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Gacked from the_con_cept: Television of 2011 meme

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2011?
U.S./Great Britain: Downton Abbey, Camelot, Game of Thrones, The Borgias, Once Upon a Time, Revenge, Homeland, Grimm. Japan: Usagi Drop, Tiger and Bunny, Ao no Exorcist, Bleach, Nodame Cantabile, Princess Tutu, Chibi Devil, Hell Girl, Trigun, Ouran High School live-action. (Tried and quickly abandoned: D-Gray Man, Darker Than Black, Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru, Nabari no Oh, Petite Cossette, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Tried and put on hold: Durarara, Seka-Ichi no Hatsukoi, Break Blade, Deadman Wonderland, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei)

Which TV shows did you let go of in 2011?

Grimm was fine but I'm not so much into the horror aspect. I couldn't get into The Borgias, so, that one went. (I looked at My Little Pony. I really did. I wanted to fall in love with it. Didn't happen. Oh, well.) And there were a host of anime series I gave at least one episode but they didn't click (see above). I'm on hiatus from Bleach, somewhere around episode 70. I would like to resume it but am not sure when.

Which TV shows did you mean to get into but didn't in 2011? Why?

I would like to try more comedies but it rarely happens. I keep meaning to start The Big Bang Theory.

Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2012?

I'll keep on with the current ones, but I don't really know of any new ones showing up.

Which TV show impressed you least in 2011?

Any reality show I happen to wander past. Don't like reality shows as a whole. I need plot. (Okay, I confess to an irrepressible fetish for Say Yes to the Dress and the "which of the three houses will we buy" shows.)

Which TV show do you think you might let go of in 2012 unless things significantly improve?

I hung on with Homeland for a little longer and I think it's kept me, but I might not go past one season with it. And I read something in Entertainment Weekly that criticized The Office, saying watching it is "starting to feel like work," and I realized I agree. The new uberboss is just so depressingly overwhelming.

Which TV show impressed you the most in 2011? Why?

I'm really enjoying Once Upon a Time but what surprises me most is that mainstream audiences are too! And Revenge surprised me in making its premise work for me even without a direct character-to-character translation in its modernization.

I loved Game of Thrones and Camelot like mad. I'm sad about Camelot. They say couldn't secure the leads for more, darnit.

Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?

I can't wait for the next Game of Thrones season. I'm sure I'll stick with that one all the way through. I can't imagine I'll ever drop Doctor Who, either. I don't feel the backlash disappointment that everyone else seems to feel for Glee; I really love the show and can look past its flaws.

I love this meme. But I've turned out to be a terrible guesser on everyone else's, so I'm going at it from this angle.

I haven't written all of these pairings; maybe half of them? But I love them all.

"Guess the 'ship"

1. The young cripple/The scarred loner
2. The terrorist prince/The patricide
3. The guy with the red sportscar/The geezer
4. The plucky reporter/The devil
5. The black-haired chosen one/The mouthy blond
6. The altar sacrifice/The perfect servant
7. You were trying to impress him/You assumed he was their chief
8. The infinitely rich alien/The one who is not his son
9. "Don Jose"/"Carmen (understudy)"
10. The Englishman/The Russian
12. The would-be god/The one who knew it was him all along
13. His socks are so disgusting that.../...they cause this person to inadvertently fire employees
14. The time-traveling medical person/The redhead with great legs
15. Hates being called "little princess"/The one who's starting to root for him
16. The L.A. cop/The shopkeeper
17. The one named after the inquisitor/The one named after the Marlowe character
18. The vampire/The Italian
19. The watchdog/The spider
20. The one who's not left-handed/The not-so-master of disguise
21. She knew he would save her when she jumped/His heart dried up long ago
22. Always number two, but at least you have chocolate/Always number three, but at least you have number two
23. The bleached blond/The pageboy
24. You couldn't leave him to burn/You couldn't give him up to your parents
25. Rather had than a heap of gold/Rather had than any ship in the navy

Some are meant to be a little misleading and some are from more obscure fandoms. To me they feel so obvious it makes me blush. ^_^

ETA: The answers! Below the cut.

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OH MY GOD. I hate myself. That foodie meme? The one that I said I wasn't filling out because it would take all day?

FOUR HOURS. Fuckity. I could have watched an entire anime series in that time.

Anyway, here it is. Gah.

( Fifty-one question Foodie meme. )

The "twenty-five first lines" meme, from multiple people (cluegirl, schemingreader, bookshop, etc.)

Post the first lines from each of your 25 most recent fanfic pieces and try to find a pattern.

I love this meme, because it's showing me the flaws that I perceive in my own writing in a stark way. That surprises me because I'm always talking about how important an opening line is. Guess it's easy to talk about but harder to do.

( Meme this way )

Answers to the Quotes Meme:

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(crossposted to insanejournal)

That "fandom relationship" meme that's going around? Okay. Here's mine.


1. You're it. It's fun to go out occasionally after work and hit the oyster bar with a friend, and have a bit of conversation over a half-dozen Malpeques. But after? I want to come home to you. First you were a gorgeous set of spine dimples above a backless spangled dress, then I grew to love you even more when you were in flannel pajamas sprawled in front of the tv. You taught me what it means to commit to a relationship, both when it was easy and when it became tough to soldier on. After all this time, the sight of your jacket lying askew on my couch still makes my heart go pitter-pat. Yours is the hand I want to hold when we board the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World, yours is the hair I want to hold back from your face when stomach flu has you being sick in the toilet, yours is the phone call I want at 4pm asking me if I want you to pick up mango ice cream on the way home. You are the reason any time I spend away from you is just my "day job." Here's to another four years, darling. Put on the flannel pajamas with the Hello Kitty print; I'm bringing home oysters. Rowr!


So, yeah, that's, um, it.

All right, it's memeage, but I thought this one was fun.



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