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Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge catch-up
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Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge catch-up

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I’ve missed a couple of weeks’ worth of Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge prompts, some of which were ones I actually wanted to answer so let’s play catch up!

Museums/Galleries I’ve visited/want to visit and starting with the disclaimer that British Colonialism was bad and artefacts absolutely belong with their own cultures and not with looters… however having said that, I thoroughly enjoy a good wander around a museum. I am a history nerd after all, and without the British Museum, I would never actually get to see things like the Rosetta Stone or the Elgin Marbles so I’ve got complicated, mixed-up, feelings about these things.

I do love the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the National Gallery and the Portrait Gallery (although never go to the Tudor Gallery with me unless you want an impromptu history lesson because hello special interest!). I love science museums as well, I’ve been to the ones in London and Glasgow. I visit the Kelvingrove when I’m up in Glasgow, and Li and I visit the RAMM in Exeter regularly. Back home in Telford, I love Blists Hill and over in Dudley the Black Country Living Museum. Jorvik Viking Centre is so much fun too.

Basically, yes I love museums, I go to as many as I can and there are many many I want to go to – I’d be here all day listing all the ones I want to visit!

Books that are tearjerker and I’m sorry but have you met me? LMAO! I cry easily over books and genuinely cry over the majority of them. I cry over books that are sad, and I cry over the warm fuzzies. I love stories that really tug on my heartstrings and make me cry. The last one that spring to mind is The Teashop on The Corner – I cried at both happy, sad, and heartwarming points in that story.

Characters I See Differently Now Than I Used To. I still remember the first rewatch of Buffy when I started to realise that Giles was right. I was agreeing with Rupert Giles and that was terrifying. I was a similar age to Buffy, Xander and Willow when I first watched the show and saw Giles the same way they did. But then all of a sudden, I’m Giles’ age and he has a point and that was… yeah

Favourite Scary Monster
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Favourite Scary Monster

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This week’s Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge question is Favorite Scary Monster and while I don’t think I have a specific single favourite monster, I fucking love vampires.

I grew up on a diet of Buffy and Anne Rice. I snuck into the cinema, definitely under 18, to see Interview because it was Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and vampires, what was I supposed to do? Fell in love, went straight to WHSmith and picked up the paperbacks of Interview, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen Of The Damned and the rest is history. I have a love/hate relationship with Lestat and Louis, I adore Armand & Daniel, and I still want to work for the Talamasca. QOTD is still, to this day, one of my favourite books. The Night Island is just ♥

Throw in Poppy Z Brite’s Lost Souls and yeah.

I’m not a fan of things like Twilight, read The Vampire Diaries many years ago but am not sold on the show, can take or leave The Originals. I prefer my vampires to be bloodthirsty monsters, not filled with teen angst, y’know?

I also love a good haunting and/or demonic possession grins

Which character do you identify with and why?
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Which character do you identify with and why?

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The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here!

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book-related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to their own blogs.

Which character do you identify with and why?
My knee-jerk reaction here is Hermione Granger because the teacher’s pet book-worm who was good at school is exactly me but, as much as I loved the Harry Potter books, as a non-binary person, I’m trying to distance myself from Rowling and all of her shit. But I still want to take the time to acknowledge it, you know?

A recent character I’ve seen myself in is Cath from Fangirl – a dedicated reader, fangirl, and fanfic writer, who fantasises about being trapped in a library overnight, she’s introverted and socially awkward. Definitely describes me, although I did get a little frustrated with her at times but I saw so much of myself in that character

As a kid, I wanted to be George Kirrin from The Famous Five. I was a tomboy, I had a dog, but sadly I did not have 4 cousins to have adventures with – but growing up in a small village with plenty of woods etc to scrall around in, I did essentially act them out, playing make believe!

Willow Rosenberg from Buffy was the first time I ever really saw myself represented by a character on TV and she had such an incredible impact on my life. I was the same age as the characters in that show, going throw so much of the same things (minus vampires, demons, and forces of darkness of course) and I was also discovering Wicca and being gay. And I still enjoy a good research dive!

But I have never EVER felt so seen, identified so hard with a fictional character as I did on Star Trek: Discovery when Adira comes out to Stamets as non-binary and asks him to use ‘they’ instead of ‘she’ pronouns for them. They explain “I’ve never felt like a ‘she’, or a ‘her’, I would prefer ‘they’ or ‘them’ from now on” and it was just… there aren’t words for how fucking incredible it feels to be represented like that!