I have a confession to make:
I'm a huge, huge, huge,
huge... Kristen Bell Fanboy
Whew! Glad to get that off my chest.
My handle's
CharacterInWhite, which was a handle I made
long before I even had a cognitive grasp on tropes. It is a play on the stereotype of
the Devil always being a guy in black clothes. Which is not to say I consider myself an equal of Satan - but rather, I am an aggravator, a catalyst of conflict, an
Socratesian aspirant as it were. I like to question things. I like fiction. I like to question fiction. Naturally when I discovered TV Tropes, I spent
about 18 hours sifting through it on my first session. My GPA dropped by 0.3 that day and hasn't gotten any higher since.
Which is probably dandy considering I haven't been happier since I decided to drop everything in my academic career and pursue writing, instead. At the time of writing this I'm putting painstaking effort into the completion of a manuscript - and if all goes well, I'll even get published. Maybe it's because I backed myself into a corner and can't realistically pursue any other career now, but I'm
optimistic.
In terms of my own work, I'm a big advocate of
making things personal. It can't
just be a mystery series for me. I'm not motivated to write unless a character has something
important to lose, like friends or family. A lot of cop books/shows lack this element and that makes it harder for me to care.
My favourite work pages to
Entry Pimp are
Veronica Mars and
The Night Circus. If you haven't watched/read them, then drop what you are doing, right now, and rectify this grievous crime against humanity.
Favourite People
Favourite Influences
- Veronica Mars: This is how my totally healthy obsession with Kristen Bell and Film Noir/Mystery may have started. Another attractive feature of the series was the lovely father/daughter relationship, though it was the second to catch my attention. To this day I lament the show's cancellation and the CW/UPN for screwing it over.
- The Hunger Games: This trilogy broke me. I cried for a week after finishing Mockingjay. I consider it nothing less than a literary monument, and a great standard to try and emulate.
- The Night Circus: Where to freakin' start. I adore this book in every possible aspect. I love the philosophies it tackles and how seamlessly the allegory is weaved into addictive characters and a fantastic setting. As her contemporary, I also find it incredibly intimidating! She inspires me to put forth the kind of effort she did, and I hope it shows.
- Audrey, Wait!: This was the first work page I launched (and subsequently entry pimped). It's wit and humour are exactly the sort of things I go to for Young Adult literature. If I can write half this funny, I'll die happy.
- Heroes: kind of. It's love/hate considering how up and down the writing is and how much I hate the concept of destiny. I did only watch season two because it had a certain someone in it. You can probably guess who.
- Dexter: I love moral ambiguity. And Rita. But mostly moral ambiguity.
- Castle: For a Police Procedural it sure has a lot of heartwarming little Aesops woven in to each episode to make it entertaining.
- A Song of Ice and Fire: Modern Shakespeare in terms of plot. Incest, intrigue, politics, deceit, backstabbing, determination... what's not to love? Other than taking 6000 pages of reading to consume.
- Californication: I love analysing father/daughter relationships and this remains my favourite.
- Silverwing and its series: It made me love the characters who were bats. I consider it a splendid exercise in characterization (that, and I'd be hopeless if I met a girl half as cool as Marina).
- The Pillars of the Earth: Like George Martin's lengthy series, Ken does a splendid job teaching memorable character introductions in this work.
Why yes, I
did see
When In Rome (how does this movie not have its own page?!) and
Forgetting Sarah Marshall purely because they had
Kristen Bell in it.
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