memeage

Today started off fine but is shaping up to be a day of *headdesk*. Sigh. Thus, memeage.

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Phrases Xander Harris Will Never Say", or "Five Jobs Kristin Westphalen Wishes She Had" or "Five Things Zoe Will Never, Ever Tell Wash"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

ETA: Changed examples to reflect fandoms I'm competent to speak to.

Sources I'm competent to speak to include:
Buffy/Angel
Firefly
ST:TNG
ST:DS9 (up to Little Green Men)
ST:VOY (kindasorta)
seaQuest (shut UP)
Star Wars
Dorothy L. Sayers
Vorkosigan Saga through the first hundred-odd pages of A Civil Campaign
Sherlock Holmes
Indiana Jones
Heris Serrano books

AAU FicFic , or, IM IN UR 'VERSE, WRITIN UR CHARACTERZ

An untitled (but authorially okayed!) bit of fluff in Antenna's Core Fourverse. Well, really it's an AU of the 'verse in which the Scoobies have responded to some negative views of their relationship by moving to England.

[No, I didn't forget about those top fives. Coming soon. :)]


When Xander let himself and his shopping bags into the flat, the hall was dark but there was a light under the study door and both light and noise coming from the kitchen. He locked the door, checked by feel that all the amulets were still aligned on the frame, and then scooped up the bags and followed the noise. "So. Word to the wise," he said. "In England, they keep the drugs behind the counter."

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Top Five Teas in Giles' Tea Tin

(You too can request a Top Five List in the meme post here!)

For penwiper26, Giles' Top Five Varieties of Tea, and Their Primary Uses


5. Old English Fruits (Whittards of Chelsea, loose.) For those times when he wants a sweet but really shouldn't indulge, or for those absurdly long cloudless Californian afternoons when he misses English seasons and feels nostalgic for interminable duty visits paid to his Great-Aunt Harriet, who made vile shortbread but very good fruity tea. Also useful for training the palates of Americans who think something's not a beverage unless it's half sweetener. Jenny liked it. So does Buffy.

4. Formosa Oolong (loose.) For nights of solitary research or reflection, and memories that are not as bitter as he thinks they ought to be.

3. Darjeeling (both loose and in bags.) For lazy mornings when he can go back to bed with a novel, or potter around the kitchen making himself (or a guest) a full English breakfast, or for after dinner, or occasionally when he very much does not wish to be tense but doesn't quite dare get out the Scotch.

2. Earl Grey (Bigelow and Twinings, bags.) Because everyone seems to expect it, and Willow always asks for it.

1. Barry's Red Label (bags.) An Irish brand that inexplicably but mercifully appears from time to time in the tea aisle of the Sunnydale Shop 'n Bag. Good, strong, black tea, the sort that one can get in the feeblest greasy spoon anywhere in the British Isles, but not at any price in an American restaurant. For late nights, early mornings, long research sessions, quick cuppas at the kitchen counter, and any other general occasion.