Friending Meme time because ...

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

… I'm a friendly, you're a friendly, we're all friendlies.

… there are a ton of new awesome people on the comm and I want to meet them all

… it's always great to make new friends

… seriously, who ARE you people?

I'm admitting that I stole the idea lock, stock & barrel (meaning I copied the code almost verbatim) from an awesome post that shah_of_blah did last year. It was such a successful post (over 500 comments!) and we all made great new friends because of it. So without further ado, here's the deal:

Copy & paste the following code into your comment and tell us a bit about yourself. All questions are optional.


<b>Name/Callsign:</b>
<b>Age/Location (if you want):</b>
<b>When did you start watching BSG?</b>
<b>Why do you ship K/L?</b>
<b>Do you ship anyone else in the show?</b>
<b>How did you find this comm?</b>
<b>Favorite character(s):</b>
<b>Least favorite character(s)</b>
<b>Favorite episode:</b>
<b>Favorite scene:</b>
<b>Other fandoms:</b>
<b>What do you post on your journal?</b>
<b>Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone?</b>
<b>List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like</b>
<b>Three random facts about you:</b>
<b>If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose?</b>
<b>Anything else you'd like to share?</b>

Comments

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

I'll start!

Name/Callsign: Naz (pronounced like Oz)/Diva (don't ask me why. Ask stripes13
Age/Location (if you want): 44/So. CA
When did you start watching BSG? December 2009
Why do you ship K/L? I actually only ship them in fanon. I have some "challenges" with Lee in canon, so I'm mostly frustrated by him, although I'm learning to come around a bit thanks to the tireless efforts of sci_fi_shipper. I ship them in fanon because well, they are good together when we can fix them to our liking :-)
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Nope
How did you find this comm? I lurked on taragel's journal for a long time and kept seeing references to this comm, so I checked it out and everyone seemed really nice and welcoming, so I delurked and here we are!
Favorite character(s): Kara, Gaius, Leoben, Tigh and well (sometimes - LOL) Lee
Least favorite character(s) Laura Roslin
Favorite episode: 33
Favorite scene: Stims scene between our pilots in 33. Also LOVE the memorial hallway scene. You know, the "I'm Lee, you're Kara" one
Other fandoms: Pride & Prejudice, Firefly, Dollhouse, Lost, Fringe, LOTR, The West Wing, Star Trek (TNG & Voyager). I also used to ship Cristina/Owen pretty heavily on Grey's Anatomy, but not so much any more.
What do you post on your journal? I love memes (hah!). I also post original writing and some fic. Also stupid RL stuff
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? I love making new friends any time, any place.
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like Twitter: nazkey; AIM: nazkeynejad; gChat: nazkey1122; Yahoo: thenazshow
Three random facts about you: A lot of the other folks know this stuff already, but for the newer ones: I don't like ice cream, donuts, milk chocolate or mashed potatoes. I love reading & wish I had more time for it. I'm going back to graduate school next year (well, hopefully, since it's contingent on my getting accepted first. LOL)
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? Henry VIII
Anything else you'd like to share? I love fantasy stories and classic literature. If any of you are interested in either of those genres, holla at me. Would love to chat/share.

&hearts

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

Doing this because even though I'm pretty much non existent here, I still like new peeps

Name/Callsign: Becca/Jersey
Favorite character(s): Kara Motherfrakking Thrace
Other fandoms: Doctor Who, Fringe, Game of Thrones, Leverage, THE WEST WING
What do you post on your journal? I've been told people like my gif posts ;P
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? Go ahead and talk to me. I'm always up for new friends
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like Twitter: MineIsaDryWit (http://twitter.com/#!/MineIsaDryWit) Tumblr: stripes13 (http://stripes13.tumblr.com) (I'm on a bit of a tumblr hiatus right now, but feel free to follow. I like to hold off on AIM/GChat/Skype/YIM/etc until I know people better.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: winegums
Age/Location (if you want): 26
When did you start watching BSG? approx. 4-5 years ago, but got around to finally finishing it only two months ago.

Why do you ship K/L? Because they make every other couple in film or TV look shallow and insipid in comparison, and if I had to go on about them I'd probably exceed the maximum possible length of a comment on here.

