xakara

This is supposed to be Sunday Setup where I make plans for my week.

Write. Clean.

Okay. That's done. Now onto the discussion of Character Crushes.

Just as like it sounds, a character crush is one you have on the characters of television shows, movies, and even books. Sometimes the crushes in visual medium extend to the actor but its not always necessary nor is it automatic.

Perfect example, I have a crush on Sawyer from LOST. Josh Holloway is okay, I'm sure he's very nice, but I haven't seen him in enough things, or long enough as a likeable Sawyer to have developed a crush on him.

In contrast, I'm all about both Michael Shanks and his character of Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG1. So sometimes it carries over and other times, not so much.

I'll talk about character crushes in full and provide pictures another time. (Character Crush of the Week anyone?). But right now I want to talk specifically about literary crushes.

I love being able to tune in every week or pop in a DVD to see a crush I have in action. But there is something very intimate about having a book in my hands and watching the life of a crush unfold across the page.

One of my first crushes was Lestat de Lioncourt, and strangely enough, my crush began in Interview with the Vampire which was supposed to highlight Louis. It deepened with The Vampire Lestat and came to a nice conclusion with Queen of the Damned. I didn't need to read more and it is not safely where it needs to be, forever preserved in my head.

He was my first, but not my last vampire crush, throwing the door open wide to Romance and Blood long before the publishing industry put them together in urban fantasy.

I'll try sticking to some current favorites rather than going through them all.

Kisten ~ The Rachel Morgan series by Kim Harrison

Asher & Jean-Claude, Damian, and a few others ~ Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton

Henry Fitzroy ~ The Blood Books by Tanya Huff (And the television version on Blood Ties, I lucked out)

Thomas Argeneau ~ The Argeneau Vampire Series by Lynsay Sands

Charles Austra ~ The Austra Vampire Series by Elaine Bergstrom (okay, so I reached back for that one but I couldn't help it.)

Acheron ~ The Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was just in a vampire mood today but I'll get to other character crushes and back to tv's and movies in another post. Well, another series of posts because I have a lot. It's just the poly in me. ;)

Ramble Done

~X

P. S. Forgive the lack of links, I was tired.