Late Reply Is Late....

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....because Stuff Happened. You know, schoolwork, friends, life-sapping illness.... the usual.

But I did finally finish answering the questions you posed to me:

hireadd  - Top five femslash pairings:

Ino x Sakura (this pairing was one of the things that no one told me about regarding Naruto, and I was like, 'seriously, guys, why didn't you mention the fights and the insanely subtexty conversations?)
Azula x Mai x Ty Lee
Idgie and Ruth (Fried Green Tomatoes)
Xena and Gabrielle (I recently saw a clip of this show and went ‘whoa, fuck, how did I miss this much subtext?’ Answer: ‘You were eight and your lesbian-dar was ever worse than it is today, if that is even possible.’)
Ahiru/Rue

xlovelylightx  -– Top five awesome male characters.

Zuko
Hakkai
Gojyo
Kakashi
Shinji

(Randomly, four out of these five I would do without question.)
....And top five female fight scenes:

Buffy and Faith in "This Year's Girl". So. Good. WAY better than their fight in Graduation Day, imho. What with the punching into walls and throwing through glass doors and into coffee tables and...

Max in the Dark Angel pilot. You know, the fight with the pool? I know you do.

Katara vs Zuko in season 1 finale

Chiyo & Sakura vs Sasori

Sabriel’s ending fight in her self-titled novel.
chomiji  – Top 5 SF&F novels with female protagonists/principal characters?

Honor Harrington series - David Weber

Fall of the Il-Rien Series - Martha Wells

The Lioness Quartet - Tamora Pierce

Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold

Old Kingdom Trilogy - Garth Nix
digthenym  – Top five female fights in shonen :D

Ino vs Sakura

Medusa vs Stien

Chiyo & Sakura vs Sasori

Tsubaki vs her elder brother

Sumire vs the gangsters in Tramps Like Us (which is shojo, but an awesome fight scene.)

(Also, notice how nothing from Bleach is on here.)
mzminola  – Top five domestic things for characters to do.

Wash dishes.

Cook dinner.

Buy furniture.

Grocery shop (although honestly, I’ve read a few too many fics dealing with this.)

Moving in together. (I wish more people actually showed the moving in bit, instead of either having the angst be about ‘oh noes! You’re moving in with who?’ or have the moving in be the resolution of the fic. Can we have more arguments about whose furniture goes where and what we do with the extra toaster and who's toaster is the extra toaster in the first place?)
rabidline  – Top five overlooked characters (by the creators)

Suki (Avatar)
Sakura (Naruto)
Rin & Eve (Black Cat)
Sai (Naruto)
Cam (Bones)
bellzooks  – Top 5 crossover pairings!

I went platonic with some of these.

1.) Faith/Dean (for the sex)

2.) Fakir & Jiraiya (because Fakir would be APPALLED by the man and they're both authors.)

3.) Claire and Black Star (two men who think they're god meet)

4.) Max/Rinslet (OTP of larcenous hotness!)

5.) Haruhi Suzumiya meets Azula. I... have no words

fairest1  - Top five 'lazy Sunday' pairings.

1.) Suki/Sokka (Avatar)

2.) Maka/Soul. So very married. Additionally, especially for Maka, Soul is one of the few stable influences in her life. (Soul Eater)

3.) Riza/Roy. They have a very stable relationship- there one of those pairings where I can ship Riza with other people, as long as the respect and loyalty between Mustang and Hawkeye is awknowledged. (FMA)

4.) Sumire/Momo. (Tramps Like Us)

5.) Jaye/Eric (Wonderfalls)

pheonix_melody: Top five things in [fandom here]'s fanon that you would give a kidney for to be canon? (I picked Naruto)

1.) Fanon!Sakura to be canon!Sakura (the badass, gets the attention she deserves fanon!Sakura, not whore!mediconly!Sakura.)

2.) Kakashi got his dogs from Rin.

3.) Kushina and Minato weren't married.

4.) Shizune and Genma were gennin teammates.

Okay, and fanon I would give a kidney NOT to be canon

5.) Naruto writing Icha Icha now that Jiraiya's dead. Do I need to list all the reasons that it would be fail? Same with Kakashi. I love the man, but I HIGHLY DOUBT he could write something that wasn't incredibly derivative and unsatisfying.
devimelete: Top five songs that reminds you of the characters or the overall canon. (Saiyuki)

DIrty Knife - Neko Case (Hakkai)
I Shall Believe - Sheryl Crow (Hakkai x Yaone)
Hate This & I'll Love You (The Sha family situation, specifically, Jien on his mother)
Manipulate - Freezepop (Dr Nii)
Brightly Wound - Eisley (Lirin)

ryanitenebrae  - Top five shows, books, films, or plotlines of shows, books, or film, that you feel wasted potential. Describe the direction they could have gone in, and the direction they went in instead.

5.) Black Cat - starts out great, decides to kick it's female characters in the boobs and sideline them. Should have given the chicks their due and not had Train win every goddamn fight he was ever in.

4.) Bones - used to be awesome. Instead of naturally developing its characters (slowly getting Booth and Bones in a relationship and deal with that), having Angela and Jack have REALISTIC ISSUES and then work through them, it raped its character's characters for cheap drama (Zack). It should have stuck with what made it great; awesome characters solving mysteries and slowly done realistic relationship growth.

3.) Bleach. Just as bad about women as Kishimoto, boring fights scenes that make me root for the good guys to lose.

2.) BSG - such awesome characters! Such lame plotting! ...which then leads to characters going out of character. Also, love quadrangle of death.

1.) Naruto: slopping plotting (sometimes it's great, sometimes it sucks), too-long training montages, ignoring interesting side characters to focus on Sasuke and Naruto, skeevy gender politics.

iki_teru  - top five things you find most annoying in any given fandom.

When people apparently don't like one person in something they ship.

Not knowing where to get your hate on. (Your own journal, behind the cut.)

Getting snippy about the PEOPLE who like characters/pairings you don't.

Not cutting for spoilers.

HATING THE WOMEN.

tobu_ishi  - Top five canon platonic moments between couples you shipped romantically.

(This is hard, because I ship a lot of couples that are fanon, thus platonic moments I tend to read as romantic).

Sakura going out to watch Sai paint.

Zuko helping Katara find her mother's killer.

Weevil coming to pick up Veronica from Logan's house.

Soul brings Maka tea after the big exam.

Momo takes Sumire's temperature and then lies and says she has a fever so she'll stay home and rest.