I think I could have dazzled in the 20′s and 30′s! I would have thrown lavish parties that lasted for weeks, mingled with writers and artists of the era, delighted in the spread of Jazz, and made another fortune running gin, whiskey, rum, moonshine and vodka up and down the coast. I would have rubbed elbows with Capone, Maranzano, Luciano….perhaps they would have even given me some sort of nickname hmm?
As for the 60′s and 70′s, it was quite the tumultuous time….I don’t really care for much of the fashion but I would have found a great deal of enjoyment in the art and music. I would have also been a regular at Studio 54 and then CBGB’s (in the eighties, I did visit CBGB’s often when in NYC). I would have thrown myself into music and probably would have started recording much earlier than the eighties. The drug culture was interesting as well and it might have been fun to experiment a bit more….I would have loved meeting Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust phase).
However, the aesthetic of these eras have lasted throughout our brief history, thanks to the leaps and bounds made in preservation, and aside from the dead, we can revisit each as often as we like.
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Okay, hyperbeeb tagged me in the 10 Favourite Characters thing, and I decided to pick one per canon because otherwise there is a very real danger it would be nine Anne Rice characters and Tony Stark or something. Also, multiple versions of canon count as one canon, because otherwise the various Marvel and Holmes canons would get unwieldy:
1. Tony Stark; let’s get him out of the way first (MCU/616)
2. Sherlock Holmes (all the versions of canon I know except Sherlock; leaving Watson out of this kills me, especially in light of Elementary, but that’s the arbitrary rule I set up for myself)
3. Jane Watkins (Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman)
4. Hermione Granger (HP books/movies)
5. Arya Stark (ASOIAF/GoT)
6. Sarah Connor (all film/TV/comics incarnations of Terminator)
7. Marius (The Vampire Chronicles)
8. Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
9. Ykoriana (The Stone Dance of the Chameleon)
10. Astrid Magnusson (White Oleander)
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Hannibal is difficult because if you count the books as well it becomes a dead heat between TV!Hannibal and Clarice Starling. BSG is similarly tied re: Starbuck and Gaius Baltar, and for several other fandoms like Jonathan Creek, I have no clear favourite.
And what the hell, here’s the all-VC version:
1. Marius
2. Lestat
3. Gabrielle
4. Pandora
5. Jesse
6. Daniel (I blame you guys for this)
7. David
8. Mael
9. Bianca
10. Mona
I-want-my-IWTV 