Delurking day!

[oyceter]

There's a good Dawn fic out there called Umad Learns Sumerian that's quietly charming, informative, and a lovely little insight on Dawn. [ETA: fixed link. Yes, I'm stupid]

Gakked from Anneth: First real kiss: Um. Some drunken encounter. Not too proud of this one.
First job: Tutoring grammar.
First screen name: Lt. Noin, back in the GWing fandom days.
First self-purchased album: Wow, I don't even remember. I think it was Les Mis.
First funeral: My grandfather on my dad's side. I don't remember much, except it was noisy and strange and Buddhist.
First pets: Curiosity and Squeaky Clean, two white mice I got from one of those street fairs. I loved them very, very much.
First piercing: ears, on my 15th birthday.
First true love: The boy. Hi boy!
First big trip: Er, technically, when I was one month old, moving from Ithaca to Ft. Collins, CO. Honestly, I don't even remember when I started flying around.
Last big car ride: two years ago, on a spring break road trip from Princeton to Florida. Very fun.
Last good cry: Last week, what with the worrying and the being depressed and all.
Last movie seen: At the theater: Elf, which was surprisingly good and funny and heartwarming. Last movie seen anywhere, TTT EE.
Last beverage drunk: The inch of cider left in my cup from last night, about five minutes ago.
Last food consumed: A turkey avocado sandwich, a few minutes ago.
Last phone call: From my mom, again, from a few minutes ago.
Last TV show watched: In real time, Angel. On my computer, three eps. of Alias last night. Almost caught up now!
Last shoes worn: my beat up black Nine West boots. I love them to pieces. They look like it too.
Last CD played: Nipper's Christmas Songs. Shhhh.
Last item bought: my daily mint mocha.
Last soda drunk: Er. I don't know. I don't drink soda really. I guess it was probably one of those carbonated juice things.
Last ice cream eaten: vanilla gelato, from dinner on Saturday. Yummy!
Last shirt worn: gray, long sleeved sweater, with pretty beading.

And shamelessly stolen from wisteria_: Delurking day! Actually, I don't even know if I have any lurkers on my LJ! But anyway, whoever reads, pop in and do a completely random survey made up by wisteria... leave em in the comments! Go forth!

1. What name do you want me to call you?

2. Which fandom(s) are you involved in?

3. Imagine I'm a genie. Rub my belly and tell me your three wishes.

4. If you could spend an hour with any famous person, who would it be and what would you do?

5. If you could spend an hour with me, what would we do?

6. If you read fanfic, what's your favorite story?

7. What's your favorite traditional Thanksgiving dish?

8. What's the best insult you've ever heard?

9. Recommend to me one or more of the following:
a. a nail polish shade
b. a cool website
c. an alcoholic beverage

10. Convince me to visit your hometown.

11. If you could get any gift in the world, what would it be?

12. What's the best thing about the holiday season? What's the worst thing about it?

13. Which popular song makes you want to pull a "28 Days Later" on the rest of the world?

14. If you could give advice to your 13-year-old self, what would it be?

15. Give a compliment to each of the following people:
a. me ;)
b. someone else on LJ
c. a real-life friend
d. a famous person

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

How'd you get in? You're on her friendslist, silly. :)

Since you recommended it, i'll bookmark "Rheanna's Vivere" to check out at some later date.

I think Connor gets less fic than Dawn, but i'm more interested in her than in him so maybe i just see more of her (plus there's much more canon of Dawn interacting with people, so it's much easier to jump off from somewhere, whereas Connor is a big loner, plus kinda unstable and thus difficult to write). I remember back in the day a lot of people (okay, it may in fact have only been a small group of people, but it stuck in my brain) were writing Dawn/Connor (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=malisita&itemid=127347) and i was really intrigued. Summer stories have never really appealled to me as a genre, but i love all the post-"Chosen" stuff (as a genre).

I tend to not so much lurk as just procrastinate my ass off on friendsfriends so i often leave comments titled "got here via /friendsfriends" since i like knowing where people find me and feel i should extend the same courtesy to other people. I'm not intimidated to leave comments on anyone, though this may be related to being so used to a relatively equal playing field with "authority figures."

[oyceter]

Except I'm not! I found the story through someone else's link on LJ... very odd.

Oh I love Vivere. It probably feels a little outdated now, because it was written around S2 Angel, but I love it. She also has a really good C/A fic titled Another Life written as Inamorata.

Yeah, personally I love Dawn much more. I think it's the whole sisters thing that gets to me (have a little sister). I haven't yet seen a Dawn/Connor carried off in a way I liked, but then, I haven't read much at all.

I keep forgetting about friendsfriends! I think now that I graduated, much less free time for LJ, sadly. I used to check it every three seconds back when I was writing my thesis, hee.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Check out your UserInfo page. Or anneth's. You have each other friended.

I think i identify with Dawn more plus find her more sympathetic, and don't mind reading about her issues whereas Connor's issues creep me out.

Oh there are definitely times when i barely have time to keep up with my own LJ list (and when i am so very glad for filters, especially Sundays when i have loads of work and drabbles fill the page) but then there are times like tonight when my work feels doable enough that i spend far too much time not doing work.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Okay, on friendsfriends again i found the fic of which you spake.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/annakovsky/9587.html

Thinking perhaps anneth recc'd it in a locked entry and you copied the wrong URL into this entry?

[oyceter]

Yeah... I just figured out when you mentioned anneth that I copied/pasted from the wrong window. Sigh. Link fixed now, thanks for the headsup!