A meme!

[justice_turtle]

A Five Questions meme from sophia_sol! (Because I am all stuffed up in my head with this evil cold and cannot think straight. And because it is fic_rush and I am nowhere near clear-headed enough to write fic.)

If you want to join in the meme:

What are the three things that most attract you to a fandom

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[idlewild_]

Oooh. Tough questions.

1. Does LJ have a way to quantify least-used or am I guessing? So, um guessing because it's Friday and my brain is tired:


This is from a Steve Canyon comic book. It makes me laugh but it's too imperious and sexy to use much of the time.



It's not 2008, I'll need a new one for 2012. Because fictional Presidential candidates are the hottest kind. I still have to watch the mini-series that came from, I'm saving it for a rainy day. Or, in fact, until I forget the major spoiler someone posted for it right when it came out. Grr.



My friend gave me a postcard of this painting because she thinks it looks like me.



I made it as soon as I saw the photo; never got around to using it.



It's from the same cookbook as my jam and coffeepot icons, but I rarely have need of it.

2. My grandmother tried to teach me and gave up in disgust. I tried to teach myself twice and gave up in disgust. Eventually, I ended up working at a place were a lot of women in my department knit. I realized I was missing out on key networking opportunities when they got together, so I finally mastered the skill. Next thing you know, I have a house full of yarn.

3. Oh, my favourite knitted item is a knock-off of the sweater Benton Fraser is wearing in my user icon. You can see a reference image here and the finished sweater here. I charted the cables myself, and then I used a pattern generate to make a pattern based on my measurements. It came out pretty nifty and I wear it all the time. Good thing, that was a lot of expensive yarn!

4. I have written the most in Due South (and knitted that sweater, which is an act of transformative art!) but my favourite thing I wish even had a fandom as such, which I've never been able to find to my satisfaction, is The Saint, particularly in book form. Other than that I'm remarkably fickle and love to see how people cross over fandoms. Two of my favourite fan works are crosses with Lord Peter Wimsey; one crossing the Man from Uncle and one crossing Bertie Wooster! Astonishing. And excellently written.

5. Oh yeah. Three? Seven? All of them? What day is it? I love fictional characters. Enduring love for Jo March, of course. She is all of us who have ever been awkward and not willing to fit into our neat social pocket. Simon Templar because I want to be him. And also sometimes I pretend to be his girlfriend (not like that!) the terribly collected Patricia Holm, if I have to do something stressful like a job interview. I pretend I'm just undercover being smooth and plausible and gathering intel for the Saint. ;) Um. Well, I guess Benton Fraser ranks, but mostly because I relate so hard to him in an aching way. And not just because Paul Gross is pretty. Mostly because he's an outsider... the premise of Due South being that he moves from the far North to Chicago and is a fish out of water, but what no-one in Chicago seems to get is that he was a fish out of water at home too. He's an outsider by circumstance and upbringing and his odd and sometimes old-fashioned ways and locutions remind me of me.

[idlewild_]

I read through the reprints of Steve Canyon a couple of years ago. Fantastic, in a very silly way. The Ferocious Females were somethin' else.

That is the very crossover of which I was thinking. Really impressive writing, and a gut-wrenching twist on the first read.