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Oooh. Paul, because I'm sure lots of people are gonna say Alan.

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Ahahaha, your fanon is my canon for Paul. Nevermind that I haven't seen his actual canon in about a year.

Okay, let me think.

1. ~~Had sex with Alan Shore in a fire escape.~~ Bought a silver ipod mini when they first came out. Has since replaced it with the nano (he's too much of a control freak for the shuffle). He secretly entertains thoughts of the nano's one day stopping a bullet.

2. When particularly angry or frustrated (and unable to bitch at the original source of anger or frustration) he used to drive downtown and park his car illegally, in the hopes of attracting a traffic cop he could yell at.

It's kind of like fishing!

3. Has met Tara Wilson. At the symphony, of all places. Alan hadn't mentioned her to Paul (naturally), so Paul didn't take much notice of her, beyond noting that she was extremely beautiful.

Bonus fact: Hates Alan's pink ties.

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*grins!!*

1. ~~And he still bitches about that, too~~ Hahah, this definitely fits with my image of him.

2. Double hahahah! If this shows up in a fic I'm so blaming you.

3. Oooh, innnnteresting. That'd be intriguing.

The bonus is love.

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1. ~~Oh, please. As though it was all Alan's idea.~~ I was trying to think of rude things for him to have engraved on it, but my imagination failed me.

2. I would be honored if it did :DD

3. I like pretending Paul has met Tara. I dunno why.

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1. ~~Hey, Paul's the one who ended up on the cold hard metal~~ "iFag"?

3. Yeah, makes sense for Alan. (note my mad skillz at replying to another comment in THIS one-- you wish you were this awesome) Someone needs to whap him upside the head with Donne's "no man is an island"...

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1. ~~Ahahaha. In my fanon, it also started to rain.~~ Something like that.

3. Alan would quote AD Hope: "You cannot build bridges between wandering islands; / the Mind has no neighbours, and the unteachable heart / Announces its armistice from time to time, but spends / Its love to draw them closer and closer apart."

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1. ~~Oh, he's really bitching now~~

3. I've never heard that! I like it. *hums and adds to the quotes file*

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1. ~~...aaaand they probably locked themselves out. Okay, not really. I'll give them a break.~~

3. AD Hope is a satirical Australian poet who has written a poem called "Phallus." I'm sure the reasons for Alan's interest are clear.

He also wrote this (http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1568.html), which is amusing me.

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~~*sniggers*~~

I like it as well. *bookmarks this poet for future reference*

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I lied, I think I do know why. Because Alan deliberately doesn't make any mention of her because he doesn't see her as relevant and likes to be in control of his personal life. But that ain't how life works.

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GOB

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...turned out this was just the excuse I needed to go watch an hour of Arrested :D

That said, some of these might either be canon or have been contradicted in canon. I'm very bad at keeping track when it comes to Arrested.

1. Once, when Franklin was feeling blue--I could make any number of offensive puns here, but since I'm not in character I'll refrain--GOB decided to make him a brother named Mitchell. But Mitchell put too much pressure on Franklin and was always harping on him about responsibility, so ultimately GOB had to chuck him into the ocean. Plans for a third puppet, Chester, were scrapped.

2. On Friday nights, GOB drag races his Segway. He makes sounds simulating the revving of the engine. (And of course, there would be some incident where an event involving the word "drag" is advertised, GOB shows up expecting to race, and finds a bunch of men in women's clothing. Tobias among them.)

3. Tried to seduce Michael's wife. Unfortunately (for GOB, anyway), the moment was ruined when he prematurely squirted his lighter fluid.

...hahahaha, I think I need to stop.

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Hee hee hee, awesome!

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That reminds me, I've been meaning to worship your icon for a while now. It's amazing!

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Hahah, credit

zomgitskristin for the graphics.

The text is. . .just really really perfect for Cable. It's hard to exactly get it across without knowing the canon, but he's a soldier-from-the-future type who is constantly using his allegedly superior knowledge to manipulate his nearest and dearest. And the narrative style of the "Cable & Deadpool" comic is pretty much: the traditional superhero comic as Arrested Development: the traditional sitcom.

I'd like to figure out a way to write shipper fic between the AD narrator and Deadpool's 4th-wall-breaking narrative bubbles.

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HAHAHAHAHA OMG I would love to read that!

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Josef Kavalier

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Eeeeeevil. This just makes me want to write him, and he's the one character (well, him and Rosa) not at all involved in my plot bunny.

Also, it's really hard to develop fanon for the co-main character of a 600-page novel. I keep thinking things like "Joe likes bananas! ...wait, that's canon." Incidentally, my favorite canon fact about Joe is that he keeps two handkerchiefs, one for personal use and the others for girls to cry on. ~~If only I could get away with having Alan do that.~~

1. As the son of two doctors, Joe has a genetic predisposition towards godawful handwriting. Making his writing legible demands effort and concentration--more effort and concentration than laying out an Escapist panel or performing some act of prestidigitation. (Sammy, of course, can read his writing no matter what, although sometimes he holds the paper upside down or pretends Joe's writing in code.)

