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A Survey of Favourite Things

Why not?

I'm just going to eliminate categories where I have no opinion or can't decide.

Kind of a random list here. More like "your favorite media, plus a bonus handful on no particular topic."

Music

Favourite Artist: Brand New
Favourite Song: "Simple Gifts"
Favourite Composer: Aaron Copland

Literature

Favourite Series: Discworld
Favourite Poet: T. S. Eliot
Favourite Poem: "Invictus"
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Homestuck

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: The Matrix
Favourite Animated Film The Lion King
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: The West Wing

Games

Favourite Traditional Game: Magic: the Gathering
Favourite Video Game Series: Pokémon

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: About like this.
Favourite City: Boston
Favourite Animal: Little brown kiwi
Favourite Season: Not-winter
Favourite Language: English
 
Music

Favourite Artist: Do As Infinity, ALI PROJECT
Favourite Album: Lingering Fizz, Marble; Discovery, Daft Punk; Angelrhythm, Asriel; HEART STATION, Utada Hikaru
Favourite Song: Feel So Good, Supercell; Renai Circulation, Kana Hanazawa
Favourite Composer: Yoko Kanno
Favourite Genre: House, J-pop

Literature

Favourite Author: Harry Turtledove, George Orwell, Ernest Hemmingway
Favourite Book: Homage to Catalonia
Favourite Playwright: William Shakespeare
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Aria by Kozue Amano

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Stalingrad
Favourite Director: Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick
Favourite Animated Film: Grave of the Fireflies
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Two and a Half Men (at least, before they had to replace Charlie), Top Gear (UK)
Favourite Animated TV Series: Regular Show, Aria (all of it), Maria-sama ga Miteru

Games

Favourite Video Game: Crusader Kings II, Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 FES, Dragon Warrior Monsters, Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Favourite Traditional Game: Diplomacy, Illuminati, Magic: the Gathering
Favourite Video Game Series: Pokemon, Football Manager
Favourite Game Studio: Paradox Interactive, Atlus, Blizzard

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: orange
Favourite City: Austin, Siem Reap, Los Angeles
Favourite Animal: snakes, wolves
Favourite Season: summer
Favourite Language: Russian
 
Music
Favourite Artist: The Cat Empire
Favourite Album: Forever So by Husky, all TCE albums except So Many Nights because it's kind of average
Favourite Song: Porphyrophobia by Tom Milsom
Favourite Composer: blaaah I am not one for composers but I really like Stewart Copeland's compositions for the Spyro games.
Favourite Genre: I don't pay attention to those hahaa
Favourite Album Art: currently The 'Ole Razzle Dazzle by Missy Higgins, but this changes pretty frequently.

Literature
Favourite Author: Gregory Maguire, Margaret Atwood, probably more?? I don't read enough
Favourite Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Favourite Series: Wicked, Hitchhiker's Guide
Favourite Poet: blaaah I don't have one
Favourite Poem: there are so many
Favourite Playwright: I don't knooow why are you doing this to me
Favourite Play: Titus Andronicus! it's hilarious omg
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): all of them Calvin & Hobbes, Hark! A Vagrant, Octopus Pie, Lackadaisy, Peanuts,

Film/TV
Favourite Live-Action Film: so many but The Science of Sleep is very very good.
Favourite Director: ugh I don't know
Favourite Animated Film I'm an animation student I like all of them what! for the animation: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, The Little Mermaid, Destino; for the film: Treasure Planet, Finding Nemo, The Last Unicorn.
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: ehh I don't really watch them but Sherlock is pretty great
Favourite Animated TV Series: Sailor Moon! but also Rocko's Modern Life, Spongebob Squarepants, Adventure Time. But then I'll like most any if they're animated well. :B

Games
Favourite Video Game: original Spyro Trilogy, Ocarina of Time, Okami
Favourite Traditional Game: Scrabble, Articulate!
Favourite Video Game Series: classic spyro ;_;
Favourite Game Studio: Insomniac make really amazing things basically all the time. I really dig their work ethic and they're just a cool bunch of people.

Miscellaneous
Favourite Colour: purple! but I don't dislike any so.
Favourite City: right because I've actually left australia oh wait-
Favourite Animal: deer, horsies, hummingbirds, crocodiles, jellyfish, octopuses
Favourite Season: winterrrr
Favourite Language: I only speak english :C

opal I notice a distinct lack of visual art questions so I am making my own >:(

ART
Favourite Artist: why did I do this there are so many! but Alphonse Mucha, Quentin Blake, Meredith Gran and Anish Kapoor are all really cool.
Favourite Piece: Emergence by Sayaka Ganz but this changes a lot.
Favourite Medium: painting predominantly but also digital and sculpture.
Favourite Movement: like, all of modernism. the whole thing. also the pre-Raphaelites are cool.
 
