As I bask in the warmness of having written another chapter of Kidnapped (subtle advert...or what?) my mind turns, as it often does to my stomach. My S.O is, as I write, slaving over a hot microwave and I drool at the thought of my up and coming repast.
One singe brain cell then woke up and jiggled my elbow. What, it said, or rather who would you like to have as dinner guests if you had the choice of fictional TG characters?
Hmmm, right, I thought, lets have a little think............
I limited myself to six guests as that seems reasonable to get the thing going.
1. Bob Arnold's feisty Jeniffer Stevens.
2. Angharad's Cathy Watts (with Spike if she can find the time between having babies).
3. Gabi Bunton's Aunt Greta as she can tell us about the war and supply some woolton pie.
4. Ellen Hayes's Tuck..just because he/she is plain weird.
5. Aunt Jane, I do like strong women. I know she's not TG, but this is my list...so I make the rules.
6. Admiral Crunch's Christina Chase...mainly because i am dying to know what happens next (no pressure).
Well that's my six, you can see from the above the type of characters I like to read about. I know the idea isn't original and it's been done before, but, who cares it's just a bit of fun.
So, who would you have?
Comments
Fictional characters...
I'd be leery of having dinner with any of them because I can see only two possibilities:
1. That I'm carted off the the funny farm as a psychotic;
2. That the concentration of imaginary particles causes the immediate vicinity of my dinner table to collapse into a quantum singularity and disappear from the visible world, taking me with it.
Neither possibility seems desirable, to me at least, although the Disney people made a bad film about the second which did fairly well at the box office and in DVD sales.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis
is to psychosis. The neurotic is in
doubt and has fears about persons
and things; the psychotic has
convictions and makes claims about
them. In short, the neurotic has
problems, the psychotic has solutions.â€
--- Thomas S. Szasz
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Imaginary cuisine,
I have meals with fictional characters quite often, and with long deceased writers and other figures too. The company is all wonderful (they usually, but not always, do just the things I expect of them), and the food is all ways fantastic, although not very filling. The secret is to know when the meal ends, and that they have gone.
I'll add to this list first.
-Kelly Drew (I don't know Drew Kelly will enough yet to invite him(her))
-Leigh Llewellyn (Joey) from Justme's story, even if (not because) it is unfinished.
I guess it would have to be a barbecue or something, but I think those two would manage to laugh at something during the meal, if not through everything. And that is always a very nice seasoning. Also, I feel sure I wouldn't wind up in a political, theological, or sports debate with their parents, maybe music, but I can handle that. And they would be fun, interesting companions too.
Then for something completely different, and certainly not on the same night, one of Kristina's people. I think either Addie or Sam more than Jo, but only one during any month, or even season.
And of course, Evi Westcott would be wonderful to talk to too.
Joy, Jan
Two for the price of one
As an author, a meeting which would happen in paranormal universe where different timelines of different authors cross, would be really attractive to me. If I were to invite some fictional characters to dinner then I would really like to interact some more with some superheroines.
1. Jennifer Anderson aka Southern Belle from "Belle of the Ball" by E.E. Nalley.
2. Mercedes "Misty" T Reed aka Mystery from "Heroes of Justice" by Grover.
3. Rebecca "Becca" Jane Barnes aka Advocate from "No Obligation" by Randalynn
4. Donna Franklin aka 'Transformer' from "Transformers (sort of)" by Catherine Linda Michel
5. Therese "Tessie" Marie Munsen aka "Urban" from "Urban Renewal" By Erin Halvelfen
6. Joan Ellen Waterman aka Sorceress from "Wonder Twins in 'Clean It Up'" by me. If I were to attend such a momentous occation, I would want one of my own characters there to see if she could hold her own with all of the rest.
All my hopes,
Sasha Zarya Nexus
All my hopes
Ariel Montine Strickland