On West Egg

Give me a pairing and I will tell you:
who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

01. Seven people led by a teenage scientist try to turn off a computer.
02. To avoid bedding his wife, a Jerk Ass goes off to war alongside a Dirty Coward. His bride is determined to get pregnant by him, and sabotages a Florentine widow's reputation to attain this goal.
03. Two boys use USB Drives and Sharing a Body to fight a criminal organization who use similar drives.
04. Cat-themed martial artists become superheroes and run a pizza parlor
05. Man retires from his stressful job to an exclusive and seemingly idyllic resort, but spends all his time bitching about it and refuses to join in the fun and games like everyone else.
06. A number of people aboard a train find they have conflicting interests. An old man looks for friends he shared a drink with a long time ago.
07. Break rocks into smaller rocks. Try to shoot anyone else who enters this field of rocks.
08. Kids go to summer camp and harass their counselor.
09. A bunch of amnesiacs, one of whom thinks he's Batman, run around destroying a city with giant robots. Eventually revealed to be inconsequential.
10. A prepubescent royal bureaucrat sends the children of his country's poor off to die in dungeons while he stays at home and consoles their families.
11. Overdeveloped girls in underdeveloped uniforms live vicariously through past-life regression.
12. A culturally diverse group of kids learn about the evils of imperialism.
13. Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are Serious Business.
14. A rock breaks a planet in two. A girl fixes things by destroying one half.
15. Ridiculously Average Guy writes in his diary about his life in a town filled with really colorful folks.
16. A very young railroad engineer and a female ghost have to rebuild a tower.
17. An ex-Beatle, a foul-mouthed comedian, and a character from 30 Rock narrate the adventures of extremely outdated pieces of machinery. Most of the adventures consist of crashing into things.
18. A hero chosen by fate receives the blessing of his Gods and sets out on a quest to save his world, the hopes of his people carried on his shoulders. You must stop him at all costs.
19. Teen girl throws a fit at a prom.
20. The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.

So this looked like an interesting quiz to take. I am 99% certain that, while I would succeed spectacularly at any of the listed careers, I would be miserable if that's what I were doing.

Give me a pairing and I will give you a drabble.

(Also, I should really get on posting my fic for Alpha's Magical Holiday Fic Exchange here, considering those went up... over a month ago. -_- )

I've made a list of characters and assigned them all numbers. Ask me questions about them ("Is 3 human?" "Who's smarter, 4 or 5?" "What would 2 do if they discovered buried treasure?") and I'll answer. Your mission is to discover which character is which.

1. Sora (Kingdom Hearts) madonnalal
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Hey, people. In the time since I last posted, I have moved in with the boyfriend, left my went-from-awesome-to-shit-'cause-management-changed job to go work where the old management went, and other inconsequential things.

Of more importance, GUESSING GAMES!

