Meme

Memed from tumblr, for distraction:

Ask me my top 5 of anything and I'll answer.

ETA: Preferably fannish!

Top 5 Meme - Answers

(I'm doing them in posts, just to be different. And so I can waffle or have pics if I want. ;-p)

persiflage_1 asked for Top 5 Liz Shaw fics (your own or others - don't be shy about blowing your own trumpet!)

Okay, this was hard to narrow down enough without attempting to blow my own trumpet, so here goes, focusing mainly on Liz rather than on ships as such, and not necessarily in any actual order as such, because that's too hard:

1. House Guest by Gary Merchant (I like that what happens in this is the opposite way round to what you'd expect, it's nice.)
2. Memory by Persiflage (very sweet Eight and Liz, which Pers wrote for me ages ago)
3. The Man in the Brown Tweed Jacket by nonelvis (Liz and Twelve at a conference, it's great)
4. What a Woman Can Do by llywela (great little character study)
5. Going Home by phantomlistener (a gorgeous overview of Liz's life)


And since Pers did ask for me to blow my own trumpet, I think my favourite of my Liz stories is the first Silver/Liz one I did (which is very much more Liz than Silver) - Scientific Spirit (or Five Times Liz Shaw met Silver).

(I'll get to David Collings presently!!)

For scripsi Doctor Who episodes (or serials, presumably, I don't think I could be here going on about episode 3 of six). So, ignoring the fact that I still feel weird about DW right now:

1. Ghostlight
2. The Robots of Death
3. The Aztecs
4. The Eleventh Hour
5. The Happiness Patrol

*prepares to fight over Ghostlight and Happiness Patrol which are awesome*


john_amend_all wanted Crack pairings, and I'm not sure what even counts as a crack pairing and do they need to exist or just seem cool? Here goes, on the basis of mostly "I just thought of them and they could totally be a terrifying thing.

1. Silver/Any sufficiently intelligent artificial intelligence
2. Servalan/Palpatine (please appreciate that I nominated it for space_swap, even though I am not getting it, because I've shaken my gift (it looks v shiny and much less scary). Like, what would happen? It would be amazing and terrifying.
3. Jenna/Steel (I kind of wrote this one, it was cool)
4. The Master/Servalan (bonus for Delgado or Missy)
5. Bill Potts/Kara Danvers (it would be very cute)

(Probably if I raided my 15 Characters tag, I could do better, but it'll do for today.)

He also asked for Female villains

1. Servalan (no surprises here)
2. Missy
3. Milady
4. Cora Mills
5. Cruella de Vil (OUaT version especially)

(I'd put Regina here, but tbh I definitely love her more when she's working on redemption, so I think she doesn't quite count. Even if she is also amazing when evil.)

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In other news, I just went for my walk round the block and was rather touched to see that in one of the streets in particular, people had been colouring pictures of rainbows and putting them on the windows with encouraging messages. ♥

el_staplador asked top five planets in Doctor Who

(Well, actually, they asked for top 5 fruits, but mainly anything to do with food is Complicated, but #1 is bananas in case anyone else was filled with the same burning fruit curiosity).

And I was trying to think about this, because New Who must have some good planets, but I think they mostly just have occasional pretty because they rarely have time for planetary world-building, so the only one I can really think of right now is the Rings of Akhaten where you got a feel for a culture and it was interesting. I'm sure there are others! My brain is like a sieve.)

1. Kaldor (we never even see it but it and its dangerously robot-dependent culture, decadence, art deco creepy robots, and snarky politicking is totally real and my fave. Bonus points because of Kaldor City)
2. Varos (again, we get a sense of its history as a prison colony, where it came from, and Etta and Arak's 'chorus' like function adds more. Not that I'd like to live there. I wouldn't want to live on Kaldor, but it'd be way better than Varos. Provided the robots weren't trying to kill you or Uvanov wasn't after your job or something).
3. Gallifrey (it's a stuffy old place, but pretty in New Who and we see a lot of it and who does not love the many Accessories of Rassilon? "I didn't know he was musical...")
4. The Rings of Akhaten
5. Inferno!Earth

(I am probably forgetting things here, but in my defence most DW classic planets are just a quarry again. The Doctor's always, like, "I'll take you to an amazing holiday planet!" and then you wind up in a quarry/Antarctica/Wales or you make it to the amazing holiday planet only to find it's being invaded. etc.)


lirazel asked for Top 5 Press Gang characters and while I'm sure Lynda would be totally okay with them all being Lynda, I shall not do that:

1. Lynda Day (I expect there probably is someone out there who might have a fave PG character who isn't Lynda Day, but not necessarily more than one and it certainly isn't me)
2. Kenny Phillips (so nice teddy bears sneer at him)
3. Colin Mathews (is Colin)
4. Spike Thomson (Lynda would be cross if we left him off)
5. Sam Black (I'm very sorry they couldn't get Gabrielle Anwar back for S3-5, even if Julie is also v good)


swordznsorcery asked B7 episodes:

1. Blake (I'm sorry, but yes!)
2. Star One
3. The Way Back
4. Rumours of Death
5. Orbit (Probably? At this point it gets tough)