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And to celebrate, I did a meme. Tada!

Pick your top 5 shows, and answer the following questions. In no particular order:


1. Human Target
2. Grimm
3. Big Bang Theory
4. Swamp People
5. Late Late show with Craig Ferguson

1. Who is your favorite character in 2? 
Eddie Monroe. I have a type.

2. Who is your least favorite character in 1?
Ames. She tried, but all she did was remind me of the people I had to be around in high school.

3. What’s your favorite episode of 4?
First Mates, where Troy and Elizabeth team up.

4. What is your favorite season of 5?
The one where they went to HD aka When Wavy Met Charles.

5. What’s your favorite relationship in 3?
Leonard and Penny. I've invested too much to give them up now!

6. Who is your anti relationship in 2?
Um. Billy and everyone. Creepy date-rape pheromone goat monster gets none.

7. How long have you watched 1?
Um, three and a half episodes.

8. How did you become interested in 3?
Mom was visiting and we were channel surfing and the battle robot hacked through the door and we ended up watching the whole episode.

9. Who is your favorite actor in 4?
Man, I like them all. If I had a gun to my head, I'm gonna say Troy.

10. Which show do you prefer, 1,2, or 5?
Head explodes! Again with the gun to my head, I'd beg for Human Target back.

11. Which show have you seen more episodes of 1 or 3?  
1. I've seen them all. All there is… *weep* No more...

12. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?
Whoever gets to eat all the food they cook up.

13. How would you kill off your favorite character in 1?
There would be something cataclysmic and he would disappear. His body would never be found, but there would be signs. No one would be sure if he was ever really dead, and the rumors and sightings would go on for years. No one would be able to tell if he was still behind the scenes or if he had just arranged all this before his death. He would be a boogeyman in the underworld, with his friends hoping and his victims terrified.

14. Would a 3/4 crossover work?
I'd watch it. Hunting alligators is not like Warcraft.

15. Pair two characters in 1 that would make an unlikely, but strangely okay couple.
Allyson and Eddie. She's uber efficient and competent, and he's not really, but he means well and he tries so hard.

16. Overall, which has a better cast, 3 or 5?
They can’t be compared. I'll go with 3.

17. Which has better theme music, 2 or 4?
2. Because Sweet dreams ARE made of these.



And now, back to fanfiction!

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this and bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
‎26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shut
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

1. Grab a book near you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.


Walked over to the shelf and the first book my hand hit was The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.

*ahem*

"WATCH YOUR ANCHOR LINE!: Too often, people feeling secure in their boat have stopped at night, dropped anchor, and dozed off. Some of those people never awoke."

I saw the WIP Meme over at steals_thyme which got me thinking about my own works in progress, so I made one too. I have more WIPS than is probably healthy, but it could be nobody notices but me.

( These are mostly from the Watchmen ficmemes. )

The WIP meme: post a snippet from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations.




1. It made sense, he thought, staring at the sigil of the waxing moon. Black and white, the white overcoming the darkness. He thought of the fabric again and wished he had brought it with him. And more than that, more than just half a moon, swelling into something whole and pure, but not quite there yet. It made sense, which was a rare enough that it left him feeling a little giddy. Finally, finally, answers that felt true.

2. He crumpled slightly forward, but his grin stayed on. The holes in his head were closing, but she could still see the jagged edge of his splintered skull in a few places. Her free hand shot out, and her fingers dug into the bullet holes, past the edges of bone, and into the soft warmth of his brain. Even then, the sound he made was more of wonder than one of pain. His grip on her throat faltered as hers dug in tighter. She jerked out of his hand and spun him, slamming his head into the wall. His eye, framed by her thumb and index finger, refocused on her.

3. Under the smell of the cigar was an unfamiliar scent, something like musk and gun oil with just a splash of whiskey. Manly, he thought with an inward smirk, but where was the man?

4. She was huge and resting neatly on the border between ethereally beautiful and freakishly horrifying. There were spots down her sides, white on white and her throat throbbed with her pulse as she tilted her head to look down at them. Her eyes were tiny and reflective black. She had some frills along her throat like a mudpuppy and all around her was the sound very much like someone humming far away down a tunnel.

5. Briared tendrils swayed gently without a breeze and a few of them reached for him as he passed. Vampire roses, he thought with a grim internal chuckle. If they got hold of him, they’d bury their thorns in him and drink his blood until he was dry. Then, the blooms would be red for a few days before they’d fade to black and be hungry again.

6. Now, he was gasping and shivering, chilled under a layer of sweat. He had had vivid dreams before, but never anything like this, full-sensory and linear. He had never been able to remember thinking of where his blue suit should be taken in at the shoulder to make it hang right, had never had to spend time getting used to the size and weight of his own body, and it was his own body, definitely his. There had been some confusion on that in his dream.

7. "You really don't like them, do you?" He had settled down into the moss pillow. Ivy turned her sharp gaze on him.

"It's a matter of giving back as good as I get," she told him. "I'm a mirror for them. With an edge, of course." Her smirk came back. "Everybody knows it's bad luck when you aren't careful with a mirror."

8. He could feel her mouth moving against his skin, but couldn’t tell what she was saying. Was he hurting her? He had to be hurting her. That’s what he did. Even now, the monster part of him was gnashing its teeth that there wasn’t enough of her. It wanted to rip her open and spread her around so there was more to wallow in.

9. The anger grew and rumbled within her until she was sure her gown couldn’t hold her. It would split along with her skin and she would spew her wrath out in a flood and drown all the world in it. The thought was viciously pleasant to her. When the codger bowed to carry out her wishes, her only thought was the exposed back of his scrawny neck. He’d die in a flash, the old dried up thing. Her youth and her strength flared up in her, singing in her ears.

10. It had happened fast. He had passed the crossroads and had been given a heartbeat to register the sight of the huge black dog standing in the lane before the world had exploded into halogen-bright pain. He imagined that it was like being struck by lightning, the blinding blaze of light, the impact, and the burning.

11. He was all angles and planes, stitched skin jumping under her hands no matter how delicate she tried to be. The old scars were worse across his torso. She wasn’t sure where they ended and his muscle tone began, like they had been inflicted by whoever had hacked his abdomen out of granite.