Ooh -- examples where you fall in love with a character rather than a character type? I have some of those too -- Julian Bashir in DS9 doesn't fall into either of those large categories, but I love his whiny super-smart arrogant extremely-attractive self :)
I think I just didn't have anyone telling me that writing MacGyver fanfic was a weird thing to do! My parents thought it was a little strange, probably, but it kept me out of trouble and was vaguely academic-ish, so I don't remember them ever saying anything about it. (It helps that they are both nonnative English speakers, don't read very much in English, and so never read it. They... might have thought differently if they had.)
My sister is awesome and I think you'd like her a lot. She's, hmm, how to describe... she's a pediatrician doing the research portion of her fellowship right now. I consider her more bubbly, more social, more generous, more able to get stuff done, and more emotional than I am. If you want to get an idea of her, she blogs here. :) (I will say that our taste in books does not always overlap, although she's usually spot on when she tells me I won't like a book and vice versa.)
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Date: 2014-01-17 09:08 pm (UTC)I think I just didn't have anyone telling me that writing MacGyver fanfic was a weird thing to do! My parents thought it was a little strange, probably, but it kept me out of trouble and was vaguely academic-ish, so I don't remember them ever saying anything about it. (It helps that they are both nonnative English speakers, don't read very much in English, and so never read it. They... might have thought differently if they had.)
My sister is awesome and I think you'd like her a lot. She's, hmm, how to describe... she's a pediatrician doing the research portion of her fellowship right now. I consider her more bubbly, more social, more generous, more able to get stuff done, and more emotional than I am. If you want to get an idea of her, she blogs here. :) (I will say that our taste in books does not always overlap, although she's usually spot on when she tells me I won't like a book and vice versa.)