Got this meme from chakramchucker

The top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, strike through what you couldn't stand. (I also truetyped the ones I'd never heard of. I could've done something else to the ones that are in my house right now, but I though that might be going a bit overboard)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey (I've read a few novelisations, but not the original)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad (Again, I read a few novelisations, but not the original)
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (I just haven't got around to this one yet)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha (Seen most of the movie)
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (Been meaning to read this one, just to see what it's like)
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula (I'm not sure whether I finished it or not)
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (I've been thinking of reading this one)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
Angels & Demons (Uh, the Dan Brown book? What's this doing on this list?)
1984
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels (I saw a movie of it a long time ago. I don't really remember it, though)
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (It centres on a stereotypical autistic boy! How could I not have read it?)
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (Some people said that Holden was a really annoying protagonist, but I felt like I could relate to him)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values
The Aeneid (Novelisation!)
Watership Down (But I've read Firebringer, which I hear is a total ripoff of this book. Does that count?)
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island (I've only seen the Muppet version)
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

I chose to spend last night writing instead of responding to comments and friends list posts, and I don't think it's a good idea to do that before breakfast. But I will do that personality test I've been seing.


A few enters to prevent the results from running off the screen...



My Personality

Neuroticism	97
Extraversion	2
Openness to Experience	59
Agreeableness	86
Conscientiousness	23

You often resist any cravings or urges that you have, but sometimes you give in, however you experience panic, confusion, and helplessness when under pressure or stress. You tend not to talk much and prefer to let others control the activities of groups. You prefer familiar routines and for things to stay the same. You can tend to feel uncomfortable with change. You are tenderhearted and compassionate, feeling the pain of others vicariously and are easily moved to pity, however there are times when you believe that a certain amount of deception in social relationships is necessary, however you are mostly candid, frank and sincere. People find it moderately easy to relate to you. You are not an overly cautious person. You will think about alternatives and consequences but make up your mind fairly quickly.

Take a Personality Test now or view the full Personality Report.

( And because I'm sure you care deeply about my in-depth results... )


The results seem pretty accurate, but I'm not surprised. They're exactly what I just told the test I was like. I've done a lot of personality tests, and the questions become pretty transparent after a while. They're still fun, though.

The results of the personality tests I take usually change depending on whether I'm talking about how I am on the Internet or how I am in real life. But the only thing that really changes is my introversion. I think it would've gone up 30 or 40 points if I'd been answering the questions with the Internet in mind. It's pretty accurate in real life. I'm sure that if I talk to people I'll do all the non-verbal things wrong and they'll think I'm being rude. So I don't bother. I will eventually, I've been practising on the Internet where I'm more comfortable.

Now that my MP3 player's been filled up so that I had to delete some of my older stuff to get my new stuff on it, I'll do the life soundtrack meme again.

Instructions: Put your music player of choice on shuffle. For each part of the soundtrack, put the first song that comes up. The result is the soundtrack of your life.

( This one I'll cut. My taste in music is generally considered bad, anyway. )

What a strange movie.

I'm going to do that meme where you describe things you like or have liked in an unusual way and challenge people to guess them. I don't care how many you're supposed to do, I'm doing as many as I want. It's fun.

