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1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE (well, it doesn't have to be mysterious. You can just say, "gimme a goddamn letter" or similar.)
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.
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- Michael "Mickey Bricks" Stone, from Hustle, played by the delightful Adrian Lester. (Much as I love Matt Smith, I will never stop being sad that Adrian Lester was not the eleventh doctor.) The smoothest, sweetest, slickest con artist ever, who manages his good-hearted light-fingered team and his dishonest marks with equal grace. If con men were mid-twentieth-century song and dance men, Mickey would be Fred Astaire to Neal Caffrey's Gene Kelley.
- Martha Jones, from New Who starting in season three. A smart, go-getting woman (and a skilled doctor) who knows what she needs. And wears an awesome red leather jacket. And who was, alas, very poorly served by some extremely poorly-thought-out storytelling. ( cut for spoilers )
- Miss Murchison, of Miss Climpson's Cattery in Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. She will always have my heart for her snarky response when her temporary employer says "perhaps you should cease to be single" - "Why, Mr. Pond, this is so sudden!" Also, of course, I love her lock-picking lessons.
- Morgana, from the BBC Merlin series (2008-). She wears fabulous gowns and kicks ass with a sword, has serious femmeslashy vibes with her beautiful maidservant, and has realistically snarky-sibling vibes with her foster brother. And then, alas, it all goes to pot in later seasons, as she loses agency and gains... a lot of smirking. Alas.
- Mary Morstan, in The Sign of [the] Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and (most proximately) the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes. It's been a long time since I reread SIGN, but my memory of Canon!Mary is that she was quietly intelligent and steady. Movie!Mary is a bit more showy, with her insistence that Holmes try out his powers by deducing things about her, but also more insightful ( cut for spoilers ) I hope we see good things from her in the next film.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.
penwiper26 gave me M- Michael "Mickey Bricks" Stone, from Hustle, played by the delightful Adrian Lester. (Much as I love Matt Smith, I will never stop being sad that Adrian Lester was not the eleventh doctor.) The smoothest, sweetest, slickest con artist ever, who manages his good-hearted light-fingered team and his dishonest marks with equal grace. If con men were mid-twentieth-century song and dance men, Mickey would be Fred Astaire to Neal Caffrey's Gene Kelley.
- Martha Jones, from New Who starting in season three. A smart, go-getting woman (and a skilled doctor) who knows what she needs. And wears an awesome red leather jacket. And who was, alas, very poorly served by some extremely poorly-thought-out storytelling. ( cut for spoilers )
- Miss Murchison, of Miss Climpson's Cattery in Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers. She will always have my heart for her snarky response when her temporary employer says "perhaps you should cease to be single" - "Why, Mr. Pond, this is so sudden!" Also, of course, I love her lock-picking lessons.
- Morgana, from the BBC Merlin series (2008-). She wears fabulous gowns and kicks ass with a sword, has serious femmeslashy vibes with her beautiful maidservant, and has realistically snarky-sibling vibes with her foster brother. And then, alas, it all goes to pot in later seasons, as she loses agency and gains... a lot of smirking. Alas.
- Mary Morstan, in The Sign of [the] Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and (most proximately) the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes. It's been a long time since I reread SIGN, but my memory of Canon!Mary is that she was quietly intelligent and steady. Movie!Mary is a bit more showy, with her insistence that Holmes try out his powers by deducing things about her, but also more insightful ( cut for spoilers ) I hope we see good things from her in the next film.
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