A couple of memes

[tree_and_leaf]

From grondfic

Comment and I'll--

1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8 - In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

From mrstater

Comment and I will pick 3 things from your Interests list for you to explain a little about.

Comments

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Go on - I'm feeling vain today.

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1. I think I knew your fics on FA first (where I lurked for a long time before getting a user name), and it was Grawp and the Runes that did it. It warmed the cockles of my philological heart....

2. Big Space Rockets.

3. You seem to be fair-minded and honest, without coming over all worthy-but-dull - also, to be trite but true, I always enjoy reading your posts, whether fandom or RL related, and you write excellent fics.

4. Either the sequence of posts about the wedding, which were fascinating, or the discussion about Zombies In the Basement.

5. Grawp. I had always thought he had potential to be really interesting, and you proved it.

6. What drew you to study China and the language(s?)

7. "Illogical" - the expression is brilliant. I also like your default, though I still haven't read ASOIAF.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

1. I'm glad someone else likes the Grawpfic - it's my favourite, and also my least read major fic.

2. Yay! Someone associates me with Big SPace Rockets! (admit it, you were just trying to be nice, weren't you?)

3. *blushes* - you're just trying to make me feel better, aren't you?

4. Thank you for enjoying the wedding drama-llama - and I have a great fondness for your orcs in the Bodleian too!

6. I was always good at languages, and always wanted to try something different. Chinese was about as different as I could get!
I first suggested studying Chinese to rile my German teacher - it succeeded, but also seeded the idea of China in my mind. Once I started reading around the subject I was hooked - and at that time China was even less understood than it is now.

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Much of my work in German at school was to annoy the German teacher. Which sounds stupid, but she'd made it very clear she didn't like teaching German and only wanted to do French....

(actually, I think it probably is stupid nontheless, but never mind...)