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*bluuuush*
I am like the last person on earth convinced of my own awesomeness, but thank you. *blushes more* Mostly I am good at making myself seem a lot cooler than I actually am. -
Again: just one? D: At the moment, three-way tie between Harper in Angels in America, Abigail Williams in The Crucible, and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, but the list is a lot longer than that.
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Oooh, damn. Good one.
Europe: ...just one? D: Oh all right. Because I'm an unrepentant Anglophile, England.
Asia: Tempting as Japan is, China! (I'd love to go there, anyway, I'm coplanning a book that's mostly set there and going to Beijing would make that process so much easier and so much more awesome.)
Africa: Torn between Morocco and Egypt.
South America: Brazil!
North America: I visited Belize on a cruise, and I want to go back there and visit the Mayan ruins again. Pretty pretty Mayan ruins.
Australia/Oceania: New Zealand, actually, though picking between there and the Land Down Under is hard.
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That's a hard que -- oh no wait, it isn't. Neil Gaiman. Which isn't to say that I don't love other authors (Margaret Atwood! Ray Bradbury! Louis Bayard! Michael Chabon! Tamora Pierce! Jasper Fforde! The list goes ever on and on!) But the one I idolize, the one whose works have had the most profound impact on the stories I want to tell? That's Gaiman.
And I got to shake his hand at an Amanda Palmer concert. That was one of the best nights of my life. -
Oh gosh, that's hard. I mean, everyone responds differently to different books, and my favorites might not ping for other people. Another problem with this one is that a lot of the items I can think of are plays, which yeah, you should read, but they're meant to be performed.
Stuff I constantly rec, though, let's see. (I'll avoid works generally included in the Western canon, because I expect everyone to have read those.)
* The Sandman -- actually, anything Neil Gaiman's ever written ever, but if I find out that someone hasn't read The Sandman I will order them to do so immediately, and I'm a little more lax when I find out that people haven't read his other works.
* Fahrenheit 451 (and the same caveat about Gaiman applies to Bradbury).
* Louis Bayard's books -- The Black Tower, The Pale Blue Eye, and Mr. Timothy -- though the book I'd recommend varies depending on the person.
* Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, which I have gotten into the habit of commanding people to read if they haven't done so already.
* Dune, or at least the first three books, and we can pretend the sequels never existed.
* Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series at the moment, because it is opening my mind to romance novels and Jamie and Claire are BAMFs.
* Foucault's Pendulum, which I pretty much recommend to people in lieu of The Da Vinci Code, and now a lot of Neal Stephenson's novels serve the same function.
* Possession, by AS Byatt, especially for anyone who's ever been involved in any kind of academia.
* Good Omens, by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. (And Discworld, kind of by extension, especially the Night Watch books. Viiiiiiimes. <3 It should come as a surprise to no one that I love Vimes.)
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon, though again, pretty much anything he's written is worth a read.
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Not a whole lot! I'll glance over at the TV if someone else has turned it on, but I'm not a big TV person -- in fact, I usually end up watching TV shows online instead of on the actual screen.
My favorite shows currently airing are probably Mad Men and Merlin; Mad Men because it's brilliantly crafted and is a portrait of social change with some of the best writing and acting on TV today, and Merlin because I love the characters and their relationships and basically go :D :D :D all the time when I watch the show. I'm also a Daily Show/Colbert Report addict, and America's Next Top Model and Project Runway are guilty pleasures of mine, though PR really sucked last season. -
Nnnnnnnot really, which is very lame of me and which I intend to correct. I used to speak Spanish, but haven't really practiced since high school, and I can /translate/ Latin but that's not the same thing as speaking it.
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Cecilia is awesome, man. I am listening to it now!
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Latin!
Though the passive periphrastic can /die in a fire/, thanks. -
Glad I could help! And yes, I do. Love Scarborough Fair and Cecilia in particular.
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Kiaulė! (It's 'pig' in Lithuanian.)
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Er. God, the answer to this one changes a lot. At the moment? I adore Mrs. O, by Amanda Palmer. Actually, I pretty much always have something by Amanda Palmer on my must-listen list.
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Ohhhh yeah. Back in high school, for the first time. I have a not-so-secret love of swashbucklers, after all. (And I'm very fond of the musical adaptation, too.)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack -- specifically Madame Guillotine.
Earlier today, I was kind of binging on Lady Gaga. And awesome Lady Gaga covers.
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Sort of? I mostly kept to myself during my earlier fannish years, and lurked around websites (oh god Geocities) and mailing lists rather than actively participating in any of them. I've always tried to keep my use of punctuation relatively restrained, too, and I only really talked about anime to people I knew were fellow fans.
That being said, my sister and I concocted this /really/ elaborate Sailor Moon alternate universe when we were in middle school, and uh. I'm so glad the Internet will never find that, you have no idea.
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