#dee-ee-ee

Rule 1: Always post the rules. Rule 2: Answer the questions the tagger has set for you in their posts, then make 11 new ones. Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them in your post.  Rule 4: Let them know you tagged them.

Questions:

1. Your 5 favourite tv shows?

NBC Kings, Deadwood, NBC Hannibal, Elementary, Doctor Who (DW maintains a honorary place on this list though I haven't watched it in a while).

2. Your 5 favourite films?

The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus), The Silence of the Lambs, Pan's Labyrinth, No Country For Old Men, Brazil (Terry Gilliam).

3. Who is your favourite fictional character / characters?

At the moment, I am pretty enamoured with Lady Envy (The Malazan Book of the Fallen), Katrina Ghent (NBC Kings) and the Bloody Nine (Joe Abercrombie's books).

Eddie Dean from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is an old (and probably all-time) favorite of mine.

4. Can you speak more than one language? 

Yes.

5. If you could visit anywhere in the world where would you go?

China, Shanghai.

6. Your favourite historical figure and why? (if you have one)

Knyazhna Olga of Kiev, for her sheer ruthlessness. Though, I admit I have a soft spot for rulers of Kievan Rus' in general. 

7. If you could time travel would you visit the future or the past?

The future, I can use a few pointers.

8. Do you have any pets?

Two cats.

9. What’s the meaning behind your URL?

No hidden meanings, just what it says: a trifle wicked ;D

10. Last film you saw in the cinema?

Catching Fire

11. Last book you read?

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (I never got around to read as a child, okay)

Memories of Ice,  Steven Erikson

My questions:

1. Comfort food? 2. Comfort book (same concept as 'comfort food', basically something you return to when you are ill at ease and in need of cheering up)? 3. Comfort movie (same as 'comfort book')? 4. The worst thing ever? 5. The best thing ever? 6. Guilty pleasure? 7. Favorite poem (assuming you like or at the very least tolerate poetry at all)? 8. Favorite artist and/or painting (again, assuming you have one)? 9. A word to the wise? 10. A song you listen to on repeat? 11. Are we human, or are we dancer A proverb you never understood?

Congratulations, you are it!

Usually it means the writing is muddled and IT doesn’t know what it wants from the characters. There were like, what, five screenwriters? Plus everyone else involved (actors, editors, etc.). Too many cooks, not enough of a singular vision.

10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic?

 This is a tough one, to be honest:) I like the Road Movie type of fics where two characters are closed up together and the story narrows down to the two of them: it’s like the space is infinite, unending roads to ride yet they are forced to be at close quarters, sort of like they are trying to find their place in the vastness and there is nobody but the other.

I also like all kinds of self-deception, not sure if this is something that belongs under this question. If there is a character who lies to themselves, and a hint of self-destruction (not necessarily physical), I’m already a happy girl.

 14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?

Betrayal. And it is actually a recurrent element in most of my own fics. Those stories inspire and touch me the most where there is a form of betrayal. It always cuts me deep, and I don’t have to be a shrink to know it comes from my own life. A character being an outcast is also something that pains me, though this is also exactly an element I search for in fics, so it could go under No. 10 as well:D

 44. How fluffy is too fluffy?

If you mean “pretentious boring dreck" then… Yes. :P (Nah, I kid. It’s okay. I should probably re-watch it, in fact; it was one of the first anime I saw as a teen, and I might enjoy it more nowadays.)

I feel like right now I need some pretentious boring dreck to just mentally grind my teeth on. :T