Do you ship anyone else in the show? Adama and Madame Airlock, though pilots have pretty much ruined me for feeling this intensely about any other pairing anywhere.

How did you find this comm?: I'd been avoiding comms for years because I didn't want to get spoilered (my pace of watching has always been a little behind everyone else) but a search for places to discuss pilots led me here.

Favorite character(s): Lee, Kara, PapAdama, Madame Airlock

Least favorite character(s): as far as BSG goes, I have more dislike of stupid plot points than characters, really. But Blanders and Dee in S3 were plenty annoying.

Favorite episode: I'm expected to pick just ONE?
Favorite scene: For being the moment that cemented my pilots love forever, Kara ramming her Viper up Lee's in the miniseries. That his return from the dead, which basically made them my OTP. And confirmation in Daybreak that for pilots, it was love at first sight. And their reconciliation in Unfinished Business. (can't even start to pick just one)

Other fandoms: Buffy, Harry Potter, Firefly, Cardcaptor Sakura, Battle Royale (at least, those are the ones I still read fic for)
What do you post on your journal? personal stuff, once in a blue moon.

Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? I'm fine with adding people, it's just there's nothing in my journal, so if people don't mind that...

Three random facts about you:
1. My favourite sweets are wine gums (hence the username) except for the liquorice ones, those are disgusting.
2. I've met the founder of wikipedia.
3. I love lemons, and anything that smells or tastes of them. I've eaten enough raw ones to erode about twenty layers of tooth enamel, but nothing's happened so far.

If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? Since we're here, I'd love to meet Kara or Lee, maybe lock them in a cupboard in the hope that they'd frak instead of beating the snot out of each other. But IRL, I'd love to meet Joss Whedon or J.K. Rowling, if I don't faint from nosebleeding fangirlism first.

Anything else you'd like to share?

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Excuse me … who are you and why are you trolling on this comm? *g*

I LOVE YOU BECCA AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS! Yeah, also love your GIF posts. I miss those!

&hearts

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Er … what are wine gums? Please to 'splain.

Also? Very nice to meet you!!! &hearts

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

You have forced me to bring out the MASTER OF ALL TROLLS.......

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight be about to make a post ;P

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay new friends!

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: Kelsey/pressdbtwnpages
Age/Location (if you want): 27/Southern California
When did you start watching BSG? ...January?
Why do you ship K/L? Because they're pretty I really really love their best friends/sibling/past history/rival dynamic a lot.
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Not really, but there are a couple of pairings I don't want to burn with fire?
How did you find this comm? Someone may have linked me to it? Possibly after I started creepily friending the authors of fic I liked? Probably taragel? I don't know, it was like six months ago.
Favorite character(s): Kara, Lee, um, Cally, Chief, Billy, Athena, Helo, Adama, something like that.
Least favorite character(s) Baltar. Roslin. Zarek.
Favorite episode: AOC/YCGHAG, maybe?
Favorite scene: all of the Kara-and-Lee parts of The Oath
Other fandoms: currently, none. Previously a bunch of RPF music fandoms, RENT, Veronica Mars, The O.C., X-Men
What do you post on your journal? Mostly silly life stuff, occasionally interesting links &/or memes. It's unlocked, come visit!
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? Visit! Come visit! Please be my friend! But not in a needy way! But please!
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like
Twitter = KelseyA
AIM = purestarwater6
gChat = bluestargirl
Three random facts about you:
1) I'm deaf in my right ear but you wouldn't know it unless you'd been told.
2) I once won a fishing contest.
3) I appealed to my twitter feed for another random fact. They came up with "you are you"
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? Kara Thrace. But I don't think she'd like me.
Anything else you'd like to share? No, seriously, lets be friends. I promise I'm awesome.

