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Showing posts with label top ten tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top ten tuesday. Show all posts

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Top Ten Characters I'd Name a Cat After

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Ten Characters I'd Name A Child/Dog/Cat/Car etc After. I'll be using characters from a combination of books, films, and TV shows this week (some of the books have screen adaptations, so that's the version I've taken the images from). I don't want kids, I'm not a dog person, and I would forget to name my car, so I'm going with cats.
 
1. Kili (The Hobbit)
 

2. Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)


3. Gandalf (Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit)


4. Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)


5. Hector (The Iliad)
 

6. Inara Serra (Firefly)


7. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

8. Saxa (Spartacus)
 

9. Napoleon Bonaparte (War and Peace)


10. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
 

What do you think of these characters? Who would you name a cat after? What characters would you name a car, a child, or a dog after?

Tuesday 4 October 2016

Top Ten Villains on TV

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is All About the Villains. I decided to do my ten favourite villains on TV, since I don't tend to like villains in books, but I sometimes do on television.
1.

Lucretia (Spartacus)

She has a great character arc and is truly the best villain ever, because she's a good villain who is written and portrayed excellently.
2.

Ilithyia (Spartacus)

She's a very funny villain, without meaning to be. She just speaks her mind without knowing she's being rude. Ilithyia is a bitch.

3.
 

Crassus (Spartacus)

He's just as smart as our protagonist Spartacus, and respects his enemy.

4.

Caesar (Spartacus)

Damn you, you sneaky, smart, strong good-looking bastard.

5.

Callisto (Xena)

Undefeatable crazy evil blonde bitch with a weird obsession with Xena.

6.

Alti (Xena)

Undefeatable crazy evil brunette bitch with a weird obsession with Xena. Only even more undefeatable.
7.

 Moriarty (Sherlock)

Evil genius. I shivered/shuddered just finding a picture.

8.

 "Captain John Hart" (Torchwood)

He's a bad person... But he's got some good qualities... Never mind, no he doesn't... Hang on, maybe he does...
Tbh it's the jacket I like the most.

9.

Missy (Doctor Who)

The funniest serious villain to ever... villain. Missy is very very Weird.
10.

Bonnie (Doctor Who)

There's something sexy and scary about her at the same time. It's disconcerting.

Who are your favourite TV villains? Do you agree with this list? Who would you put at #1?

Tuesday 6 September 2016

Top Ten F/F Relationships on TV

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is to do a television-related topic, so I've chosen to do my ten favourite female/female relationships on television, past and present. Some of these are ships, some are friendships, some are antagonistic relationships. Not a spoiler-free post.

1. Xena & Gabrielle

Xena: Warrior Princess 
This one's a given.

2. Xena & Callisto

Xena: Warrior Princess
Gif source
You hurt me, I hurt you back tenfold.

3. Eve & Varia

Xena: Warrior Princess
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Varia has good reason to hate Eve, but ultimately forgives her. Cue happy feels.

4. Ilithyia & Lucretia

Spartacus
Gif source
The best frenemies to ever frenemy.

5. Gaia & Lucretia

Spartacus
Gif source
They genuinely care about each other and Gaia is essential in Lucretia's character development.

6. Nicole Haught & Waverly Earp

Wynonna Earp
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No Bury Your Gays trope here!

7. Waverly Earp & Wynonna Earp

Wynonna Earp

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 Healthy family relationships are so rare in fiction. Given the end of season 1, let's see how long this lasts.

8. Cosima Niehaus & Delphine Cormier

Orphan Black
Delphine is alive!

9. Clara Oswald & Jane Austen

Doctor Who
Still a better love story than Twilight, and they don't even have any scenes together.

10. Alex Vause & Piper Chapman

Orange is the New Black
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Such an unhealthy relationship that sometimes it's hard to watch. But it's so good!

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Do you know all these relationships? Which are your favourites? Who would you add to the list?

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Top Ten Books Set in the Future

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Books With X Setting (top ten books set near the beach, top ten book set in boarding school, top ten books set in England, etc). If you read my blog you'll know how much I love historical fiction, but you may not know that sci-fi is also one of my favourite genres, and I love futuristic settings a LOT.
Click the covers to go to the Goodreads links. 

1.
Uglies (Uglies, #1)
The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
2.
Diverse Energies
Diverse Energies edited by
3.
The Comet's Curse (Galahad, #1)
The Galahad series by Dom Testa
4.
Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1)
 The Dust Lands trilogy by Moira Young
5.
Genesis (The Rosie Black Chronicles, #1)
 The Rosie Black Chronicles by Lara Morgan
6.
Adaptation (Adaptation, #1)
  The Adaptation series by Malinda Lo
7.
The Carbon Diaries 2015 (Carbon Diaries, #1)
The Carbon Diaries series by Saci Lloyd
(Wait....)
8.
Titanic 2020 (Titanic 2020 #1)
Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman
9.
Exodus (Exodus, #1)
The Exodus series by Julie Bertagna
10.
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars edited by Ian Watson & Ian Whates

What are your favourite futuristic books? Have you read any of these? Do you have any recommendations?

Tuesday 9 August 2016

Top Ten Books by New Zealand Authors


Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Tuesday REWIND - go back and do a topic you missed over the years or recently or a topic you really want to revisit. I missed 19 July's Ten Books Set Outside The US, but since that's too broad I thought I'd narrow it down a bit and show my international readers what they should be reading. These books aren't all set in New Zealand, but they're not set in the US, either.

1. 


Love in the Land of Midas by Kapka Kassabova

2.

Rosetta by Barbara Ewing

3.

4.

I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale

5.

6. 


7.

Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers by

A Necklace of Souls by



Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd
(C'mon, it's a classic!)

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Do you have any favourite New Zealand books? Are you going to try any of the ones on this list? How well do NZ writers compete internationally?
I'm Alexandria, a 19-year-old reader/writer/blogger from New Zealand. I love language, history, and sci-fi. Hi! I'm always around if you want to talk, which you can do via comments, the contact form, or Facebook.

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