take that moon and wrap it in cellophane

[lotesse]

meme, snagged from astridv:

Name a fandom you know (that you think I know too!) and I'll tell you

1. The first character I first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t
4. The character I love that everyone else hates
5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer
6. The character I would totally smooch
7. The character I’d want to be like
8. The character I’d slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

Comments

[lotesse]

loved first: Jack Aubrey, you charming n00b, you are just the cutest thing ever in those first few books. He's so excited and vital and inexperienced and FOOLISH, oh my god, such a DORK, and I don't know why but I just find him irresistible.

love more now: Queenie, who it took me a while to find - she's kind of dispersed through the text, so you have to patch her together, but now yeah I'm pretty sure she's the coolest!

don't get the love: Diana. She RUINS EVERYTHING by making it all dark and ambivalent and complicated, and damn it I'm here for debauched sloths and Jack's puns and the constant endearments, I don't want things to be dark and complicated! And I don't find Diana cool enough as a character to pay for the loss of easiness and cheer she causes - yes, yes, gorgeous remote impetuous brunette plays games with hearts, yeah sure whatever. I find Sophie and her sisters much more interesting, and think it's a shame we don't see more of them, but Diana Villiers I could really do without.

nobody else gets the love: the flipside of the above, poor Sophie, who I find charming and sweet. She's the more outwardly femme of the two characters, and for this reason is too often dismissed as a wetblanket or a nursemaid or a ninny. I would love it if she were not relegated to land but let to come to sea, the way Diana does - if she were allowed more into the meat of the story. Now THAT I could OT3: Jack/Sophie/Stephen anyone?

love less now: hrm. do I love any of them less? I do not think I do!

kiss: TAKE ME NOW JACK AUBREY, TAKE ME LIKE THE LUBRICIOUS SEAMAN YOU ARE.

be: I AM NOT AT ALL CONVINCED OF THE WISDOM OF ATTEMPTING TO BE LIKE ANYONE IN THE AUBREYAD.

slap: Jack Aubrey, until his bottom is nice and red :P

pairing I love: Jack/Stephen. They are just too cute for words. I love how much they bitch; I love how little the bitching means, most of the time.

pairing I don't: Stephen/Diana. I don't TRUST HER, it's not SAFE, NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF THIS.

[esteven]

:D Thank you. *pets Jack, Stephen and Sophie*
Has not astolat written something in that line? :D

Queenie is a great character, even in RL. Have you ever read the diaries of Fanny Burney?