2. Thomas taught Joe to wolf whistle. Thomas was six at the time; he demonstrated the technique and before Joe could have second thoughts, he turned around and demanded to know how Thomas had done it.

3. Joe doesn't mind speaking imperfect English (although he did when he was younger). It means he can feign incomprehension when convenient, and sometimes he just likes cobbling together sentences from things he's heard on the street.

Bonus, although I think this is pretty much canon: Joe is really good in bed. With his hands in particular, although he received excellent instruction in all matters from Thomas's governess.

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Dude, Alan, since no one has said him.

Also, http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=818#comic .

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I have so much Alan fanon. I'll try to pick things that might not come out in TM.

1. He applied to Harvard undergrad and was rejected (perhaps one day I will recreate his admissions essay). He didn't bother to apply to Harvard Law, although he was tempted to do so just so he could tell them where to stick their offer of admission.
1a. Spent an inordinate amount of time in college playing (in various states of sobriety~~/undress~~) Risk with members of the history department. It's like D&D for pseudo-intellectuals!

2. He hates himself for it, but there are moments he's grateful his wife died. It denied him the opportunity to ruin their marriage.

3. Canonically, when he was sixteen, he slept with his best friend Paul's mother. Canonically, she later saw a psychiatrist because of this. Fanonically, the shrink requested that Alan attend a session. It went so badly that Alan's been suspicious of psychiatry ever since.

Bonus: When they were very wee, Paul's father read Something Wicked This Way Comes to Alan and Paul. The boys fought over which one of them would be Jim Nightshade and which would be Will Halloway (both wanted to be Jim, of course).

AHAHAHAHA, that comic is great.

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I'd be disappointed in you if you didn't. :)

1. Ahahahah. I WANT FIC OF THIS!

2. ....*woobies* *a lot*

3. *snickers*

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1. Of which part? He really wanted to go to Harvard. That part is tragic! Except for the essay, which I'm sure was a) the product of many hours of effort b) absolutely not what the Harvard admissions board wanted to see, and c) hilarious.

2. The sad thing is...that way of thinking is sort of his attempt at optimism. Where most people would tell themselves, "she's in a better place" (although I'm sure Alan's tried that; he just wasn't terribly convinced), Alan tells himself, "well, our marriage would have gone to shit eventually."

Hmmm, none of those involved Denny. I need more Alan & Denny fanon, clearly.

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1- The Risk games, mostly, but just a little vignette of The Higher Education of Alan Shore would be awesome. You could include bits of all of it.

2- *nods* Oh, Alan. I need a drawer to put all the little piece of my heart Alan has chipped off! (That should be the title of a really bad emo song)

One can never have enough Denny.

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1. Oooooh, perhaps I shall. (Hahaha, I was very pleased when Alan turned down the offer of hallucinogenic tea, because I had a little bit of fanon backstory worked out involving college, drugs and night terrors.)

2. Oh, Alan!emo. It's fine stuff.

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Because you and Julie are distacting me from very important essays with thoughts of getting back into RPing - yes, I blame you! It's not my fault! - I'm going to name Caleb. ~~Give me some fanon I can steal and make into canon.~~

A less self-indulgent pick would be Josh Lyman. I just bought my mum the first season of The West Wing on dvd and oh, the AWESOME.

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Yes, yes, come baaaack! You know you want to. Alan, Jimmy and Caleb need to wreak havoc in Boston. I might even have someone *eyes

dien* I can browbeat into playing Shirley for the occasion.

I'm more of a Ziegler-Bartlet-Seaborn gal, but I'll see what I can come up with. The problem with this meme is it makes me want to run and read/watch canon.

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Bitch.

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Tempting me with the three of them AND Shirley! You temptress, you! *succumbs*

Heh. I do get the added awesomeness of SeaShore now.

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YAY!!! :DDDDDDD *showers you with love*

My personal fanon is that Sam and Alan are AU versions of each other. If you don't think about it too hard, it works.

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I've only seen the first three episodes, but I can see that working. *doesn't think too hard*

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There's an episode--the name escapes me, but it has to be in the first two seasons--where they go into everyone's backstory. Sam's sitting at a meeting at some high-priced law firm, Josh walks in to tell him about Bartlet, and Sam basically quits based on the expression on Josh's face.*

*It's possible I'm not remembering this correctly. If that is the case, the scene is probably at least 500% more awesome than what I've described above.

And I've discovered that the library has seasons 1-5 on DVD, so...there goes a huge chunk of my free time :D

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Heee, I spent a good part of today tracking down season 1 and 2 on DVD at my library. I am going to have an all-night West Wing bender. Partly because it's so entertaining, partly because I've eaten a LOT of cookies & cream icecream (there is no greater joy than eating grea ticecream straight from the carton) and I've got the twitches, and partly because I saw 28 Weeks Later late last night and I'm a little scared about the nightmares my subconscious is planning for me. No sleep for me!

*twitches*

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EEEEEE. *loves*

There's nothing quite like waking up to Spaderspam.

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~~He's wearing red, he's a Gryffindor~~

Did you see the Willemspam? :D :D :D

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