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Summarise/give vague clues to 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see who on your friendslist can guess each fandom.

Many of these are hopelessly obscure, and I could have written ten more. Maybe another time.

1. The only fandom that makes me wish we really did have a Flat Earth. - Discworld. Guessed by

rionaleonhart
2. Zombies; LOTS of zombies; like, huge amounts of them... also an epic tale about finding your place in the world, but mainly zombies.
3. Giant gay men, crossdressing, tentacle porn, bestiality, giant robots, mad scientists, zombies, alien viruses: it's the fandom that has everything, and most of it is canon. - FFVII, crack in a hat. Guessed by

firefly99
4. But I don't liiiike that canon!...Oh well, you can ignore the bits you don't like, right? - Star Wars. Oh, space you, EU haters. Matthew Stover is so much smarter than you anyway. Guessed by

firefly99
5. A dude, a chick, an old guy and a head voice; they - er - Prince of Persia. Who needs to fight crime when you can fight TIME? ...I'll be over here now.

squeemu
6. The witty cynic wittily says a cynical witticism, cynically, and then steals things. - Thief. "Heh! A throne room. How pretentious." Garrett, you lovable bastard. Guessed by

squeemu
7. Despite what you may have heard, this is not Trigun. - Firefly/Serenity. Yeah, apparently Joss stole everything from Trigun. He said so himself. Every scene ever. Guessed by

squeemu
8. ...Yeah, I don't think therapy is going to fix that. - Silent Hill 2, and mainly poor James. Don't worry, the fangirls still love you. Guessed by

rionaleonhart
9. Some stuff happens, then some more stuff happens, and then some other stuff happens, and then the world blows up, but nobody likes that one. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and yes, I would be one of the people who pretends that Mostly Harmless never happened. Guessed by

blue_oceandeep
10. It's in a perfectly ordinary school with some perfectly ordinary students and yet it is the crackiest thing I've ever seen in my life. - Azumanga Daioh, prozac for the soul. Guessed by

squeemu

ETA: You know what? Just for fun, here's some more. I should be revising and I need to take my mind off horrible impending exams. Think of them as bonus fandoms.

11. This fandom taught me more about the Cold War than my entire Year 11 Modern History unit. - MGS3. I'm assuming they left out the man covered in bees. Guessed by

firefly99
12. Man, when they say not to touch that button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion', they mean do not touch the button that's labelled 'press this for interdimensional alien invasion'...
13. He doesn't mope, he broods; way too stylish to mope. - Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Well, he has a gigantic gothic castle and dumping rain and a trenchcoat at will - do you have that when you brood? Guessed by

blue_oceandeep
14. "CHRIST, IS ANYONE IN THIS DAMN WORLD ACTUALLY ALIVE?" - FFX. Ah, Seymour, how I cheered when I finally killed you properly. Guessed by

firefly99
15. Cyborg zombies. - Hungry City Chronicles. Obviously. Guessed by

squeemu

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Rofling at the unmanliness of X-2. This made all the funnier by the fact that the only person I know personally who's played the game (and enjoyed it) was a male friend of mine. He, uh, he is pretty girly though. (It reminds me about this quote from an essay on feminism and Buffy that I read, about how Buffy is a testosterone vampire. Their proof was that any boyfriend she gets in the series inevitably ends up demanned if they spend too much time with her -- Angel, Riley, Spike. Probably others. They all lose their ability to fight, at least, until they manage to break away from her clutches and regain some of their lost manliness.) I think I might stay away from X-2, I -- hmm. Dress-ups doesn't sound that appealing to me, gaming-wise. I think I'll stick with the thieving. I AGREE, Blitzball looked so awesome in that intro, and then you play the actual game, and it's ...so tame. And frustrating. OH MAN, I don't think I have the one with words! Ahahaha. Brilliant. I think Rikku might have said things like, "Buh-bye!" and giggling very undignifiedly, and I kept thinking, "I would really hate to die like that."

