hmm.

[mimesere]

I keep trying to write posts about the characters I love -- Boromir, the Rohirrim, Scully, Bailey, George, Norrington, Superman, Gunn, Oz, Fraser, Jubilee, Sam Vimes, Sibyl Vimes, Granny Weatherwax, etc etc etc -- and I keep running into the problem of not knowing what to *say*.

Or at least, what to say that does not make me sound like an incoherent tool. And then I convince myself that all the people who care are the people who I tell these things to on the phone. So. yes.

Comments

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

I share your love for most of these people (Bailey I don't know, Jubilee I barely know). Mostly because all of them are heroic in a sense that I can recognise and none of them go in for self-indulgence.

[latxcvi.livejournal.com]

Vasquez! OMG, is that an icon of *Vasquez*? 'Cause if so, that is pretty much ten different shades of *awesome*.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Yes! I begged ciderpress to make me an icon out of this picture and she did because she is eleven different shades of awesome!
I had such a crush on Vasquez, oh my god.

[anonymous_sibyl]

I would like to hear you sound like an incoherent tool. *g* And I would probably comment to sound like a bigger and more incoherent tool in response to many of those characters.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hear the incoherent toolery, because that's how I love my characters, all flailing hands and just because and just look at him/her in that scene, yeah, that, that, that right there, *that's* why. And it's not about the shallow prettiness, even if that's the only thing I can say coherently ("preeeetty" is coherent, right?), it's about me bursting with love and pride over their humanity or heroism or whatever makes them so wonderful.

[arallara.livejournal.com]

No, you are wrong! I don't talk to you on the phone, and *I* want to hear your incoherent love for those characters!

I love hearing you talk about why you love what you love as much as I often enjoy hearing you talk about why you hate what you hate, and for many of the same reasons--I think there are a lot of differences in the way we approach characters and get invested in fandoms, but your ideas and feelings about them always give me things to think about.

[latxcvi.livejournal.com]

Here is the link to the most polite yet awesome pimpslap that I told you about.

Did you buy the movie guide?

[donella.livejournal.com]

I second what arallara said. I love rambling pseudo-meta just as much as actual meta.

[ladyjax.livejournal.com]

Actually, what I really want you to do is write me some George/Bailey post-baby fic in which her hubby doesn't survive surgery and George eventually becomes her boytoy lover.

But that's just me being a perv. :)

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

Woe! I would quite like to see these posts, and I am not a phone person. However, I frequently convince myself that no one really cares how my life's been lately, so I don't post, so I kind of know where you're coming from.