1. Teenagers sit around wondering if fighting aliens is the right thing to do. Sometimes they get up and do some actual fighting, if stuff doesn't try to kill them all on its own first.
2. Children build outlandish technology and fight a pyrokinetic man with father issues.
3. Small town of hideous mutants talk to each other a lot, and it's hilarious.
4. Slightly sarcastic man goes into a difficult profession partly to talk to his childhood friend.
5. The adventures of three perpetually broke friends, the others in their neighbourhood, and absolutely nobody else.
6. Young genius saves the galaxy after being hit on by a monstrous alien, and having sex with a human-like alien.
7. Bald kid has a little over six months to learn an art that takes a lifetime to master.
8. Group of misfits save the world by replanting a tree.
9. King is betrayed by his firstborn son, and it's up to his secondborn son to save his world, provided he doesn't kill himself with a drain first.
10. Romanian cat and dog have adventures to a repetitive musical score.
11. Four kids save the world when the player bails them out of the final boss fight.
12. Two friends journey through a series of worlds where even the oranges have eyes, to find jigsaw pieces with which to save a little girl.
13. Psychic girl in a pseudo-medieval setting runs around a vast underground complex run by a supercomputer, in jeans.
14. Hostile alien comes to Earth, but sits there and waits for almost sixty-five million years before it decides to attack. Then it doesn't attack again for another fourteen thousand years.
15. Large cast of characters run around on a physically impossible planet. Also, movies and rock music distort the nature of reality.
16. Thirteen-year-old girl creates the universe without realising it. She is later stopped from creating another universe by a kiss.
17. Ten-year-old goes to camp and learns how to set stuff on fire with his mind. He later flashes back to high school.
18. Man is totally on the rebound for a whole season after his girlfriend gets sucked into an alternate universe, until his new girl gets fed up and leaves.
19. A well-known American president kisses a well-known spiritual leader.
20. Small town of weird people talk to each other a lot, and it's hilarious. Not a lot goes on otherwise.

Okay, that's enough. Guess!

I also got some nice clothes from my sister for my birthday. And later in the day, my dad bought me Team America: World Police, which I found very amusing. I think my favourite song was the one about how much Pearl Harbour sucked.

Also, I was browsing YouTube yesterday, and I noticed that the person who'd uploaded the entire first season of Sheep in the Big City had startd on the second season a few hours earlier. It's a my birthday present! It came to me on my birthday! It was also very good timing, because I'd just finished watching the final episode of the first season the night before.

And Elcool drew some art for one of my fanfics. This one, to be exact. I was pretty thrilled. This also came to me on my birthday. In Israel. But I'm pretty sure Elcool knew that. I quite like his gallery, actually. You should check it out if you haven't already.

So anyway, chakramchucker tagged me.

Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!

( Ten weird facts this time? )

I'm sure I'm not usually that boring. Oh well. I tag comet80, fray_joker kartoonkween, open_embrace, roxy317 and mwagen.

It took me ages to find the Centrelink office in Tuggeranong. Again. But now I now where it is. Past Homeworld from the Hyperdome. I'll remember that. I hope.

Anyway, here's one of those interactive memes.

Pick a fictional character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions to the best of my abilities.

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.

2) Is he/she important to the general plot?

3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?

4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?

5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)

6) Is there anything about the character you would change?

7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)

8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?

9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone whose new to the fandom?

10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

Got this meme from fandom_memes, which I just noticed is being posted in again. I thought I was watching it but apparently not.

Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.
1. Homestar Runner
2. Order of the Stick
3. Psychonauts
4. Doctor Who
5. Phoenix Wright

( The questions )

Stolen from open_embrace.

I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my f-list, so I want to know you better!

Be honest! Copy from here then send directly to me in a comment then, repost the empty questions.

( The Questions )

In other news, never stay up late reading the TV Tropes Wiki's entries on Nightmare Fuel. Can't sleep... Headcrab'll eat me...

Doing a couple of those memes where you pick Twelve characters and then answer questions. No looking at the questions beforehand. Also I guess you assume everyone's bi in these memes?

My predictable list:

1) Marzipan
2) Strong Sad
3) Homestar Runner
4) Coach Z
5) Homsar
6) King of Town
7) Strong Bad
8) Poopsmith
9) The Cheat
10) Pom Pom
11) Bubs
12) Strong Mad

( Pairing oriented )


( Not so pairing oriented )

Okay, that took a long time.

So I just found this comm, fandom_memes, and there are so many memes I want to do, as I love fandom. But for now, I'll just do these two. When I could be outside doing something else. It's too hot for that.

( Fandoms as lovers )

( Fanfiction of 2006 meme )

And mwagen thinks I should go to ROFLCon, but for some reason my parents don't want me to spend all my money on plane tickets. I wonder why that is.

Now, allow me to tag this entry with every fandom I mentioned in the multifandom meme, that I already have a tag for.