I try my very hardest to just stay as far away as possible from the Harry Potter fandom, in case I find one of those things you'd make a bet about. It's a very scary place. And I'm sure there's some really great fic out there, but. People think she lead them on about Harry/Hermione? What? I -- I never thought that, it was pretty obvious to me that she was all about the Ron/Hermione. And I have to say, I totally am not a Harry/Draco shipper (...not really a Harry/anyone shipper), but in the last book, I kind of went, "DUDE, WHAT. Is this supposed to be fanservice or something?" I will try to watch it at somepoint! I really will! But I can make no guarantees as to when that will be. So, like, five years from now, when everyone else has moved on, I'll be like, "OMG ZUKO!!" and will be shunned. Did I mention that I don't ship Sokka/Zuko? I just meant that, um, I can actually see them in a romantic-ish relationship with anybody because they actually might have some hormones in the blood. My point being, I do not want to see someone talking about Aang getting it on with anybody, because he can barely concentrate on his quest to save the world without going to ride scary lake monsters as it is. (It is one of my life goals to learn how to pick locks. For serious. Not that I, um, would actually use it for criminal actions, but it seems like a cool thing to learn how to do. Man! A hitman! HOLY CRAP A HITMAN -- this -- this makes so much sense. Excuse me while I flail for a little bit. Hee! It makes me ridiculously happy to hear about your experiences with the vampire! Hee hee.)

I actually never hire any other 'runners when I go on my mission. In my mind, Joshua works much better alone, I'm not really sure why. Probably because I like him going on corp runs, and it's much easier to slip in and out undetected if you're on your own. Also, I really want to ramble about something, but I don't know if you're there yet. Have you gone out to the Salish-Shidhe at all yet? If you'd seen ReBoot, I would tell you that I picture Freya is just like Mouse, except with magic instead. I tried looking for a YouTube video to show you what she's like, but failed to find anything good. (I think at one point

memlu had the entire show up. I'll try to see if I can find the links and try to get you to watch it at some point. The first seasons starts out kind of... awkwardly at parts, but it gets so good. And also the first seasons gets good on its own a few episodes in. And it has hilarious parodies of things! Like Star Trek, and Star Wars, and video games in general! And the X-Files.)

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OH DEAR THREE COMMENTS.

ANYWAY. Um. I kind of picture Freya's one of those females who knows the effects they have on guys and uses them to their advantage. (I also picture Joshua is smart enough to know that and is kind of immune to her charms anyway.) I think my entire interpretation is based off of her dress and the fact that the first thing she says to you involves flattery. Possibly it also being part of her strategy as an assassin; get in close enough to use magic by flirting and then blast 'em. It is possible that I have put way too much thought into this and have completely lost touch with the actual game. I love, though, that she has a bright blue gown. That's almost as conspicuous as Joshua's red shirt and blue shoes. I suddenly badly want to see a crossover with Freya and Garrett going on various runs together. Man, that would be an incredibly scary team. Seriously. They could do just about anything. Hee! Reacting cautiously.

(It sounds like he's made a lot of enemies, too. Which might be more from the fact that he's deeply contemptuous of his accusers rather than just bad luck, but. I'm trying to think of something he could do that would be even worse, but it's just not coming.) At least you evaluate it first! You know what I wish I had? A Medic I could call and ask for expert opinion on random food lying around. Or a Sigint. Or, you know, just a whole bunch of people I could randomly radio. THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN A CELL PHONE.

That episode was so awesome, Cox punching him in the face. I wanted to cheer and also cry, because you just knew he'd have to be fired after that. Oh! Or the episode where Cox convinced everyone Kelso had died! (That's a really good plan, actually. Books! I just wish I knew all the books everyone has already read. Ah, family gatherings. They just wouldn't be the same without chaos and aloofness and boring adult stuff. I miss being a kid and getting to cause destruction. (If I try to suggest it now, all my other aloof cousins just look at me funny.) And getting to climb my grandma's tree. Now all its climbing branches have been cut off.)

