Happy distracting meme time: Top fives

[auroracloud]

Here's a meme stolen from thisbluespirit because we can all use some easy happy distracting content:

Ask me my top 5 of anything and I'll answer.

My note: These can be fannish or non-fannish, but if non-fannish, please nothing related to personal life(e.g. work, people, places, life events, studies), as this is a public post and I want to remain careful about what I post publicly. If fannish, also rare and obscure fandoms are welcomed, even if you and I are the only people who know about the said fandom!

Note: I've had some issues with my eyes hurting from looking at the computer screen too much, so if I take some time to answer, that may be why.

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[auroracloud]

These are all fun. (And general note to commenters, sorry I'm doing these out of order a bit, I'm just doing the ones that come to my mind more easily at the moment, because it's been a long day!)

Flowers: not easy! I love so many flowers! But I'll try to find the current favourites.

1. Roses. Feels cliched, but I can't help it, I just love roses. Especially their scent. I'm also really into roses as flavouring, in tea or pastries or such...
2. Lilacs
3. Trientalis europaea, which apparently is called chickweed wintergreen in English, which is a weird name for such a pretty plant if you ask me. The Finnish (and Swedish) name means "forest star" which I think is much better. They're common in Nordic forests, and I've always adored them.
4. Apple blossom
5. Tulips

(Also in the running: rowan blossoms, lilies, harebells, buttercups, bird cherry blossoms...)

Spaceships! I was kind of hoping someone would ask for this! Fandom in brackets, author in case of books.

1. The TARDIS (Doctor Who)
2. Breq Justice of Toren (Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice/Imperial Radch
3. The Wayfarer (Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet)
4. Mercy of Kalr (Ann Leckie, The Imperial Radch books)
5. The Rumor (The Strange Case of the Starship Iris)

(It wasn't easy, though, there are many wonderful spaceships in fiction. But these are the ones that come to me first now.)

Animals:

1. Dogs
2. Cats
3. Birds (I know that's a broad category, but I just think birds are amazing)
4. Goats
5. Foxes, maybe? Or cows? Or octopuses? It's so hard to choose! And it's not like it's easy to compare those...

[shadaras]

Spaceships are Important, okay :D

Someday I will listen to Starship Iris properly! I think I'd need to restart from the beginning, despite having listened to a few episodes, because I've forgotten enough specifics.

[auroracloud]

They are! Both sentient and non-sentient models.

Now is a good time to start listening to Starship Iris! The second season will start in autumn, so now you have time to listen to the whole first season and still have it fairly fresh in your mind when the second season start. I'm planning to have a re-listen, myself. Though I love the show, sometimes I had some trouble following some of the plot details, so I could use a refresher - and I just want to spend more time with those characters. I don't remember how much we actually learn about The Rumor as a ship, but I get such a comfy, cozy feeling when I think about it. Anyway, the show is well worth listening to. If I remember correctly, after the intense first episode, I took a few episodes to get really into it, but somewhere around episode 5 it really starts rolling onward. So if you find it hard to get on board first, that may be good to keep in mind.

It's also one of these shows where, if you're a physics and astronomy nerd like me, it's better to just assume ansible technology exists, rather than spend time trying to figure out why they're able to communicate in real time across a distance that takes a spacecraft 6 days to fly. I remember spending unnecessary thinky-thoughts on the subject until I realized it was just a feature of the world and I'd do better not to think of it. :D

Another podcast-spaceship I was considering adding to the list was the Yellow Submarine from We Fix Space Junk.

[shadaras]

Ansible-style communication tends to bother me far less than, say, the entirety of the new generation of star wars movies where they forgot that hyperspace travel isn't instantaneous. >.> So I don't think that'd bug me.

Yeah, I think that for me the trouble is more about scripted podcasts being somewhat difficult for my brain to attend to? I'm into the concept (and femslash) enough that I want to listen to it, at least!

I don't think I know We Fix Space Junk! But I am amused by that spaceship's name. :)