To those of you who are awake:

[trinityofone]

I am currently responding to fic comments like a good (repentant) LJer, but I need something to distract me every once in a while or my brain will atrophy. So here's a little participatory meme-thingy (snagged from boysnoggage):

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life.
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.

1. Stargate: Atlantis - Rodney McKay (wychwood)
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Spike (ilgattopardo)
3. Angel the Series - Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (wychwood)
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Ford Prefect (wychwood)
5. The Chronicles of Narnia - Edmund Pevensie (soupytwist)
6. The X-Files - Fox Mulder (wychwood)
7. Star Wars - Han Solo (ilgattopardo)
8. Good Omens - Crowley (wychwood)
9. Neverwhere - Richard Mayhew (wychwood)
10. The Aubrey/Maturin Books - Stephen Maturin (wychwood)
11. His Dark Materials - Will Parry (wychwood)
12. Preacher - Cassidy (smittywing)
13. Sandman - Hob Gadling (20thcenturyvole)
14. Red Dwarf - Arnold Rimmer (20thcenturyvole)
15. The Dark Tower - Eddie Dean (soupytwist)
16. Queer as Folk (US) - Brian Kinney (godofwine)
17. Calvin and Hobbes - Hobbes (wychwood)
18. Veronica Mars - Logan Echolls (wychwood)
19. X-Men - Wolverine (ilgattopardo)
20. The Legendary Lymond Chronicles - Francis Crawford of Lymond (siegeofangels)

ETA: Oh, God. I just realized something terrible about the answers to this meme. Let me know if you catch it, too. *is a horrible person*
ETA2: jarsy got it: They're all men. That...says some interesting things, doesn't it? *hangs head in SHAME*
ETA3: Done! Good work, people! I may be a misogynist bastard, but at least I have smart friends! *vbeg*

Or! Tell me stuff! Ask me questions! Entertaaaaaaaain me!

[/patheticness] <--Oh, who am I kidding? Like that ever really ends.

Comments

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Right on 17, although wychwood just barely beat you to it. But extra special bonus points, 'cause...

I'm just assuming that you're comfortable with your misogyny?

Yeah. Isn't that awful? I lose at feminism. I mean, I totally already did, but...ouch.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

You're a Wesley apologist too!

There is nothing to apologize for! WESLEY IS MY KING!

I've been trying to think of favourite characters from shows that are chicks, and well, I'll get back to you...

Yeah, it doesn't even work when I expand to comedies. 'Cause: Friends--Chandler; Scrubs--J.D.; Coupling...ooh, Jane! Jane from Coupling! Yay!

*blinks* Wait, that's my feminist role model? JANE? An insane, self-absorbed nympho? *headdesk*

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I think lots of us do, on that one. And a good part of that is because even in good shows/books, mostly the writers are blokes, and because also even by those good writers, male characters are almost always assumed to be the universally appealing ones while the girls are Women, so they get better plot/more interesting issues. Still, though, ow. *is shamed*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I'd like to blame it all on the writers/creators, but I think some of it's got to be me, 'cause there are interesting female characters out there, and I'm just not...I don't care. The real test, I guess, will be when all of us start producing publishable/broadcastable work (watch--this is gonna happen!); if there is still a dearth of cool female characters, then, well, we really will only have ourselves to blame.

(And uh-oh: writing this, I'm reminded of the fact that, although my novel started out equally about the male and female co-protagonists, the focus has shifted more and more toward my dear little James...Ooopsie?)