"Just sitting here watching our barren lives pass us by...

[lettered]

Oh, look, a cockroach."

Can we do that thing where you give me a subject and I list TOP 5? Please? Because I'm bored, and needs should definitely be met. As long as it doesn't require ointments the next day.

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[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Top 5 shows you won't miss an episode of (not neccessarily fannish involvement)

Top 5 Tori Amos songs

Top 5 fics featuring Connor

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Top 5 shows

I don't watch a lot of tv. The only show I'm watching religiously that's on right now is "24". If BtVS or AtS were still on, I'd never miss them. There was a time when I wouldn't miss "Gilmore Girls," but now I never watch it. I wouldn't mind seeing every ep of Disney's "Gargoyles."

Top 5 Tori Amos songs

Oh, this one is agonizing. I'm going with the ones that struck me the most when I first heard them, because choosing a favorite is impossible.
-Winter
-Me and a Gun
-Muhammed My Friend
-Concertina
-her rendition of '97 Bonny and Clyde (never heard the Eminem version but man is hers creepy! I love it.)

There is a lot of her stuff I haven't heard yet. I don't own all her albums, but all the ones I do own I love to bits and pieces.

I'll get back to you on the Connor one. I have to go look them up!

We'd like to thank you for participating in this bid to entertain tkp. Have fun with your life supply of ducks!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Top 5 salty snacks, sweet snacks
Top 5 Tear-jerker moments from movies, Top 5 from TV
Top 5 Squirmy-Hot-Sexy moments in movies and/or TV.

There. That'll keep ya busy. :D

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

omg your icon is brilliant.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Top 5 salty snacks, sweet snacks. So is that like, 5 salty snacks, 5 sweet snacks? Or 5 sweet and salty snacks? Or 2.5 salty, 2.5 sweet?

salty
-Combos
-Cheez-its
-Pringles
-McDonald's french fries
-eggs with bacon, parmesean, garlic, pepper (salty cause I put salt on 'em)

sweet
-cookies
-double stuff oreos
-peanutbutter oreos
-girlscout cookies
-dark chocolate chip dried cherry walnut oatmeal cookies (everything cookies, for short)
(bonus) : icecream. With cookies.

sweet and salty
-pringles with marshmellows on them
-McDonald's french fries dipped in Wendy's frosties
-peanutbutter sunday from our local custard place
-Pei Wei Spicy chicken
-apples dipped in creamcheese, carmel, and salty peanuts. Oh god, try it.

Top 5 Tear-jerker moments from movies
-when Liam Neeson keeps saying he could've got one more and he's all hot and brood and so so sad! (Schindler's List, only movie that makes me cry every single time).
-when Mel Gibson is all, "FREEEEEEEDOMMMMMM!" (when he says it in Braveheart, not Chicken Run)
-when Tim Robbins escapes from jail and Norton Warden is all WTF (Shawshank Redemption)
-when Triton gets turned into a bottom dweller by Ursula the giant octopus (The Little Mermaid)
-when ROTK ended and I knew there'd be no more.

Top 5 Tear-jerker moments from TV

I don't watch much tv and I don't cry much. BtVS/AtS are pretty much it.

-"Prophecy Girl"
-"The Wish"
-"Chosen"
-"Home"
-Belle and Sebastian, when they finally got to where they were going (it was on so long ago now I can't remember. Best. Show. Ever. I need to find out if there are dvds).

Top 5 Squirmy-Hot-Sexy moments in movies.

-when Alan Rickman opened his mouth and talked.
-when Julia Ormond touches Harrison Ford's hair in the newer version of Sabrina, and they kiss.
-when Rogue goes to check on Wolverine because he's nightmaring and Hugh Jackman stabs her and she drains away his life. Or when Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine is doing anything, really.
-Scarlett and Rhett's first kiss (all their kissing. Vivien Leigh claims Clark Gable's breath stank)
-Samantha Morton and Cirian Hinds' first kiss in the A&E Jane Eyre. It's been on several lists as the worst kiss ever, but I like it because she looks absolutely like someone who's never kissed before. The scene where she runs away is hot, too, even if it's all wrong.

Top 5 Squirmy-Hot-Sexy moments in TV.

