Nickname: Artemis
Location: Germany
Sex: Female

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The characters and pairings I like are often ones which haven't been explored in canon. Gandalf said that the hobbits are a simple people you figure out within a month, but they'll never stop surprising you. That's how I like my characters. For example, many Andromeda episodes make me wince (blonde bimbo of the week, anyone?), but I still love the show because it could have been great and so it's up to us fans to explore the wonderful universe canon only hinted at.

This list isn't in any particular order.

Harry Potter - Favourite characters: Malfoy family, Pansy Parkinson, Tom Riddle/Voldemort, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter(all too often I want to smack him around, but I still love him), Ginny Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Zacharias Smith, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and many more.
Favourite pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Tom, Hermione/Tom, Hermione/Draco, Hermione/Severus, Bill/Fleur, Harry and Severus father/son relationship, Severus/Remus, Severus/Sirius (I hated Fleur as much as the Weasley kid until she saw Bill's mauled face after the werewolf attack on Hogwarts and didn't care, that's when I fell in love with this pairing)
I love the Slytherins in Harry Potter, both past and current ones, because I believe that they're the characters with the most unexplored potential. It's easy to be good when you've been born into it, but it's much harder when you have to make your stand against all odds. There is much hidden strength in Slytherin and "bad" doesn't equals "evil", but the line between bad and evil is drawn by the victors. Just look at all the war heroes in real life. They weren't warm and fuzzy people. They sacrificed their own soldiers, they attacked regardless of civilian casualties. Gryffindors are brave and good soldiers, Hufflepuffs will hold the line till the last man dies, Ravenclaw come up with brilliant strategies, but you need Slytherins to make the ruthless decisions that win your people the war. Heroes are nice and good for PR campaigns and troop morale, but war isn't a heroic affair. The Light side needs to realise that, too. Or maybe I'm just prejudiced since I'm a Slytherin myself.
Coming soon: Hufflepuff rant to go with the Slytherin rant. Because even though I'm a Slytherin all the way, I adore and admire Hufflepuff, contenders for the most underappreciated group of people in fiction ever.

Inuyasha - Favourite pairings: Sesshoumaru/Inuyasha, Kouga/Inuyasha, Kagome/Kouga, Kouga/Kagura, Naraku/Sesshoumaru (my utter crack OTP), Sesshoumaru/Sango, Inuyasha/Kikyo
Favourite characters: Kikyo (because she rocks and we need way more Kikyo love), Kouga, Kagura, Naraku, Sesshoumaru, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kaede, Rin, Jaken. Inuyasha and Kagome are characters I love half the time with all my heart and hate just as passionately the other half of the time.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dukat/Kira, Garak/Bashir, Jadzia/Worf. I'm not much of a DS9 shipper anymore, actually. Nowadays I mostly love the show for it's plot and character development and anti-war theme.
Favourite characters: Dukat, Damar, Ziyal, Kira, Shakaar, Vedek Bareil, Weyoun (all of them), Jadzia, Ezri, Nog, Quark, Kai Winn, the Siskos, Odo and so on and so on...
Favourite races: Cardassians, Bajorans and Veela! I absolutely love the Dominion.
DS9 is my favourite Star Trek series ever even though it's been years since I last watched it (blame the evil German TV channels and the shamelessly high DVD prices.)

Naruto - Favourite pairings: Sasuke/Naruto, Sasuke/Hinata, Itachi/Sakura, Hinata/Kiba, Hinata/Neji, Hinata/Shino, Shino/Sakura, Shino/Kiba, Deidara/Sakura, Deidara/Sasori, Ino/Sasuke, Deidara/Tobi.
Favourite characters: Kakashi, Tsunade, Kurenai, Temari, Kankuro, Gaara, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, Deidara, Itachi, Hidan, Zetsu, Tobi, Sasori, Neji, Naruto, Sakura, Ino, TenTen, Sasuke, Haku, Yashamaru (guess you didn't see that one coming, huh?)

Andromeda -Favourite pairings: Tyr/Beka, Harper/Tyr, Telemachus/Beka, Gaheris/Dylan
Favourite characters: Harper, Tyr, Gaheris Rhade (he's my favourite character and he dies within the first five minutes of the pilot! sniff I still maintain that Andromeda would have been a thousand times better if Gaheris had lived and no one can ever change my mind), Telemachus Rhade, Beka, Charlemagne Bolivar, all three Andromeda personalities (though Rommie admittedly is my favourite of them), Trance, Sarah (that's Dylan's old Commonwealth sweetheart for those who don't remember her, the one who could have delivered us from the bimbo of the week-evil).
Favourite race: Nietzscheans. Yes, the forearm-alien answer to Star Trek's forehead-aliens. Sure, the Nietzscheans were often portrayed in stupid ways, but they could have been great. Just think, Andromeda started in the late 90s, a time when such topics as cloning and genetic manipulation stopped being science-fiction and became hard facts.

