Garden of Thought

Books meme with a Classical twist

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:15:06 GMT

I noted the 100+ title "what books have you read" meme going by and wondered if I might find somewhere a comparable sort of list to use that focused instead on titles considered a part of being classically educated or similar. Here's a compilation of gleanings from three such lists.

As is commonly done with such things, I've put the ones I've read in bold, the ones I intend to read in the reasonably near future in italics (in my case, this means I now own a copy and it is literally waiting in a pile). Feel free to pass it on, or adjust as needed. Some of these I don't think I would ever read, but who knows? Perhaps.
( Classical Book Meme List under here )

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5 Fandom drabbles meme thing

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:54:08 GMT

With thanks - or blame? - to both thisbluespirit and john_amend_all - I picked up that 5 fandoms meme today, except I don't seem able to think in 50-word bits just now, so after much pruning I've wrangled each one into a drabble-size instead. Brevity isn't always my strength.

1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order. Okie-dokie...

1. All Creatures Great and Small
2. Doctor Who
3. Lord of the Rings
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel
5. Watership Down

2: Visit this site (http://plagiarist.com/poetry/random) to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)

3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick ~~50-word half-drabble~~ (Pfft! I need more words than that!) for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.

4: Bravo! Have a cookie.

( Well, here's the results! )
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Childhood activities meme

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:39:07 GMT

Thanks to tree-and-leaf, I've now spent the past half hour playing around with a meme, but I can rationalize that I haven't done any memes for long enough I'm surely overdue. Besides, it made for some fun memories.

Here we go..

Embolden the ones you did before you were 11 ¾ (as far as you can remember!)
Italicise the ones you have done since then.

( I've done more of these than I expected )

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15 Characters, third (and final) part!

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:44:48 GMT

( Once more - the 15 revealed )

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( Response for lolmac once more )

( Response for pitry - the zombie mall... )

( Response for jhumor )

John_amend_all:

( Responses for john_amend_all and curuchamion )

( and finally, responses for kerravonsen )

Whew! That took a bit of doing, some of those. Thank you so much to everyone, that was grand fun. :-D

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15 Characters, part the second

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:28:45 GMT

( The Fifteen characters on rampage here )

My tags are being odd - apologies for the confusion! Travels_in_time and Merfilly are also under the cuts.

( Responses for lolmac )

( Response for brewsternorth )

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15 Characters - time to be a little bit Revealing

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:17:26 GMT

I may have had to miss Fic Rush (again) but at least I was not entirely without a bit of writing going by. I had a lot of responses and it took a while to crack some of those literary nuts, but now it's done. I'll post the results in chunks.

First of all, here's my fifteen:

( Fifteen characters tossed in a salad bowl )

And now....

( Responses for lady_mercury )

( Responses to lost_spook )

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( Responses for derekmetaltron )

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That 15 Characters meme

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:40:18 GMT

I've so enjoyed the results that I've seen with others, and I really could use something to help me get back in the groove of short-term writing blurblets - hence, here we go.... with fair warning that my characters are all over the map, but I don't think they should be too obscure for most of my flist. And, as lost_spook said, "it's never not fun"!

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the comments. For example: 'One, nine and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?', 'Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?', 'Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?'

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

I have my 15 - ask, ask away!

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Snoody 5 questions Meme

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:30:15 GMT

Comment with BLUE SNOOD and I'll give you five questions to satisfy my curiosity. Go post the answers on your journal with these instructions and spread the madness!

And here are the questions nentari of the Orange Knickers asked me, ( under here )

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Dw Love post

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:47:30 GMT

Thank you to shanaqui for putting this together - let's spread the love for this friendly place.

( What's so great about this place? )

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The picture meme floats by

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:35:23 GMT

If you read this, you're tagged (if you want to be). Take a picture of you in your current state, no changing your clothes or quickly putting on makeup. NO PHOTOSHOP. Show your circle the real you!

( Hiii! )

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The Doctor Who Friending Meme

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:02:33 GMT

Anyone who would like to ferret out a few folks within our common fandom may want to come on over to the The Doctor Who Friending Meme that's been recently posted at the 'doctor who' community at Dreamwidth.

The purpose is twofold - first to find and friend other likeminded fans, and secondly to see what communities and interests may be worth pursuing with new communities at DW, should any like to pick up the admin duties of the area their fannish passions direct them towards. I realize we still have a lot of folks who are still sorting out their icons, muddling over their new look and relinking their links but it's never too early to lay out the welcome mats to gather up some good reading, fanart and fannish discussions.

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