The secrets that you want to know are yours, not mine

This pleases me far more than a silly quiz's results should, I think:


Dorothy Parker writes you, you wonderfully urbane,
witty boozehound, you.

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Men never make passes at girls who wear glasses . . . I am fond of Dorothy Parker. And not only because she occasionally appears in zombie form in Cat and Girl, either.

(Cut for further silliness and some dark secrets of my youth.)
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Which brings me back to the original point of this post, as discussed last night with fleurdelis28: if I were to devote some time every now and then to the contemplation of favorite characters of mine, would anyone be interested? I'm particularly curious to see how other people reacted to the same figures, but I'm well aware that not every one of them will be as easily recognizable as Severus Snape.* Characters from the assorted fictions of Peter S. Beagle, Greer Gilman, Patricia McKillip, Carol Kendall, Cordwainer Smith, Diana Wynne Jones, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Lloyd Alexander, Mary Doria Russell, Mary Gentle, Terry Pratchett, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Charles Dickens, Ursula K. Le Guin—or more—are fair game. I will even take requests, although I can't promise I will have read whatever books you might name; or, more importantly, found a favorite character in them. But I'm game if you are. And there's a lot of fucked in the head to go around.

*It wouldn't surprise me at all to be told that Harry Potter is the largest fandom on the planet right now. I still feel rather as though I lucked out with Snape: it's not just me!