Irish (I know it doesn't really have a practical use, but I'm interested in old, forgotten languages.)
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It's still spoken in some areas of Ireland. It's not dead, and every moment you're not speaking it is contributing to its decay. Keep it alive if you wish, it's still there and people do speak it.
 
Tarvos said:
It's still spoken in some areas of Ireland. It's not dead, and every moment you're not speaking it is contributing to its decay. Keep it alive if you wish, it's still there and people do speak it.
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I know, but it's still something you'd learn purely out of interest, rather than necessity, since pretty much everyone that speaks Irish can still speak English anyway.

I'll admit that I get discouraged by comments about it being useless or "what's the point, just learn spanish or something", which is why I added that comment in brackets.
 
Byrus said:
I know, but it's still something you'd learn purely out of interest, rather than necessity, since pretty much everyone that speaks Irish can still speak English anyway.

I'll admit that I get discouraged by comments about it being useless or "what's the point, just learn spanish or something", which is why I added that comment in brackets.
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"Speak a language a man understands, and you touch his head. Speak a language a man was born with, and you touch his heart."

Mandela :)

I personally think that any language is learned out of interest, because in terms of getting by, there's an English bubble anywhere.
 
Well, sounds more fun than doing homework right now.
Oh, boy. Gonna have a hard time with a lot of these, though.

Music

Favourite Artist: --
Favourite Album: Audio, Video, Disco, Justice
Favourite Song: Down Under, Men at Work
Favourite Composer: --
Favourite Genre: New Wave
Favourite Album Art: --

Literature

Favourite Author: Terry Pratchett
Favourite Book: --
Favourite Series: Discworld
Favourite Poet: Emily Dickenson
Favourite Poem: --
Favourite Playwright: --
Favourite Play: --
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): --

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: --
Favourite Director: --
Favourite Animated Film: --
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: --
Favourite Animated TV Series: MLP: FiM

Games

Favourite Video Game: Team Fortress 2 (back when I used to play it, at least)
Favourite Traditional Game: Apples to Apples (or other games based on the same model)
Favourite Video Game Series: --
Favourite Game Studio: Bethesda

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Blue (turquoise, cerulean, cyan, azure)
Favourite City: San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Barcelona
Favourite Animal: --
Favourite Season: Summer
Favourite Language: If I have to read or write it, English. If I have to hear it, Castilian, Italian, or Galician. If I have to speak it, all bets are off.
 
Music

Favourite Artist: Adele for now. All time then I guess GLaDOS? O.o
Favourite Album: 21 by Adele. I don't listen by album much.
Favourite Song: Dragon Roost Island and Molgera from The Wind Waker, Still Alive
Favourite Composer: Wat.
Favourite Genre: Ones that have a good melody and no excessive noise.
Favourite Album Art: I don't even know an album art.

Literature

Favourite Author: ...elyvorg?
Favourite Book: ...Foregone Conclusion?
Favourite Series: Hunger Games or something, I haven't read very good series. WARRIOR CATS BECAUSE ANIMALS
Favourite Poet: Poems are bad because I don't find them realistic enough to be touching
Favourite Poem: ^
Favourite Playwright: Haven't watched a single play but Shakespeare and his plots suck.
Favourite Play: ^
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Detective Conan

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Inception, but I haven't watched many
Favourite Director: Haven't watched enough films to decide
Favourite Animated Film Wall-E
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: ...Don't really watch these
Favourite Animated TV Series: Avatar, not much else

Games FINALLY

Favourite Video Game: Bioshock, Legend of Zelda WW, Portal, Super Metroid, World of Goo
Favourite Traditional Game: Paper Scissors Rock
Favourite Video Game Series: Gamble between Metroid and Zelda, picking Zelda for the music
Favourite Game Studio: Nintendo

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: I actually don't have one
Favourite City: Fictional cities that no one would know (literally)
Favourite Animal: Just about everything that's not human
Favourite Season: Summer because I do not get any allergies or colds and I don't have to wear a lot of clothes which is heavy (but winter has skiing!)
Favourite Language: Mandarin Chinese and English combined together is so troll (I'll give you some colour to see!)
 
