Me, maybe?

[dolorosa_12]

It's Day Twenty-Two of the fandom meme, and I'm tired and frustrated from battling with Wordpress while editing my work's website. Therefore you're just getting a short post from me for today's prompt:

V: Which character do you relate to most?

For years when asked this question, I've responded with the following three characters:

Amy Santiago from Brooklyn Nine Nine (for the nerdiness, love of stationery and rules and organisation and excessive deference to authority figures)

Tara Maclay from Buffy (for the shyness, although I'm not very shy any more, and her steely kindness to her friends, and her difficulties asserting herself)

Emily Fields from Pretty Little Liars (for her kindness and resolve and strong sense of loyalty)

I know identifying yourself with a Hogwarts house is a bit passé, but what can I say? I'm one of life's eternal Hufflepuffs.

I identify in various ways with the characters I listed as my favourite's in yesterday's post, or characters in the various series that I really love, but only in terms of certain facets of their personalities and experiences, whereas I feel like the above three characters are sort of cartoonish, extreme versions of most components of me as a whole.


W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Comments

[author_by_night]

Aw, I love Tara, and I have a bit of her in me.

Yay for Hufflepuffs!

[dolorosa_12]

I'm loving that this post is bringing so many Tara fans out of the woodwork — and yay for Hufflepuffs indeed!

[kore]

Aww, I loved Tara.

[dolorosa_12]

I have a lot of complicated feelings about Buffy now, but I still really love Tara.

[trepkos]

Spock! Spike! So diametrically opposed, and yet ideal to relate to at different stages of my life.

[dolorosa_12]

Wow, those are two really, really wildly different characters!

[lokifan]

Awww, I love all three of those characters so much!! So that's very cool. (:weeps for lost paid account with extra icons:)

[dolorosa_12]

Awww, that's lovely to hear (although sorry about the loss of the paid account — a friend bought me six months of paid time a while ago, and after that I could never go back!).