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[kattahj]

After I finished my latest Birthdayverse piece, I figured I'd go take a bit of a break from it. And so far, I have. Not that I've gone very far. There's the Stand/Buffy piece that's still in the beta process, and now I've picked up the third Wes/Doyle story, which I started a while ago but never really proceeded with

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Glenn Quinn

[logicalargument]

It's always going to hurt, and it's very natural. I have a new obsession now, and I'm head-over-heels about him, and days go by when I don't think of Glenn - but I'm about to write my Final Doyle Story for the Doyleathon, and every time I think of Doyle and Glenn again, that sadness is still there, and it always will be.

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[kattahj]

It's always going to hurt, and it's very natural.

But as I said, it didn't hurt last week. And I watch reruns of Roseanne quite a lot. :-) I've never been as emotionally invested as you are, either.

What I think it might be, is that now that I'm digging into the character again, I'm properly watching the actor to see what he looks like, how he moves, etc, and that connects dear idiot Mark with slacker Doyle with actor Glenn in a way I usually *don't* connect them. To me, they've always been three separate entities, except during those weeks in December 2002 when everything hurt.

[pseudosimilar]

It's a whole new world...

I'm slowly working my way through season one of Angel, and, yes, of course, Hero made me weep. And I only found out yesterday that Glenn had also... passed on. Sting, sting, ouch. I can't really consider myself a hard-core fan with less than 20 episodes to my name, so I can't imagine how the current fandom felt about it, but. I offer sympaties.

[kattahj]

It was a very odd feeling, back then, that's for sure. I remember seeing the e-mail topic line "Sad news of Glenn Quinn" (or something like it) and going "Oh, God, now he's dead." And he was. It was right when I was doing my D-essay too, which compared the deaths of Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Catherine Chandler - finishing it was *very* weird. Not to mention that for a while there nobody knew just what had happened or why.

Still, even horrible deaths are part of everyday Hollyway life - a few months earlier it had been Christopher Pettiet (from my first fandom the Young Riders), and a few months later it was SeaQuest's Jonathan Brandis. From that perspective, I guess I should just be happy he didn't kill himself.

And as I told Ellen, it's not something I'm in the habit of thinking about anymore, even when I watch the shows he's in. Except now.