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Today I was bored during office hours and 
yhlee was kind enough to give me letters in order to play this meme. Here is how it works:
1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE (well, it doesn't have to be mysterious. You can just say, "gimme a goddamn letter" or similar.)
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.
So I did that.
First, characters! five(ish) characters I love whose names begin with R
1) Rani Chandra (The Sarah Jane Adventures) - Rani is, in her way, the second Darrin of her show - she's the replacement plucky-girl-investigator-across-the-road, who fills in the shoes of Maria Jackson, but frankly I like her even better than Maria. Where Maria is sweet and interested and friendly, Rani is nosy as well, she identifies as a journalist, and she sort of bugs her way into being part of the group with Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde. Her punch-on-the-arm BFF relationships with Luke and Clyde make me ridiculously happy, and her idolization of powerful older female journalists (see: The Nightmare Man) is simultaneously adorable and amazing to see on tv.
2) River Song (Doctor Who) - River! River is badass and fabulous and clever and just a little bit hard (River vs Dalek: nobody bets on the Dalek, because River's rage is fucking huge and all-consuming). She gives the Doctor a run for his money, she and Amy are adorable together (where's that femslash at!), she's sexy and powerful and gets to keep being sexy and powerful, and she's played by Alex Kingston, who is hot like burning and has enough screen presence for ten actors.
3) Willow Rosenberg (Buffy: the Vampire Slayer) - As adorable nerds go, they don't get adorabler than Willow. I think the show did her a huge disservice, also hello lesbian fail, but at the same time she was a lesbian on my tv for a very long time, and that meant a lot to me. Willow is afraid of things and shy and self-conscious but it doesn't stop her from saving the goddamn world all the time, and so I draw little hearts around her all the time.
4) Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica) - I rather despise a lot of stuff that happened on BSG, but I can never ever stop loving Laura Roslin and no one can make me - not even Laura herself. It's the expression on her face and the position of her hand - fingers splayed slightly - as she takes the oath of presidency. Oh President Laura Roslin. She throws my heart out the airlock. Mostly, I have to say, because Mary McDonnell is consistently amazing. I can't even deal.
5) Riley Dawson (The Sarah Connor Chronicles) - I know a lot of people despised her, but I thought she was amazing, especially in retrospect, after the big reveal about her origins. Her PTSD and her fear and her anger are all visceral and real, and I felt really deeply for her. I was needless to say UPSET by how things turned out. But while she was there, man, I was all over the Riley/Jesse, even though it was totally Evil Lesbians, because okay Jesse whispering into Riley's impressionable ear gave me some shivers. Anyway, I did love her. But I also loved:
5) Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) - who ties with Riley because I couldn't choose between them. Rory is smart and clever and cheerful and bright but sometimes makes really really bad decisions that she knows are really really bad decisions, and oh do I love that about her. The way she is with her mom - a supportive BFF 4evs - breaks my heart. And that time Alexis Bledel got up in formal drag in order to perform as her grandfather's best man? Uh, I sat up in my chair.
Honourable mentions: Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Stanley Raymond Kowalski, and Rorschach. In all four cases, the character I really love is the fanon character(s), and the canon character doesn't do nearly as much for me. I ADORE with great adoration all four of those characters in fanfiction, but otherwise . . . I find it hard to locate my love in their source texts. Except maybe for Ray. Ray could probably tie with Laura Roslin.
five(ish) songs I will share with you whose titles begin with E
"Eggs Over Easy," by Martina Sorbara (I use to go see Martina Sorbara at tiny venues in Ottawa all the time; I adore her. This is one of my favourites of her songs.)
"The End of the World," by Skeeter Davis (I used to listen to Skeeter Davis on my parents' LPs. This was always my favourite. Six year old twings recommends this one highly, and twenty-nine year old twings still loves it.)
"Eric's Song," by Vienna Teng (It's Vienna Teng, so of course it's gorgeous and haunting with beautiful complex lyrics. I'm just waiting for
such_heights someone to make the Eleventh Doctor/Amy vid to this song.)
"Everything's Easy," by Girlyman (One of my favourite Girlyman songs! Although I have a lot of those.)
"Exactly Like You," by Sam Cooke (I just want to crawl inside the sound of Sam Cooke's voice and live there forever, so I would've recommended any of his songs that happened to start with E. But this one is lovely.)
"Everything Is Free," by Gillian Welch (one of my favourite contemporary country singers. This song is slow and easy and sad, so listen to it before or after the Vienna Teng and you'll be set.)