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

01. A bunch of amnesiacs, one of whom thinks he's Batman, run around destroying a city with giant robots. Eventually revealed to be inconsequential.
02. A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans. Vision of Escaflowne madonnalal
03. Terrorists put a very intelligent man in a cave with a box of spare parts. This leads the man to solve unethical business practices of his company. Iron Man madonnalal
04. A group of heroes try to stop a supervillain from enacting his plan to save the world and fail. Watchmen madonnalal
05. An obscenely rich embezzler tries to get into his neighbor's cousin's pants. The Great Gatsby sarla23
06. A traveler and a talking motorcycle roam the earth and Try Not To Die. Kino's Journey/Kino no Tabi madonnalal
07. Dr. Frank 'N Furter, Doc Brown, and a bunch of other blackmail victims run around a big house looking for a murderer and debating simple mathematics. Clue sketchyheart
08. One guy stops caring about his job, another wants to rob his employer, and a third just wants his stuff back. Office Space sarla23
09. Holocaust survivor turns Statue of Liberty into deadly weapon. X-Men madonnalal
10. Some kids go through worlds, kill God accidentally and discover they don't need Him in first place. And there's loads and loads of talking animals! Technically speaking. His Dark Materials ishyface
11. Superweapons are given to mentally unstable children while the adults plot to destroy the world. Neon Genesis Evangelion sketchyheart
12. A transsexual rock musician stalks her ex-boyfriend in an attempt to sue him for copyright infringement. Hedwig and the Angry Inch madonnalal
13. A musical about a slut and an asshole who get corrupted by a crossdressing mad scientist and his retinue. The Rocky Horror Picture Show sketchyheart
14. Kids fight slugs by turning into animals. Animorphs madonnalal
15. A soap opera wrapped in High School Musical Glee madonnalal
16. A group of high school girls marked by their matching plastic jewelry can never quite be sure if they're all friends or not. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon sarla23
17. A guy tells the king a story. The king says he's lying. The guy admits it. In the meantime, swordfighters slay all laws of physics. Hero madonnalal
18. A guy goes through way, way too much effort to gather enough evidence to support a copyright dispute. Otherwise, a movie about a BASIC programming command. Tron sarla23
19. In The Future, there's no crime, poverty, war, disease or old age, and everyone gets to have lots and lots of sex. But the Noble Savage says it's bad. Two other people, who are among the smartest people on earth, go on a quest to stop being happy. Brave New World sarla23
20. Teenagers become dinosaur-themed superheroes, then mythical-beast-based superheroes, then ninja superheroes, all while keeping the same costumes, even though all but one of the original members are replaced along the way. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers madonnalal

Stole these from Ashley, but if you want to gimme five things or guys for KFM too, I guess you can.

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.

Five things from Ashley:

1. Power Rangers

I'm in the middle of an epic rewatch of Power Rangers, though I think everyone here already knows that. If I stop with what I actually watched when it aired, I'm over halfway, but I'm kind of morbidly curious about the Disney seasons, given how fandom reacts to them. I'll probably wind up wondering what the hell their problem with it is, because I actually enjoyed Turbo and thought Trouble by the Slice was actually done about as well as it could be, given the sentai footage included the Rangers getting baked inna giant pizza oven.

I find the show is generally better than one gives it credit for, and good for cracky entertainment that isn't quite like anything else. Also: up until about In Space, all the Rangers were totally doin' all the other Rangers offscreen. I mean, there were pairings that tended to each other most of he time, but you can't tell me that being a Zordon-era Ranger didn't mean epic orgies. Except for Justin, but do you think it's coincidence that after his first two adventures as a Ranger, all of a sudden Zordon returns to Eltar?

2. 90's music

WTFFFFF, why do you associate this with me? So I listen to Ace of Base in the car, but that's like ALL of the '90s music I have, and it got replaced with Sharon Lois and Bram before I was booted back to Sandusky and could tune into CBC 2 again.

3. The Orphanage

Er, I lived there. It was nice for a while, until Erick decided that no, I didn't really need any warning that he'd be living at any point when I might have had a chance of finding a replacement roomate, and now I'm living in my parents' house, paying off this semester's rent on an apartment I haven't lived in and won't live in for any of the semester.

Also, it had Pokemon on the walls and an epic unreadable sign.

4. Late night video game shenanigans.

OMG ANTI-FORM SORA AGAIN AAAAAAAA. FUCK YOU DEMYX.

And Balthier is hot, yes.

5. Newspapers.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I haven't read one for reals since like last spring and it makes me sad, because I'd have to pay to get the Times and USA TODAY out here (and USA TODAY is totally not worth paying) and the local paper is EPIC SUCK OMG.

Kill Fuck Marry

(If you don't know how this game works you fail.)

From Ashley: Tommy, Jason and Billy.

I'd kill Tommy, no question. He's not terribly bright, not terribly attractive, and besides that I don't think I'd be able to get his attention, not being a pink ranger.

Billy, would be marry, as long as it's pre-Zeo Billy. David Yost wasn't able to hide his frustration with production staff and some of his costars during Zeo, and as a result Billy kind of stopped actually being a character.

Also: I would have Kimberly come by sometime to help train him in sometimes being the Femme!Billy that happened when they switched brains early in the first season, because holy shit that was hot, but there's no way I could live with him permanently being that either.

