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[aria]

I may be slightly flattened by how much I've come to care for the characters in My Life as a Dog. I say this because, um, I am not really much in the habit of watching telly specifically for kids these days (...if we ignore the Magic School Bus episodes I have somewhere) and so I expect to be charmed, not invested. The Sarah Jane Adventures, for instance, charm me like mad, and I may have a bit of a crush on Sarah Jane, but again I am charmed rather than invested. With My Life as a Dog I am actually spending entire episodes clutching at my face going "Johnny Johnny Johnny" in ... remarkably the same way I do with Billy and Ray, actually, so it's not that shocking. But I also care more than I expected about Zoe, and would probably be clutching my face going "Zoe!" too, except that she is sane (mostly) and wants practical things like good windows and not a caboose in the back yard, and Johnny is the one out playing hockey into the wee hours, so Johnny is the one I yell at through the screen.

My actual point, though, is [a] I love Johnny but mostly [b] little Eric has a moral compass pointing due north, and he tries very hard to solve everyone else's problems, and he has a weird encyclopedic knowledge of useful things and a twelfth-grade reading level despite very little formal training, and he always believes the best of people, and he's dealing with a dead mother and endless daddy issues, so basically Eric is Benton Fraser at the age of twelve. Except instead of being raised by traveling librarians he's being raised by Johnny Johansson. Considering how damn funny I find this, I should probably get some new hobbies.

Instead I am off to my summer retail job, but it's possible new hobbies might happen eventually.

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[china_shop]

*points at the current Lost and Found challenge on ds_flashfiction, just in case you happen to write something that fits that* (Crossovers are allowed so long as it's primarily a DS story. Fraser as central character would absolutely count.) /random pimping

*bounces anticipatorially*

[aria]

sdfslfdsj PERFECT, since I've been wanting to do something for that challenge! I guess that means I have to dash it off sometime in the next 24 hours, though. XD

[china_shop]

The next challenge is going to be a late-summer amnesty, so there's no rush. (Also, I'm usually willing to extend flashfic deadlines in the interests of more fic, just FTR.)

[aria]

Shh, don't tell me these things! I work well on deadline. XD

I am however FULL OF YAY to hear that it is amnesty next. I think this means I'm going to shuffle through all the old challenges this weekend and make a list. /o\

[china_shop]

\o/