1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."(Or equivalent.)
2. I respond by asking you a couple of personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Everyone else is doing it and I just didn't want to feel left out ;)


decidedly, who is tricksy and asks questions that require thought, asked the following:

1. You've been asked to assemble your own JLA-type crimefighting collective. Who are you picking for your team, comic character-wise?
A team of crimefighters. Right, you'll have to keep in mind the fact that I mainly read Marvel comics. First we need someone sanctimonious, who can wax lyrical about why crime is bad, and why superheroes need to use their powers responsibly to safeguard humanity. So, Cyclops. He's the boring one they all hate, but he's what holds them together - so tragic! Then we need someone to act Cyclops' foil. Someone who wants to hit first, and talk later. Punisher. Definitely. Cyclops and The Punisher. It's a perfect team. Sex appeal would come in the form of Kabuki from David Mack's Kabuki series (did you ever get around to reading those)? She would neatly stop the criminals in their tracks and see that justice would be served whilst Cyclops and Frank bickered in the background. For humour we will have Northstar, who will go around the place being smug and French-Canadian, and giving some secret 'special attention' to the more attractive male criminals. Which will obviously agitate Cyclops and Punisher to no end. For some reason, I really want to round this team out with Luna Lovegood, but she's not a comic character, sadly. Instead of her I'll go with... Molly from Runaways, because she's super strong and has very cute hats. She will clearly be the only person who seems remotely normal.
So, in summary we have Cyclops, The Punisher, Kabuki, Northstar and Molly. Best crimefighting team EVER!

2. What do you find most frustrating in a group setting, socially? And are you the life of the party, or more likely to observe?
I have to say I swing wildly between the two extremes. I quite often just disappeare into myself at parties, not knowing how to introduce myself to people or what to say. On the other hand, I'm quite adept at making random friends in very random situations. What do I find most frustrating in a group setting? That's really hard to answer, because I know there are bound to be lots of things that wind me up, but I can't think of any of them :/ I hate when a group of people you are out socialising with completely doesn't understand why you wanted there to be a group of people out socialising - the whole reason why you asked a group of people to go something with you. If you get what I mean. It makes sense in my head.

3. Has a movie ever made you physically ill? If so, which one?
The Passion of the Christ. It was disgusting. Completely gratuitous. And, of course, the Christian right was completely two-faced about the whole thing. Gratuitous violence in movies is bad - it makes our children become serial killers! Unless it's three hours of watching Jesus be tortured to death. That's acceptable violence. I went to see it with my Mum and we literally went to the first pub we could find and had a drink. Hideous experience.

4. Do you have a completely irrational fear? If so, what is it?
I don't like public speaking. Which is bizarre, because I was involved in speech and drama, and on my school's debating team. I did individual public speaking. I don't know how I used to do it. I also freak out if milk touches my skin. It's not a fear so much as an irrational hatred.

5. If you had the power to destroy something, be it an object or something more abstract, what would it be? And what would be your preferred means of destruction?
This is going to sound awful, but Northern Ireland. Good bye, Northern Ireland, no one shall miss you! Preferred means - I would blow the absolute shit out of it. Failing that, Christianity. A religion that has brought more intolerance into this world than almost any other. I would go back in time and bitchslap the people who wrote and translated the bible, forcing them to stick to a rather stricter version of the 'truth' rather than putting their own prejudices into it. Preferred means - bitchslapping.


veraxia asked the following:

1. What is your favourite word and why? (If it's in a language other than English, please give a definition as well.)
Hmmm... It's probably hierarchy. I just like the way it sounds. Especially when you turn it into hierarchical, which just makes me all squidgy inside. No idea why!

2. What's your favourite candy?
I adore white chocolate. And I love Kinder Eggs because they're milk chocolate and white chocolate all in one beautiful package. The toys are really rubbish these days though. I'm also addicted to flying saucers, so I do my best not to buy them.

3. If you could eliminate one character or concept from LJS canon, who/what would it be and why?
There are too many things to eliminate! How can I choose just one?! The concept I'd probably get rid of is the Millennium Battle, because that's just rubbish. The Wild Powers were an alright idea, but they were clearly LJS' attempt to add some spice and a continuining plot that went beyong 'I am so in love with you!'. Furthermore, the millennium thing was very cliched. Especially if we're assuming that the NW Council is composed of people who've been around for as long as Thierry and would therefore not necessarily be counting in Jesus time.

4. Do you have any good luck charms? If so, what are they, and why do you feel they're lucky?
No, I do not. I do have a couple of hematite necklace's though which always make me feel somewhat comforted.

5. If you were an X-Person, what would your superpower be?
Do you know, I'm not sure that I'd want any powers. I'm trying to think of one that made me go 'that was so cool!', but I can't think of one. Flight is always good, obviously. I think I'd enjoy being super-strong because I have always wanted to punch someone but I'm terrified that it would be the most pathetic punch ever and they'd laugh at me.


And, the very odd sio, asked me these:

1. You are given access to a time machine that lets you live in the past for two months. You can only go one place. Where and why?
... I have this thing about time travel in that it's not glamourous like people like to believe. If you really went back to the Roman period, or the Medieval period, you would not like it. Which means that'd I'd go sometime much more recent. I think I'd quite like to experience the whole 1920s Flapper culture, but I'd have to be quite well off or it just wouldn't be any fun! It could be just like Thoroughly Modern Millie, only without the psychotic Chinese laundry people trying to kidnap me ^_^

2. If you had to give up one fandom for a year (this includes fanfic/icons/discussing it with anyone), what would you give up and why?
I actually have done this, having abandoned the internet for about two years back around 2000. I can safely say that I could leave the LJS fandom behind quite happily. I dabble in lots of fandoms, but I only spend significant amounts of time in three - LJS, X-Men and Harry Potter. I'm afraid that I couldn't live without the HP fic!

3. What color can you just not stand at all and why?
Hot, hot, hot, hot pink. What's the point? It's blinding me with it's awfulness. I think my eyes might be bleeding.

4. If we ever get to meet, what would you plan for us to do together? (note - never been to Ireland XD)
Um... Okay, I would bring you up to Donegal for the weekend where we would stay with my family and you would get to experience 'real' Ireland. They live in a Gaeltacht area, so they all speak Irish fluently. Impromptu music sessions actually happen in the pubs, and there's a general good time had by all. Then we would go back to Sligo (where I'm from) and I would bring you to the seaweed baths, which would be followed by lunch and a few pints at The Strand, one of the local pubs. I would also arrange to have lots and lots of Star Trek DVDs, ice-cream, popcorn and the alcohol for lots of different types of cocktails =D

5. Per our discussion last night....Paramount calls YOU and says "we are doing a DS9 movie. we understand that the Odo/Kira fans wish for them to be reunited. your name was drawn and so you get to decide how that is incorporated into the script. what would you like us to do?" remember it has to be kept true to DS9 ideals ;)
Pfft. If it's true to DS9 ideals then Odo thinks that he has taught his people as he can and learned as much as he can in return, so he decides it time to go back to Kira, the love of his life. He returns to the station, and instead of things being awkward - like they are when you've been separated from a lover in real life - everything goes just swimmingly. Kira does not through the bucket at Odo's head. They make sweet, sweet love and then set out to save the Alpha Quadrant/Bajor from some terrible threat that has suddenly appeared and that only they, reunited, can stop. The lesson being that we are strong when we are apart, BUT WE ARE STRONGER WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER! *wipes away the flowing tears*