top five things

[salinea]

More top five. And you can always ask for more by the way!

indigestible asked Top 5 works of science-fiction, any medium

1/ Distress by Greg Egan anarchism, gender, sexuality, ontological reality, mind-melting metaphysical hard science, YES!
2/ Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin gender, sexuality, taoism, long long treck in the snow
3/ Use of Weapon, by Ian M Banks BAM! ending, anachronological telling
4/ Brazil by Terry Gilliam (only movie of that list!)
5/ This Alien Shore by CS Friedman most realistic explanation for humanoid aliens ever, most awesome autist character ever


bitterfig asked for 5 favorite fictional f/f couples (can be canon, fanon or just wistful thinking)

1/ I'll be utterly cheating by naming Blackcest femslash, so I don't have to pick between Bellatrix/Narcissa, Bellatrix/Andromeda and Bellatrix/Tonks
2/ Juri/Shiori - because they're canon and messed up, because Juri's obsessed and because Shiori's a nevrotic passive aggressive wreck and I love her for it.
3/ Kendappa-Ou/Souma-Ou - because they're basically the female Seishiriou/Subaru
4/ Tohru/Saya - because they're the first generation of X's opera of angst, love and fucked up decisions made to rescue the ones you love. Because Saya is a mermaid sinner in an ocean of tears and how awesome is that? and because in Duklyon they go on a date to watch the X movie which is totally disturbing (someone please find me a scan of it)
5/ Ginny/Pansy - because they're both bitches in different ways and both would snark out at each others in the most delightful way

I don't know why, searching for this one, I kept feeling like I was forgetting someone obvious, not Melisandre/Phèdre though...

BTW, bitterfig, I need to rec you Bleed by redcandle17 which is going to make your brain melt. It's fairytale femslash.


a_white_rain asked for Top five10 reasons to like seishirou/subaru

1/ RAINBOW BRIDGE afkafkazjkdazjkhfjkfhjksfg which is just gorgeous and perfect and made of pure win and one cannot get tired of watching it
2/ Because of Seishirou's smile when he says Subaru's cute
3/ Because of Hokuto's speech about Subaru wanting someone for himself. Because Seishirou/Subaru is OMG angsty but either of them without the other would be even sadder
4/ Because of the hug in TB when talking about organ transplant. Because of the way it's echoed in X, and nothing beats a Wedding Eye
5/ Because of the dualism and symbolism, and the mythological references which makes it just perfect
6/ Because Seishirou will kill a puppy if you don't
7/ Because of this picture
8/ Because it's twisted, cruel, sadistic, poignant, morbid and utterly lovely
9/ Because there's no such thing as someone who shouldn't love anyone
10/ Because I.... you


curtana asked for Top five fictional couples who should really just get together already, dammit!

1/ Jaime/Brienne!
2/ Gerald/Damien
3/ Kurogane/Fai (although I'm not up to date with Japanese publications) tied with Rikuou/Kazahaya
4/ Saionji/Touya
5/ Byerly/Ivan

... I'm not sure this is a good answer to your question, since I mainly ended up pointing out slashy pairing, and I'm not sure that's what you were asking for...

Comments

[a-white-rain.livejournal.com]

8/ Because it's twisted, cruel, sadistic, poignant, morbid and utterly lovely
WHAT MORE TO WANT

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

AND THE MINDFUCKERY, I FORGOT TO MENTION THE MINDFUCKERY!!1!!1

[agent420.livejournal.com]

I adore your reasons for S/S. T__T One of mine is...that their story was one of the first to ever make me feel like I was drawn in, laughing and crying along with them over and over again.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

that's a good reason too, you're right :D

[bitterfic.livejournal.com]

I love your descriptions of all the f/f couples and I'll make sure to check out Bleed- I like nothing better than twisted lesbortic fairy tales. What fandom are Kendappa-Ou/Souma-Ou from? The whole female Seishiriou/Subaru thing sounds pretty irresistible.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Kendappa-Ou and Souma-Ou are from RG-Veda, by Clamp. It's one of their early work, and it bears some similarity with X, except with a Hindou mythology context instead of a modern one. I do like it a lot.

[bitterfic.livejournal.com]

I've looked at RG-Veda and been really intregued by the exotic look of the art. Now that I know it's also got angst and lesbians I'll have to make it a priority to read it.

[solesakuma]

Damn, I'm not that into S/S and yet your reasons are perfect.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! They're the ultimate OTP for me ^^

[hamsterwoman]

5/ Byerly/Ivan

*SNERK* (so true!)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! There needs more fanfic for them!!

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Ah, much love for your list of Seishirou/Subaru reasons. ♥ In my mind they are by far the best fictional pairing in the entire world EVER. They're just that good.

Saya and Tohru are in Duklyon? Right: now I must read that series. I ship Saya/Tohru very very much.

and because Shiori's a nevrotic passive aggressive wreck

Ooh, I wonder if the Utena fandom has many stories focusing on those aspects of her character. I think I'll go and have a look. If her personality is interpreted as merely "I'm evil!" then she's just not interesting, but put differently, she could be a lot of fun to read about.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

In my mind they are by far the best fictional pairing in the entire world EVER
They totally are!

Sadly Saya and Tohru only appear in that one panel of Duklyon so they're not really characters of it, it's more like a cameo, but I find it hysterical.

I wonder if the Utena fandom has many stories focusing on those aspects of her character
Weirdly enough, I've never read that many fanfics about Shiori, I'd like to, though, need to hunt it.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Ah, well Saya and Tohru have such little page time in X that just one extra picture of them makes a big difference. ^^ If I find it, I'll let you know.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

Wedding eye?! Ouch, you've traumatised me for life! XD

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

didn't make that one up! It's a well known fanon fact :p