Two Memes

[lodessa]

1)Give me a character from any fandom you know I am into and I will tell you:

a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.


2) I realize I've never done that meme where people request pictures of things in your place of living (books, tea collection, shoes, the view from your computer, etc.) and you upload them. So ask way.

Comments

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

1) Faith from Buffyverse.

2) You shouldn't have said "tea"...

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

1)Yay Faith!
a) Her hunger for everything
b) That hideous outfit she first shows up in.
c) Buffy
d) The Ninth Doctor


Tea collection to follow.

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me that I should get that ff of mine about Faith beta'ed and translate it. I already started on it, actually :)

Buffy/Faith is <3

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yes you really really should!

[nentari.livejournal.com]

1) Angela Montenegro from Bones

2) And since tea was taken... shoes!

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

a) That's she's the heart of the team really.
b) The fact that in some ways we don't know any more about her now than we did in the first season.
c) Hodgins naturally (though if we are going anti-canon I can ship her with either Bones or Booth as well)
d)Gilderoy Lockhart... their relationship would be doomed from the start but he'd be too pretty for her not to give him a try.


Pictures to follow.

[nentari.livejournal.com]

Angela/Lockhart? Oh, that would be perfect! *dies of the crack*

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I thought you might enjoy the crack.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

1) Zack Addy from Bones

2) Um... How about your five or ten favorite books?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

a) How he is even more socially handicapped than Bones.
b) That it makes no sense for him to have been Bones' graduate student since she isn't associated with a university. It would have made sense as a post doc or just as outside work he was doing while finishing his dissertation but it's a flawed plot point the way they have it.
c) Cam's sister?
d) Kaylee from Firefly. She'd tell him, non maliciously, what he could not pick up on himself.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

Awwww, Him and Kaylee would be adorable ^___^

Um, well I guess if you can't do favorites maybe... Five books you like to reread?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yep totally and utterly fluffy like puppies and bunnies and kittens.

I will see what I can do.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

^_____^

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

also... OMG I am the worst at choosing favorites.

[hamsterwoman]

1) Since nobody's asked about ASOIAF yet, Robb Stark

2) To go with the tea collection, how about your favorite cup/mug/alternative drinking vessel?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

1)

a)I love that he's a good person who is/was just so utterly unspoilt by privilege or hardship. He treats Jon with love and respect. He's the golden boy...but not annoyingly so.
b)Conversely it was so frustrating how naive he was.... seriously the Red Wedding would never have happened if he'd had any sort of clue.
c) Jon... mainly because they were the only two we ever really saw have a real relationship.
d)Hermione from Harry Potter. She'd share his good intentions but give him a pragmatism he totally lacks and keep him alive like she does Harry and Ron.

2)Does it have to be a drinking vessel for tea or can it be any kind?

[hamsterwoman]

I loved your Robb/Jon ficlet, so am not at all surprised by 1c, and I very much agree with your 1a-b. He is such a product of Ned's upbringing, and it shows in both good and bad ways, doesn't it... And hee, the idea of Hermione/Robb is brilliant! The Starks are such a Gryffindor bunch, really, and it would take someone like Hermione to both understand someone like that but also to keep him from rushing in where angels fear to tread. Perfect!

2) Any kind of favorite/favored drinking vessel :)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Aww yay. I seriously came upon it as a ship totally by accident through cracky ideas but I liked the results so much.

The Starks are totally Gryffindor. The Tullys are Hufflepuff (they bend like the reeds).

(Also clearly Hermione likes redheads)



(pictures to follow some time this evening)

[hamsterwoman]

Also clearly Hermione likes redheads

Heh, I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, even that works out. You should totally write a Robb/Hermione crossover fic! :)

The Tullys make sense as Hufflepuffs. I think the Tyrells are, too (which is why I like them so much). (And Queen of Thorns is totally Zacharias Smith :P) Lannisters are obviously Slytherin, as are Freys, and Greyjoys are Gryffindor again. I'm not sure about Martells... they come closest to Ravenclaw, I guess, but are probably still more Slytherin than anything. And Targaryens are just too crazy to tell...

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I totally like the idea. I am trying to think of how it would work logistically but I definitely like it.

