Biting the Bullet

[amalthia]

meme I got from icarusancalion

Comment and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, 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.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Meme me! (I feel justified, having already participated. Fair warning, though, that you could get a *lot* of responses)

[amalthia]

lol, I hope you don't mind waiting until tomorrow to get your response. :)

now as for responses...I posted the meme before the recs...I think some people may miss it. :) hehe hopefully this sneaky tactic works. :)

[amalthia]

1. Tell you why I friended you.

I'm pretty sure it's because of your recs. :) and I'm guessing I friended you around the time I found SGA because there weren't a lot of people reccing fics I liked to read but you kept finding stuff I loved so I friended you.


2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

Anime...I don't know why I think there was this girl that wrote a lot of anime porn named Mink and I just can't help but associate your name with hers. It makes no sense because I'm rather sure you never wrote Gundam Wing fics way back in 98.
3. Tell you something I like about you.

You don't seem to afraid to jump into new fandoms. :) Also I'm pretty sure we have similar tastes in music which is cool.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

I don't recall really talking to you, most of my memories are feeling happy when you have new recs.
5. Associate you with a character/pairing.

Jack/Daniel (but mostly because you wrote SG-1 fics)
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

Did you ever write anime porn???? :)
7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

You have this userpic of Inara by bheerfan that I just really like. (I like a lot of your userpics but finding really good inara icons isn't easy)
8. In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

[fryadvocate.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

[amalthia]

1. Tell you why I friended you.

You wrote a really good SPN fic and I wanted to keep track of your future stories. Wish there was a deeper reason...

2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

Strangely, wingfics. I say strange because I know the first story I read by you wasn't a wingfic.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

I like that you write in my LJ from time to time and you're always nice and friendly or have something encouraging to say. I also like that you write in more than one fandom but mostly at the moment are into Supernatural. :)

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

Most of my memories are of feeling happy when you post new stories.

5. Associate you with a character/pairing.

Dean, have a hard time associating with a pairing because I think my favorite stories of yours are Gen. :) but I love your Dean.
6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

where did you pick your username from?
7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

I love your Little Miss Sunshine pic. :)

[wyrdfae.livejournal.com]

do I have do number 8?
If I do, I guess I will...

[amalthia]

1. Tell you why I friended you.

Because I met you in real life and I really like you and was excited to find out you had a LJ and similar interests. :)

2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

Firefly! If it weren't for this show we'd never have met. :)

3. Tell you something I like about you.

I love that you have so many talents and are a very nice person and so much fun to talk with and hang out with. I never get bored being with you.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

I remember our all day Escaflowne marathon. mostly I remember how you laugh, loud and deep and it's fun to make you laugh. :)

5. Associate you with a character/pairing.

Starbuck :)

6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

Did you read all of Bad Blood (the SPN fic about the horses) that I sent you or just until it got to the sex?

7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

I love your Illyria icon.
8. In return, you must spread this disease in your LJ.

[wyrdfae.livejournal.com]

OOOO Starbuck is hot! I'm honoured!

I read most of Bad Blood. The sex was... not what I was in the mood for...so you haven't worn me down yet

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Me?

[amalthia]

1. Tell you why I friended you.

I read this really good HP story and I figured I'd better friend you in case you write more stories. :) and then I ended up moving to another fandom but I still enjoyed reading your LJ.

2. Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a color, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.

I kind of associate you with figure skating now. :) hehe sorry can't help it!

3. Tell you something I like about you.

I like that you put so much thought into the shows you watch and you make think about stuff and challenge my pre-conceived notions about stuff.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

I remember last semester you were having trouble with one of the creative writing stories you had to turn in and I pointed out something that just didn't jive for me and when you posted how much I'd helped in your LJ it made me really happy and relieved to know I'm not a bad beta.

5. Associate you with a character/pairing.

Lorne/John (after your last fic I'm hard pressed to think of another Lorne/John story is that hot)

6. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)

Do you know how to cook and what's your best/favorite thing to cook if so? :)

7. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

okay originally I was going to say Snape by mysterious artist but...then I saw your butt sex icon and I couldn't stop watching for a few moments. lol It kind of looked painful and the biki line drew my eye.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Do you know how to cook and what's your best/favorite thing to cook if so? :)

I do. I'll make a distinction between baking and cooking because I learned how to bake while I was kid, but I didn't really learn how to cook until I was in my late 20s.

Baking, I love to make breads, but I learned to bake because of a perennial sweet tooth. One of my favorite recipes is a fairly easy cream cheese cheesecake. The secret is to make your own crust. Oh. And to use the sugar to break up the cream cheese, just like you'd cream sugar into butter. wildernessguru went to the cheesecake factory, shook his head disappointed, because homemade was better. (I suspect they box up the different cheesecakes now and ship them, and that's why some of the flavor is gone by the time they hit your plate.)

I've made other, weirder things. For example, I once found a recipe for marshmallows. Yes, I actually know what goes into those. (They came out okay, if a bit, um, square.)

In terms of cooking, I'm a fan of Indian and Thai recipes. I've never been able to do the sauces (I need a food processor to grind the onion, garlic, and ginger that forms the base into paste) but frying the sharp spices so they permeate everything else -- yes. I want a real mortar and pestle to grind the spices, but for now I make do.

My favorite recipe is one that started as a Middle Eastern curry from a cookbook. Then over the space of a year as I'd be missing an ingredient, or add something, I started frying the spices first, then I started adding fish sauce... eventually I came up with a chicken dish with Thai coconut milk and fish sauce and traditional Indian spices. wildernessguru calls it restaurant quality, but I think I've made it a bit too often because we're both sick of it at the moment. ;)

You know that WG cooks, too, right?

Icarus