I shudder to think everything I would buy if it existed. I would need to buy a black storage hole to contain it all. Maybe it's a passive talent, that, you need, is just there. ...yeah, I'm just making everything up now. (Oh dude, that's pretty awesome. Do you get to see tiny!Garrett? Or, um, smaller!Garrett? Because I really badly want to, now.)

I liked American Gods a lot! I don't actually remember a lot about it, because I kind of devoured it in one night and wound up extremely sleep deprived the next morning. But I really liked the concept and a lot of the characters. I got kind of bored when the old people were talking, but there was this other part that I really loved, so it kind of made up for it. I realize I'm being very vague, but I'm trying not to let Snape kill Dumbledore. The ending was really awesome too, the kind of awesome where you kind of have to sit for five minutes letting it all sink in.

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The Australian definition of 'pissed off' is much the same as yours, but the definition of 'pissed' is 'very drunk', like the British version. And believe me, you don't have to explain any differences unless they're really obscure. We get a lot of American television and any variation or more or less optional by now. …Anyway, dude. That's an awesome ramble. I, I feel a little inadequate. I think I'm going to have to ask you to whack all your theories in a post or something so I can read them. Except I'm progressing so slowly, I don't want to be spoiled! What a dilemma! What a nerdy dilemma! But I'm totally hearting the Joshua-in-your-head, even though he may be terrible. And dude, I'm wondering now if he ever noticed his brother could be a bit of a jerk, not like in the 'my brother's a jerk' way that's common to all siblings, but, like, arrogant and girlfriend stealing and stuff, or if he just idolized him liek whoa.

Oh oh! Both! Maybe. I'm kind of hearting Reckert from thebaconfat's fics. Also, I want to ask you, what's so special about the Arcology? Is it an expensive living area or something? It sure has pretty music. (Hee! And with the number of times I've been dragged in, there's probably bets on where they'll find me next. "Fifty nuyen says it'll be ghouls." "No way, chummer, it's the Halloweeners again." "I say Wanderer brawl." "You're on!" I met her! I should really explore the other parts of the sprawl more, I think.)

…Bugger. Well, take on me, take me on, I'll be gone in a day or two. Chewbacca is awesome! Although my liking of him may be entirely due to a wonderfully lame birthday card I got once. It had him on the front, and inside it said, "I hope your cake is nice and chewie!" And how can you not love Han Solo? And Leia. Holy crap I love Leia. I think I was a little gay for her when I first saw the movie, silly hair and all. I still have a bit of a thing for white clothes. Ooh, OCR! I have it bookmarked. It even has an upgraded version of the ROBO song, here. And – oh dear, I cannot stop rocking out to the Q*bert song. Help. (CENSORSHIP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIFTIES COMIC BOOKS. She totally pwned Ocelot too, although everyone pwned Ocelot in that game. I cried so much at the ending, you wouldn't believe it. And oh man, I am so glad I'm not alone in quoting that at the screen when he turned up.)

Hee! Testosterone vampire! That's so true! Hee, demanned. Oh, X-2 isn't a bad game at all! In fact, it's loads of fun, even the dress-ups, which aren't what you think. I actually love the dress-sphere system, it's kind of cool. The only thing I wish they hadn't done was change the composer – although the opening theme is very pretty, the rest of the music is resoundingly meh. I miss the victory theme. But I totally understand sticking to thieving. I just want to say, the guy who does the ambient music for Thief, Eric Brosius, is mostly why the atmosphere is so fantastic. Some of it gives me shivers just listening to it. Oh, Rikku. At least Auron is all vaguely lyrical.