-when Lizzy turns down Mr. Darcy in the A&E Pride and Prejudice (is that tv? It was a mini-series. Really, I was squirming. No touching and no nothing, just arguing and . . . oh, 'tis hot).
-when Buffy and Angel were kissing in the morning in "Innocence," I think.
-when Angel pushed Buffy against the refrigerator and she wrapped her legs around him and he moved her over to the table and climbed on top of her
-when Jack got tortured (naked) in S2 of "24"
-when Spike is talking to Anya, before they start humping on the table. Usually Spike on screen equals hotness, but there was something in particular about that scene. Which is weird, because I tend to think he has more chemistry with Buffy than Anya, but it was an Anya scene.

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Oh, and thanks for accepting this mission to keep tkp entertained. Your lifetime supply of super swank spy sunglasses should be on its way. Now with stars!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, we can't have you getting bored, now, can we? So, what are your

Top 5 desserts

Top 5 lines of fic written by someone else

Top 5 lines of fic written by you

Top 5 novels (if that's too broad, go with authors or genres)

Looking forward to seeing your responses

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Not sure why I wasn't logged in, but, the requests for your top five desserts, fic lines, and books was from moi. Sorry!

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

Top 5 guilty pleasures.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Reading fanfic (I feel like it's wasting my time, but I love to do it)
Writing fanfic (same)
Watching movies (same)
reading my mom's romance novels (this is true, true guilt. At least the quality of the fanfic I read tends to be high. This stuff is just schlock.)
something unmentionable. But loads of fun!

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

Five most beautiful men
Five most beautiful women
Five movies that make you cry
Five fanfics you've read more than once
Five places you'd like to travel to
Five things that make you hot

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Five most beautiful men

I'm going to take this as "most attractive." Because Brad Pitt is beautiful, but I don't find him very attractive at all.

-David Boreanaz
-Liam Neeson
-Russel Crowe
-my Latin professor
-Hugh Jackman

Five most beautiful women

-Julia Roberts
-Liv Tyler
-Madeline Stowe
-Catherine Zeta-Jones
-one of my BFFs, H

Five movies that make you cry

I'm not much for crying. The only movie that never fails to make me cry is Schindler's List. But these have made me cry in the past:

-Braveheart
-Shawshank Redemption
-Schindler's List
-The Little Mermaid
-Anne of Green Gables

Five fanfics you've read more than once
-"Vicarious" by germaine_pet
-"Domestication" by Indie
-"Five Things That Never Happened To Spike" by kita0610
-"Old Ghosts" by chrisleeoctaves
-all the fic a2zmom has written since I became her beta ;o)

Five places you'd like to travel to
-writercon
-my granny's house in Leland, Michigan
-Tibet (I want to ride the elephants, dammit!)
-Argentina, with a friend of mine
-New Zealand, and take the LOTR tour

Five things that make you hot
-Texas
-cars
-fires
...oh, wait...

-reading porn
-writing porn
-thinking about porn
-David Boreanaz
-being called "dear heart"

Thank you for giving me things to think about. You get this shiny gold star!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

top 5 favorite birds (that's what you get)
top 5 favorite foods
top 5 favorite BtVS episodes

And why aren't you working on my story, missy?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Because I'm drained. (I gave blood today and I just finished writing a fic, which always makes me feel unficish. It'll be a day or two more. ;o)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

top 5 favorite birds

Hey! I already knew mine, or I wouldn't have asked.
-herons
-egrets (both herons and egrets frequent our neighborhood byous. And I will always associate egrets with my one of my favorite books from when I was 13 or so, because there were egrets on the cover.)
-seagulls (okay, they're annoying. But 1. my grandfather loves to feed them his chubs, and I have such lovely memories of him feeding them and my granny and him discussing their bullying ways, 2. the book Johnathan Livingston Seagull. I have a seagull necklace, even. I just like 'em.)
-sandpipers. They're very common around here, and they run really really fast instead of flying.
-sparrows. (I love the ones that appear in the book A Little Princess--all my favorite birds have to do with books, it seems--and they're really fun to make metaphors out of.)

