Witness me!

[rogueslayer452]

++ It's already December. Time, it be weird.

++ The teaser trailer for Furiosa, the prequel movie to Mad Max: Fury Road, was recently released. Honestly, just like when they had announced this being made I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. I've seen varying opinions about it already, some I agree with and some I don't, but I want to reserve my judgment until we see the final product. Upon first impressions though I am a bit cautiously optimistic, so we'll see. With that being said, it certainly got me inspired to do a rewatch of Fury Road again, because it's been a hot minute and that film was absolutely phenomenal on multiple different levels.

++ A meme, taken from sunshine304:

Give me a topic, and I will answer with my top fives. Any subject, any at all.

Anything from fannish to general real life stuff. If there is anything that I cannot answer in its entirety I'll let you know, but otherwise go for it. :)

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I'd be interested to hear your five favourite fictional characters! Or, if it's tricky to narrow down a top five, any five characters who would be in your top ten.

[rogueslayer452]

Oh goodness, this really is a difficult one, since I have so many favorites across all of my fandoms over the years, and it often changes and rotates. These are the ones I can think of at the top of my head that belong of my top ten favorites, for sure:

01. Faith Lehane, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
02. Number Six / Caprica Six, from Battlestar Galactica
03. Inara Serra, from Firefly
04. Xue Yang, from The Untamed
05. Shen Wei, from Guardian
BONUS: Huo Wensi, from Detective L

I added the bonus because I couldn't just leave him out, he's been on my favorites for a while now but I wanted to make this list a combination of forever favorites and newer favorites.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! It can definitely be difficult to pin down favourite characters; I managed a top ten list recently, but I had to impose a 'must have loved them for at least ten years' rule to make it feasible.

Faith is the only character on your list I'm really familiar with, but she's a lot of fun! What a disaster. (I say this with nothing but fondness.)

[rogueslayer452]

Yeah, it really is hard, because I tend to collect favorite characters like Pokemon, lol, and part of me is trying to go through the catalogue in my head of who is my top favorites and I don't want to leave any of them out whenever making lists like this.

lol, yeah, Faith is a mess and that's why I love her. ❤

[fred_mouse]

Favourite five foods?

[rogueslayer452]

Top Five Favorite Foods

01. Japanese food (specifically my five faves are: steamed Gyoza, Udon, Kappa Maki sushi roll, sunomono, and miso soup with tofu)
02. Chinese food (mainly chow mein and steamed bao)
03. Pizza, either pepperoni or pineapple pizza
04. Turkey burgers
05. Anything chocolate (with certain exceptions)

[fred_mouse]

Om nom!

Many tasty things we appreciate in common. I am not familiar with turkey burgers, but the rest is all fabulous.

[haebin]

Favourite five colors
Favourite five cities
Favourite five persons from the past you would like to meet

[rogueslayer452]

Top Five Three Favorite Colors

(I can only really think of three, tbh)

01. Black
02. Red
03. Purple

Top Five Three People From The Past I'd Like To Meet

01. Anne Boleyn
02. Jim Henson
03. Rod Serling

That's all I can think of, at the moment. I know that I have more, but those are the only ones that are coming to my head. And as for favorite cities, I don't think I have any? There are cities that I would love to visit someday, but otherwise I haven't really gone to many where I'd consider them my favorite.

[haebin]

Thanks for the answer :)

[itsnotmymind]

Five favorite super powers

Five favorite fictional romances

[rogueslayer452]

Top Five Favorite Superpowers

01. Telekinesis. Ever since Matilda, I became kind of fascinated by the ability to move objects with your mind.
02. Pyrokinesis. Similarly, since Stephen King's Firestarter, the ability to start fires with your mind also kind of became an interest to me as a superpower.
03. Psychometry. I had to look up the actual word for this, but it's the ability to know the history of an object or even a person simply by touch. I'm someone who is fascinated by history and the background of where certain things originated from, so I've always thought it would be cool to have such an ability.
04. Levitation / Flying. I just like the idea of being able to float and fly.
05. Shapeshifting. Being able to become whoever or whatever you want. Having an ability similar to Mystique from X-Men would be amazing.
06. Omnilingualism. Because I really want to know how to read and speak all languages of the world, dammit, and it would come as being damn useful.


Top Five Favorite Fictional Romances

I'm assuming this is canonical fictional romances, which in that case my answers are, in no particular order:

01. Maria/Captain von Trapp, from The Sound of Music
02. Buffy/Angel, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
03. Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, from Guardian
04. Zhou Zishu/Wen Kexing, from Word of Honor
05. Six/Gaius, from Battlestar Galactica

[itsnotmymind]

I've never hard of psychometry! That would be a very cool one to have.

Thanks for the answers!

[elizalavelle]

I just realized I've always read her name as Anna Taylor-Joy but it's Anya. Good to know. I'm interested in seeing the film, I'm hopeful that as it's been a while since the last one this isn't just pumping out sequels for profit and that there is a story there that will be interesting. Visually things look great.

Top five books please :)

[rogueslayer452]

I do know that Miller wanted to do Mad Max: Wasteland which would've featured more of an extension of Tom Hardy's Max from Fury Road, something that had been discussed for years but nothing was coming from it, but it seems that with Furiosa having been announced there is a possibility of Wasteland becoming a reality after all.