Did you hear about the person who rewrote the Half-Blood Prince to be Harry/Hermione? I read a hilarious MSTing of it and – oh geez, they completely shafted Ron, Luna and Ginny and made Hermione seem hopelessly perfect and jammed in all these awful, sappy love clichés and displayed a complete misunderstanding of character voice by swapping around lines. And there was the petition for JKR to rewrite it, as though she hasn't got enough to deal with already. Crazy shippers.

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. I do recall going "Uh," an awful lot in HBP, as in "Uh, Harry, do…do you want to tell me something?" which is weird, because I have never, ever come even close to shipping Harry/Draco (I've always found that fine line between love and hate thing to be a crock, personally). You won't be shunned! I will listen, because the DVDs may have been published here by then. Maybe. Oh! Sorry. I have a bit of a soft spot for Zuko/Sokka (well, I used to) because it was the first slash pairing I read that I actually enjoyed. But in Avatar so far, it's canon all the way, baby. Hee! Oh, Aang. I wish the fandom would get that the pairings aren't that important, it's meant to be about, you know, ending that whole century-spanning war. (I heard it is possible to get stuff that you can spray into cheaper locks that just makes them slip open. Graphite or something. Er. Not that I am given to knowing things like that, or using them. It's just a thing I heard.

Well, since my Joshua isn't even a very good decker yet, I'd probably be at least a little comforted by the presence of some big guns and/or magic. And I haven't gone to the Salish-Sidhe, or met Freya – I keep forgetting to actually explore. Which is weird, because that's normally one of my favourite things to do in a game. WOT IS REBOOT? I have never seen it!

I...think Freya and Garrett on runs together would be a lot like Viktoria and Garrett if they went on runs together? Maybe? Viktoria's human appearance was very attractive, and a theory runs that was one of the reasons he was so willing to do the job. (It certainly wouldn't be the first time he's done something like that. In Dark Project, you can rescue a guy from prison in order to get in his sister's good books.) Well, if by 'cautiously' you mean, "What the hell is that?" He'd freeze in place and very reluctantly spread his hands.

(He does tend to break into people's houses and steal all their stuff, don't forget that. And also conk them over the head, blind them, gas them, stab them, or riddle them with arrows. But, well, he's not the only thief in the City and they can be pretty territorial, being known as the Greatest Thief That Ever Lived isn't exactly healthy, and he's not very easy to get along with. He's much too good at what he does to remain ignored.) CELL PHONES SHOULD LET YOU CALL FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. I WOULD NOT HATE THEM SO MUCH IF I COULD TEASE SNAKE OVER THEM.

HAH HAH, DEAD KELSO. And poor happy Ted. Like when he thought he could stand up to Kelso and went from taking the afternoon off to getting a soda, and he was still happy about it. (Now it's books and DVDs! I'm getting my mother Chocolat, and I am of the opinion that if you’re gonna put Johnny Depp on the cover of something, he ought to be in it for more than ten minutes. I haven't climbed a tree since I was ten and the branch broke and I landed on my sister.)

Hee! Now try and explain how he can pick things up from four feet away. (You do see tiny!Garrett! In the first briefing when he explains how he got picked up by the Keepers, complete with him imitating his own voice at that age. I'll have to give you the youtube link once you get Deadly Shadows; he's all big-eyed, with fluffy hair. So cute. Although, in the first game he was supposed to be an ugly sumbitch; they made him more handsome for the others. Mainly the only features that stay constant are that he's kinda short, with grey eyes and dark hair. I love that he's short, one of your fences even mocks him about it.)

I WILL GET IT THEN. As soon as I am done gibbering about Larklight. I AM GETTING IT FOR CHRISTMAS, YAAAAAY.

