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[anactoria]

Jumping aboard the 'top 5' bandwagon (because I identify with that High Fidelity mindset far more than anyone female is allegedly supposed to).

Ask me for any top five fannish things. Watchmen, NuWho/Torchwood, Pirates of the Caribbean, Top Gear, Petshop of Horrors, general Lovecraftian nonsense... knock yourself out!

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[smirnoffmule.livejournal.com]

Top five slash pairings!

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll do the easiest one first (not that narrowing it down to five is easy, but hey.) I'm guessing you meant m/m and femmeslash. ;)

5. Christina Romney/Anya Rothrock (Losing Christina)
4. Adrian Veidt/Jon Osterman (Watchmen)
3. Tia Dalma/Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)
2. Adrian Veidt/Dan Dreiberg (Watchmen)
1. Leon Orcot/Count D (Petshop of Horrors)

As you can see, I have a bit of a god/mortal thing.

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

Top five bits of Lovecraftian paraphernalia that you would like to own, real or fictional.

(Oh, and have some hamsters with your Lovecraft.)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

God, this could take some time. ;) THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT!

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

(Oh, this is the lady who made my Cthulhu-on-a-Stick puppet. She doesn't have those on the site, but I can attest that the Cthulhu Spawn are adorable in person.

I'm also sooo tempted to ask her to make one of these - the second one down - in Bubastis form. She'd do it; she has a fabulous sense of humor.)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Haha! I'm not sure whether that would be cute or disturbing. (I love the Moothulhu, too. :D)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

So. Um. That list. ;)

5. A Cthulhu plush. Preferably this (http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/images/tvsupercplushtitle.jpg) one. It saddens me that I've been obsessing about Lovecraft for nigh-on three years now, and still nobody I know has got me one for Christmas. :(
4. Exham Priory. Yes, yes, I know it was a hotbed of cannibalistic debauchery and bizarre cultism, but I find the idea of a secret underground cavern piled with bones oddly beautiful. (Don't ask me why, I've no idea.)
3. After our conversation the other day, I have decided that I need one of these (http://www.miskatonic.net/pickman/mythos/bottle.htm). I'll put it on my shelf in the postgrad tutor office and use it to scare unsuspecting students. Now all I need to do is get myself some craft skills...
2. I think I actually would give away a limb to own an original copy of one of Lovecraft's letter. He wrote hundreds more words of correspondence than fiction, and some of them are fascinating. Those from the period after Sonia had left him, where he details how he was surviving in grinding poverty, are absolutely heartbreaking. Obviously I don't agree with/endorse many of his views, but some of the letters really make me feel for the guy nonetheless.
1. Well, obviously. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon) ;)

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

*sees icon, dies*

Really nice list. No one has gotten you a Cthulhu yet? C'mon people, get with the picture, srsly.

(I really hope you do a Bottled Deep One and it turns out well. I have likewise been tempted to make my own, although I foresee...issues should I try to ship it out of Thailand, because customs inspectors Will Not Get It.)

The original Lovecraft letter? Oof, yeah. I feel for the guy too-- he really had a shitty hand dealt him, although like you said, that doesn't excuse his attitudes towards some things.

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

(Hee. I wish the webcomic was still going)

I know, right? It's not like I don't drop enough hints.

I foresee...issues should I try to ship it out of Thailand, because customs inspectors Will Not Get It.

Hehe! Yes, I can imagine it wouldn't go down too well.

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Yes, I can imagine it wouldn't go down too well.

I would totally try it, except my goal is not to be That Person that gets a rule named after them in the Official Departure Handbook from my husband's employer. :)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! Can you imagine the utter WTF looks from future readers?

[eugenetapdance.livejournal.com]

Top five potential crossover pairings that you'd like to see.

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Ohh, that's difficult. I'll have to do some thinking. I tend to mostly think of crossover stuff just in terms of the characters being friends and hanging out, for some reason. (In my head, I like to think that the Petshop of Horrors was in New York during the '70s, and D and Adrian were bffs and hung out exchanging pet care tips and bitching about how hard it is being so much more fabulous than everyone else. There are so many similarities between them it's scary.)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

This was really, really difficult. My brain obviously fails at pairing people who aren't from the same fandom.

5. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)/Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
Yes, yes, I know it's obvious, and somebody's probably written it already. But it would be lulzy. And an Epic Battle of Egos.
4. Christina Romney (Losing Christina)/River Tam (Firefly)
Christina's canon best friend (with whom I will always maintain she is a little bit in love) is Anya Rothrock, a brilliant student and all-round golden girl who ends up completely mentally broken. Christina is always harping on about her inner strength, and I think she kind of needs someone to look after, plus she does seem to have a bit of a thing for weird, dreamy girls. But Anya's so passively accepting of her fate that it gets frustrating. River has more spark and mischeif about her, and I think she'd appeal to Christina's rebellious side. In my head they'd exist in some bizarre mashup of both their universe, where River encourages Christina to sneak off on ridiculous adventures, and Christina helps River stay grounded through the power of stodgy food and pretty things.
3. Bubastis (Watchmen)/Femto-kun (Petshop of Horrors)
Because PSoH begs to be crossed over with absolutely everything. Femto is an Egyptian Mau who also happens to be the reincarnated spirit of a boy pharaoh. (I should probably mention that animals take on human form under certain never-fully-explained conditions in the Petshop. In my headcanon, at some point Adrian takes bb!Bubastis there to show her off to D, and her 'human' form is about ten years old, very pretty, very snooty, and slightly creepy. Rather like kid!Adrian himself, actually. Femto runs around doing ridiculous stunts and showing off in front of her, and she occasionally deigns to grace him with a smile. But secretly she's impressed.)
2. Richard Hammond (Top Gear)/Simm!Master (Doctor Who)
I'm kind of cheating with this, because I have already seen it, and I ship it entirely because of one fic. "Parliamentary Privilege" by twitchbell is a brilliant, unpleasant, and uncomfortably hot mind-control story, which I would link, but for the fact it's posted in a flocked community.
1. Adrian Veidt (Watchmen)/Papa D (Petshop of Horrors)
They're both brilliant, beautiful, charming, manipulative, utterly terrifying, and working on Super Sekrit science projects. I sort of imagine that they're both developing secret uber-weapons, find out somehow, and initially think they're working towards a common goal. Then they realise they're doing it for completely opposing reasons (Adrian wants to save humanity; D senior actually does want to destroy it for killing his people) and There Is Much Fucked-Upness.

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

...Dude. DUUDE. (using the term in the generic sense, of course) Someone on the kinkmeme requested a Watchmen/Petshop of Horrors crossover, and of course you came to mind.

(Do eeeeeet!)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Seriously? How on Earth did I manage to miss that one? :-o

(I do have half of one sitting on my hard drive, actually, but I'm not sure whether or not it's salvageable. PSoH does scream to be crossed over with absolutely everything, though.)

[flyingrat42.livejournal.com]

I'll dig it up later, but Work Computer + Kinkmeme = Do Not Mix.

...Someone proposed that Dan goes into the shop and comes out with a weird ginger hobo. I like the idea of Adrian, though, like in your crossover pairing above. (What the HELL, self. It's me; of course I want as much Adrian as possible.)

[anactoria.livejournal.com]

Well, I can only agree. Because a) my two favourite fictional characters of all time drinking tea and being snarky together? Yes please! and b) while I think Rorschach might well appreciate the Ds' brand of cautionary tales, I somehow doubt they'd be overly taken with him.