Meme!

[active_apathy]

So, obviously not in Sydney. Daily entry to come later.

For now, a meme! Nicked from theshadowlurker.

The instructions are thus:

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would allow like a message from. It is your readers' mission, should it not upset them terribly they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. They then post their own original list in their own original journal and it is absolutely essential that the process be respected continues!

And so, the list!

• Firefly/Serenity
• River Tam
• Hoban Washburne
• Malcolm Reynolds
• Kaywinnit Lee Frye
  
• The Dresden Files
• Bob the Skull
• Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden
• The Archive
• The Bartimaeus Trilogy
• Bartimaeus, Sakhr al-Jinni, N'gorso the Might, Serpent of Silver Plumes, who has rebuilt the walls of Uruk, Karnak and Prague, who has spoken with Solomon, who has run with the buffalo fathers of the plains, who watched over Old Zimbabwe till the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people.
• Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
• Elphaba
  
• Doctor Dillamond
• Nanny
• Coraline
• Coraline
• Stardust
• The star
• Discworld
• Death
• Carrot Ironfoundersson
• Samuel Vimes
  
• A'Tuin
• Havelock Vetinari
  
• Futurama
• Bender
• Morbo
• Kommissar Rex
• Rex (pretend he can type)
• Dragonlance
• Raistlin Majere
• Fizban the Fabulous
• Pyrite
• Planescape
• Primus, the One and Prime
• A'kin, the Friendly Fiend
• Fell (ha!)
  
• Lord of the Rings
• Samwise Gamgee
• Meriadoc Brandybuck
• Peregrin Took

Um... I think that's enough for now. :)

Also, it looked like Dubya and Howard were singing and dancing. So, icon, thanks to imagegoogle.

Comments

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

Dear active_apathy,

I am pleased, though not at all surprised, to find that you are enjoying the human Jonathan Stroud's account of my adventures in your modern-day London. You may wonder why a noble entity such as myself is taking the time to type* a letter to a mere human.

Well, I have a few reasons. First of all, I have been assured that you are not a magician, or I certainly wouldn't put myself to all this fuss. If you are a magician, then you can just take a stick of incense and...

...**

There are just a few things I'd like to make clear. The rather excellent book entitled "The Amulet of Samarkand", while it is an excellent work containing certain excellent elements that mortal writers rarely include in their books***, there were a few incidents where I was misquoted and/or misrepresented.

First of all, there is the matter of the children. I was most certainly not troubled at all by their ill-mannered assault upon my noble person. I was merely curious about their unusual abilities and deliberately prolonged the fight in order to better understand their method of resisting my magic. I had them right where I wanted them.

Second, Faquarl. While he did, unfortunately, avoid meeting me in time for the reveng I had planned, I want it made quite clear that he was the one doing the avoiding, not me. He's good at that sort of thing, is old Faquarl.****

Third, of course, there is the problem of the book's length. Obviously my exploits are such that mere paper and ink could never do them justice, but I feel that, to balance out the time devoted to my being trapped in various unpleasant predicaments*****, there should have been as many or more pages dedicated to my cleverness in escaping against impossible odds, or simply to the description of the more sucessful missions of my glorious past. I fear I was made to look rather a fool. Really, you humans just blow evertying right out of proportion!

I hope this has cleared up any misunderstandings you might have with regards to my ability and reputation. Thank you for taking the time to read of my great deeds and to ask for my input.

Sincerely,
BARTIMAEUS
Sakhr al-Jinni
N'gorso the Mighty
The Serpent of Silver Plumes

p.s. In the next book******, entitled "The Golem's Eye", that whole bit with the Rosetta Stone? That's a complete fabrication. Please disregard it.

*Of course I know how to type, though I prefer writing. A pasty-faced little magician once set me the task of clogging his rivals' computers with deluges of advertisements for a variety of highly personal products and services. Perceptive fellow that I am, I paid special attention to his supervisors, and to a pretty female magician whose attention he seemed to desire. How was I to know he wanted them sent anonymously? He certainly didn't mention it to me Oops.

**This ellipsis replaces a few sentences I was told to remove from this missive because they contained rude language and insulting suggessions. I thought they were phrased with uncommon eloquence and style, but it seems you mortals are fragile creatures who can't deal with a few blunt words.

***ie. me

****Take, for example, the battle of Jericho. Faquarl was holed up in the mess tent, making oatmeal cookies for all I know, while I was in the middle of the action, trying to hold the walls... up... while... uh, never mind.

***** None of which were my fault.

******Oh, relax. I'm not going to spoil the story. I want you to read it with the proper degree of awe and suspense, which obviously you can't do if you already know what happened.

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

...and I fudged the HTML. Dammit!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Nevermind the HTML. That was perfectly Bartimaeus.

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you! *glows happily*

And that icon still makes me laugh.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I do mean to reciprocate, very shortly. :)

Yay for icon-funny. :)

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

My appologies for intruding upon active_apathy's journal, but I must squee and babble incoherently at you now for the sake of love. ♥♥♥

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

*blush* Why, thank you!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Given the overwhelming publicness of my journal, I don't generally kill and eat people for posting comments. :)

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

I figured, but it was pretty random, "HEY you don't know me I'm just gonna fangirl all over your friend here!" xD

Incidentally, your layout rawks my sawks.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!