Snowflake Challenge 3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

[thewiggins]

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Well, there are a lot of different directions I could take this. If I'm thinking characters from BtVS, probably Tara would be my top choice. She's so kind and empathetic and I'm sure she'd be a really good listener. And I would try to be a good listener in return, because I don't think people make an effort to make Tara feel listened to and included in the show. 

As far as characters from other media, well there are really too many to choose from. Having dinner with the Doctor (probably #10 because he's the first one I fell in love with) from Doctor Who, would be interesting to say the least. The problem would be that at the end of dinner, one of two things might happen. In the first possibility, he'd offer to let me travel through time and space with him, in which case I'd have to say yes. I'd have marvelous adventures and see unforgettable things, but I'd probably wind up dead or brain-whipped or trapped in a parallel universe or at the very least mentally scarred from watching so many people die horribly. The other possibility though, is even worse, which is that he wouldn't offer to let me travel through time and space with him and I'd always be stuck wondering about all the things I might have seen and done.

A much safer dinner guest would be Morwen from the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. She's down to earth yet has tons of magical knowledge, she's kind, she loves cats and she's a good cook. All qualities that make for a good dinner guest in my opinion, though to be honest I'd rather have dinner in her house with its nine cats and magical doors.  

And then there's Hermione from Harry Potter, Picard from Star Trek (I could talk to him about space archeology all night!), Anathema from Good Omens (guess I really love witches)... but I'll stop here.

Looking away from characters to creators, I'd love to have the writers of some of my favorite creations over to pick their brains and hopefully gain a bit of vicarious writing skill just from being around them and talking to them about process. I'd love to invite Neil Gaiman, though I'd probably fangirl (fan-person? I wish the verb "fangirl" wasn't gendered) embarrassingly hard. Any number of other sci-fi / fantasy writers would also be cool. Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, co-writers of one of my favorite reads of 2020, This is How You Lose the Time War, might be top picks. I'd also love to talk to my favorite Buffy writer, Jane Espenson. (There are a few other BtVS writers I'd enjoy meeting as well, but Joss Whedon would be very much not invited).

But all that said, I'm also with thenewbuzwuzz in their response to this challenge: it'd just be nice to be able to meet up with some fellow fans who live far away. In fact, the idea of meeting up with anyone IRL and sharing a meal feels like an impossibly luxurious fantasy right now. Like, having dinner at Rivendell with Elrond and all the elves feels about has realistic as having dinner with my best friend who lives just 30 minutes away in Tacoma. Life is weird right now.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Tara is a good choice. I considered her too.

"In fact, the idea of meeting up with anyone IRL and sharing a meal feels like an impossibly luxurious fantasy right now. Like, having dinner at Rivendell with Elrond and all the elves feels about has realistic as having dinner with my best friend who lives just 30 minutes away in Tacoma."
Exactly! And on the flip side, meeting my dear friends who live on the other side of the world feels no more unrealistic than meeting my dear friends who live in a different part of my city.

[thewiggins]

"And on the flip side, meeting my dear friends who live on the other side of the world feels no more unrealistic than meeting my dear friends who live in a different part of my city."
Yep, yep, yep. Well put.