'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?

Comments

[manriki-chan.livejournal.com]

Uhm. I actually ordered the whole two series (Serieses? Seri? *flails*) of Invader Zim from the internet because I loved Dib so much. And considering that the DVDs actually AREN'T AVAILABLE IN THIS COUNTRY... Well.

I also bought the first Bleach manga - partly because of Charlie's crush on Rukia, partly because of the OMGLOVE that is the Shinigami crack that went down here.

Hogfather and Thief of Time because of Teatime and Susan, of course.

Runaways. I now have the whole thing on my harddrive because of the god who is Chase-mun! (Sadly popcorn now. Alas, alas.)

Kyou Kara Maou on YouTube becase, dude. Wolfram.

I've actually got a whole bunch of others that I intend to check out as soon as I have the time/money, such as the Dead Trilogy (Primavera FTW!), Veronica Mars, Arrested Development...

... God. I am SO WEAK. *hangs head in shame*

[nemofound.livejournal.com]

Soul Music is another great Susan book too.

[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