So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So, new page, new topic: list your top favourite fandoms - let's say, we should limit to 10 tv and 10 book fandoms. You can list less in each category but no more.

It will be interesting to see how many we share. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here are mine

Top 10 TV fandoms:
1) Battlestar Galactica (the original)
2) Star Trek (classic, the original)
3) Babylon 5
4) Kindred: The Embraced
5) Tour of Duty
6) Merlin
7) Sherlock BBC ( the first 2 seasons - I despise S3)
8) Stargate: Atlantis
9) Star Trek: DS9
10) Torchwood

Top 6 book fandoms:
1) Tolkien's universe
2) The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
3) Taran books by Larry Alexander
4) Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie
5) Poirot novels by Agatha Christie
6) Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

There are lots of other books I love, but they can't be considered fandoms, so this is what I could think of off the top of my head.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's very cute!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Well done! Does the dance of the new page!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it isn't actually an alien? :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's exactly scary -- I loathe horror and never watch it, and it never gave me more than mild chills. But obviously different people are triggered by different things and -- not to give away the basic plot -- the premise is certainly quite dark.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Have you seen time-lapse videos of slime moulds?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, I'm afraid I lead a rather rural life here under the rock.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And here is another topic for you: are you currently working in the job you always wanted? If not, what did you originally want to do? Do you intend to try pursuing it still or have you settled for your current life?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this was surprisingly difficult, both to find anywhere near 10 television fandoms and to limit myself to anything like 10 book fandoms! I ended up cheating with the books and listing some authors.

Television
1. Twin Peaks
2. ST:DS9
3. Angel
4. Yes, Minister
5. Blackadder
6. Blake's 7 -- this was my entry fandom at least in terms of online interactions but I'm pretty much out of it now
and way below...
7. Forbrydelsen S1
8. The Hour

Books
1. Jane Austen
2. Earthsea
3. JRR Tolkien
4. Diana Wynne Jones
5. Jane Eyre
6. Eagle of the Ninth series & other Sutcliff
7. Norse mythology
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Good Omens & other Gaiman
10. LM Bujold Vorkosigan/Chalion series
and many, many more...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

This wasn't quite what I had in mind but it was the best Google came up with:

The Great British Year

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think this just underlines how out of touch I am with modern broadcast television -- the only one of these I've ever seen is Castle, and then only part of a programme!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, I condensed Tolkien, Larry Alexander and Agatha Christie, too.
Is there a meaning behind which ones are in italics on your list?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Trying to list fandoms is hard, especially if I think about fandom interaction vs caring about the canon.

TV
Babylon 5/Crusade
Doctor Who
Stargate
Firefly
West Wing


Books:
Tolkien
Swallows and Amazons series - Arthur Ransome
Bujold
Sucliff - various of the historical ones
Paksenarion series - Elizabeth Moon
Sherwood Smith
Far Distant Oxus - Katherine Hull and Pamela Whitlock
Noel Streatfield

And I should stop trying to make the lists now, I know I'm forgetting this and it is hard to pick.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Currently self employed web developer/unpaid carer. Neither of which I ever imagined being, but I never really came across a dream job. Maybe a some point in the future my health will be good enough to think about it and try to find something.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it could be fun to watch at some point. :)

Totally agree about rebooting things - it is a pity they can't come up with new stuff, instead of it all being continuations and reboots.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

ohh.. Castle - that is another show I'm way behind on.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

True - all tv seems to want relationship angst.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have lots of magnetic toys; they are all for purely educational purposes, I promise! ;-)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It might be; it bounces if you throw it at the desk, but if you leave it to sit it oozes into a blob...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it isn't easy, is it? You think findin ten would be hard, but once you start thinking about your favourites, fandom or not, you realize how little ten choices are.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I only got into The Great British Bake-Off part way through, too. Somebody at work commented on it to me, after the 'European' episode where the technical challenge was making a Swedish prinsesstårta, asking me if I had seen it and if this was indeed a typical Swedish recipe. I hadn't, but it is, and I said so. This got me curious enough about the show to see if I could watch that episode on the BBC iPlayer, only to find that the episode was on again on the weekend. So I set my PVR to recorded it, and once I had watched it I was hooked!

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And it was even relevant to the topic of the lecture. :-)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

It is! I wish I had time to read the entire three volume set of Feynman's lectures...