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Music

Favourite Artist: Queen
Favourite Album: anything by Queen, too hard to pick just one
Favourite Song: '39 - Queen, You and I - Lady Gaga, Gangnam Style - PSY, plus like a bazillion things from musicals and video games
Favourite Composer:
Favourite Genre:
Favourite Album Art: Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Literature

Favourite Author: i really don't read very much these days :(
Favourite Book:
Favourite Series: Harry Potter
Favourite Poet:
Favourite Poem:
Favourite Playwright:
Favourite Play: do musicals count. if yes, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): probably Homestuck at the moment good god

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Back to the Future
Favourite Director: Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick
Favourite Animated Film: The Emperor's New Groove
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Red Dwarf
Favourite Animated TV Series: Animaniacs

Games

Favourite Video Game: Pokemon Platinum/White/White 2
Favourite Traditional Game:
Favourite Video Game Series: Pokemon
Favourite Game Studio: Game Freak

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: orange, dark pink
Favourite City: Driftveil City. but if we're talking bout real places, Nottingham and Stockholm
Favourite Animal: bears
Favourite Season: summer
Favourite Language: English
 
Music

Favourite Artist: Pink Floyd, Flight of the Conchords
Favourite Album: The Wall
Favourite Song: Tough call, but probably Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Favourite Composer: Beethoven
Favourite Genre: Classic rock, but the range of music I like is the most random set ever.
Favourite Album Art: I don't really go around looking at album art, but probably Dark Side of the Moon.

Literature (You should totally have fiction and nonfiction sections. And a fanfiction section, because elyvorg. And a blog section because Greta Christina.)

Favourite Author: Michael Ende
Favourite Book: The Neverending Story and Momo
Favourite Series: The Dresden Files
Favourite Poet: Jóhannes úr Kötlum (yes, it's an Icelandic guy you've never heard of; shoot me)
Favourite Poem: Slysaskot í Palestínu
Favourite Playwright: Hugleikur Dagsson
Favourite Play: Jesus Christ Superstar, Leg (Icelandic meaning 'Uterus', not the English word 'leg')
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Lackadaisy, Unsounded, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Memento, The Prestige, District 9, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds, The Life of Brian
Favourite Director: The Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan
Favourite Animated Film: The Incredibles
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: ReGenesis, Boston Legal (+ The Practice season 8), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Mythbusters, Doctor Who, Sherlock
Favourite Animated TV Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Games

Favourite Video Game: Pokémon Yellow, StarCraft
Favourite Traditional Game: Hættuspil (yes, yes, Icleandic thing, go away)
Favourite Video Game Series: Pokémon, Heroes of Might and Magic, Ace Attorney
Favourite Game Studio: Game Freak

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Dark blue
Favourite City: Cairns
Favourite Animal: Tigers (and felines in general)
Favourite Season: Winter
Favourite Language: Icelandic


There should totally be a Favorite Magician category too.
 
Music

Favourite Artist: Led Zeppelin, Metallica, System of a Down, Green Day, Aerosmith, [insert good music between 70's and 90's here] (yeah too many to list)
Favourite Album: Abbey Road - The Beatles, American Idiot - Green Day, Enconium - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin
Favourite Song: I love too many songs, but Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zep) has a special place in my heart due to my dad playing it on guitar to me <3
Favourite Composer: AUSTRIA//shot
Favourite Genre: Anything that can be considered rock music. Everything from rock and roll to metal to hairbands to... you get the idea. I also like older rap.
Favourite Album Art: Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd. I have a shirt with that album cover on it, it's so awesome.

Literature

Favourite Author: Tie between Christopher Paolini and J. K. Rowling. And Douglas Adams.
Favourite Book: i can't decideeeeeeeee
Favourite Series: The increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy
Favourite Poet: Not much of a poetry person.
Favourite Poem:
Favourite Playwright: Can't beat Shakespeare, bro.
Favourite Play: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Hetalia/Fruits Basket/Inubaka: Crazy For Dogs/Iron Man/Deadpool

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: THE HOLY GRAIL
Favourite Director:
Favourite Animated Film Hetalia: Paint it White
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: DOCTOR WHO ALL THE WAY oh and also Supernatural
Favourite Animated TV Series:Hetalia/YGOTAS
(there should be a favourite Monty Python movie section so we can track down the people who haven't seen any and force them to watch it)

Games

Favourite Video Game: the original Golden Sun/Portal 2
Favourite Traditional Game: TRIVIAL PURSUIT
Favourite Video Game Series: Pokemon, obviously
Favourite Game Studio: Valve

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: that weird shade of teal and the colour of the Tumblr dash
Favourite City: CARDIFF AND I'VE NEVER EVEN BEEN THERE hahaha /shot DC was pretty cool I guess
Favourite Animal: bunny rabbits coz flying mint bunny and usarisu and i just
Favourite Season: Fall
Favourite Language: Russian accents are cool, and Japanese is cool too.
 
Anything I wasn't sure of isn't on here.