Lord of the Rings - Favourite pairings: Legolas/Aragorn, Legolas/Boromir, Legolas/Eowyn, Aragorn/Eowyn, Haldir/Eomer (movie), Gimli/Galadriel (it's just so cute), Legolas/Gimli
Favourite characters: Eomer, Eowyn (I like both, but prefer the movie-Eowyn), Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas, Arwen (book), Faramir, Boromir, Denethor (book), Merry, Pippin, Sam, Frodo, Isildur, Elrond (book), Elladan, Elrohir, Glorfindel (book), Gimli, Erestor, Witch King of Angmar (movie), Saruman (movie) and many more. There isn't really a character I dislike.
Favourite race: They're all great, I can't decide.
Favourite realm: Rohan

Other favourites:
Zetsuai
Weiss Kreuz - Youji/Schuldig, Aya/Crawford, Nagi/Omi.
I prefer Schwarz to Weiß. Sure, they're evil, but they're awesome and kick ass. One of the reasons I immediately fell in love with Weiss Kreuz was because it's finally a show with a German character who isn't ugly, stupid and/or a nazi (though he admittedly is a villain and I'm glad for it, goody-two-shoes Schuldig wouldn't be half as fun).
Alien/Predator
Halo - No pairings. I prefer the Covenant to the humans, though.
Babylon 5 - Neroon/Marcus, Zack/Lyta, Susan/Talia, Londo/G'Kar. Psi Corps, Centauri and Narn are my favourite people. That I love Psi Corps so much is very meaningful because I hate humans in science-fiction on principle (I'm so fing tired of all that we-humans-are-so-superior-so-all-must-bow-down-to-our-greatness). Heck, I can even stand the Earth Alliance!
Star Trek: Enterprise - T'Pol/Trip
Yu-Gi-Oh - Bakura/Ryou, Seto/Jounouchi
Gundam Wing - 1x2, 13x5
Angel/Buffy - Buffy/Spike, Angel/Cordelia, Spike/Xander, Spike/Drusilla, Angel/ or Angelus/Darla, Angelus/Buffy, Angel/Willow, Angelus/Willow, Willow/Xander, Willow/Tara, Xander/Anya. I'm weird like that, I love Buffy and Angel with about every other character, but not with another - unless it's B/Aus. That doesn't means that I hate B/A, though, it's just one of these pairings that don't click with me.
Kindred: The Embraced - Cash/Sasha
Gravitation - Yuki/Shuichi, Tohma/Mika, Ryuichi/Tatsuha. I prefer Nittle Grasper to Bad Luck.
Yami no Matsuei
Yu Yu Hakusho
Eragon - Morzan/Selena, Murtagh/Nasuada. Also love Murtagh and Eragon friendship fics.
Farscape - Aeryn/John, Aeryn/Crais.
Stargate: SG-1 - Sam/Martouf/Lantash. Love the Tok'ra and the Goa'uld (especially Ba'al). I like classic SG-1, with Tok'ra, Goa'uld and Tau'ri stumbling around space with the naivety of children. Lost interest in the show when the writers caught the typical sci-fi disease and made the earthers all-powerful.
Stargate: Atlantis -

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Favourite poem:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

Some favourite quotes:
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (1956- )

This is a revolution, dammit! We're going to have to offend SOMEbody-Peter Stone

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. -Douglas Adams

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. -Socrates

Truth, justice, honor...none of that's worth shit. What matters is people, and people aren't honest or just or honorable. They're petty and they're angry and they're afraid, and all anyone really wants, deep down, is to be wanted. And what's truth to that-M. Adducci

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it -Margaret Thatcher

Zwei Monologe, die sich gegenseitig immer und immer wieder störend unterbrechen, nennt man eine Diskussion. (Charles Tschopp)

It is always the best policy to speak the truth-unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar-Jerome K. Jerome

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the gods avenge themselves. -Roman law maxim, on blasphemy

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams

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Attention, Harry Potter fans! If you're looking for Harry Potter recommendations, check out my C2 community "Snake in the Grass".

I moved all my HP favs into the C2 community since 150 favs aren't enough for all the Harry Potter stories I adore.