Alphabet meme!

From rubynye, a meme about characters and a meme about songs:

1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3a. Post the names of five fictional characters [starting with that letter] and your thoughts on each.
3b. Post the titles of five songs [starting with that letter] and your thoughts on each.

For characters, Nye gave me D...

Daniel Jackson - Daniel is one of my all-time favorite darling woobies. When I first got into SG-1 fandom, back in 2004, I couldn't cope with reading fic because all the Sam/Jack iulia read made me viserally, desperately miserable on Daniel's behalf, and most of the Jack/Daniel I found made me wonder where Sam was and how this could possibly work without her. Thank god for the OT3/OT4 trend, because Daniel is finally not breaking my heart all the time.
Dunworthy, Mr. James - Mr. Dunworthy (of Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel books, if you are not familiar) is very nearly the platonic ideal of the Good Father Figure of the kind my darling woobies generally find themselves needing. Oh my God, Mr. Dunworthy. There are no words. BEST DAD EVER. IN ALL OF TIME. LITERALLY. *FLAIL*
The Dude - Don't call him Mr. Lebowski, he is the Dude. Okay, so, I had decided in or around 1999 that I did not want to watch this movie because it looked like the kind of comedy that I tend to find somewhere between unfunny and actively painful to watch. It's iulia's favorite movie, but somehow our friendship limped along for the next eleven years with me refusing to watch this movie. But a couple of months ago, in the midst of celebrating her thirtieth birthday, Iulia took a deep breath and asked me to please watch this movie and I said yes, and you know what? The Dude is fucking fascinating. I think he's a True Neutral Gryffindor. And he doesn't think any of it is funny, either.
The Doctor - How do I love him, let me count the ways! Eleventy, rediscovering the wonderful fact that he lives in a fairy tale. Ten, more broken the more he pretends he isn't. (Metacrisis Ten, who has a chance to make things work.) Nine, running giddily through a world smashed to pieces. Eight, eight, everyone forgets what Eight was for but I love him anyway. Seven-six-five-four-three-two-one! ♥
Daye, October - Ever since a youthful brush with Mercedes Lackey's books about elves who drive race cars, I thought I was totally over those books where Faeries Live Among Us, but oh my God, y'all, Seanan McGuire's Toby Daye books are MADE OF AWESOME (except for the pronunciation guides which suck to a baffling extent). But TOBY is AMAZING--a half-fae, half-human who's never quite fit in with either side and gets pushed around by both and kicks more ass than either, while susbisting on pop tarts and coffee. And and and Toby has TYBALT and QUENTIN and THE LUIDAEG and MAY and ♥ ♥ ♥. In summary, go read Rosemary & Rue, because. TOBY. :D


For songs, Nye gave me V:

Viva Portland, by Chad Crouch - Okay, funny story. This was the first song I ever legally downloaded through iTunes, back in 2004 or 2005, with a free download I won on a bottle cap. I downloaded it because it was mentioned in a popslash story (the one where Justin goes and lives incognito in Portland for six weeks on a bet). It is the only song I have on my hard drive that I can't listen to, because it is not authorized on my computer, but I refuse to actually delete it.
Vincent, by Don McLean - I, uh, put this into my playlist after I saw "The Doctor and Vincent" the first time and have yet to take it out. VINCENT. ;____;
Vogue, by Madonna - I cannot listen to this song without seeing Luminosity's vid. The song choice no longer seems ironic or humorous to me, it just goes together. Vogue = comic book Spartan carnage. QED.
Vito's Ordination Song, by Sufjan Stevens - So, IDK if anyone has noticed this about me, but my religious upbringing continues to have a significant grasp on my imagination. A number of Sufjan's songs plug into that--they have that same Christian baggage without being actually preachy or whatever. This one, particularly, plays on the metaphor of God as a lover and, just, yes. Beautiful.
Val Jester, by The National - This was my Donna Noble song for a long time, and then it became my Donna-and-also-Ianto song, and then my SG-1 epic snabbled it up. It's all quietly tragic regret and Matt Berninger's voice, which, guhhhhh.

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