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Ah! Excellent to know. And I won't bother trying to explain anything I say from now on, although I'll probably need to at some point anyway, just because I don't make any sense anyway. (I just try very hard not to be one of those Americans who wanders the world demanding that everyone conform to them, instead of trying to, you know, make some attempts at fitting in.) I'll make a post of Shadowrun related theories one day, although I think I'll have to run it by Baco first, so she can censor out anything that might be kind of spoilery for her fic. Um, and it'll probably be awhile anyway, as I seem to be playing Thief approximately six hours a day. I have to warn you, though, that the ending might be... um... a little bizarre. I didn't actually mind it very much, because I latched onto Baco's fanfic instead, but yes. Hee! I'm glad that you like Joshua, it makes me feel a little better about my crazy obsession. I... I kind picture a bit of both? Like -- like I always kind of pictured that if anybody asked him, Joshua would be more than willing to tell them what a huge jerk Michael is and knows that Michael's not exactly what you would call a "good person," but that hey, no one is in the sprawl, right? And also I kind of picture Michael basically raised him (very very badly, I might add, because their parents were both workaholics who didn't really know what to do with kids, but Michael being the one who noticed if Joshua was really upset or whatever and tried to deal with it -- again, usually very badly, but still, he tried), so Joshua will never be able to see him completely objectively. And, er, I also picture that Joshua was one of those annoying kid brothers who always want to hang out with their older brother's friends and stuff.

Hee! It makes me ridiculously happy to know I'm not the only person who likes Reckert. Okay! And hoo boy, the Arcology. I don't know exactly what's going on with it in the video game, but in the pen and paper universe, the Arcology was "designed to survive independently" from the rest of the sprawl -- supposedly it could grow its own food, generate power, etc. It was supposed to be a huge boost to the Renraku corporation and stuff. So basically, I think that the game was going for, "It's like a mini city inside of the larger Seattle sprawl." The music in the Arcology is probably my favourite music from the entire game, although I really like all of it. (I actually have the music, but it's in some crazy format -- vzg, if that means anything to you. Anyway, I can send it to you if you're interested, but yeah. I can't gurantee you'll be able to play it without some special thingie. I KNOW COMPUTER JARGON, OH YES.) (Hee! ...Hee! You are so right. I love it so much. I swear, half the Seattle Gen staff (and probably all of the Doc Wagoneers) know Joshua by sight, he has to get patched up so often.)

Well, I'll be rockin' the casbah and turning Japanese while you're gone. Really, everybody is awesome. And seriously, Han and Leia? Are the best. Leia is so kick ass, it's wonderful, and just -- yes. I need to go watch the movies again. Right now. Good thing for the Robo song, because I couldn't get "Rock the Casbah" out of my head. Also, er, I'm not actually sure I got the right one, the link just took me back to this thread. Is the song called 'CPC Zone'? I really like it, either way, it's so... happy. (Fifties comic books are the most hilarious things I have ever seen. Okay, that may be a slight exaggeration, but I was looking at some of the very first Superman comics, and I couldn't stop laughing. There's one where Superman decides to beat up a football player, take his place on the team, and kicks everyone's asses. YES, THIS IS THE AMERICAN WAY. I was trying so hard not to cry, I just can't believe how much MGS3 made me care about everyone.)

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Oh man, that does suck about the composer. Final Fantasies are, like, renowned for the awesomeness of the music. I'm really liking a lot of the music for Thief! So far (a whole three missions in!) my favourite is probably the music at St. Edgar's. I loved the music that played during the whole opening clip, with the choral singing and the shift over to, like, industrial beat. Auron is vaguely lyrical? I don't actually remember anything he says, which is kind of surprising because I think he was my favourite character. Or maybe I just really liked his coat.

