Crushed

[dmarley]

Funny this meme should come around just now, since last week Melissa and I were discussing this very thing. So, in chronological order of crushing, here are five crushes I've had on fictional characters:

Age 11: Hawkeye Pierce, from M*A*S*H. I even read all the M*A*S*H novels, which I suspect I wouldn't have been allowed to do at the age of 11 had my parents any idea what went on in them.

Age 12: Dan Mangan, from the Trixie Belden series. Thus begins my career of crushing on secondary characters. Dan didn't even show up until book eight of the series, and after that he kept being left out whenever the other characters would travel somewhere.

Age 13: Bob Andrews, from The Three Investigators Series. Records and Research. Woot!

Age 14: Peregrin Took, from The Lord of the Rings. I also had a crush on Frodo, but I crushed on Pippin something awful for many years. Strangely enough, never really had a crush on Legolas, even though he became my favorite character sometime in high school.

Age 14: Saul Panzer, from Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels. To steal a phrase from someone's Vetinari icon, "Competence is sexy."

Strangely enough, none of these crushes has really faded, except for the one on Hawkeye. Well, I suppose I can be forgiven for being fickle at age 11.

Comments

[sanba38.livejournal.com]

Dan sounds ripe for fanfic to me.

Is there Trixie fanfic?

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

There certainly is:

http://shanapowers.com/fanfic/

http://barbln.org/trixie/fanfic.htm

http://www.jixemitri.net/stories/authorpages.html

[vickita.livejournal.com]

OMG, how much did I love the Trixie Belden books? Although I had the crush on Trixie's oldest brother, Brian.

Hmm. I think I need to start tingler's oldest daughter, the Fair Lady Coltish, on those books soon. I got her "Swiss Family Robinson" for Christmas. It was a favorite of mine *and* her mom's. I figured that mom would enjoy reading it with her. *g*

Next time I'll see them will be next month at the North Texas Irish Festival, probably. Hmm...

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

I was thrilled when someone started reprinting the series after all this time. I'd hoped they'd reprint the Deluxe editions with the color illos, but as it is it's really nice to have them available just by walking into a bookstore, instead of sorting through the stacks at McKay's. I'd been looking for an untattered copy of The Black Jacket Mystery for ages, and even if Dan does look like The Fonz on the cover, it's pretty cool to have a copy *with* a cover on it. :)

Although I had the crush on Trixie's oldest brother, Brian.

Hmm, the intelligent, honorable, handsome one. And here I went for the basic bad boy. :)

I always thought it was sad that Dan was the odd man out in the pairing-up. Trixie was sweet on Jim, Mart liked Di, and Brian liked Honey. Who did Dan have? Hallie. Hallie, who lived in Arkansas, and whoever wrote The Sasquatch Mystery didn't even let Dan go to visit her after they'd been kidnapped together and everything. So not fair!

I think I need to start tingler's oldest daughter, the Fair Lady Coltish, on those books soon.

I've been thinking about getting my nieces started on them, too. They seem to like a lot of the same books I liked when I was their age, and I've been meaning to send them a reading list since Christmas.

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

Saul!

....

*has nothing important to say*

*runs*

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was really surprised, actually, that for the longest time (probably a year) I was the only person who seemed to have Saul Panzer as an LJ interest. I mean, really--short, big-nosed, brainy, tough, plays the piano...what's not to love?

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

Saul...plays the piano? Dude, I really need to get more Wolfe books. I keep finding only ones that are nearly Saul-less. Wah.

(Piano. Ack. Like I couldn't love him any more. Why are guys no longer made like Saul and Archie? *flail*)

Everyone should have Saul as an interest. 'Cause, dude, Saul.

Silly people do not know what they are missing.