oh, right, a meme

[anghraine]

So at this point I get livejournal spam daily, all on the exact same post -- this brief summary of my issues with fandom's Owen and Beru. I don't really know why. Anyway, I owe a meme, and blah, so here's some in case anybody's interested.

Comment meme (ganked from ladyhadhafang)

Comment saying "MEME" and I will tell you the following:

1. Something random about you.
2. Which color you remind me of.
3. My first memory of you.
4. What random character I associate with you.
5. My favorite thing about you.
6. What fandom I associate with you.
7. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

Pairing meme

Give me a pairing and I'll tell you:

1. When I started shipping them:
2. What I think their challenge is:
3. What makes me happy about them:
4. What makes me sad about them:
5. What moment I wish had never happened:
6. Who I'd be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:
7. My happily ever after for them:

music meme (ganked from ladyhadhafang; there's a slightly more involved one I want to try, too, but not until finals are over)

You can learn a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod or mp3 player and write down the first 25 songs. No cheating or skipping songs that are shameful. That is the fun!

(1) The Last Waltz, Engelbert Humperdinck
(2) Ev'ry valley shall be exalted (The Messiah)
(3) The Trolley Song, Judy Garland
(4) Gettin' Along (A Very Potter Sequel)
(5) Poor Unfortunate Souls (The Little Mermaid)
(6) Concerning Hobbits (Fellowship of the Ring)
(7) Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Rachmaninoff
(8) Que Será, Será, Doris Day
(9) Etude in C Minor, Chopin
(10) You're The One That I Want (Grease)
(11) Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
(12) Hooked On You, Bread
(13) Revenge of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
(14) I'll Make A Man Out Of You (Mulan)
(15) Game On (The Guild)
(16) Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
(17) Ticket To The Moon, Electric Light Orchestra
(18) Fireflies, Owl City
(19) Different Drum, Helen Reddy
(20) Numb, Marina & the Diamonds
(21) Mad World, Adam Lambert
(22) Luke and Leia (Return of the Jedi)
(23) You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch (How The Grinch Stole Christmas [old!])
(24) This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home (Doctor Who)
(25) Everyone's A Hero (Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)

Comments

[rebeccation]

I really like the song meme. Yours got several things stuck in my head. ("Concerning Hobbits", "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", "Fireflies" -- and thank goodness it was "Poor Unfortunate Soul" from The Little Mermaid, because "Under the Sea" would have been nearly impossible to get rid of.) Mine provided hours of entertainment this morning:

1. Ave Maria / Magnificat (Chanticleer)
2. Eu sei que vou te amar (Bebo & Cegalia / Diego el Cigala)
3. Smash (Offspring)
4. Op.11 Moto Perpetuo in C (Paganini)
5. La Manche (Ogres de Barback)
6. Hunter (Bjork)
7. Prelude No4 in E minor, A419/4 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
8. General Lee at Twilight / Gettysburg Soundtrack (Randy Edelman)
9. Gymnopédies 2 (Eric Satie)
10. Contrapunctus 10 (JS Bach played by Jordi Savall)
11. Ahí le va (Juanes)
12. La malagueña (Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitan)
13. Progency / Gladiator soundtrack (Hans Zimmer)
14. Stella Serena - Conductus à 3 voix (anon. - early medieval)
15. Rough Enough (Popsie)
16. The First Meeting Op.52 No2 (Grieg)
17. Tota pulchra es + Vulnerasti cor meum (Palestrina)
18. Abrupto (Louis Sclavis)
19. Flourish for wind band, Maestoso (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
20. Concierto de Aranjuez, II: Adagio (Joaquin Rodrigo)
21. El Pirule (Luis Alberto/Guitar)
22. Dragon Fly (Yann Tiersen)
23. Letterbomb (Greenday)
24. Patinazo (Barricada)
25. Er sang vor langen Jahren (Arvo Pärt)

[sathari]

Pairing meme! Anakin/Padme (who else?) Also, seeing Dr. Horrible in the song meme reminds me of how desperately I want an Anakin-centric vid to "Brand New Day" (heavy on the Anakin/Obi-wan duel in ROTS.) (Yes, I'm weird. And also no such vid would be complete without using clips of the Death Star for "hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia," because, really. Empress Amidala with a DEATH STAR. BRB, smirking evilly forever.)