I. ...WHAT. FANGIRLS, WHAT. How -- how long is this fanfic? I'm so curious if the actual fanfic is hilariously bad, or just painfully bad. Gah. And holy crap, they actually tried to get her to rewrite it? That's -- that's just hilarious. (I usually find it a crock! I've actually read some good fanfic that pulled it off, but in that case, it wasn't actually hatred, and it wasn't exactly what you'd call a normal relationship in the first place.) HOORAY! I shall keep it on the list, then. Oh -- oh dear. I think I have caused horrible misunderstanding. See, I somehow thought that you were horrified at the idea of Zuko/Sokka and wanted to, you know. Make you think I wasn't a crazy fangirl and maybe went a bit overboard, because I don't actually mind the pairing and would probably like it if I read good fic for it. Although I haven't read any fic for Avatar at all, so yes. So -- so in the Avatar fandom, Zuko/Sokka isn't very common? I am amazed. YES! WAR. AGREED. Hmm! Intriguing. I keep thinking about modern!Garrett and how he would deal with electric lights. Probably mostly because I keep wanting to shoot them with an arrow and break them in the game. So far, I haven't come up with anything good, though, just, you know. Him going around breaking light bulbs.

Good plan! Marrs is actually extremely kick ass -- I think he has the potential for a higher base strength and body stat than anybody else in the game. And, um, magic is extremely difficult for me, I don't know why. I highly recommend the exploring! At least in the sprawl. I love talking to the random gang members. (Um, in their bases. I don't think the Halloweeners'll talk if you just go up to them on the street. Unless by "talk" you mean "fire bullets at you.") ReBoot is a computer animated Canadian show, about -- okay, I'm just going to link you to a post

thebaconfat made about it. I'm not sure I could do it justice. In a nutshell, it's a show that takes place inside of a computer. It's very nerdy and hilarious and eventually gets tons of character development and awesomeness. It parodies so many things: X-Files, Star Wars, Star Trek, shoot-'em-up video games, dungeon crawler video games, old westerns, Pong, super heroes... lots and lots of things. One of the main characters is a Guardian, whose job is to mend and defend -- he's basically like an all purpose anti-virus named Bob. THERE IS A CHARACTER WHOSE VOICE ACTOR IS TONY JAY! HE IS A WICKEDLY AWESOME VILLAIN WHO IS ACTUALLY INTELLIGENT.

It sounds likely! I don't really know what Viktoria's like, but... I would imagine if Freya and Garrett did runs together, Freya would handle distracting any guards while Garrett would take them out from behind. Or, you know, they would both take the guards out from behind and generally be extremely kick ass. Hee! He's such a bastard. (Ahaha! That's awesome.)

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(I tried shooting a gas arrow at the Keeper who was guarding the Forbidden Library, 'cause, I mean, it's not exactly attacking them. No battery or assault! But then I failed the mission, so. No go on that. Also, no kidding about the being ignored thing. I've managed to get the Hammers to be at least neutral towards me by shooting arrows into those rust mites, but the Pagans still pretty much hate my guts.) I WOULD ABUSE CELL PHONES SO VERY MUCH IF I COULD CALL FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. I keep wanting to phone Garrett now, so long as he didn't, you know, know where I live or anything. Not to be a horrible fangirl, either, just to make him say something snarky. Which I guess is kind of horribly fangirlish, but not in the Marla way.

I feel so bad for Ted, all the time. Although usually it's the worst when he's about to commit suicide and people come drag him back to work. Not that I'm, you know, saying I wish he'd die or anything. I did love the duet between him and Carla though. Hee. (I always forget he was in Chocolat. Because, um, yes. The ten minute thing. Although maybe you could just pretend it was, like, the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Where Willy Wonka went through some amazing character development? I don't know. Oh dear! Yeah, that'd be a little bit traumatic, I suspect. Did either of you get injured?)

I -- I got nothin'. It's very handy, though! Especially when he can be standing upright on top of rafters and reach underneath the exact spot he's standing on by about four feet to grab a diamond in the chandelier. Even though you can't see it. He, uh, he has a miniature cherry picker he keeps on him? (OH MY GOODNESS, TINY!GARRETT! Hee! I so badly want this link. Agreed about the shortness thing, although I don't think I've met that fence yet. Or they haven't mocked me yet. When I first started playing, I kept wondering whether he closed the one eye when he was trying to hide from the guards, since it kind of glows bright green. I'm pretty much used to it by now, though.)