[lizziec]

Name/Callsign: Lizzie
Age/Location (if you want): 27, Canterbury in the UK
When did you start watching BSG? February this year
Why do you ship K/L? Because they're several different kinds of awesome and they're the characters I identify with the most in the series. I was hooked on Pilots as a ship by AoC.
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Not in any hardcore way, though I do think that Helo/Athena are actually kind of cute. I like that they made it work, and not just because they had a child together. They really had something :)
How did you find this comm? Not gonna lie, I googled for "What if Kara had been grounded in Maelstrom?" and it led to a post here - I can't remember which one. Then I looked at the community as a whole and added it to my RSS reader cos I was too scared to join properly ;)
Favorite character(s): Lee, Kara, Helo, Cottle, Baltar (I'm not so sure it's Baltar himself I like so much as the fantastic job James Callis does portraying him).
Least favorite character(s) I run a bit hot and cold on Laura. I think she can be amazing but I have major issues with some of her decisions and a lot of what she does in s4 annoys me. Tory winds me up too, as does Kat (especially in Scar - when I first saw that ep I started really disliking her and never really stopped, so her death really had no effect on me).
Favorite episode: Gah, just one? I love the mini, 33, AoC, Colonial Day, Final Cut... I have fewer as we get further in to the series, but I really love the Mutiny arc. If it had to pick just one though I think I'd probably go for "33" because in many ways it's the perfect intro in to the characters.
Favorite scene: The brig scene between Lee & Kara in Six of One and the hallway scene in Islanded.
Other fandoms: An old-school set of girls school stories called The Chalet School. There were 60+ of them so plenty of room to play with characters. I've recently got in to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I also like Buffy, Star Trek (esp DS9), Stargate SG1, M*A*S*H, West Wing (s1 and 2) and ER.
What do you post on your journal? Stories that I write, general updates on my life, pictures, ramblings, my mental health comes up fairly often... whatever comes in to my head really.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? I'm happy to add and be added, though usually quite nervous about it. Weird, I know.
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like
Twitter: LizzieCharlton
Three random facts about you: 1) I'm a history geek and that's one of the reasons I stayed living in Canterbury after I graduated Uni 2) I have a minor stationary fetish. Coloured paper, coloured pens of all shapes and sizes, fountain pens, gel pens, notepads, envelopes... I live in fear my huge stash will have to be culled before we move house. 3) I like giraffes. Best thing about my holiday last year was being able to hand feed some at the zoo.
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? Probably Sir Archibald McIndoe and the members of the Guinea Pig Club. McIndoe was a pioneer of plastic surgery and in WWII performed life saving and enhancing surgery on badly burned pilots/aircrew. So that they didn't feel isolated he encouraged them to fraternise with each other so they made themselves in to what they called the Guinea Pig Club. Meeting them would be amazing.
Anything else you'd like to share? Since joining in here, and in other BSG comms you've all made me feel really welcome and less nervous of you all, so thanks! :)

[sammy567.livejournal.com]

Callsign: Sammy
Age/Location (if you want): 27/PDX
When did you start watching BSG? 2010
Why do you ship K/L? Because they were so awesome in Season 1 & 2 and then the writers got confused and messed everything up.
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Maybe Dee & Billy and Sam & anyonenotkara to avoid the love triangles and quadrangles
How did you find this comm? Mentions of "no_takeback challenges" on Fanfiction.net
Favorite character(s): Athena, Tigh w/ one eye
Least favorite character(s) Baltar, Leoben
Favorite episode: Final Cut
Favorite scene: Pilots hug/kiss in Home
What do you post on your journal? Rough drafts of fics
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? I'm open, but I'm new to livejournal, don't have much there which means you'll get bored quick, and I don't know what it means to have friends on the FList (note that I have zero)

[lizziec]

Gah. How could I have forgotten Harry Potter? I'd edit my own comment again but I've already done so twice! And I forgot how awesome the ramming scene was :(

1. My favourite sweets are wine gums (hence the username) except for the liquorice ones, those are disgusting.

IMO Liquorice anything is quite grim ;) But I have a partner who disagrees with that assessment, making sharing such things work quite well... :)

I'd love to meet Kara or Lee, maybe lock them in a cupboard in the hope that they'd frak instead of beating the snot out of each other.

What makes you think they wouldn't do both? ;) :D

Re: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay new friends!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Okay, you and I are clearly destined to be friends. Here's the evidence:

1. We're both in So. CA
2. I kinda ship them too cuz they're pretty. Yes, I'm shallow
3. You don't like Roslin either (we have to work on your not liking Gaius tho)
4. MEMEs!
5. "you are you." I like that. Cuz you know why? I'm me!
6. Adding you now!

