#for sale: PhilippaxDjikstra cancelled wedding invite

[codswallopia]

Ten fandoms, ten characters, ten tags

random selection. no ranking. I was guided by a simple criterion: these are the characters I could read fanfics about and would never get bored.

Mrs Druse - Kingdom Hospital (how could i NOT include a medium)

Mike Ehrmantraut - BCS (I need grounding in my life. Mike delivers.)

Johnny Sack - The Sopranos (stfu Phil, MY estimation of John Sacrimoni as a man has NEVER plummeted)

Deborah Fiderer - The West Wing (let's face it, Aaron Sorkin was utterly crap at writing female characters. But Debbie was different. She wasn't moulded by any sorkinian cookie cutter. She oozed quirkiness. No wonder she was handled very well after Sorkin's departure. I dramatically want a Debbie-focused spin-off that shows who was on the other end of the line of the phone call in the epilogue of S05E20)

Candy - The Deuce (we had a chat about that with @darknesia; essentially, we both claim that The Deuce had two characters in the centre and neither were the Martino brothers. It's Abby and Candy. But Abby's entire life arc from college time 'til seniority is shown transparently throughout the show. It's like I know too much about her to judge her. So I'm more intrigued about and sympathetic to Candy - and the story of her Tough Choices she never talked about)

Catherine Standish - Slough House (no, she's not another Debbie, she's not Connie Sachs either, and there's a reason why I decided to include Standish rather than Connie here. She IS slough house.)

Djikstra - The Witcher (okay so I always imagine Sapkowski modelled him on some sort of Soviet MGIMO-trained, gym-going, lapsed intellectual party apparatchik that he worked with during his time in sales ... but there's just so much more to Djikstra. Every time I revisit a scene with Djikstra I see new layers, depths and combinations)

Donna Clark - HACF (obviously SHE moved the ship, not Gordon, not remotely Cameron let alone Mr MacMillan. big brains? big love! simple as.)

Cardinal Voiello - The Young Pope/The New Pope (yeah, I know I already featured Djikstra as a Richelieu-style character... but Voiello literally is a cardinal, like Richelieu. And he's probably read what Kiss*nger wrote on Richelieu. More than that, he's like someone who made his life project to be more indispensable to the pope than Sodano)

Milner - Utopia (model for all UK female home secretaries of the last 13 years?)

thx @cherrypoison1889 for tagging me