Wow, that's so interesting, I never imprinted on any of the TNG cast at all (probably because I'd already super-imprinted on TOS). I think Simon and Galeni are my two big crushes from the Vorkosigan saga. And maybe Cordelia in the later books some... in the earlier books she codes more to me as "identify" rather than "crush."
...Yeah, I think my life was VERY different because they never checked up on my reading. I read a LOT of things that my parents would have found unsuitable if they'd also read it, as well as things that *I* find unsuitable now as an adult. (*cough*Piers Anthony*cough*)...But I'm so very glad I was allowed to find my own way, even if that way included Piers Anthony -- Ursula LeGuin once said that children consume (literarily) a lot of trash, and it's good for them. I'm a big, BIG proponent of letting kids read whatever they want, as a result, even if sometimes I cringe at the sort of stuff my kid's likely to want to read. (What am I going to do the day she brings home Twilight? ...grin, bear it, and maybe someday bring up how stalking is not a healthy relationship behavior.)
Then again, I'm pretty sure my mom knew I was getting into the (sometimes quite steamy!) romance novels she'd hidden in the closet, that summer I was really low on reading material, so it's possible they wouldn't have cared even if they were native English speakers. They have always been very pragmatic: the kind of parents who worried a lot about my academic performance and pretty much not at all about what was going into my head (as long as it didn't translate into action... e.g., premarital sex: Not A Thing). Which... was probably not ideal in some ways, but in others was quite nice.
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Date: 2014-01-21 07:31 pm (UTC)...Yeah, I think my life was VERY different because they never checked up on my reading. I read a LOT of things that my parents would have found unsuitable if they'd also read it, as well as things that *I* find unsuitable now as an adult. (*cough*Piers Anthony*cough*)...But I'm so very glad I was allowed to find my own way, even if that way included Piers Anthony -- Ursula LeGuin once said that children consume (literarily) a lot of trash, and it's good for them. I'm a big, BIG proponent of letting kids read whatever they want, as a result, even if sometimes I cringe at the sort of stuff my kid's likely to want to read. (What am I going to do the day she brings home Twilight? ...grin, bear it, and maybe someday bring up how stalking is not a healthy relationship behavior.)
Then again, I'm pretty sure my mom knew I was getting into the (sometimes quite steamy!) romance novels she'd hidden in the closet, that summer I was really low on reading material, so it's possible they wouldn't have cared even if they were native English speakers. They have always been very pragmatic: the kind of parents who worried a lot about my academic performance and pretty much not at all about what was going into my head (as long as it didn't translate into action... e.g., premarital sex: Not A Thing). Which... was probably not ideal in some ways, but in others was quite nice.