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Gacked from synaesthete7. I only promise to do the first five people who comment; though there's probably no chance of more than five people commenting anyway -- my usual level, I'll get three...

Leave a comment and I'll tell you some things I associate with you. Reply with your name, favorite color, and birthday, and:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll pick a dessert with which you and I would have a food fight.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (maybe/maybe not).
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of (your Patronus?).
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.

If I do this for you, post this on your journal/blog in turn, and do the same for others.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Sarah
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April 23 (aka Shakespeare's birth/death day & the Feast of St. George)

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1. You live in LA and write scripts.
2. Babylon 5 soundtrack.
3. Chocolate mousse.
4. Slash devalues friendship.
5. You were surprised that I recognised where your net-name came from.
6. Border collie (like Lassie); loyal and intelligent
7. You're close to your family; you're Christian; you like SF. What does your family think of SF? Do they think you're odd, or did they introduce you to the genre in the first place?

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2. Babylon 5 soundtrack.

Yay! :-) I'm pleased about that; the B5 soundtrack is terribly inspiring when I write fic, btw, and not B5 fic either. I don't know why.

3. Chocolate mousse.

I swear you and whitemartyr merged this bit of your brains, you both said the same thing for me.

4. Slash devalues friendship.

Hooray for solidarity. :-) I still need to come up with a design for a GenFic Pride icon.

5. You were surprised that I recognised where your net-name came from.

I think the total may be up to seven, now. Including an Ebay vendor I bought comics from. It must be the spelling....

6. Border collie (like Lassie); loyal and intelligent

Aw! That's far too spot-on. Wow.

7. You're close to your family; you're Christian; you like SF. What does your family think of SF? Do they think you're odd, or did they introduce you to the genre in the first place?

I am one of the lucky few; a convert to SF/F practically from the cradle. Both my parents discovered such books in college, so I, born a couple of years later, received the full force of their enthusiasm. :-) Narnia when I was seven; The Hobbit, A Wind in the Door, and A Wizard of Earthsea when I was eight; and LotR when I was nine (a bit young, but I adored it). The actual SF came a bit later, though my entire family are Trekkies and fans of Star Wars, so....

I have gone further than my parents, and I think they're a bit weirded out by the whole fandom thing, but they don't tell me it's bad, and they think my fics are well-written. And they didn't mind me converting my brothers to B5, then to I-Man and The Sentinel. :-D

I'm still working on permission to send all my sibs the Harry Potter books.

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I'm still working on permission to send all my sibs the Harry Potter books.

Permission? Sounds like you're the eldest or an elder sibling... I'd never be asking permission -- but I'm in the other direction, consulting with my sibs to see what they would permit me to give to my nieces and nephews.

On the other hand, it has never occurred to me to give HP to anyone -- all the people I know who I think might like it, have them already. And I don't actually rate them high enough to want to give them to people cold.

I'm in a similar position; my parents were all into Narnia and LOTR, and read us fairy tales; I borrowed my first Asimov from my eldest brother. They all remain mildly interested (I introduced my eldest brother to David Weber, for example, and my sister was watching New Who at the same time that I was), but I'm the only one who's the all-out SF fan.

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Permission? Sounds like you're the eldest or an elder sibling...

I am, in fact, the eldest of seven (1 1/2 yrs to 25 yrs). In a lot of ways, I've been the one to test-and-try new books or authors, and report to the other siblings if they're worth the time. My parents really placed quite a lot of trust in me early on...but re: Harry Potter, they've been too influenced by the current (thoroughly unfounded) Christian backlash.

Need I say, at this point, that I *do* value HP enough to give people the books cold? That's how I was introduced to them, and I couldn't believe they were that good.

I'm the only one who's the all-out SF fan.

I might be in a similar position--although I nearly talked my brother and his wife into coming down to the San Diego ComiCon, so maybe not. :-D

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eldest of seven (1 1/2 yrs to 25 yrs)

Golly, that's a huge age range! The gap between me and my eldest brother is only 11 years. Though as I said elsewhere, that was only five children, not seven.

Need I say, at this point, that I *do* value HP enough to give people the books cold? That's how I was introduced to them, and I couldn't believe they were that good.

I think I still prefer Diana Wynne Jones, though I also have to admit they got much better after the second one, but on the third hand, I am finding the current one hard to get through, and the previous one was really too long and slow.