnasium's computers (which we were encouraged to do, although I don't know if anyone else discovered the wonders of slash fan fic that way). Anyway, I was reading Vampire Chronicles fan fic (yes, yes, mock me all you want) and stumbled across a crossover with Sandman, which sounded sort of fun, so I investigated and that sounded sort of fun and at the time I had read Neverwhere, which I had quite liked, so I Interlibrary-loaned a copy of Preludes and Nocturnes - anyway, it wasn't that long after that that I felt compelled to make complicated transactions via my sister (who at the time was the only one in the family with a VISA card and lived in the other end of the country) to get the comics for my very own.
Temeraire
Okay, so the thing is - it's dragons! And dragon riders! And Age of Sail! I fall into the segment that used to love Pern novels, despite all their faults, and then fell in love with Age of Sail - and then those two combined. It's like chocolate, toys and a surprise all at once - and now I'll back away slowly before starting to quote more commercials...
Denmark
Danmark. Teeny, tiny Scandinavian country, not to be confused with the Netherlands. Home of about 5,5 mio people, including yours truly. Hans Christian Andersen and Little Mermaids, Holger Danske sleeping wher he sits, Lego and a candy called Spunk. Perhaps not the most dramatic of international reputations, unless you count certain caricatures. And truth is, I wouldn't trade it for any other, even though it certainly has its faults - like that Queen Bitch of all bad things in politics, or Jante's law, or those shootings in Copenhagen. Well, I might want to trade the weather - if someone were to pick us up and plunk us down in the Mediterranean, I wouldn't mind. Apart from that, I basically like my country. It's not perfect, but what country is? :-) (Besides, how many countries have romkugler, æbleskiver and bøf tatar? Or Bamse & Kylling? Kaj & Andrea? The world's oldest amusement park? Or...? (Okay, stopping now))
Neil Gaiman
I think one of the few things by him I haven't read is the Duran Duran comic - I suppose I could Interlibrary-loan it, but nah. Anyway, I love his writing. All those layers. Like onions - wait, wrong story. Anyway, can't wait for Coraline to reach this part of the world. Me want.
Nordic Mythology
You know what tends to annoy me about modern works involving Nordic Mythology? People make it nice. They make the Asa gods heroes. Good guys. They call one side good and one side evil, they condemn Loki as a nearly devil-like trickster. Norse myth is many things, but nice? Have those people been reading the same myths as I did? Nice? The king of the gods creates the world through genocide and is in general a liar, thief, conman and rapist. Thor seems like a mass-murdering psycopath. People ought to die in combat so they can - spend the rest of the time until Ragnarok getting repeatedly chopped to pieces? Loki - well, no, he's not nice, but he's no worse than everyone else in that world. And the giants aren't any better, although they aren't any worse, either. Of course, the vikings had different ideals and world-views and would probably be horribly embarrased to see Scandinavia today, but still. And yet... You know, I keep meaning to do a story, a retelling of the Norse mythology from Loki's perspective - pointing out stuff like all that and the horrible way his kids are treated and give him motives and make the stories fit together and make sense, while not falling into the trap of making him nice or too sympathetic. Of course, maybe more stories would make sense if we didn't just have what I have always suspected must be a small selection filtered through the writing of some monks...
Pirates of the Caribbean
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. The first fandom I actually got around to posting a fan fic to - there were a couple of half-hearted attempts of what I must admit was pretty Mary Sue-ish tales that never got as far, and just as well. And I still love it - pirates and undead monkey and Norrington and Captain Jack Sparrow and all. Even if DMC and AWE disappointed me and even if I have grown convinced that Ted & Terry ripped off an old Indiana Jones rip-off called Nate and Hayes (seriously, watch it and tell me I'm wrong). And if they make a fourth, I'll watch that too, you know I will.
Temeraire
Okay, what did I do? Seriously, tell me? I mean, one person picking this I get - but two?!
Coupling
Lesbian Spank Inferno. Right. Sorry. This was the series that made me an actual fan of Jack Davenport. I mean, I loved him as Norrington, but then I watched Coupling - oh Steve. Always managing to saying the wrong things. But those rants of his are so impressive.
Discworld
The first Discworld novel I read was Equal Rites, due to nothing more exciting than that being one out of a grand total of two Discworld novels translated into Danish when I was a kid (the other being The Colour of Magic, which I didn't particularly like - Rincewind isn't exactly my cup of tea). I loved it and wanted more. Then I started learning English - and forgive me, but I can never recall exactly what class I started that, but it was early. And what do you think the local library suddenly had on its new books shelves one day? The only English books I had read outside of school were a couple of those Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms novels that are mostly pretty crappy fantasy - but here was Discworld. So I read them - if I remember correctly it was the first books in the witch stories - read them with a dictionary within easy reach and probably missed a lot, but I read them and I loved them and I never looked back. I really need to get around to rereading those early ones, shouldn't I? :-)
Dragon eggs
Click?