[anghraine]

Anakin/Padmé:

(1) I started shipping them when I read fialleril's Anabasis, which I actually read before AOTC and ROTS.

(2) Their challenge is ... lololololol. Okay, let's start pre-he's-a-Sith-Lord-and-she's-dead. He's a severely damaged teenager brought up in a monastic order that turns its adherents into soldiers for the government, and before that he was a slave and before that he was a slave in an even worse place. She's a career politician from the age of fourteen who, probably not coincidentally, seems to swing between personas with little continuity between them. She's apparently not supposed to get pregnant and he's not supposed to be in any relationship with anyone, which only adds another layer of trouble. And it gets worse from there.

(3) They make me happy because they actually seem to make each other happy. I mean, that's the thing. Everything that could possibly be wrong is wrong and they are *still happy* until he starts seeing the horrific future. Their relationship functions well for years.

But honestly, there is probably no force on earth that could keep me from squeeing over them and totally shipping them because they're Luke and Leia's parents and Skywalkers make me happy.

(4) What makes me sad about them: she dies, he becomes a supervillain and spends the next twenty years in a state of constant agony and misery. If she has any idea what's going on, she's probably agonized and miserable too. WELL THAT WAS FUN.

(5) The moment I wish had never happened: okay, so there are a LOT of options here, but it really has to be the Force-choke. There are plenty of ways to be a scary villain without going for domestic abuse, thanks.

(6) I'm honestly not that thrilled with Anakin ending up with anyone else thanks to the whole single-target-sexuality thing. If it had to be someone, I'd honestly prefer an OC to anyone we meet in canon. Anything with authority figures just squicks me out and pretty much everyone in his life is an authority figure or *he's* in considerable authority over them. Except Tarkin, I guess, and NO. So yeah, OC. Shockingly, I really like Padmé with Bail. Or maybe Palo in some freak meeting-up-again thing, just because fandom hates him so much.

(7) My happily-ever-after for them: I have several scenarios rattling around my brain, but I think my favourite actually-kind-of-happy-one (so sadly no Empress Amidala, too much self-revulsion on both parts to be happy) goes like this:

Anakin tells Padmé about his dreams on the way to Naboo and she decides to go to Tatooine and he doesn't need much convincing. Shmi isn't dead, though hurt, and he's too busy rescuing her to kill anyone except people who attack him, so he doesn't creep closer to the Dark Side. They stay there while Shmi recovers and so their courtship is there (and a bit less saccharine because Tatooine). Geonosis happens per canon and they get married and all. c. ROTS, Anakin is quite a bit more together and his relationship with Obi-Wan is probably better without Shmi's grisly death, and the most likely future isn't Padmé dying so he doesn't see it happening. *deep breath*

He doesn't end up becoming a Sith Lord and instead Padmé does convince him to get help from Obi-Wan, who's conflicted but ultimately keeps their secret, and gets Padmé out while Anakin, at the Temple, grabs as many of the children as he can and escapes. They all head to Tatooine, where Shmi has been grief-stricken, and they end up settling nearby and train all the children down to little Luke and Leia, and when the droids show up eighteen years later there's a ton of Jedi Knights there who wipe out the stromtroopers, but they know that will draw the attention of the Empire so they scatter and Anakin, Padmé, Luke, and Leia hitch a ride to Alderaan with Han and rescue Bail Organa and basically are a badass family.

[anghraine]

Oh, and I could have sworn I'd seen a Brand New Day Anakin vid, though sadly without that particular imagery. Though it'd be interesting if alt!Anakin had Vader's disapproval. Hmmm.