January Meme: 2022 Edition

[selenak]

As always in recent years, I'll do this meme in January. I've always enjoyed doing it, and look forward to your prompts, old and new friends.


Pick a date below and give me a topic, and I'll ramble on. I'm good at talking. It can be anything from fandom-related (specific characters, actors, storylines, episodes, etc.) to life-related to pizza preferences to whatever you want.

They will probably be brief, or not, depending on the subject. Also, I reserve the right to decline prompts that I don't feel equipped to meet.

Topics: you can get an idea from my tags/from the stuff I usually ramble about/from things you maybe wish I talked about more but don't. Also, please feel free to check out the 2021 January Meme, the January Meme: 2020 Edition, the 2019 one, the 2018 meme, the 2017 edition , and the 2016 January meme to see which topics I've written about in past years.


January 1: With Doctor # 13's regeneration upcoming, what does your ideal regeneration scene look like? (lightofdaye)
January 2: Which Torchwood character is most like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? And which is most like Faith? (itsnotmymind)
January 3: Some of my favourite minor (or one-off) ST characters (lirazel)
January 4: which Doctor and companion(s) are going to show up in Friderician times? Who gets pulled into an adventure and who else do they meet? (felis)
January 5:
January 6: The Ancient World/Classics: where I’m well versed, what I want to learn more about (mildred_of_midgard)
January 7:
January 8: Some of my favourite loyalty relationships (scintilla10
January 9:
January 10: the most depressing fandom you enjoy, and why. (ffutures)
January 11:
January 12:
January 13: The Borgias on tv: likes and dislikes (liraen)
January 14:
January 15: How to hook someone on the Classics (cahn
January 16:
January 17:
January 18: If JMS became showrunner of Doctor Who...
January 19:
January 20: A Midsummer Night's Dream (watervole)
January 21:
January 22:
January 23: the most chaotic historical person. Whatever that could mean to you (avrelia)
January 24: Keeping everything the same up through Infinity War, how would you have written Endgame? musesfool
January 25: What other canons remind me of Babylon 5 (cahn)
January 26:
January 27: Favourite German meals (yhlee)
January 28: Favourite Star Trek episodes (aurumcalundula)
January 29:
January 30: your preferred or favorite fandom interactions (rose_griffes)
January 31: My month on Disney plus: likes and dislikes (oracne)

Comments

[musesfool]

January 24: Keeping everything the same up through Infinity War, how would you have written Endgame?

[selenak]

Ah, a hot iron. I'll try. :)

[ffutures]

January 10th - the most depressing fandom you enjoy, and why.

[itsnotmymind]

Which Torchwood character is most like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? And which is most like Faith?

[mildred_of_midgard]

Classics salon and why you want to do one with me and cahn someday: what areas of background knowledge do you have, and what, if anything, would you be interested in learning more about?

Translation: Frederician salon has been the greatest experience of my liiiiife!!! :D :D :D (Timeline-wise, I still need to get my German up to snuff and haven't--quite--given up on French, but one day, maybe in a few years, I'll go back to Latin and Greek. And on that day, I'll get cahn to say something provocatively misguided in your presence...)

[liriaen]

Ohhh, is this a meme that used to go round, or is it of your own invention? May I copy it and post something similar? (Feel free to tell me off if you'd rather not see me do this, okay?)

How about... on January 13: As for Borgia series on tv (pick any), what were the saving graces, according to you? What did you like, and what didn't work for you?

[selenak]

It's a really old meme, not by me, and you're very welcome to use it! Okay, the (various) Borgias it shall be!

[felis]

Okay, so which Doctor and companion(s) are going to show up in Friderician times? Who gets pulled into an adventure and who else do they meet?

[selenak]

Ah, a true challenge that smells like a future fanfic plot! I’m looking forward to coming up with answers…

[scintilla10]

Some of your fave loyalty relationships! (If you want a narrower scope, how about loyalty in Star Trek?)

Feel free to pick any day. :)

[lirazel]

I'll pick January 3rd since the 4th is my birthday. :D

I would love to hear you talk about some of your favorite minor (or even one-off) Trek characters. Any show or multiple shows though I am especially biased towards TOS.

[rose_griffes]

January 30: your preferred or favorite fandom interactions

[watervole]

Jan 20 A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I still remember listening while you and Gareth had the most amazing conversation about Titania and Oberon.

The passion and knowledge both you had...

[avrelia]

For January 23 - the most chaotic historical person. Whatever that could mean to you.

[ffutures]

I think Julie D'Aubigny AKA La Maupin has to be a strong contender:

https://www.badassoftheweek.com/maupin

"Julie D'Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and bang a nun."

[avrelia]

She is good and very chaotic indeed.

One of my top contenders would be Lorenzo Da Ponte, mostly famous for being Mozart's librettist. But beside that he had a truly crazy biography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Da_Ponte

Another strong entry would be Chevalier d'Éon.

[cahn]

:D Jan 15: So, riffing off mildred's topic, what Classics works (to be read in English translation) would you recommend to hook someone who doesn't know anything about it? (Aside from the Illiad/Odyssey/Aeneid -- but would also be open to interesting translations of those!) (And especially for someone who preferred the Aeneid to the Illiad and Odyssey?)

And on a different subject, if I can ask two questions, what other canon(s) remind you of Babylon 5? (That's intentionally vague -- feel free to interpret it in any way you like :) ) (If I get to ask two questions, maybe Jan 25 for this one?)

[selenak]

I'll try to do both!

[oracne]

January 31: your month of Disney Plus - what did you like and not like about what you watched?

[yhlee]

If you're still taking these: your favorite place in Germany to visit

[yhlee]

Jan 26

[selenak]

Will do!

[aurumcalendula]

January 28: Favorite Star Trek episode(s)?