I got this meme from kartoon_kween.

"Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name. Click random article again; that is your album name. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album."

But I'm going to do it with the Homestar Runner Wiki instead because everything's funnier with Homestar Runner. It isn't? Well, I'm doing it anyway.

Lem
Striped Green Rabbit

1. Ballad of The Sneak Visuals
   
2. The Poopsmith Other Costumes
   
3. Bubs
   
4. 20X6 vs. 1936
   
5. Pumpkin Carve-nival
   
6. Strong Bad 404 Error Page
   
7. Teen Girl Squad Issue 3
   
8. The Kinda Long-Haired Band
   
9. unnatural
   
10. 500 The Cheats
    
11. highschool
    
12. Exaggerations
    
13. Bad Graphics Ghost
    
14. Interviews and Public Appearances
    
15. Strong Bad's Technology
    

What genre is this band supposed to be?

Go to your journal's calendar view. Click on the first post you made in each month, and post the first line of it (skip memes). That's your year in review!

I kind of left LiveJournal in a huff last December, for reasons I've forgotten and probably don't matter, so I'll have to start with April.

April: So maybe I'm still lurking here.
May: :D :D :D [I linked to the fanstuff wiki here. I was pleased that I'd won Fanstuff of the Month.]
June: First: Who would win in a fight between Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Jack Harkness?
July: Best book since Goblet of Fire [This was actually the subject, but the rest of the post didn't make sense without it.]
August: I started a writing journal: shwooheartwords. [I need to use that more often.]
September: Bet nobody remembers this this icon [Again, this was the subject.]
October: Whose idea was it to hold NaNoWriMo during exam month?!
November: Okay, it's 9:30pm on the first of November and I have 2,357 words already.
December: I looked all through my friends list and couldn't think of a thing to say.

The best part was the two NaNo related posts.

I looked all through my friends list and couldn't think of a thing to say. I'm so bad at this. I did, however, find this quiz in open_embrace's LiveJournal.
( My online dating persona )

And now, to revise a story I'm working on.

So I got this meme off shippehmandy.

Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. Afterwards, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

I got E.

1. Ed Edd n Eddy
2. Email fics
3. Editing wikis
4. Eragon parodies
5. Encyclopedias
6. End-of-the-world myths
7. English language
8. Earthbound
9. eStrong
10. Everything

Okay, that was hard

I just took a personality test. It had questions about a lot of things. Here's the results.



The result about sex doesn't surprise me, but I'm more of an extrovert than an introvert? When did that happen?

I found this quiz on 6beckie6's DeviantArt account. You're supposed to reply with song lyrics, but I'm going to use Homestar Runner quotes instead. It's funnier. Besides, otherwise I'd have to put an angsting tag on in this entry, and I'm trying to cut down on those.
( Read less... )
There's a lot of Strong Bad quotes there, but Strong Bad has a lot of dialouge.

Comment with your username and I'll give you an honest compliment. Then post this in your journal and spread the love!

And I just did subtitles for five Homestar Runner cartoons in a row. I have some good advice for anyone who wants to do the same: Don't.

The number meme below reminded me of another one I did a year ago with characters and pairings. I found it very amusing, so I'm going to put it here. I did it twice with the same characters, but different numbers, for some reason.

Meme the First:

1)The Tommy
2)Edd
3)Ironclaw
4)Numbuh 239
5)Loren
6)King Jingaling
7)Klaymen
8)Ron Stoppable
9)Hazel
10)Lemony Snicket
11)Rayman
12)Ben Plotz
( Le questions )

1)Lemony Snicket
2)Ironclaw
3)Loren
4)Klaymen
5)Hazel
6)Rayman
7)Numbuh 239
8)Edd
9)King Jingaling
10)Ron Stoppable
11)Ben Plotz
12)The Tommy

( questionora )

Another meme, also from comet80. I was coerced into it! At knifepoint! [/silly]

Comment, and

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll challenge you to try something.
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
4. I'll tell you something I like about you.
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours if you haven't already.

I got this meme from comet80. It's funny.

( Answers )