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Jul. 15th, 2011 10:26 pmI've written a Vorkosiverse ficlet, with Ekaterina (not the fic I owe ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fallingtowers, but I'm thinking my way into the character...)
fallingtowers, but I'm thinking my way into the character...)Meme sheep
Sep. 30th, 2008 01:11 pmWhy not - this is a deserving classic. Courtesy, this time round, of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either:
(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon,
(b) a reason he/she sucks,
(c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes,
(d) five things that never happened to that character, or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why.
For the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms can be defined as Doctor Who (including SJA but not including Torchwood), Harry Potter, Narnia, the Wimseyverse, "Master and Commander", Arthur Ransome, Star Trek: TOS and DS9, John Buchan, Dalziel and Pascoe (bookverse only, unless you count my belief that the TV characters have been gradually replaced by pod people) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (just to be pretentious). I also tentatively append the Vorkosiverse, as I haven't read all of canon yet. I would like to add Hermann Kant's "Die Aula", but I think I am in a fandom of one on that count (though one day I might crack and reveal my theory as to why canon as it stands doesn't stack up, and what conclusions we might draw from this - other than that our viewpoint character is charming, but ultimately a self-centred idiot, if not something worse).
dolorous_ettName a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either:
(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon,
(b) a reason he/she sucks,
(c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes,
(d) five things that never happened to that character, or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why.
For the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms can be defined as Doctor Who (including SJA but not including Torchwood), Harry Potter, Narnia, the Wimseyverse, "Master and Commander", Arthur Ransome, Star Trek: TOS and DS9, John Buchan, Dalziel and Pascoe (bookverse only, unless you count my belief that the TV characters have been gradually replaced by pod people) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (just to be pretentious). I also tentatively append the Vorkosiverse, as I haven't read all of canon yet. I would like to add Hermann Kant's "Die Aula", but I think I am in a fandom of one on that count (though one day I might crack and reveal my theory as to why canon as it stands doesn't stack up, and what conclusions we might draw from this - other than that our viewpoint character is charming, but ultimately a self-centred idiot, if not something worse).
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Jan. 19th, 2007 11:10 amSigh. I wandered into Borders looking for Eamon Duffy's "The Stripping of the Altars", and wandered out minus said fascinating study of the late-Mediaeval/ early Reformation English church, but plus 'Cetaganda' - yes. more Vorkosigan.
The cover - it's an American edition - is seriously horrible, though. It looks like it's eligible for some sort of bad cover art prize (possibly, since it has a proud endorsement from the 'Romantic Times', the 'bad romance cover art'snorkackcatcher linked to the other day).
There's also something mildly annoying about buying a book for the same price in pounds as is given in dollars on the jacket, though that's hardly the American publisher's fault.
The cover - it's an American edition - is seriously horrible, though. It looks like it's eligible for some sort of bad cover art prize (possibly, since it has a proud endorsement from the 'Romantic Times', the 'bad romance cover art'
snorkackcatcher linked to the other day). There's also something mildly annoying about buying a book for the same price in pounds as is given in dollars on the jacket, though that's hardly the American publisher's fault.
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Nov. 23rd, 2006 05:10 pmThe Unsuggestion for "Shards of Honour" appears to be "The Purpose-Driven Life" (which I am assured is more or less 'Seven habits of highly effective chicken soup' - that's a real title, right?- for evangelical Christians).
More interesting, perhaps, was the prevalance of Stephen King, as well as the inevitable chick-lit. Though after all, 'Shards of Honour' is a romance...
More interesting, perhaps, was the prevalance of Stephen King, as well as the inevitable chick-lit. Though after all, 'Shards of Honour' is a romance...
