Fandom Meme, 21 & 22
Aug. 5th, 2021 06:50 am21. Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you dislike or even loathe.)
This question is surprisingly hard! It also seems likely to collect contention (“What do you MEAN you don’t like my precious woobie baby who has never done anything wrong in his LIFE?”) so I think I will skip it.
22. Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
I’ve always thought that Ivy Carson from Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s The Changeling would be the most amazing friend, but tbh I’ve found the closest possible thing in![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
asakiyume. It’s too bad you live across the country, but then, Martha and Ivy were often separated too.
Betsy Ray from the Betsy-Tacy books might also be a great friend, although she does tend to like to be the one who makes up the stories, so probably I should plume for Tacy, who is happy to fill the admiring audience role.
Or Cassandra Mortmain from I Capture the Castle. She’s so smart and funny and lively, and she lives in an actual castle (so what if it’s falling down, I could camp in a castle for a week on account of it’s a castle), and also she’s so isolated that she really needs a friend, so I would be useful to her, especially when she needs help forgetting Simon. We could talk about books and ramble through the countryside and write a ludicrously melodramatic novel together.
This question is surprisingly hard! It also seems likely to collect contention (“What do you MEAN you don’t like my precious woobie baby who has never done anything wrong in his LIFE?”) so I think I will skip it.
22. Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
I’ve always thought that Ivy Carson from Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s The Changeling would be the most amazing friend, but tbh I’ve found the closest possible thing in
asakiyume. It’s too bad you live across the country, but then, Martha and Ivy were often separated too. Betsy Ray from the Betsy-Tacy books might also be a great friend, although she does tend to like to be the one who makes up the stories, so probably I should plume for Tacy, who is happy to fill the admiring audience role.
Or Cassandra Mortmain from I Capture the Castle. She’s so smart and funny and lively, and she lives in an actual castle (so what if it’s falling down, I could camp in a castle for a week on account of it’s a castle), and also she’s so isolated that she really needs a friend, so I would be useful to her, especially when she needs help forgetting Simon. We could talk about books and ramble through the countryside and write a ludicrously melodramatic novel together.
