what may or may not be hard reality

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

michellek gave me P. (Which would have been so much easier if I could do actresses instead of characters; Poppy, Peta, Portia - coincidentally all Australian...)

Peter no-last-name - Jane Doe


I had very low expectations for this movie, generic running-for-our-lives action/thriller piece, and mostly it was just that (like I blogged a while back). However, one of the really awesome things about it was Christina Cox's character Peter. Easily the most kick-ass character she's ever played (that I've seen, but I have seen like 60% of her IMDb listings, and of the ones I haven't seen 75% are guest-starring roles from before 1998). Peter likes guns and shooting things and people, and hates people who degrade women, go back on their word, or speak ill of her mother. She has a brief appearance at the beginning, and then rides in like a knight in shining armor and saves the day about 2/3rds through, looking hard and kick-ass the entire time. It's awesome!

Sara "Pez" Pezzini - Witchblade


Pez is perfect. That is, she's flawed and vulnerable and broken and amazing and strong and obstinate and so many more things. She show is fantastic; it's gritty and dark and despite all its magic and weirdness it's at its heart very real, and very emotional, and that's largely because of Pez. She kicks ass and she's very strong, but she feels everything, and she wears her emotions on her sleeve the entire time, her confusion, her pain, her fear, her sorrow, and none of it diminishes her, she feels it, and channels her emotions into the strength of her character, and it's amazing.

Peregrin "Pippin" Took - Lord of the Rings


It feels strange to talk about one hobbit without mentioning the other, because Pippin and Merry so belong together. That scene where Gandalf takes Pippin off to Gondor while Merry stays behind in Rohan makes me want to write hobbit-slash, which, believe me, is not easy to make me want to do. And I love the scene where he sings that song to the crazy regent while Faramir rides out on his suicide mission, that makes me cry every time.

Peggy Peabody - The L Word


A fantastically kick-ass lady. 'Our family don't go to jail, we generally go to Europe' still makes me giggle every time. She hasn't appeared much in the last few seasons, but when she does it's always memorable. The few she had this season were fantastic, when Helena was in jail, and then when she was in the hospital. Not to mention the actress's appearance in that adorable movie D.E.B.S., where she also has a P-name, Mrs. Petrie, and made a reference to Jodie Foster and Silence of the Lambs, which, you know, the way to my heart is mentioning people I adore, not by giving me food.

Bette Porter/Helena Peabody - The L Word


And for serious, there are like no characters that begin with P. So I'm cheating and doing last names for the last one, but I figured I'd make up for that by including both Porter and Peabody (because how could I choose??). Easily my two favourite characters on the L Word. Gorgeous alpha females who've got that long luscious dark hair thing going. *swoon* Of course, I've long since stopped caring about any story arcs that run longer than a few episodes on TLW, considering, well, that fact that no-one on the production team seems remotely concerned about continuity and credibility, but Bette's power persona has been intact throughout the show, and Helena's naïve elegance, and I <3 them both. So much.



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A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

B) Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

B) I replace the above instruction. Tagging is annoying. Grab it if you want it.

1. Do you chew ice?
Not generally.

2. What do you do before bedtime?
Read, usually, maybe chat with people, watch TV?

3. What fandom(s) are you most into at the moment?
Blood Ties, Sarah Connor, AfterEllen, anything that is in any way connected with Christina Cox.

4. What is your favorite scent?
Flowers; citrus, roses, lilac, lily-of-the-vally, honeysuckle, bird cherry...

5. What videogames are you playing at the moment?
I don't play videogames, but at the moment I'm really into Shift 2 & 3.

6. What do you eat the most?
Uh. Salads? Cheese sandwiches?

7. Do you trust easily?
Nope. I tend to assume that people are untrustworthy and deceitful, and I enjoy their company without forming any deeper connections.

8. What was your first big fandom?
The X-Files. 4 years of living and breathing it.

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Sarah Palin. Animal testing. Stupid people.

10. Do you have a good body-image?
Sure.

11. Is being tagged fun?
Depends on the meme.

12. What websites do you visit daily?
AfterEllen. Livejournal. Ellen-DeGeneres.com.

13. Who are currently the most important people to you?
Family. M&G. Fyca and Ria.

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
I wasn't tagged, I stole.

15. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
Dumb Blonde - Dolly Parton

16. Have you ever gotten rickrolled?
Not that I recall. I had to look it up to figure out what it was.

17. What's better: to give or to receive?
Giving. Unless I receive money.

18. If you had $1,000 in cash, what would you do with it?
Put it in the bank.

19. What items could you not go without during the day?
Computer. Book. Writing journal.

20. What do you want to buy right now?
Plane tickets. Bad movies with Christina in them.

21. What personality trait do you wish to possess?
The ability to motivate myself. I am for serious the laziest person I know.

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Text message me, people! I will never get tired of my phone yelling "I can see Russia from my house!".