So, Jason gets to be a one-time fuck, which seems right, anyway. He was cute and inoffensive but not much more, and I wouldn't want to keep him away from Zach, anyway.

Actually, it's more that even though Facebook tries to force the fact that I've written a note at people who've friended me, more people actually read them in LJ before they get RSS'd over to Facebook.

Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. Tag. Tag, tag, tag. Jesus fuck, do these rules like the word tag.

1. I was a part of the French exchange program my school system did, when I was in fifth grade. My family hosted a kid for three weeks, and then I was hosted by his family for three weeks. The only French I have retained is about 3/4 of the first verse of "Le Marseillaise."

2. If it weren't for the fact that I so very need to live a life of my own, I would be happy to be a butler.

3. While I'm attracted only to guys, I have fallen in love with a girl precisely twice in my life so far. I wasn't aware either time, which is why it took me so long to understand why the natural post-school drift hurt so much more in those two cases.

4. I'm a little bit genderqueer, but since the way I see myself as not fully presenting as masculine depends largely on an individual interpretation of masculinity not shared by most other people, I'm not bothered when I'm read as not presenting as anything but masculine.

5. I have a story I've been waiting to write since the fourth grade. At this point, none of the details are the same, even though it is the exact same story it was back then. My intent is for it to be the last story I ever set to paper, because it's the one I feel requires the most skill in writing.

6. I unintentionally split myself into four characters when writing for my creative writing course two falls ago. Two are gay males, one is a straight male, one is a straight female. This seems about right to me, though it will certainly be wrong eventually.

7. I couldn't live without activism. This is particularly painful right now.

8. I had to teach myself to socialize. I know the invisible scripts better, because I had to learn to see them before I could ever follow them, so I can frequently see how these scripts are and aren't being followed by others. This is why I'm good for advice, and this is why I spiral into overanalysis in my own life.

9. Everything is beautiful. This is my core belief. I love everything and I love everyone, because I would not be who I am, where I am, if everything that ever is and was had not been exactly as it has been. I believe that anyone who acts to remove beauty from the world is of the utmost reprehensibility, but they are just as crucial a part of the tapestry of my life as anyone else, and I love them for that.

10. I am firmly pro-choice, but even more than that, I believe that the argument is long since moot. Abortion is a part of our culture, and it always will be. If we outlaw abortion, then those committed to getting them have to move to back-alley ways of doing it - possibly quite literally. If it's going to happen (and it's going to happen) I'd much prefer it happen in a legally-monitored setting that is required to be as safe as possible for the mother.

11. I do not believe in any god or higher being. I do not believe in an afterlife. I do not believe there is anything justifying our existence on this world other than our existence on this world. Things can be just because and still be beautiful.

12. I will never regret dying too soon. There is much more to do in my life, yes. But there is so much already done.

13. I have been living on the border of an eating disorder for a very long time. I am extremely worried about what moving back with my mother is going to do to this.

14. I have had one real relationship in my life. I wish I had had none.

15. I am neither a cat person nor a dog person. Deal with it.

16. I hate how when people find out I'm ex-Roman Catholic, they always assume it was about the gay.

17. I believe there is something worthwhile in Tarot. Whatever may or may not be influencing the placement of the cards, approached properly, the process allows reflection on one's life in a manner most people usually don't.

18. There is no such thing as the supernatural. If it happens, it is natural.

19. I don't miss as many people from Oxford as I thought I would.

20. I miss exactly as many people from high school as I thought I would.

21. There are a lot of people I graduated high school with who most certainly thought I was still quite lacking social skills by graduation. Most of those people are people who found me annoying, but never had the balls to say anything directly to me. If I just so happened to never pick up on their nonverbal cues, and so spent more time around them then they might have liked, well, I could hardly be blamed for that, now could I? :D

22. I still remember where the Memorial to the One Funny Joke I made during middle school is. (It's only a sewer grate, by the way.)

23. Everything comes back to stories. When you can make stories work, you can understand anything. To live is to make stories. A life than cannot be told is wasted.

24. I mourn the slowly mounting illness of the newspaper. At the same time, I feel that if it continues to be exactly what it is, it deserves its fate.

25. I sleep naked whenever possible.