Top Five Books

01. The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (anything by Jeff VanderMeer, tbh, he's quickly become one of my favorite authors in recent years)
02. Out by Natsuo Kirino
03. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
04. Battle Royale by Koushun Tamaki
05. Dune by Frank Herbert (I would say the entire Dune saga by Frank Herbert, especially the first four books, but the first one for sure)

[elizalavelle]

Out is the only one of those I've not read or heard of so I'll add that to my list :) I don't think I've read Battle Royale but perhaps I saw a movie based on it? I should read it too. Jeff VanderMeer is great, I really liked the Southern Reach series too and should read more from him.

[rogueslayer452]

Out is such a good book. Natsuo Kirino is also among my favorite authors, she's written some amazing books (the ones that have been translated to English, at least, she has more that I wish would get translations because I want to read more of her work). I highly recommend reading the Battle Royale book, it's so great. I adore both the book and the movie.

I suggest Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, especially since you liked The Southern Reach Trilogy. I read that one directly after reading those books and it further solidified why he was becoming my favorite author.

[elizalavelle]

Oh I bought Borne! It looked so great, I just haven't read it yet so I really must get to reading it ASAP :)

[sunshine304]

How about top 5 villain songs? (Doesn't matter whether it's from movies, musicals, tv shows...)


I'm also hovering between excitement and wariness re the Furiosa trailer. There are some really cool shots in it and it's got the aesthetic; also Chris Hemsworth seems to be having a blast. It's still looking very CGI-y (the images are far too "clean") but then again they still have 6 months and it's one of the main criticisms I've heard of it, so I'm sure the people responsible will have heard it too. XD The first trailer for MMFR also looked much cleaner and even included unfinished shots, sooo...
Generally, I have faith in Miller so I'm with you on being cautiously optimistic. *fingers crossed*

[rogueslayer452]

Yeah, those criticisms are the ones I saw, and while I was definitely feeling the hype while watching it there was definitely lingering sense that something was a bit "off" somehow. I know that it's unfair to do comparisons before one is even out yet, but since Fury Road was notoriously known for being a very long and difficult filming process, it's obvious that Miller wouldn't want to do something that strenuous again, so the quality and filming is going to be noticeably different. Which isn't to say that's a bad thing, it's just that with the industry being the way it is, where CGI is more noticeable because of how fast they want to churn out projects (and then abuse VFX workers due to this crunch time), people are understandably worried that this isn't going to measure up after what Fury Road brought us.

I don't know, like I said I'm reserving any judgment until we see the final result, but I'm leaning more to being on the positive side. Despite whatever obstacles, I do want this to be made well.

And now, onto my answers!

Top Five Villain Songs

01. "Legal Assassin" / "Let The Monster Rise", from Repo! The Genetic Opera
02. "In The Dark Of The Night", from Anastasia
03. "Hellfire", from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
04. "L'assasymphonie", from Mozart, L'Opera Rock (although this probably doesn't count as a villain song, Salieri is Mozart's rival and this song kind kind of really displays that jealousy)
05. "Toxic Love", from Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (truly, Tim Curry didn't have to go that hard at making a some about pollution be sultry and sexy, and yet here we are)

[sunshine304]

Great choices for the songs!

Though I have to check out Repo! again because it’s been so long that I don’t remember the song titles anymore. XD

But yeah, “Hellfire” is amazing, “In the dark of the night” is also really awesome. Funnily enough, I immediately think of this song when that line shows up in a fic or something. XD His German voice actor is also one of my favourites of all time – Joachim Kemmer, who was the voice of so many iconic characters in my childhood (Jafar, Sebastian the crab, Lumiere, Rafiki plus many many more).

Ferngully was a bit of a weird movie and that villain song sure was something else. XD
 

[rogueslayer452]

I have some of the songs from the Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtrack on constant rotation. But overall it's such a fun and campy movie.

Ferngully was among my childhood favorites. It's been so long since I've watched it though.

[sunshine304]

I really enjoyed the music of that movie back when I watched it, and the whole style of it. Even paris Hilton was fun! XD

Ferngully doesn't hold up super well but it's still fine. I've got far less tolerance for the bat nowadays, but I still like the main character, most of the songs (I was obsessed with that love song where they're in that cave, sooo pretty!) and the animation is also really okay.

[svgurl]

Top 5 Drinks?
Top 5 Scents?

I may snag this one from you. :D

[rogueslayer452]

Top Five Drinks

01. Strawberry Lemonade
02. V8 Fusion Juice (specifically Strawberry Banana and Peach Mango)
03. Wendy's Chocolate Frosty (technically a dessert rather than a drink, but I think it qualifies)
04. Hot chocolate / chocolate milk
05. Water

Top Five Scents

01. Strawberry. ❤
02. Winterberry Ice (because it's that time of the year again, this is my favorite scent from Bath & Body Works)
03. Anything with a fruit scent, to be honest. I prefer that over anything floral, since floral scents are too strong for me and make me sneeze.
04. Fresh linen/clean sheets, basically anything that has been washed and has that fresh smell that I love.
05. The smell of rain. :)