#fictitious characters

[theartofblossoming]

Reposting because I'm proud of this one. Mac is reading Jules Verne's Time Machine and Vin is just so happy! ♡

[jor-elthatendswell]

Close to Home by John McPherson for December 13, 2014 | GoComics.com

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For December 13, 2014

[ideasmithy]

Interesting Things

I read a sentence in a book that went, “She tried to be the kind of person that interesting things happened to.” And I thought that was such a pretty line. But what did it mean? And because I was enjoying the book, I immediately applied it to myself wondering if I’d ever done that. 

I don’t know if interesting things just ‘happen’ to people. You have to go looking for things that will grab you…

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[may-subd-geog]

New headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings Monthly List 09 (September 19, 2016) 

The LC PCC PS for RDA 9.0 on Identifying Persons says that this chapter should also be used for fictitious entities and real non-human entities. Before RDA, fictitious characters could only be used as subjects of a work, not as creators or contributors, so headings for these characters were only created as subjects (X50):

Dolittle, Doctor (Fictitious character)

Don Quixote (Fictitious character)

Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)

Per the same LC PCC PS, these subject headings should be replaced with name authority headings (X00) whenever they are needed as creators or contributors, for example, if a book of animal stories claimed to be authored by Doctor Dolittle. Such headings may optionally be converted to name headings (as these were, in September) even if it seems unlikely that they’ll ever be listed as creator or contributor:

Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)

(though I would read that book). 

This chapter of RDA should only be used for fictional individuals; the LC Subject Heading Manual section H 1610 on Fictitious characters says that headings for groups of fictitious characters should still be established as subjects (X50). Some new ones from September:

Ghostbusters (Fictitious characters)

Jedi (Fictitious characters)

Sith (Fictitious characters)

The LC PCC PS does include as a future activity: 

A project to transition all fictitious and real non-human entities from LCSH will be conducted as resources are available.

so this may change in time.

[emeranova]

What is up with it today..

So first the hobbit comment now at dinner I get compared to Shaggy from fucking scooby doo. I'm on a role for fictitious characters today..

[theobromacacoa]

REBLOG IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A WEREWOLF OR A VAMPIRE.

[browseallday]

08 July 2013

Winnie the Pooh was originally named Edward Bear. The real-life Christopher Robin (A. A. Milne's son, whose stuffed animals the characters of Winnie the Pooh were based on) was given a Harrods stuffed bear for his first birthday, and Edward Bear was the name he chose for the bear. Real-life Christopher Robin, however, was also very enamoured with a real-life black bear that he often visited in the London Zoo. This bear was named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, the hometown of the man who raised the cub before bringing him to the zoo. In the introduction to Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne states, "Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And so he was."

[latenightpanic]

Person: What do you want to be when you grow up?

Me: A fictitious character.