top 5 favorite foods
-dark chocolate chip dried cherry walnut oatmeal cookies (everything cookies, for short)
-my mommy's homecooked pizza
-lamb tikka masala with rice and the onion thing from that place in Norwich I can't go to any more because I'm not in the UK
-sausage balls
-Houston's (the restaurant) spinach dip

top 5 favorite BtVS episodes

-Prophecy Girl (that's when I knew I was in love with this show)
-Passions (I loved it when he killed Jenny. I wanted Angelus evil evil evil because that makes Angel that much more of an interesting and strong person, imo)
-The Wish (for exactly the reason you said on yours. Cordy does NOT die in eps like that. Also, Wishverse!Buffy is bloody brilliant. I love Buffy so, so much, and to see her like that tore me apart. Plus, the slo mo at the end kills me every time)
-Hush (goes without saying, really)
-Once More With Feeling (I can't believe they pulled it off)

Thank you for embarking with us into this realm of entertainment and imagination. You will be recieving this cute, peaceful bunny for your efforts.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

Five fictional characters (from different 'verses) you'd invite to the same dinner party cuz they'd get on like a house on fire.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

If I was allowed to invite fictional characters, I wouldn't care whether they got along or not. I'd just invite who I most wanted to see. But, in light of your prompt:

To romanticize:
-Marianne Dashwood
-Anne of Green Gables
-Maria (from The Sound of Music)
-Sara Crew (from A Little Princess, older, so I can see how she grew up and who she ended up with)
-Tatyana (from Eugene Onegin)

To be sparkly, witty, misguided, and human:
-Elizabeth Bennet
-Buffy Summers
-Isobel Archer (from Portrait of a Lady)
-Lorelai Gilmore (from the show "Gilmore Girls")
-Prospero (only because I don't believe Shakespeare is fictional)

To brood, say nothing, not look at each other, and say how much they hate themselves when I've plied them with too much booze:
-Angel
-Jean Valjean
-Erik (from The Phantom of the Opera, after he last sees Christine. Not the book version or the musical version or any version but the one in my head.)
-Severus Snape
-Mr. Rochester

Interesting how I don't seem to like the mixing of gender idea we recently acquired in these past 100 years or so.

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Oh yes, and we'd like to thank you for contributing to tkp's insomnia. You will recieve service of this superhero whenever you have need of him for your participation.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

Five favorite one-episode appearance characters on Ats and/or BtVS

Five top ways to while away a free hour

Five ways you'd redecorate your living space

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Five favorite one-episode appearance characters on Ats and/or BtVS

What an interesting question.
-Tina, the waitress in "City of" because she was pretty and Angel couldn't save her.
-the Gentleman (creepiest ever)
-the chick from "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been". Loved the actress, love the parallels to Angel, and love that she turned on him.
-actress in "Eternity" --I like how she played off Angel
-the foot tall fear demon, cause gee, that was unexpected

Five top ways to while away a free hour
-read fanfic
-write fanfic
-make lj people entertain me
-pop bubblewrap
-try to figure out what other people do with free hours

Five ways you'd redecorate your living space

Since I'm a slob, these would be like a total renovation:
-do my laundry
-clean it
-vaccum it
-dust it
-spend lots and lots of money on candles

Thank you for participating in this bid to keep tkp entertained. Your life time supply of free monkeys should be arriving shortly.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Five story ideas you would love to read but will never write
Five stories someone else already wrote that you wish you had written
Five reasons you love B/A

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Five story ideas you would love to read but will never write

-post NFA Buffy/Connor, every one else is dead. I just finished writing the closest I'll ever get, and it wasn't what I had in mind.
-Spuffy in which all their issues are settled to my satisfaction and they can be happy together. I'm convinced it can be done but I'm shit out of ideas as to how. I just don't see it.
-that Connor/Connor fic
-Amber Benson RPF/S (if there's any I want to read them NOW)
-I don't have ideas I don't think I'll write, because I'm immoderate and arrogant like that. If other people have ideas, I steal them and want to write them for myself, because I'm thieving and arrogant like that.

Five stories someone else already wrote that you wish you had written
-"Vicarious" by germaine_pet (anything by her, really)
-"Losing My Religion" (same goes)
-"Mystery Play" by glossing
-"Phoenix Burning" by Yahtzee
-"The Nature of the Beast" by Jo (it was one of the first B/A fics I ever read)

Five reasons you love B/A

You and chrisleeoctaves are voyeuring my brain. I'm writing a thingy about why I love B/A. There aren't enough thingies to that effect, imo.

