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Fannish Five
Hooray! The roads are open! Of course, we may flood again after the torrential rain forecast for this evening and tomorrow, but for now, they're open!
In celebration -- a meme. This week's Fannish Five apparently asked for your top five fictional parents.
1. Kate Somerville. Because character is everything. Kate is pretty perfect as parents go, when you think about it. I mean, think about how frantic she must have been through all of Pawn in Frankincense, and yet she recognizes that Philippa is growing up and is there when she's ready to come home again -- and really, Philippa could only have done what she did because of the sort of person Kate and Gideon raised her to be. (Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles)
2. Molly Weasley, this week, for those reasons in DH, and because she doesn't think that sending fifteen and sixteen-year-olds into combat is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (HP)
3. Jack Bristow. Jack in some ways is such an unlikely good father -- and of course, for a long time he believes that cutting himself off from his daughter is the best thing he can do for her. But he grows into the role so well, and loves his daughter so much. (Alias)
4. I wanted to put Irina Derevko on this list, but the last season of Alias made that hard to do, so instead I'll put Sydney Bristow in her place -- because Sydney will clearly succeed where her mother failed, in having her spying career and her children, and being the best at both. I think one of the best moments in the last season was that little scene of Sydney playing the tapes of her debriefings with Vaughn to her unborn child, so that Isabelle would know what her father's voice sounded like. It was so perfectly, weirdly Sydney Bristow. (Alias)
5. John Winchester. (Yeah, you're all surprised, aren't you?) Because he was a complete bastard, but he did better than anyone else could have managed -- not just the best he could, I think, but the best anyone could, in those circumstances -- and he came through when it mattered. (SPN)
You know, it was really hard to limit this to five. There are no Vorkosigans here! I could have populated the whole list with characters from Alias! What about Marge Simpson? What about D'argo?
In celebration -- a meme. This week's Fannish Five apparently asked for your top five fictional parents.
1. Kate Somerville. Because character is everything. Kate is pretty perfect as parents go, when you think about it. I mean, think about how frantic she must have been through all of Pawn in Frankincense, and yet she recognizes that Philippa is growing up and is there when she's ready to come home again -- and really, Philippa could only have done what she did because of the sort of person Kate and Gideon raised her to be. (Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles)
2. Molly Weasley, this week, for those reasons in DH, and because she doesn't think that sending fifteen and sixteen-year-olds into combat is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (HP)
3. Jack Bristow. Jack in some ways is such an unlikely good father -- and of course, for a long time he believes that cutting himself off from his daughter is the best thing he can do for her. But he grows into the role so well, and loves his daughter so much. (Alias)
4. I wanted to put Irina Derevko on this list, but the last season of Alias made that hard to do, so instead I'll put Sydney Bristow in her place -- because Sydney will clearly succeed where her mother failed, in having her spying career and her children, and being the best at both. I think one of the best moments in the last season was that little scene of Sydney playing the tapes of her debriefings with Vaughn to her unborn child, so that Isabelle would know what her father's voice sounded like. It was so perfectly, weirdly Sydney Bristow. (Alias)
5. John Winchester. (Yeah, you're all surprised, aren't you?) Because he was a complete bastard, but he did better than anyone else could have managed -- not just the best he could, I think, but the best anyone could, in those circumstances -- and he came through when it mattered. (SPN)
You know, it was really hard to limit this to five. There are no Vorkosigans here! I could have populated the whole list with characters from Alias! What about Marge Simpson? What about D'argo?