'So then I just HAD to find out ...' - a semi-meta post!

[nemofound.livejournal.com]

As we all know, H_H is a multifandom community, and I doubt that many of us are familiar with every fandom represented. So here's what I'm currently curious about. Has anyone else been so intrigued by a previously unfamiliar character in H_H that she/he saw the movie, read the book or played the game (or etc, etc.) in order to meet that character in his/her canon turf?

For example, I watched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World in March in order to meet Stephen Maturin. As I told his mun at the time, I was most impressed by the character and by her enactment of him.

And now, I've just finished reading Good Omens. I absolutely adored the book - I'm a Pratchett fan, and now I can't believe it took me so long to pick up this one. I'm also quite impressed with the spot-on H_H characterizations of Crowley, Aziraphale and Adam.

So ... has anyone else got similar "I saw so-and-so in H_H and simply had to go find the canon" experiences?

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[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I want to have Susan be the victim of a magical accident that knocks her back to being the sixteen-year-old that she is in Soul Music. Just for variety and grins.

And, of course, for context about Susan's whole family, it's good to read Mort and Reaper Man. Which I only just read myself (my first Pratchett book was Hogfather; I basically went about all the Death books almost completely backwards).

[wh0-kill3d-m3.livejournal.com]

...oooohhhhhh. There was talk the other night in the irc chan about somebody doing another box of mixed magic chocolates soon, totally opt-in, muns decide on their own choco-based calamity... ::pictures angsty teen Susan running around Hogwarts and meeting up with Granddad::

[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

The fun thing is that teenage!Susan wouldn't really be angsty -- she'd be pretty stroppy and even more temperamental and less patient than she is now (I currently have her as somewhere in her mid-twenties). This is, after all, the girl who said to Mustrum Ridcully, "Don't you dare patronise me, you stupid old man." XD