Meme!

[jjpor]

Because I haven't done a lj meme for a while. I got this one from akashasheiress .

Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, book you know that I know and I will tell you:

a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

See, now you're making me want to read them... And as I say, I know someone who has copies... Hmmm...

But yeah, I'm sure some of the things I used to love when I was thirteen fall into the category of "indescribably awful", so I probably should be more tolerant (this is the main Lesson What I Have Learned This Week... ;D)

Yeah, well human sacrifice as part of their indigenous belief system - who are we to judge? ;D I've been reading up on pagan religious practices (including some hippy trippy neo-pagan stuff about horned gods and lunar goddesses etc which is utter tosh from a historical/anthropological viewpoint (there WAS NO "witch-cult", people - that's by way of being the moral of the whole sorry story, if history ever has morals!), but there's material there to be used, I think, provided you don't go unwittingly trashing anybody's RL belief systems). And I was reminded about that Arab slave-trader's description of the Viking-age pagan shrine at (I think!) Uppsaala in Sweden...and the very specially-decorated sacred tree they allegedly had there...which is an absolutely horrific sort of mental image I _have_ to get into the story somehow! Er, because, you know...well, just because...

[thisbluespirit]

You know, I'm sure this demonstrates my narrow-mindedness, but I'm just kind of intolerant of human sacrifice as a part of someone else's belief system. :lol:

And if my careless words leads you to Twilight, then I can only apologise. With the rider that you would be able to slag them off freely, and I wouldn't glare. (Of course, if you actually really liked them, I wough laugh a lot. A lot. But nicely. After all, I haven't read the last two, so what can I say?)

Although apparently, there have been attempts at Twilight/DW crossovers where Bella is the daughter of Ten and Rose. You can't help but feel that this would explain a lot. (I've made myself laugh again remembering it.)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

That's probably like cultural chauvinism or something. XD Well, no, acually, some of the other characters share your sentiments on this issue! It's one of several reasons why this particular culture is regarded as the in-universe equivalent of Mordor or something (although the truth is a bit more complex and shades-of-greyey, or at least I hope that's how the story turns out...)

That is kind of the danger, isn't it? To be honest, I read quite a bit of vampire fic in my misspent youth, but I don't know how much of it I actually _liked_ with hindsight. I think I have the same attitude to vampirism you do to human sacrifice! ;D

Apart from the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman which are extremely enjoyable (to me!) and a little bit mad, taking place as they do in an alternate-history version of Victorian Britain (and carry on well into the 20th Century) where the novel Dracula ended differently and the Count (who is portrayed very much as the undead version of his historical namesake Vlad the Impaler) married Queen Victoria and became Prince Consort...and then it just gets madder from there...

(plus just about all of the supporting characters are cameos from other works of fiction, so if you don't like the admittedly quite bloody storyline, which involves Jack the Ripper and lots of other such shenanigans, you can at least play spot the sometimes-obscure reference...)

[thisbluespirit]

Hah. I know Kim Newman! It's one of the things I've learnt randomly through my LJ flist - that was the really odd guy who'd published some book was who presented us with our GCSE certs because he was the only half-way famous person my school had managed. :lol: I expect he hadn't written that then (1993), because I think he'd had about 1 short story published. We were all sooo unimpressed...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Mr Newman does indeed come across as a bit of a strange character - I've seen him on TV, as a talking head on BBC4-type-programmes (you know what I mean!) about cult TV and/or SF literature, and he does present the image of a great British eccentric, I'll agree. Nevertheless, he has written a lot of very cool stuff, both under his own name and under his pseudonym "Jack Yeovil". He wrote some tie-in novels for the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay RPG which, believe it or not, really transcend the boundaries of RPG tie-in fiction (no, really! I'm not kidding - they're really good!). ;D I'm kind of overwhelmed that you've met him, because I've for years thought of him as a pretty cool dude (you know what they say about never meeting your heroes)!

I'll see your Kim Newman and raise you a Cherie Blair! Yes, the former Mrs-PM is indeed the most famous living pupil of my former alma mater (from the days when it was a posh convent school back in the 60s, before it became a slightly disreputable comprehensive - her father was an actor in Til Death Us Do Part, so presumably could afford it!). I've shaken her hand and had a certificate off her! ;D It was her or our second-most-famous living pupil, Anne Robinson... O.o

[thisbluespirit]

It was 1993, though.
He had't written much.
Anne Robinson? 8-o
(We've killed the thread again!)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yes...Anne @#?!ing Robinson, who will be forever dead to me for a) what she said in the Daily Mirror about Hillsborough and b) her suggestion that the part of Liverpool I grew up in used to be a nice area before people like my parents moved in there from less-posh adjoining areas in the 70s. So, really, Cherie was much the better choice. :D