I actually see the Tyrells as being pretty Ravenclaw as opposed to Hufflepuff. The Martells seem totally all over the board. The Targaryens are some horrible Gryffindor/Slytherin hybrid.

And now I know what my next poll is going to be on.

[hamsterwoman]

I can see the Ravenclaw side to the Tyrells -- Willas in particular strikes me as pretty Ravenclaw -- but, en masse, they seem to be more about family and family loyalty than anything else, that why I'm tempted to call them Hufflepuff. The Martells are tricky -- Oberyn just had way too many different daughters, making them difficult to caregorize.

Targaryens as a Gryffindor/Slytherin hybrid make sense -- the good ones, like Dany (uh... well, just Dany, pretty much, from those we've seen up close) are rather Gryffindorish, while the bad ones seem to have the worst of Slytherin in them.

Yay, return of the polls!

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I can definitely see the Hufflepuff thing with the Tyrells but they just seem to be lacking in loyalty to anything but family (and I mean in HP the Slytherins are the ones more into family).

Rhaeghar/Lyanna =also the Gryffindor aspect.

I love polls.

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, Rhaegar/Lyanna seems to be fairly Gryffindorish, though we don't really know what happened there yet, I suppose.

The family house in ASOIAF vs. sorted house in HP makes it difficult to draw the distinction between being loyal to one's family (which, I agree, is a Slytherin trait) and being loyal to one's house. I'm willing to grant the Tyrells wider loyalty than just family because they seem to be decent and loyal to the people they "adopt" -- Loras's devotion to Renly is probably the clearest example, but one gets the sense that they really would have been pretty good to Sansa if their plot had worked out, and their decent to her even when it does not, and Margaery and Loras are nice to Tommen. Of course, there are good ulterior motives for pretty much everything, but that's just one of the reasons why ASOIAF is not HP :)

Oh, and Baratheons = possibly even more Gryffindor than the Starks.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

True, but whether they ran off together or he kidnapped her against her will it was a pretty Gryffindor move.

I can definitely see that with the Tyrells and I do think that they have Hufflepuff traits. I just see it as being through a screen of Ravenclaw logic, since it's not like they are going out of their way to help people it isn't advantageous for them to do so with. I wouldn't count the Loras/Renly relationship as outstanding loyalty though really since who isn't devoted to their boyfriend you know? And Tommen is totally a sweet little boy as well as their way to the throne so why on earth wouldn't they be nice to him? Also once their plan with Sansa fell through they pretty much just gave up on the idea, rather than having any loyalty to it... which made sense but still more discerning Ravenclaw than loyal Hufflepuff.

Baratheons = ridiculously Gryffindor.


Also, I am very glad that ASOIAF is NOT Harry Potter.

[hamsterwoman]

True, but whether they ran off together or he kidnapped her against her will it was a pretty Gryffindor move.

Agreed. (About the only way it wouldn't be Gryffindor-rash would be if R was purely motivated by begetting PWWP for some reason, in which case it was just pure Targ crazyness, like setting stuff on fire for whatever crazy reason that had been done by whoever that had been. Sorry, I know I should know that less vaguely, but I just can't keep track of the crazy Targaryens and their crazy motivations.)

I definitely agree that the Tyrells' Hufflepuff traits are at least as largely motivated by Ravenclaw pragmatism as by being a bunch of genuinely nice folks. (Though one does get the sense that Willas and Garlan, at least, are actually nice guys.) It's a bit hard to say how much of which is what, since we haven't had a Tyrell POV (I hope grrm's latest hint about a new ADWD POV will in fact be Loras, as people have suggested. Although I *really* hope it's not a prologue/epilogue POV, since that would almost certainly mean he dies, and I like him...)

I wouldn't count the Loras/Renly relationship as outstanding loyalty though really since who isn't devoted to their boyfriend you know?

Cersei? :) (But, yeah, I'm not arguing that that's sane, or normal, or common -- though it does seem to be more common in ASOIAF than in most other venues.)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I can't keep track of a lot of things about the series... its' just too complicated.

I think the Tyrells are mostly nice people. I just feel like they are also pretty logical and pragmatic. A Loras POV would definitely be interesting.

True, true about Cersei. I just mean devotion to one's significant other isn't exactly the same as devotion to a third party.