and in that same vein...of author groupies, that is
Who are the top five fictional characters you'd be happy to, ahem, have a relationship with? I need some time on this one. I've got a list as long as my arm and need to pare it down. I know, I'm sick. And I need to get a life.
posted by BabelBabe @ 8:46 AM
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Mr. Rochester and Mr. Darcy (one at a time or together--either way's fine). Also, Mark Darcy and (fuckwit) Daniel Cleaver (as singles or a pair). Rob Fleming. Calvin O'Keefe (the grown-up, PhD-holding version that he grew into--not the teenager). And speaking of kids' books, how about the Weasly brother with long hair and an earring? Is it Bill? I like a nice grungy guy who works with his hands.
Hmmm . . . not stupid Heathcliff. Hamlet is too much of a whiner . . . not Gilbert Blythe, as Val and I have discussed, but Perry . . .
The insane narrator of "The Mazzanine".
This is too hard . . .
I disagree. The great thing about fictional characters is that you can bring so much of what you want to them . . . they're much easier to work with than actual people.
No, fictional characters are wonderful. You know their faults and foibles beforehand. That's what makes them so attractive - they're totally predictable. Although most of Mr Darcy's appeal is the thought of getting him all hot and bothered and making him ditch that haughty attitude for some hot shag.
My fictional characters (and I know I'll miss some):
Henry DeTamble in The Time Traveller's Wife
Fitzwilliam Darcy and Mr Knightley, definitely together
Spike from The Eyre Affair (just a one-nighter)
Jackson Brodie from Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories
Archibald Craven from The Secret Garden
Simon St John in Elizabeth George's mysteries (somebody's got to rescue him from his whiny wife)
And Holden Caulfield is an immature pain in the ass. (Sorry, Robin.)
and I forgot Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar, or maybe just Alan Grant...it's a tossup.
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