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So I saw that ::nakira:: had done this, and I realllly wanted to do one too! So I did. Which is the first time in a long time when I've said I would do something, then just got on the computer and stayed up and finished it. I like.

I didn't label or number them because I specifically wanted to avoid any text on the meme. So starting from the top left and moving in the typical English reading fashion:

KT Tunstall - Hugely influenced by the music of this woman, in the sense that whenever I listen to her songs I want to write new stories. One of my favourite stories I'm writing is deeply connected to her albums.

Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, created by Robert Arthur, Jr - I read this books voraciously as a child, like the Boxcar Children but more horror-mystery. Really influenced my interests in reading from a very early age.

Dragonlance, by Tracy and Laura Hickman and Margaret Weis - I've read somewhere between 30 and 50 of the Dragonlance series, including all of the core books by the main authors up until the most recent, plus I love Dungeons and Dragons. These fantasies are epic, detailed, fully envisioned, with living, breathing, sympathetic characters that you love and hate and love all over again. These authors have done everything I will ever need to do to feel complete.

The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher - A newer series, comparatively, but I have just as much passion toward Dresden as I do the Dragonlance series, but directed at a smaller cast and world. These books have taught me a lot about writing, casting, creating, and most of all have given me the greatest inspiration to publish ever.

The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley - And not just this book, or even just the whole series, but all of her works. I wrote a paper on her in college and it was one of the few assignments I really cared about. Non-traditional, contemporary, creative, fundamentally rewriting Arthurian legend, this woman was brilliant and will live forever in the stories of the generations that have read her. She creates the most intricate characters I have ever come to know through fiction. She parted the veil between the worlds and saw Avalon as truly as ever before.

The Secret of Monkey Island/Le Chuck's Revenge: Monkey Island 2 - Oh sweet fucking Jesus, I cannot even explain how much I love these games or count how many times I have played them. I love Ron Gilbert, and because of this game, LucasArts. SCUMM is the best game engine ever. I hope Ron reads this and mentions me in his twitter. @grumpygamer Who knows why that would happen, but I can pray to the many, many, many gods I do not believe in and hope I get lucky. Maybe he'll even tell me the Secret of Monkey Island. Then I could die happy. Monkey Island literally made me the person I am today.

The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander - Such an amazing series, later to be pretty much ruined by Disney, but the picture still captures the essence of the story and reminds me of my childhood. I read these books, and his others, so many times, and I cried when he died. He was like Tolkien, toying with mythology and weaving stories of depth and complexity, but without boring the fuck out of us with a trilogy that would one day be seventeen hours long. *shudder* His five books would have made one hell of a great movie boxed set, and still would have been shorter, too.

Harry Potter, by JK Rowling - Well, of course this series influenced me, and god knows how many others. I started reading them when they were still unpopular. I am old as shit. But the way she sets up her stories is just so impressive, and her scope makes her more than worthy of mention. I still think Harry should have died, though.

The X Files - God, what can I say. This is probably one of the oldest television shows I can even remember, and even though it was a time before I thought, "This makes me want to write television," now I see that much of my desire to write crazy stories came from this show.

The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury - The only one of the big three left alive (god, how is this man still alive??) his writing changed my fucking life. This book is such a huge insight into the human psyche: how we will react to space travel and aliens and fucking space Jesus with a rocket. My introduction to the term 'solipsism,' which I had been playing with for years without knowing it. Bradbury was one of the earliest writers to really push my writing forward.

Sabriel, by Garth Nix - I love this series, and Garth Nix. His books are great works of fantasy, often using the very common theme of words, writing, writing instruments, letters, alphabets, paper and pages, ink, etc, to capture the idea of gods and magic. Words are power, his stories teach. They create, they destroy, they make us feel. Mmm. Yes, I can definitely relate to this man. His young adult fiction really changed me when I was a teenager, and I still read his youth fiction to this day.

Doctor Who - And, last but sure as fuck not least, the Doctor. Oh what a great and brilliant man. Nine got me into this mess, Ten made me fall in love, and Eleven has spun me around so many times I can't even figure out where I am - but I know I'm going to love the ride on the TARDIS even more. So many great companions that I have cried over losing, over and over and over again. This show has everything I love - time travel, science fiction, aliens, immortality (or great longevity, anyway), and British humour. The American government would have a fucking cow if they knew how much money I was supplying the Queen via the BBC. And how.

Wow, that was exhausting. Thanks for reading this, guys!

