Friday Five Questions: Some Favorites

[teratornis]

Seen in annavere's post, originally from thefridayfive. It's definitely not friday anymore, but this looked like fun, and who doesn't like talking about their favorites some?


1. What is your all time favorite book?

My evergreen answer is A Matter of Profit, by Hilari Bell, but I've posted about that book before, so instead I'm gonna go with the Digger omnibus.

Digger started life as a serial webcomic, written and illustrated by Ursula Vernon, known more commonly these days in lit circles as T. Kingfisher. I started reading it when it was still being posted weekly online, and to this day I love it dearly. The characters are bizarre and fun, the story is both hilarious and shockingly, poignantly emotional, and in true Ursula Vernon form the worldbuilding is weird and wonderful and sometimes a little disturbing.

I got the omnibus, a doorstop of a book, as a gift a few years ago. It has a place of honor on my shelves.


2. What is your all time favorite movie?

Ladyhawke, a 1985 fantasy film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's got a lot of aspects I love (adventure! Swordfights! Cool horses! Animal transformations!), and has a good balance between being funny and intense and emotional. The ending is very sweet, and always makes me smile.

The soundtrack is. . . bad, it's bad. But we forgive, the rest of the movie is very worth it to me.


3. What are you reading right now?

Most of my prose reading has been fanfic lately (excellent, so many good stories <3), but I'm gonna go with another webcomic here.

I have lately been reading Runaway to the Stars, a far-future sci-fi webcomic in which the main characters discover a rogue spaceship AI that tries to enlist their help. The writer and artist, Jay Eaton, has been working on the design and worldbuilding for this story and setting for years and years, but has only recently started posting the comic in full online. After so many years learning about it all through their worldbuilding and meta posts, I'm loving being able to read the comic itself at last.


4. What is your favorite show on TV?

Top billing usually sort of oscillates between Leverage and Person of Interest, depending on my mood, though these last few years Highlander has also been a big one for me. Leverage and Highlander fall more into the comfort show section of 'favorite', though. I adore Person of Interest and I've rewatched it several times, but it's the kind of show that's difficult to watch if I'm already stressed out. More of a fair-weather favorite.


5. What is the last movie you saw in the theater?

I think it must've been Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which was excellent, and very worth seeing in theaters.

I used to go to the movie theater all the time, usually for weekday matinee showings. Can't do that anymore, with my current work schedule, but I used to have a lot of fun seeing all sorts of films.

Comments

[annavere]

Okay, I just clicked on Digger and cycled through as far as the Ganesh image and that made me smile. I'm on my phone but this definitely deserves to be looked at more closely. I shall return when I'm on my computer.

And ooh, Ladyhawke! I saw that several times growing up, hadn't thought of it in forever. It was such a a striking concept. Merits a rewatch.

[teratornis]

Digger is, no joke, one of the best pieces of literature I've ever come across. As goofy as the opening premise and scenes are, it'll break your heart in a really powerful way. I'm delighted you're checking it out, :D

It's really a great movie, I never get tired of it. For me at least a part of that is probably that I'm a massive bird nerd, and it's got some beautiful hawk footage. :P