Rule 1: Always post the rules.
Rule 2: Answer the questions the person who tagged you has written and write 11 new ones.
Rule 3: Tag 11 people and link them to your post.
First of all I was tagged by welcomebacklefty:
Think of your two favourite celebrities. One gets to have one day of happiness with you and goes off happily, the other gets one day of happiness with you and then has to have a shitty rest-of-life. Choose who gets what. You're evil and I don't think I like you any more. Right, well, my two favourite celebrities would be Matt and Alex. I want Alex to go off happily after our day together because I think she deserves it after everything that's happened in her life so far. And I would like to spend my one day of happiness with Matt right at the end of his life, when we're both old, and we can reminisce about the good old days and then his shitty rest-of-life can be stubbing his toe or something before he goes to bed and dies peacefully in his sleep.
What is your favourite food? Pasta. I could live on pasta, which is good because I pretty much do.
What is one tv show or movie that I haven’t watched that you think I should? Um, this is actually quite difficult. Maybe Bones, do you watch Bones? I really like that show.
What is your dream job? Alex Kingston's personal costume assistant. That's a job, right?
You get a paid-for plane ticket to your destination of choice to stay for two weeks. Where do you go? Maybe Sydney. I've been there before and loved it, but it's so expensive to fly to. Although since I've already been there maybe I should go somewhere else in Australia, or possibly New Zealand. I've never been to New Zealand.
Three people on Tumblr you’d love to spend time with? Just three? That's cruel. Um, I'd say Courtney cos she's awesome, and you and Tess because I remember both of you mentioning that you're possibly going to come to the UK this year, so there's a real chance of it actually happening. But to be honest I'd love to spend time with everyone on my Follow Forever.
Favourite books that you’d recommend? A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett is still my favourite book of all time. Um, I know everyone always recs Pride and Prejudice, but it is really good. And Moll Flanders. I mean we all love the miniseries for obvious reasons, but the book itself is brilliant as well. I highly recommend it.
You can choose for your favourite tv show to have everything you ever dreamed of happening come true, or to spend one day with your favourite celebrity. I think I'd go with the TV show. I'm so awkward I'm not sure how well a day with my favourite celebrity would go!
One talent you wish you had. I really wish I could sing.
If you won $50,000 what’s the first thing you’d buy? Plane tickets to go travelling and see all my internet friends.
Savoury or sweet? Sweet.
And then I was tagged by neverwhyonlywho:
Surprise—you’re the Doctor. You get to pick anyone, living or dead, as your companion. Who do you choose and why? This is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Um, someone smart and capable so they could get me out of the trouble I would inevitably find myself in. Or maybe Matt Smith because the Doctor often ends up kissing the companions and I wouldn't mind that at all!
Tell me about a few of your favorite songs right now. What’s your earworm? I've mostly been listening to Dar Williams and Florence + the Machine recently. And I just watched Mary Poppins, so songs from that are going to be my earworms for a while!
Who was your first Doctor? Is he your favorite? If not, who is? Nine was my first. I still love him but Eleven is far and away my favourite.
What’s one thing you are really passionate about? What’s the appeal—why is it so awesome? TV. I love TV. Watching the show, getting drawn into the story, caring about the characters, and then coming online and continuing the experience with other people all around the world as we share thoughts and feelings feels and fanfiction and art. It annoys me when people put down TV because they experience it differently. Maybe they just sit in front of the box and flip through the channels without really engaging in anything, but for me it's a hugely involving and communal experience. And one of the most social things in my life.
What’s the last really good book you read? Good question. I feel like most of the books I've read recently have been really bad. (Finishing the Gillian Key series has become a personal challenge for me, even though they're terrible and make me so angry. I don't know why I'm doing this to myself.) But I am currently reading Redshirts by John Scalzi and it's pretty good so far.
I’m going to be completely self-serving here: what are a few of your favorite DW/RPF fics? Rec me some awesome stuff to read. Any rating. *g* Anything by Pam. I love everything she writes, but if pushed for actual recs, I'd have to say As imagination bodies forth the form of things unknown and Get up and shake the glitter off your clothes now are my favourites. Also, Charina, Emma, and Danica are amazing and you can't go wrong with their fics. And I feel I should mention To Err is Human, which has the distinction of being a fic I love featuring a ship I do not ship at all (Ten/Donna).
Did you do anything cool for New Years’ or Christmas? The usual - stayed at home, played board games, drank wine, watched the London fireworks on TV. So cool.
Tell me about one of your favorite memories. When we went to pick up Tilly from the rescue centre. The dogs were out in the field and as soon as she saw me she ran over like she recognised me. The lady there had said that we would need help getting her in the car because she was afraid of new people, but she was instantly comfortable with me and jumped up right beside me with no problems. It really was like she knew me and had just been waiting for me to come and pick her up.
What’s one thing you really like about yourself? Um, I like to think I'm quite a nice person. I try to be, anyway. I want to be kind to other people and I don't like being mean.
What’s your beverage of choice? Red wine.
The legs, the nose, or Mrs. Robinson? Mrs Robinson.
My questions:
What's your favourite musical?
If you could bring back a cancelled TV show for one series, which one would it be?
If you had to choose between never being able to leave your home country and being able to travel anywhere else but never being able to return to your home country, which would you choose?
Would you rather work short hours at a job you hate or long hours at a job you love, assuming the pay was the same in the end?
What's your favourite vegetable?
If you could only wear one colour for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?
Would you break up your OTP if it meant you could be with one of them?
If you could time travel once, when would you go and why?
If I turned up randomly at your house, what would you do?
What do you hope to do in 2013 that you've never done before?
Cake or death?