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yhlee was kind enough to give me letters in order to play this meme. Here is how it works:
1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE (well, it doesn't have to be mysterious. You can just say, "gimme a goddamn letter" or similar.)
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.
So I did that.
First, characters! five(ish) characters I love whose names begin with R
1) Rani Chandra (The Sarah Jane Adventures) - Rani is, in her way, the second Darrin of her show - she's the replacement plucky-girl-investigator-across-the-road, who fills in the shoes of Maria Jackson, but frankly I like her even better than Maria. Where Maria is sweet and interested and friendly, Rani is nosy as well, she identifies as a journalist, and she sort of bugs her way into being part of the group with Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde. Her punch-on-the-arm BFF relationships with Luke and Clyde make me ridiculously happy, and her idolization of powerful older female journalists (see: The Nightmare Man) is simultaneously adorable and amazing to see on tv.
2) River Song (Doctor Who) - River! River is badass and fabulous and clever and just a little bit hard (River vs Dalek: nobody bets on the Dalek, because River's rage is fucking huge and all-consuming). She gives the Doctor a run for his money, she and Amy are adorable together (where's that femslash at!), she's sexy and powerful and gets to keep being sexy and powerful, and she's played by Alex Kingston, who is hot like burning and has enough screen presence for ten actors.
3) Willow Rosenberg (Buffy: the Vampire Slayer) - As adorable nerds go, they don't get adorabler than Willow. I think the show did her a huge disservice, also hello lesbian fail, but at the same time she was a lesbian on my tv for a very long time, and that meant a lot to me. Willow is afraid of things and shy and self-conscious but it doesn't stop her from saving the goddamn world all the time, and so I draw little hearts around her all the time.
4) Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica) - I rather despise a lot of stuff that happened on BSG, but I can never ever stop loving Laura Roslin and no one can make me - not even Laura herself. It's the expression on her face and the position of her hand - fingers splayed slightly - as she takes the oath of presidency. Oh President Laura Roslin. She throws my heart out the airlock. Mostly, I have to say, because Mary McDonnell is consistently amazing. I can't even deal.
5) Riley Dawson (The Sarah Connor Chronicles) - I know a lot of people despised her, but I thought she was amazing, especially in retrospect, after the big reveal about her origins. Her PTSD and her fear and her anger are all visceral and real, and I felt really deeply for her. I was needless to say UPSET by how things turned out. But while she was there, man, I was all over the Riley/Jesse, even though it was totally Evil Lesbians, because okay Jesse whispering into Riley's impressionable ear gave me some shivers. Anyway, I did love her. But I also loved:
5) Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) - who ties with Riley because I couldn't choose between them. Rory is smart and clever and cheerful and bright but sometimes makes really really bad decisions that she knows are really really bad decisions, and oh do I love that about her. The way she is with her mom - a supportive BFF 4evs - breaks my heart. And that time Alexis Bledel got up in formal drag in order to perform as her grandfather's best man? Uh, I sat up in my chair.
Honourable mentions: Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Stanley Raymond Kowalski, and Rorschach. In all four cases, the character I really love is the fanon character(s), and the canon character doesn't do nearly as much for me. I ADORE with great adoration all four of those characters in fanfiction, but otherwise . . . I find it hard to locate my love in their source texts. Except maybe for Ray. Ray could probably tie with Laura Roslin.
five(ish) songs I will share with you whose titles begin with E
"Eggs Over Easy," by Martina Sorbara (I use to go see Martina Sorbara at tiny venues in Ottawa all the time; I adore her. This is one of my favourites of her songs.)
"The End of the World," by Skeeter Davis (I used to listen to Skeeter Davis on my parents' LPs. This was always my favourite. Six year old twings recommends this one highly, and twenty-nine year old twings still loves it.)
"Eric's Song," by Vienna Teng (It's Vienna Teng, so of course it's gorgeous and haunting with beautiful complex lyrics. I'm just waiting for
such_heights someone to make the Eleventh Doctor/Amy vid to this song.)
"Everything's Easy," by Girlyman (One of my favourite Girlyman songs! Although I have a lot of those.)
"Exactly Like You," by Sam Cooke (I just want to crawl inside the sound of Sam Cooke's voice and live there forever, so I would've recommended any of his songs that happened to start with E. But this one is lovely.)
"Everything Is Free," by Gillian Welch (one of my favourite contemporary country singers. This song is slow and easy and sad, so listen to it before or after the Vienna Teng and you'll be set.)
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