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I won four-color spider solitaire! No, you don't understand. I WON FOUR-COLOR SPIDER SOLITAIRE!!!
Umm, yes. It's webcomics awareness day! To the webcomics people on my fiendslist: I am aware of all the hard work you do. I love you all. It may seem like I'm totally obsessed with harry potter lately, but I can still turn into a webcomics fangirl at a moment's notice.
For instance: the latest storyline on Real Life, beyond implying that girls can't be real gamers, has got me thinking about The Zone. How the only game I ever really get in The Zone with is spider solitaire. I'm turning into my mother!
But still: I WON FOUR-COLOR SPIDER SOLITAIRE!!
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epicyclical:
"Fictional characters on whom I have had crushes. Book characters only; real people only in fictionalized versions." At first I was going to deny ever having had a crush on anyone; but then I thought: If you finish the story mainly to see when they're going to show up again; if you memorize huge swatches of their (and only their) dialogue; if "rereading" the book means reading every scene where they appear and skipping the rest; then yeah, it probably counts as a crush.
Thus,From books I read as a kid:
1. Estarriol. That scene where he tells Ged his Name . . gah.
2. Karl of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle. Because you can never have too many hot librarians.
3. Alan Mendelsohn. He's as close as I'll ever get to the Martian High Commissioner. (Damn it, now I want Alan/Leonard slash).
4. Dolph Haertel. . . I seem to have a thing for Martian castaways . . .
5. Sam Gribley, the boy from My Side of the Mountain. Although I liked him much better before I looked up his name.
6. Sirius. No, not him, turned-into-a-dog Sirius. argh, I mean Sirius-who-was-framed-for-murder. Grech. His Effulgency Sirius the High Luminary, that is.
. . . eff it, Sirius Black too.
7. Mairelon the Magician. Who is *much* sexier than Darcy. c(:
8. I was going to say Christopher Heron, but I think I'll say Peaceable Sherwood instead. Both Peaceable Sherwoods.
9. Tristan Farnon. I remember very little about these books except that there wasn't enough Tristan in them.
10. Tymmon son of Komus. I think it was his mad maternal instinct that did it for me.
I should probably add what's-his-name from Dragons of Summer Flame which I stole from Bri, but that was a looong time ago.
Books I read as a teenager:
1. DEATH Come on, is it possible to *not* fall in love with the Discworld Death?
2. Ser Brynden Tully, the Blackfish. Even though he has about ten lines total. Plus he's gay.
3. Peter Reidinger IV. I'm pretty sure he died before the series got annoying.
4. The Sorcerer Dewar. Exactly like Merle Corey in every way, except being at all like Merle Corey.
5. Hester Prynne. Hey, listen, I liked all the characters from that darn book; I just wish they'd had a better author.
6. W. Wilson Newbury, ensorcelled financier. Or any other de Camp hero, really, but Newbury is my favorite.
7. Rood of An. Mmmm. Broody, angry, drunk riddle-masters.
8. Hynkkel. Even though I still haven't got my little hands on the sequel.
9. Hilda Corners. My kind of science officer.
10. Bran Tse-Mallory, ninja anthropologist! Also high priest and fighter jockey, in his younger days.
11. Valyn Hernalth. Wow, not counting various anthropomorphic personifications (and Alan, of course) I think he's the only non-human on my list.
12. Rupert of the Rhine, as written by Poul Anderson. He guilts so beautifully.
13. Dr. James Asher. Linguists are just inherently sexy, I think.
14. Brother Cadfael. Before he was a monk, thanks.
15. Segnbora. Tragic-but-not-whining-about-it. Plus, that's a really cool sword.
16. Prince Hamlet, who I will forever after visualize as Fanon!Draco.
17. Kami Dan'shir, even though I'd probably despise the little womanizer in real life.
18. Fred Cassidy, ninja anthropologist! Well, not really. But if I ever fall off the roof of the Sydney Opera House it's his fault.
19. Alexios Flavius Aquila; commander of the *real* Night's Watch.
20. Robin Dudley, as written by Margaret Irwin, who knows how to be a prince trapped in a tower.
Looking over the list to see if they have anything in common. Not really. Except, like me, they're all people who don't actually care about the fact that they're not really normal.
Umm, yes. It's webcomics awareness day! To the webcomics people on my fiendslist: I am aware of all the hard work you do. I love you all. It may seem like I'm totally obsessed with harry potter lately, but I can still turn into a webcomics fangirl at a moment's notice.
