[Meme] Ask me my top 5 whatevers

[edenfalling]

Slightly modified from various places: Ask me my Top Five Whatevers, fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really. I will answer them all in comments or a new post. (But definitely not with pictures. *grin*)

Because I am bored and I hate all my WIPs -- including the two things I was trying to write for Femgenficathon and which I failed miserably to finish by even the extended deadline. Please help distract me?

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ETA:

--5 fanfics I will never write (but want to read), courtesy of aishuu

--5 favorite manga and/or anime series, courtesy of theodosia21

--5 favorite stories I've written, also courtesy of theodosia21

--5 Naruto characters who've had all of five panels, but deserve their own story arcs/gaidens, courtesy of leahnari

--8 favorite things to eat, courtesy of hungrytiger11

--5 favorite scenes from The Chronicles of Narnia, also courtesy of hungrytiger11

--5 favorite female characters (from my childhood), courtesy of uminohikari

--5 tropes I love, courtesy of rianax

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[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

Five favorite things to eat and Five favorite Narnia scenes

5 favorite things to eat

[edenfalling]

These chosen somewhat at random off the top of my head:

1. Coca-cola classic (...yes, it's a drink; I don't care; I love the stuff no matter HOW bad it is for my teeth)

2. rare steak with a bit of charcoal smoke from a grill and some A1 steak sauce and/or crispy bacon for flavor

3. alu palak and basmati rice (mmm, spinach and spice... alternatively, one can swap the rice out in favor of naan, which is the best bread in the history of ever)

4. dark chocolate with orange flavoring

5. cherry-flavored mini-strudel pastries

Bonus #6. calamari!

Bonus #7. chicken-flavor ramen noodles with no broth eaten as a side-dish (I do not care if this is weird; it was a staple of my childhood)

Bonus #8. Kalamata olives

Re: 5 favorite things to eat

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

We will never dine together.

Re: 5 favorite things to eat

[edenfalling]

Ah well. Still, there's no logic to taste, and no point arguing about it either.

Out of curiosity, what specific items are turnoffs for you?

Re: 5 favorite things to eat

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

I am world's pickiest eater... I like very, very simple foods. ^^;;

[edenfalling]

I am going book-canon only, and these are not in any particular order.

1. Everything in Charn, especially once Digory and Polly find the bell. The bleak desolation is amazingly powerful -- the silence and cold and despair shine through despite Lewis's limited descriptive talents -- and Jadis is chilling and awesome.

2. Aslan's death on the Stone Table. Again, very dark and powerful. (Also, I just love Jadis.)

3. Aravis and Lasaraleen hiding behind the sofa listening in on the Tisroc, Ahoshta, and Rabadash planning the invasion of Archenland. Chilling and tense and yet not without moments of humor. Also it brings realism to the Narnian's world's occasional ridiculously idealistic politics.

4. Puddleglum's speech to the Lady of the Green Kirtle, which may have been intended as a defense of Christianity but which I have always read as a defence of fantasy literature and just of living a moral and caring life in general despite an indifferent or hostile world (whatever the source of one's morality and connection to humanity and the world).

5. Either the final sections of VDT as they approach the uttermost East (from the Star's island onwards -- it's one of the best descriptions of the sublime bleeding into the regular world I have ever read, barring the climax of Diane Duane's The Wounded Sky, and also I love the passage about the Sea People), or the parts in the ruins of Cair Paravel and Aslan's How during PC when the sheer length of time between LWW and PC is brought viscerally home.