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So I saw that ::nakira:: had done this, and I realllly wanted to do one too! So I did. Which is the first time in a long time when I've said I would do something, then just got on the computer and stayed up and finished it. I like.

I didn't label or number them because I specifically wanted to avoid any text on the meme. So starting from the top left and moving in the typical English reading fashion:

KT Tunstall - Hugely influenced by the music of this woman, in the sense that whenever I listen to her songs I want to write new stories. One of my favourite stories I'm writing is deeply connected to her albums.

Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators, created by Robert Arthur, Jr - I read this books voraciously as a child, like the Boxcar Children but more horror-mystery. Really influenced my interests in reading from a very early age.

Dragonlance, by Tracy and Laura Hickman and Margaret Weis - I've read somewhere between 30 and 50 of the Dragonlance series, including all of the core books by the main authors up until the most recent, plus I love Dungeons and Dragons. These fantasies are epic, detailed, fully envisioned, with living, breathing, sympathetic characters that you love and hate and love all over again. These authors have done everything I will ever need to do to feel complete.

The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher - A newer series, comparatively, but I have just as much passion toward Dresden as I do the Dragonlance series, but directed at a smaller cast and world. These books have taught me a lot about writing, casting, creating, and most of all have given me the greatest inspiration to publish ever.

The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley - And not just this book, or even just the whole series, but all of her works. I wrote a paper on her in college and it was one of the few assignments I really cared about. Non-traditional, contemporary, creative, fundamentally rewriting Arthurian legend, this woman was brilliant and will live forever in the stories of the generations that have read her. She creates the most intricate characters I have ever come to know through fiction. She parted the veil between the worlds and saw Avalon as truly as ever before.

The Secret of Monkey Island/Le Chuck's Revenge: Monkey Island 2 - Oh sweet fucking Jesus, I cannot even explain how much I love these games or count how many times I have played them. I love Ron Gilbert, and because of this game, LucasArts. SCUMM is the best game engine ever. I hope Ron reads this and mentions me in his twitter. @grumpygamer Who knows why that would happen, but I can pray to the many, many, many gods I do not believe in and hope I get lucky. Maybe he'll even tell me the Secret of Monkey Island. Then I could die happy. Monkey Island literally made me the person I am today.

The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander - Such an amazing series, later to be pretty much ruined by Disney, but the picture still captures the essence of the story and reminds me of my childhood. I read these books, and his others, so many times, and I cried when he died. He was like Tolkien, toying with mythology and weaving stories of depth and complexity, but without boring the fuck out of us with a trilogy that would one day be seventeen hours long. *shudder* His five books would have made one hell of a great movie boxed set, and still would have been shorter, too.

Harry Potter, by JK Rowling - Well, of course this series influenced me, and god knows how many others. I started reading them when they were still unpopular. I am old as shit. But the way she sets up her stories is just so impressive, and her scope makes her more than worthy of mention. I still think Harry should have died, though.

The X Files - God, what can I say. This is probably one of the oldest television shows I can even remember, and even though it was a time before I thought, "This makes me want to write television," now I see that much of my desire to write crazy stories came from this show.

The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury - The only one of the big three left alive (god, how is this man still alive??) his writing changed my fucking life. This book is such a huge insight into the human psyche: how we will react to space travel and aliens and fucking space Jesus with a rocket. My introduction to the term 'solipsism,' which I had been playing with for years without knowing it. Bradbury was one of the earliest writers to really push my writing forward.

Sabriel, by Garth Nix - I love this series, and Garth Nix. His books are great works of fantasy, often using the very common theme of words, writing, writing instruments, letters, alphabets, paper and pages, ink, etc, to capture the idea of gods and magic. Words are power, his stories teach. They create, they destroy, they make us feel. Mmm. Yes, I can definitely relate to this man. His young adult fiction really changed me when I was a teenager, and I still read his youth fiction to this day.

Doctor Who - And, last but sure as fuck not least, the Doctor. Oh what a great and brilliant man. Nine got me into this mess, Ten made me fall in love, and Eleven has spun me around so many times I can't even figure out where I am - but I know I'm going to love the ride on the TARDIS even more. So many great companions that I have cried over losing, over and over and over again. This show has everything I love - time travel, science fiction, aliens, immortality (or great longevity, anyway), and British humour. The American government would have a fucking cow if they knew how much money I was supplying the Queen via the BBC. And how.

Wow, that was exhausting. Thanks for reading this, guys!