-he loves her enough to do what he thinks is right
-she instinctively knows the good in him
-they'll always be a part of each other's lives, together or not
-a part of him was secretly relieved when she died
-they're so fuckin hot!

We'd like to thank you for contributing in this effort to keep tkp entertained. As a token of our appreciation, you get to try to figure out what these are.

[semby.livejournal.com]

5... hmm. I'm running low on ideas. Five historical figures you wish you'd met? Five favorite cities? Five favorite shades of lipstick?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Five historical figures

(with English translators)
-Jesus
-Muhammed
-Confuscius
-Dostoevsky
-Victor Hugo

Five favorite cities

-Traverse City, Michigan
-Norwich, England
-Rome, Italy
-London, England
-New York, New York (I was only ever there for 3 days. But I like the idea of it.)

Five favorite shades of lipstick?
I don't wear make-up. Ever. Last time I wore lipstick it was Halloween and I was 16. It was black.

Thank you for participating in this bid to keep tkp entertained. This guy will come bring you your brand new rug to show our appreciation.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Five fannish arguments on which you would like Joss Whedon to chip in.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

-during an argument about fanfic not being worthwhile, I'd like Joss Whedon to come in and vote for his favorite Buffyverse fic
-during an argument about RPS not being ethical, I'd like Joss Whedon to come and complain that not enough people write about David Boreanaz fucking him senseless
-during an argument between Spuffy shippers and B/A shippers, I'd like Joss Whedon to come and write a fem slash RPS in which all the shippers have one great big orgy, and they all waltz off happily into the sunshine
-during an argument about incest in fic, I'd like Joss Whedon to come in and say River spying on Simon/Kaylee in "Serenity" was a nod to River/Simon shippers
-during an argument about fb I'd like Joss Whedon to come and remind us all that comments are our friends.

Actually, I'd love for him to be able to say whatever the fuck he pleases. BtVS and AtS are now finished products, imo, and unless he pulls a George Lucas he cannot change them. The man exists entirely separate from the creation to me. As such, I'd love to know his opinions about them and anything that goes on in fandom without this idea people seem to have that suggests he has "authority" and "responsibility" to fandom. However, since the world doesn't work that way, I guess he has to be careful.

We'd like to thank you for the interesting question and participation in this project to keep tkp entertained. You get a golden star!

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

I'll use my standard, 'cause I like it: five favorite smells.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so interesting!

-outside, just before a storm
-wood burning on a cool night, from a distance
-Christmas at my house
-my mom's banana bread
-old books

We'd like to thank you for keeping tkp entertained. Your lifetime supply of marzipan in your pie plate will arrive shortly. Bingo!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I thought chicken run was much more touching.

-McDonald's french fries dipped in Wendy's frosties

There is a fic where Buffy eats that very thing and skeeves Angel. I know how he feels.

The Angel/Buffy kissing in his apartment in Innocence is my top hot moment!

-when Jack got tortured (naked) in S2 of "24"
Wait til season 4, when it's all torture, all the time!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

There is a fic where Buffy eats that very thing and skeeves Angel. I know how he feels.

I must've written it in another life. I've never met anyone who's ever thought of that snack, much less loved it as I do.

The Angel/Buffy kissing in his apartment in Innocence is my top hot moment!

I like the IWRY kissing scene more, but this one is my definite second. Like, ever. Those two look so hot together. And I love how Angel looks in white, and I love how young she is, and I love how's he's all sleepy-bye, and I love how he went and had all these erotic dreams about her just afterward, and hated himself for it.

Wait til season 4, when it's all torture, all the time!

I saw S4, but there was no nakedness of Jack, so it did nothing for me.

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

Five things George Orwell, E.M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf would talk about if they met up for dinner.

*is writing an essay on British essayists in the late 19th/early 20th centuries*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I have never read any essays by any of these people. Of course I've read several Orwell and Forester novels though. Never any Woolf though (yes! I am a graduated English major) because I am afraid of Virginia Woolf.

-First and foremost, the weather.
-society and conformism
-women's rights
-time
-language

all with an undercurrent of sexuality.

We appreciate your effort to keep tkp entertained. Here is a free Woolf doll to show our appreciation.