Top Fives of 2011

[redbrunja]

I don't know about you, flist, but I am thrilled the holidays are over. I mean, yes, it's technically Christmas for another fifteen minutes, but all my familial obligations are over, I have the day off of work tomorrow, and while 75% of the people I work with are still going to be on vacation on Tuesday, at least I'm not going to be dealing with the stress of them trying to do five zillion things before they leave. Also, I downgraded my New Year's Eve plans from 'huge group of people go to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' on Friday plus find a party for Saturday to 'huge group of people go to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' on Saturday, thus giving my weekend WAY MORE 'curl up with my computer and my internet friends' time. (I am considering doing a comment meme - anyone else interested?)

So, in the spirit of getting this livejournal back into fandom shape, what follows is my fannish year's-end post.

First of all, this was THE YEAR OF KATNISS EVERDEEN: MOST AWESOME.

Seriously, one of my first posts of 2011 was me flailing about The Hunger Games and the flail just continued all year long. MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERYTHING YOU CHOOSE TO BE, KATNISS EVERDEEN. (Random tangent: when I went to go see Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows a.k.a. twenty-six dollars I will never see again, while in the theater I saw a huge display of THG posters and gasped, shouted 'The Hunger Games!' and flailed my hands, causing an entire family to turn around on the escalator and stare.)

Top Five Characters of 2011:

Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games.
Boyd Crowder, Justified.
Gail Peck, Rookie Blue.
The Evil Queen/Regina Miller, Once Upon A Time.
Cameron, The Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Top Five Ships of 2011:

Katniss/Peeta, The Hunger Games.
Tyler/Caroline, The Vampire Diaries.
Sif/Loki, Thor.
Boyd/Ava, Justified.
Daenerys/Jorah, Game of Thrones.

ETA: When I looked closer at the dates on some of my entries, I realized that it was 2010 when I first read The Hunger Games and Katniss was one of my top five characters of last year. Well, she's fucking well going to be on this year as well! And likely will make the top 5 of 2012 to boot! That is just how awesome she is!

Comments

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really lovely way to spend Christmas =D

And yeah sure I'd be up for a comment meme.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun plans

PS Your ETA note at the end got me curious. Did you just put your top 5s based on a guess/feeling about what had beenyour top 5s that year or did you actually go back and look at tags or something for your entries?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

A little bit of both.

First I put down the characters/pairings that automatically came to mind, then I poked around my lj a bit to see if I'd missed anything, then I fiddled around so that I didn't have too many repeats between the characters and the ships.

[malo-malo.livejournal.com]

Katniss is so great, she totally deserves to be on a top five list two years ago. I finally read the books after seeing the trailer, and Katniss was so fantastic.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I literally cannot say enough good things about Katniss to express my feelings.

[scorpiod1.livejournal.com]

Agreed about the holidays being over; not that I dislike them but it's kinda of a relief when they're finally over.

Regina and Cameron <3

I'm always up for a comment fic meme :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Noted!

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Lol, I was totally gonna have a comment fic meme starting probably tomorrow running into the new year, but if you're really gonna do it I'll hold off?

I'm glad Christmas is over, too. Time to chilllllll. Hope you like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I enjoyed it, but was really disturbed by the differences between it and the Sweedish language film. I need to read the book now and see which is a closer adaptation ...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Lol, I was totally gonna have a comment fic meme starting probably tomorrow running into the new year, but if you're really gonna do it I'll hold off?

If you don't mind. We have enough overlap of our flists that two comment memes would likely lead to LESS fic written than more.

Hope you like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I enjoyed it, but was really disturbed by the differences between it and the Sweedish language film. I need to read the book now and see which is a closer adaptation ...

I'm really curious to see what I think, especially given that I really liked the original swedish adaptation.

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

If you really liked the Sweedish film, you might be a bit weirded out by the English one ... just a warning, lol. Or maybe I'm too sensitive, I don't know.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Late but...

Oh my god, you were so right. Especially if you replace 'weirded' with 'pissed off.'