Music

Favourite Artist: Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Pink Floyd
Favourite Album: Once by Nightwish
Favourite Song: Ghost Love Score and Last of the Wilds by Nightwish, Echoes by Pink Floyd
Favourite Genre: Metal

Literature

Favourite Book: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Homestuck or Lackadaisy

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Life of Brian
Favourite Animated Film: The Incredibles, Princess Mononoke
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Breaking Bad, Doctor Who
Favourite Animated TV Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Games

Favourite Video Game: Minecraft, Civilization V, Skyrim
Favourite Traditional Game: Speed, if card games count
Favourite Video Game Series: Mass Effect
Favourite Game Studio: BioWare, Bethesda, Nintendo

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Indigo
Favourite City: Boston
Favourite Animal: Millipedes, vultures
Favourite Season: Autumn or winter
Favourite Language: Basque/Euskara
 
Favourite Book: Either Unwind or Behemoth
Favourite Series: Leviathan trilogy
Favourite Poet: Shel Silverstein?
Favourite Poem: --
Favourite Playwright: Does Starkid count
Favourite Play: A Very Potter Musical, if that counts.
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Zelda mangas, Archie Sonic, Negima, etc.

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Fun With Dick and Jane (new one), i guess
Favourite Director: --
Favourite Animated Film Fantastic Mr. Fox
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Everybody Hates Chris
Favourite Animated TV Series: My Little Pony

Games

Favourite Video Game: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, Final Fantasy IX, Majora's Mask, Pokemon Crystal
Favourite Traditional Game: --
Favourite Video Game Series: Sonic the Hedgehog
Favourite Game Studio: Sega, Nintendo, Square?

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Light blue
Favourite City: -
Favourite Animal: giraffe
Favourite Season: winter
Favourite Language: german and english
 
I usually have multiple or no favourites so this is sorta difficult but weh...

Music

Favourite Artist: Mika
Favourite Album: No specific album.
Favourite Song: Baba O'reilly, The Who
Favourite Composer: Hans Zimmer, Murray Gold
Favourite Genre: Pop and/or rock, but it varies...

Literature

Favourite Book: The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix
Favourite Series: Animorphs
Favourite Playwright: Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
Favourite Play: Next to Normal
Favourite Comic (incl. manga): Calvin & Hobbes

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Fight Club
Favourite Director: There are directors that I like, but none that I'd consider a favourite.
Favourite Animated Film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Doctor Who, Friends, Oz, Homeland, Lost, Sherlock (BBC), Six Feet Under, Jekyll
Favourite Animated TV Series: Avatar: the last Airbender

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Blues/purples/grays
Favourite City: New York?
Favourite Animal: All the ones that don't suck my blood.
Favourite Season: Rainy season.
Favourite Language: English.
 
Music

Favourite Artist: My Chemical Romance, Breathe Carolina
Favourite Album: Move Along by All-American Rejects, The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
Favourite Songs:
Anxious: "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Noisa Remix)" - Skrillex
Chill: "Nine in the Afternoon" - Panic at the Disco
Gloomy: "Emergency" - Paramore, "21 Guns" - Green Day
Happy: "Dead!" - My Chemical Romance
Inspired: "Viva la Vida" - Coldplay
Intense: "The Flood" - Escape the Fate
Nostalgic: "White Feather in the Storm" - CarboHydroM (Mario Galaxy cover)
Paranoid: "Too Much Information" - Over It
Passionate: "Only One" - Yellowcard
Slap-Happy: "Your Love is my Drug" - Ke$ha, "F**k You [Cover]" - Sleeping with Sirens
Favourite Composer: Scott Joplin, Koji Kondo
Favourite Genre: Pop Punk, Screamo, Dubstep
Favourite Album Art: Step Outside Yourself - Over It

Literature

Favourite Book: The Hobbit
Favourite Series: The Hunger Games
Favourite Poet: Dante Alighieri, Edgar Allen Poe
Favourite Poem: The Divine Comedy

Film/TV

Favourite Live-Action Film: Inception, Tron
Favourite Animated Film Aladdin
Favourite Live-Action TV Series: Lost
Favourite Animated TV Series: guess
Favourite Webseries: Smosh, Extra-Credits

Games

Favourite Video Game: Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, Portal 2, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Pokemon FireRed, Super Mario Sunshine
Favourite Traditional Game: Ocarina of Time should count by now
Favourite Video Game Series: Metroid Prime, Legend of Zelda
Favourite Game Studio: Nintendo, Game Freak

Miscellaneous

Favourite Colour: Cobalt Blue
Favourite City: Paris, San Diego
Favourite Season: Spring
Favourite Language: Japanese
 
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