&hearts

[aurora-0811.livejournal.com]

I wish I was around the comm more again but Twitter is an evil mistress. *sigh* I will try to be better. WELCOME NEW SHIPPERS!!! *waves*

Name/Callsign: Susan
Age/Location (if you want): 32/Boston, MA
When did you start watching BSG? 2006
Why do you ship K/L? From the first moment on screen they had amazing chemistry and I was hooked. It helps they are super hot together!
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Helo/Athena, Roslin/Adama
How did you find this comm? I was here from the start with all the OG fangirls and boys.
Favorite character(s): Lee, Kara, Helo, Roslin, Baltar, Six...aww jeez everyone! &hearts
Least favorite character(s) Cavil, Leoben
Favorite episode: UB, Flight of the Phoenix, 33, Someone to Watch Over Me, Home, Six of One and a whole bunch more
Favorite scene: Extended brig scene from Six of One
Other fandoms: Nothing compares to my BSG obsession but I dig the Whedonverse, Fringe, Star Wars(OT), and Castle.
What do you post on your journal? a mix of personal and fannish things...I don't post that much though.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? If I talk to you here or in other places I'm all for new friends!
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like Twitter: aurora_0811 (I'm totally original yo!)
Three random facts about you:
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? Jamie Bamber...My convention unicorn. *sigh*
Anything else you'd like to share? Look forward to meeting/talking to everyone more!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Wait … whoa … what about 3 random facts about you?

Also? You sound kinda neat. Can we be friends? *g*

LOVE YOU BB!!!! &hearts

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

Diva! Diva! Diva! Diva!!!!! The naming had something to do with you losing (read: BREAKING) your A++++++ coffee maker and having to get an el cheapo version :P

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you!

I love that you clarified your love of the one-eyed Tigh vs. the fully intact one. Brilliant!

[aurora-0811.livejournal.com]

I forgot to go back and fill that in, I was thinking. Now I can't edit my comment so I guess I will be the mysterious woman!

We can totally be friendlies because you sound delightful! <3 <3 <3

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hi! Nice to meet you!

I love how you found this comm. And, I love that you like Gaius (and I agree with you that James Callis' portrayal does WONDERS for my personal loving of Gaius).

I'm also glad to hear someone else not particularly liking Laura and would love to chat with you more about it.

Hey, I'm not going to bug you about adding me back, but I will add you to my LJ and I'm going to follow you on Twitter too, if that's cool

&hearts

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

OMG, that's right! Hahahahahaha.

Oh gosh … I miss Liz. :-(

Re: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay new friends!

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

BRB adding you on twitter

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

*waves* I'mma follow you on twitter :D

Well okay, I'll procrastinate...

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: Jill/Pickle
Age/Location (if you want): 28/California
When did you start watching BSG? After taragel made me start last year
Why do you ship K/L? Because they punch each other sometimes
Do you ship anyone else in the show? I ship Baltar and an airlock
How did you find this comm? Taragel once again...;-)
Favorite character(s): I love K/L, but Saul Tigh might be my favorite.
Least favorite character(s) BAAAAAAAAAAALTAAAAAAAAAR
Favorite episode: Gosh hmmm...Unfinished Business obviously.
Favorite scene: The quiet scene in Maelstrom where they just talk.
Other fandoms: I dabble in Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Community and Parks & Rec
What do you post on your journal? Utter nonsense
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you REALLY get to know someone? Generally open
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like
Three random facts about you: I can't fully straighten my right arm, I am moving to San Francisco, I plan to wear flowers in my hair there
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional) who would you choose? THIS IS SO HARD. Maybe J.K. Rowling? I have a feeling that she could go on and on and on about the HP world and I think that would make for a fun conversation.
Anything else you'd like to share?

(http://photobucket.com)

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

(yes, new people, I can only express myself in gif form)

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

I don't like ice cream, donuts, milk chocolate

(http://photobucket.com)

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

LMAO. Amazing gif.