Defector @defector.com · May 31

Let's remember some literary characters: defector.com/i-am-captain...

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Bradley Schrager · May 31

The dithering putz from that Sartre trilogy. I hated that fucking guy, what’s his name

Skull Bearer · May 31

The cast from the Lost World, by Conan Doyle. A lot of genre fiction suffers from wooden characters, so it was great to meet a cast I would cheerfully read about going to IKEA and assembling a Malm bedroom set, let alone going to hunt dinosaurs.The book had issues but I loved those four idiots.

New Mexico Man · May 31

Dr. Gonzo, Raoul Duke’s attorney from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not a good guy, but definitely memorable.

@gubbbo.bsky.social · May 31

Have you met a recent hero, Dong Quixote

@jamieqt.bsky.social · May 31

Count Fosco from The Woman in White. The original overweight, cultured, villain.

Jacob Kresovich · May 31

Pip, great expectations; Mr Darcy, pride and prejudice; Valuska, melancholy of resistance; Holden, catcher in the rye; Anse, as I lay dying

Odrok the Deceiver · May 31

Iago, from Othello, a dude who took the idea of revenge as a dish brst served cold seriously. Fun fact: Iago was the primary inspiration for Lord Baelish (Littlefinger) in Game of Thrones.

Art Reno · May 31

Guy Montag

oldnumberseven · Jun 1

The Continental Op

Van Rouge · May 31

Mr Dick from David Copperfield

Bill Shea · May 31

Sebastian Dangerfield Harry Flashman Chester Pomeroy

@perrybuff.bsky.social · Jun 1

Augie March Rob from High Fidelity. Alyosha Karamazov Jane Eyre And since I just finished Middlemarch literally this afternoon, Dorothea Brooke.