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[skygiants]

Yesterday my company went to the racetrack for a Company Outing! (Corporate America is weird sometimes.) I did not wear a big hat and I did not drink a mint julep, but I did bet money on the races, which marks my Very First Time Gambling! That is two dollars I will never see again. :( Gambling is clearly the devil's work.

Due possibly to lack of big hat, I have also burned myself an exciting neon pink color that matches well with the purple shirt I am wearing today. SUMMER IS HERE AT LAST.

Anyway, I have books to write up, but for one reason or another I wish to hold off on them for now, so instead I am stealing a meme from furikku and shoroko:

Give me a character from any fandom you know that I know and I will tell you:
a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

This is an awesome meme! It combines all my favorite things: character analysis, cracktastic crossovers, making playlists, and killing off characters in exciting ways. Feel free to ask me lots! :D

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[skygiants]

a. Hard to narrow it down! So many things! I am torn between how smart he is - he is really a genius inventor, and that is so awesome! - and the fact that he loves shopping.

b. I could have done without the token sexism in the beginning to Teach The Kids A Lesson, but fortunately they got him over it quickly.

c. Toph! Not that I don't ship Sokka/Suki as well, but Sokka/Toph is the Someday, In The Future, She Hits Him Over The Head With a Rock and Drags Him Off ship of my heart. (Sokka/Toph/Suki is also acceptable.)

d. Back when West had just been horribly introduced and there were still hopes that Heroes would be salvageable, I spent a lot of time pondering all the ways that Sokka/Claire Bennet would be an amazing, amazing OTP. He likes strong women and people with superpowers! She needs someone with a sense of humor! THEY WOULD FIGHT CRIME TOGETHER SO AWESOMELY.

e. I want a Sokka-Buffy!verse crossover, just so Sokka can show them all just how badass a badass normal can be. He and Buffy would go shopping! He and Willow could invent some stuff! He and Xander would KICK ASS and not need any superpowered people to come help them do it!

f. I saw someone talking about Sokka/Azula once. And . . . I can maaaybe see it happening under very specific circumstances, and it would be the most terrifying, emotionally disturbing thing ever and would destroy him.

g. Ooh, this is hard! For some reason I've never mentally made Avatar playlists. I'm going to go with Everybody Got Their Something, by Nikki Costa.

h. "BOOMERANG AND I: A Love Story." The author photo shows Sokka in his Fire Nation Dad beard and mustache, striking a pose.

i. It involved eating too much, falling off a cliff, and being trapped in a hole. There he had to watch helplessly as Yue floated up into the sky and turned into green cheese. Then Aang ate her. Stupid vegetarians!

j. Sokka is going to die well into his sixties, testing out the Avatar!verse's very first jetpack. The jetpack will work fine, but he won't have factored in the giant eagle-bee that smells his packed lunch and zooms in for the attack . . .