The Deep and Menacing Ribbit

Stolen from most of the flist by now:

The Rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

Man, some of these are so incredibly easy...


1. Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Missus Pongo. | The Hundred and One Dalmatians - Dodie Smith, guessed by coltsbane.

2. It was a nice day. | Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, guessed by steelneko.

3. Peter Alander looked down at his handiwork with something approaching a smile, imagining what it would be like to have his first bath in over a hundred years.

4. I felt her fear before I heard her screams.

5. When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. | Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien, guessed by lyrainverse

6. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. | Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl, guessed by steelneko.

7. In the days following the holocaust, which came to be known as the Great White, there was death and madness. | Obertnewtyn - Isobelle Carmody, guessed by anomilygrace

8. He shouldn't have taken the shortcut.

9. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis, guessed by coltsbane.

10. "So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!" | Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson, guessed by lyrainverse

The Brother: *woefully* Frank Welker isn't in Transformers anymore.
Me: *distractedly* Uh huh, that's nice.
The Brother: *still woefully* And you know who's doing Megatron's voice now?
Me: *still distractedly* Dunno.
The Brother: *even more woeful and slightly scandalised* Hugo Weaving!
Me: YAY! :D
The Brother: HEY!

Hiro and Zach need to meet, and then bond over being geeks who get how incredibly awesome it all is.

And then Claire and Ando can bond over not getting geeks who get how incredibly awesome it all is

Because some things overcome all language barriers.

...

Also, I need a "Hiro & Ando BFF" icon or sommat.

For musicforcylons: ( Five things Callisto liked about being the cheerleading coach. )
For musicforcylons: ( Five gremlin bites (and ensuing antics) that never happened. )

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Plus a weetiny Bones ficlet.

Title: Girltalk
Rating: PG-ish.
Fandom: Bones, Booth/Brennan
Wordcount: 162
Disclaimer: Not mine. Never have been, never will be.

( Girltalk )

For mpoetess: ( Five Portals Cal didn't end up going through. )
For mpoetess: ( Five reasons Seely bought the leather skirt. )
For lyrajane: ( Five things Callisto (canon or FH) would never tell anyone she liked. )
For timjr: ( Five pop culture references Temperance actually got. )

More to come later, and I'm still open for prompts

Since everyone else is doing it. Yay bandwagons.

Five things meme: You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Phrases Batman Will NeverSay", or "Five Jobs House Wishes He Had" or "Five Things Dean WillNever, Ever Tell Sam"). Then, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

*points at interest list* Most of my fannish bents can be found there, and FH is totally included.

( Semi-random spoilerish rambling )

And in fandomhigh news, Bel and Seely have a date. Pity neither of them seem to have the slightest clue what the other is talking about.

So there's this comm, dracula1897, that's basically posting Dracula in real time. The journal entries, newspaper clippings, telegrams etc making up the book's narrative are being put up on the corresponding day using character journals.

It's kinda awesome.

ETA - *facepalm* Now with the correct username for the comm.

...you go to donate blood and when they take samples to test for AIDS/HIV/syphillis/etc, you have to quash the urge to say "You really don't have to check if I'm a cylon.".


Then you forlorn over the fact that you haven't actually got any BSG icons to go with this post.