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

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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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I love peanutbutter, and I'm not too big on fudge, so I'm stickin' to my guns. Sadly, the Kahlua cake at my Mexican place has gone through at least 4 variations (they keep switching dessert cooks) and the latest isn't as good. But I'd love to compare, too!

Top 5 lines in fanfic:

-last line of chrisleeoctaves's fic, Old Ghosts: For a long moment he said nothing and then he replied: “This is what I can have.”
-last line of romanyg's fic, His Body a Boat: His body a boat, his soul an anchor.
-from kita0610's fic, Dead Sea: Connor falls to his knees in front of Angel like bells breaking, like cathedrals crumbling.
-from glossing's fic, Mystery Play: She touched him one night in January, took him deep inside, and the pleasurepain of it all didn't cease until May, until she returned the motion.
-from a2zmom's fic, Dance: She remembered, sadly, a time when her name was a sacrament, but she wasn't surprised that she was no longer the cornerstone of his religion.

Top 5 lines in my own fanfic:

I just chose one from each fic, since I have five.
-Down There In The Reeperbahn: The world is your cunt is an alley, rainy and dark; his dick was his -and-take is your stake; your child is your give-and- your final climax.

(I am really, really proud of that sentence in my head, but I'm still not sure it makes sense to anybody else. It's very convoluted.)

-from Bodiless Within The Bodies: She is someone else now, some shaley fossil of herself with herself piled atop herself atop herself atop herself but without that single self underneath, and she’s so thick, so gravid with life and death she’s sure she can’t fit anywhere, this woman who is the Slayer but who is also Buffy, this woman who is a killer but also a friend, this woman who will love Angel forever and ever—but also, she realizes with horror—a woman who no longer loves Angel at all—this woman who’s been to Heaven, lives on Earth, and feels like she’s in . . . she’s in-between, she’s in God, where am I?, she’s in . . . Hell, Buffy, that question should be “who” . . .

(same for this sentence. What I'm impressed with is that I could bear to write that Buffy sees part of herself as someone who doesn't love Angel any more. I wanted that to be a part of this fic, but I have a hard time with the idea, so...)

-from Blood Types: Her womb is a mud-soaked grave, and she births you in cold blood.

(I'm just impressed that those two ideas--the womb as a grave and the play on the idiom "cold blood"--came out so simply. I have a tendency to convolute things.)

-from The Confessional: He’s looking at one of his hands; the fingers are moving, thumb and forefinger, a caress over a bead that isn’t there.

(I just like that image.)

-from Best Souvenir: "Giles and I were debating between the An-GEL-us and the AN-gel-us option.”

(BS is much more about the story, so I try to make the style as unobtrusive as possible. As such, I'm mostly unimpressed by the way I phrase things. I do like this line though, because I love it when fics--especially long epicky fics--can work in something that kind of jokes at the show or nods to fans.)

5 top novels

It's be impossible to name them, because I read novels for two main different reasons which don't really cross over: enrichment and escapism. Usually, these fall into the genres of classics and fantasy (respectively), so I just picked five authors in each of those genres.

Top 5 classic novelists

-Jane Austen
-Victor Hugo
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Ayn Rand
-Charlotte Bronte

Top 5 best fantasy novelists

-Guy Gavriel Kay
-Robin McKinley
-Jennifer Roberson (not for her fantasy, but for her historical fiction, which is fanciful enough.)
-Frank Herbert (okay, sci fi)
-Marion Z. Bradley, in honor of my preteen years (I'm guessing if I read her now I wouldn't think quite so much of her)

Thank you for making me think!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the responses, They were as rich and as informative as I had hoped. May I say I love your choices of fic lines you love by others, and by yourself? As to the novelilsts I have to say a big YES to Guy Gavriel Kay, who is one of my favorites, as well. I don't thik I've read mcKinley or Roberson, so I'll have to check them out. I really appreciate your sharing this with us.