For instance: the latest storyline on Real Life, beyond implying that girls can't be real gamers, has got me thinking about The Zone. How the only game I ever really get in The Zone with is spider solitaire. I'm turning into my mother!
But still: I WON FOUR-COLOR SPIDER SOLITAIRE!!
Gacked, crossposted, and vastly expanded from
epicyclical:"Fictional characters on whom I have had crushes. Book characters only; real people only in fictionalized versions." At first I was going to deny ever having had a crush on anyone; but then I thought: If you finish the story mainly to see when they're going to show up again; if you memorize huge swatches of their (and only their) dialogue; if "rereading" the book means reading every scene where they appear and skipping the rest; then yeah, it probably counts as a crush.
Thus,From books I read as a kid:
1. Estarriol. That scene where he tells Ged his Name . . gah.
2. Karl of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle. Because you can never have too many hot librarians.
3. Alan Mendelsohn. He's as close as I'll ever get to the Martian High Commissioner. (Damn it, now I want Alan/Leonard slash).
4. Dolph Haertel. . . I seem to have a thing for Martian castaways . . .
5. Sam Gribley, the boy from My Side of the Mountain. Although I liked him much better before I looked up his name.
6. Sirius. No, not him, turned-into-a-dog Sirius. argh, I mean Sirius-who-was-framed-for-murder. Grech. His Effulgency Sirius the High Luminary, that is.
. . . eff it, Sirius Black too.
7. Mairelon the Magician. Who is *much* sexier than Darcy. c(:
8. I was going to say Christopher Heron, but I think I'll say Peaceable Sherwood instead. Both Peaceable Sherwoods.
9. Tristan Farnon. I remember very little about these books except that there wasn't enough Tristan in them.
10. Tymmon son of Komus. I think it was his mad maternal instinct that did it for me.
I should probably add what's-his-name from Dragons of Summer Flame which I stole from Bri, but that was a looong time ago.
Books I read as a teenager:
1. DEATH Come on, is it possible to *not* fall in love with the Discworld Death?
2. Ser Brynden Tully, the Blackfish. Even though he has about ten lines total. Plus he's gay.
3. Peter Reidinger IV. I'm pretty sure he died before the series got annoying.
4. The Sorcerer Dewar. Exactly like Merle Corey in every way, except being at all like Merle Corey.
5. Hester Prynne. Hey, listen, I liked all the characters from that darn book; I just wish they'd had a better author.
6. W. Wilson Newbury, ensorcelled financier. Or any other de Camp hero, really, but Newbury is my favorite.
7. Rood of An. Mmmm. Broody, angry, drunk riddle-masters.
8. Hynkkel. Even though I still haven't got my little hands on the sequel.
9. Hilda Corners. My kind of science officer.
10. Bran Tse-Mallory, ninja anthropologist! Also high priest and fighter jockey, in his younger days.
11. Valyn Hernalth. Wow, not counting various anthropomorphic personifications (and Alan, of course) I think he's the only non-human on my list.
12. Rupert of the Rhine, as written by Poul Anderson. He guilts so beautifully.
13. Dr. James Asher. Linguists are just inherently sexy, I think.
14. Brother Cadfael. Before he was a monk, thanks.
15. Segnbora. Tragic-but-not-whining-about-it. Plus, that's a really cool sword.
16. Prince Hamlet, who I will forever after visualize as Fanon!Draco.
17. Kami Dan'shir, even though I'd probably despise the little womanizer in real life.
18. Fred Cassidy, ninja anthropologist! Well, not really. But if I ever fall off the roof of the Sydney Opera House it's his fault.
19. Alexios Flavius Aquila; commander of the *real* Night's Watch.
20. Robin Dudley, as written by Margaret Irwin, who knows how to be a prince trapped in a tower.
Looking over the list to see if they have anything in common. Not really. Except, like me, they're all people who don't actually care about the fact that they're not really normal.
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No. Everyone loves DEATH. His only contenders for adorableness in Discworld are Vimes and Death of Rats. When I die, I want DEATH and Death of Rats there.
Ditto on Dewar (not that I want him there when I die, but I liked him as well).
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On the other hand, do have lingering attraction to Vetinari. And Rincewind, who just barely missed making the list.
I agree. In fact, I would settle for the Death of Rats. There's just something about the SQUEAK.