Okay, so I admit they are silly, but I find them amusing. It's fun - seeing your dragons hatch and grow, trying to get them all. Of course, actually pretty much having them all has sort of made them less fun and then I got so frustrated about those Valentine eggs... :-( - lately I like Unicreatures more. They're cute and varied and you get to do stuff with them - which is good. Besides, both sites have the advantage of not really requiring a huge amount of thought - just click and go "awww". Well, on some of the creatures, anyway...Sandman
Here's a truth - I discovered Sandman thanks to fan fiction. This was back when I didn't have Internet at home, so I used to sometimes spend half an hour after school randomly surfing on the gymnasium's computers (which we were encouraged to do, although I don't know if anyone else discovered the wonders of slash fan fic that way). Anyway, I was reading Vampire Chronicles fan fic (yes, yes, mock me all you want) and stumbled across a crossover with Sandman, which sounded sort of fun, so I investigated and that sounded sort of fun and at the time I had read Neverwhere, which I had quite liked, so I Interlibrary-loaned a copy of Preludes and Nocturnes - anyway, it wasn't that long after that that I felt compelled to make complicated transactions via my sister (who at the time was the only one in the family with a VISA card and lived in the other end of the country) to get the comics for my very own.
Temeraire
Okay, so the thing is - it's dragons! And dragon riders! And Age of Sail! I fall into the segment that used to love Pern novels, despite all their faults, and then fell in love with Age of Sail - and then those two combined. It's like chocolate, toys and a surprise all at once - and now I'll back away slowly before starting to quote more commercials...
Denmark
Danmark. Teeny, tiny Scandinavian country, not to be confused with the Netherlands. Home of about 5,5 mio people, including yours truly. Hans Christian Andersen and Little Mermaids, Holger Danske sleeping wher he sits, Lego and a candy called Spunk. Perhaps not the most dramatic of international reputations, unless you count certain caricatures. And truth is, I wouldn't trade it for any other, even though it certainly has its faults - like that Queen Bitch of all bad things in politics, or Jante's law, or those shootings in Copenhagen. Well, I might want to trade the weather - if someone were to pick us up and plunk us down in the Mediterranean, I wouldn't mind. Apart from that, I basically like my country. It's not perfect, but what country is? :-) (Besides, how many countries have romkugler, æbleskiver and bøf tatar? Or Bamse & Kylling? Kaj & Andrea? The world's oldest amusement park? Or...? (Okay, stopping now))
Neil Gaiman
I think one of the few things by him I haven't read is the Duran Duran comic - I suppose I could Interlibrary-loan it, but nah. Anyway, I love his writing. All those layers. Like onions - wait, wrong story. Anyway, can't wait for Coraline to reach this part of the world. Me want.
Nordic Mythology
You know what tends to annoy me about modern works involving Nordic Mythology? People make it nice. They make the Asa gods heroes. Good guys. They call one side good and one side evil, they condemn Loki as a nearly devil-like trickster. Norse myth is many things, but nice? Have those people been reading the same myths as I did? Nice? The king of the gods creates the world through genocide and is in general a liar, thief, conman and rapist. Thor seems like a mass-murdering psycopath. People ought to die in combat so they can - spend the rest of the time until Ragnarok getting repeatedly chopped to pieces? Loki - well, no, he's not nice, but he's no worse than everyone else in that world. And the giants aren't any better, although they aren't any worse, either. Of course, the vikings had different ideals and world-views and would probably be horribly embarrased to see Scandinavia today, but still. And yet... You know, I keep meaning to do a story, a retelling of the Norse mythology from Loki's perspective - pointing out stuff like all that and the horrible way his kids are treated and give him motives and make the stories fit together and make sense, while not falling into the trap of making him nice or too sympathetic. Of course, maybe more stories would make sense if we didn't just have what I have always suspected must be a small selection filtered through the writing of some monks...
Pirates of the Caribbean
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. The first fandom I actually got around to posting a fan fic to - there were a couple of half-hearted attempts of what I must admit was pretty Mary Sue-ish tales that never got as far, and just as well. And I still love it - pirates and undead monkey and Norrington and Captain Jack Sparrow and all. Even if DMC and AWE disappointed me and even if I have grown convinced that Ted & Terry ripped off an old Indiana Jones rip-off called Nate and Hayes (seriously, watch it and tell me I'm wrong). And if they make a fourth, I'll watch that too, you know I will.
Temeraire
Okay, what did I do? Seriously, tell me? I mean, one person picking this I get - but two?!
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