Hear me out...

[@ethanhorn6093]

As a bonafide monster f***er... I think weirdly the story that is my most private "Hear me out" Is: The Mask of the Red Death. I don't know what it is about Poe's capacity to make grotesquerie into my niche thing... but I remember even as a child I was like "There is definitely something wrong with me". I don't even know who the hear me out is for in that... maybe it's for the vision of Death itself stalking the people of the Abbey or what... like... imagine writing a story that parallels your wife's decaying death by tuberculosis just for some gay guy a hundred and eighty-two years later to be like... "Hot." Feels insane. I feel insane bringing it up.

[@Nematodenat]

This is where I question my how much I can analysis material in a perscpetic outside of my personal desires and turbulent topics. For me it’s Hell Raiser. I can’t delve further on YT as you might expect.

[@DarkDragonaire]

I love the hear me out trend, It shows all the darkest unhinged takes we all have

[@ZosoLU]

Here me out, but a polycule with Red and Blue from This is How You Lose the Time War.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Yes!!!

[@Androsynth75]

Yeah for sure. This book was so much fun, and you root so hard for a couple of characters who are just running around committing genocide like it’s lunch on Tuesday 😂

[@studyingpeach6691]

Oh, I have a few. The old lady main character from Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk for sure; she is obsessed with zodiac signs, lives alone in an isolated cabin in the middle of the mountins, and she is an environmental activist? Sign me UP. The Dog Woman from Sexing the Cherry by Jeannette Winterson; I have no excuses for this one, I love a women capable of throwing me around. Estraven from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, which requires no explanation, if you've read the book you know that they are perfect, possesing everything one might want in a partner, and I mean EVERYTHING. Also honorable mention, literally every single monster character Angela Carter writes about in her story collection The Bloody Chamber.

[@spreadbookjoy]

Don't you think all Discworld crushes fall under the 'Hear me out' category? 😂 My Discworld crush is Moist Von Lipwig - the simultaneously best and worst-named character in history!

[@Nixx0912]

Also in the miniseries he's played by Richard Coyle and I also have a crush on him since "Coupling".

[@spreadbookjoy]

@@Nixx0912 oh yes - good shout! That is brilliant casting. He also narrates the new audiobooks as MVL as well, though I've not listened to those yet. Need to rewatch the miniseries - so good!

[@Nixx0912]

@@spreadbookjoy I also loved Charles Dance as Vetinari even if the hair colour didn't match he was just perfect.

[@spreadbookjoy]

@ absolutely! He had the exact demeanour and voice for Vetinari.

[@TepidShambles]

Vincent Barnes from "How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win A Wager" by D. N. Bryn. I love a tragic vampire, I just want to hold him and feed him and make sure nothing hurts him ever again.

[@Barryislarge]

8:05 grady hendrix's giant teddy abomination surely, we all like to cuddle teddies, but a teddy that can cuddle you??

[@WillowTalksBooks]

😳

[@impastomusic]

Love this! Definitely seconding Frankenstein’s creature. I’ve also followed Scalzi’s blog for over a decade and he seems like a delightful human being. I’m ace, and my ‘hear me outs’ are generally less pantsfeelings and more platonic, but hear me out - Chris from Scalzi’s Lock In. I want to hang with them, but I also want to live in a world with ungendered disabled folks who get robot bodies and still recognize that we live in a capitalist hellscape. Also, teenage me says Louis from Interview with a Vampire (that one is at least a little pantsfeelings 😂). Also Willow, I’ve followed you for quite a while, and it is such a joy to see you become more yourself, more free and giddy. Thank you for sharing your journey with us ❤

[@dubbingsync]

I feel like my Hear Me Outs for books are quite tame, the first one that came to mind was Jackie in Death on the Nile. Crazy, but always told she is beautiful so I couldn’t help but get some attachment.

[@Amystudio]

Recently Slewfoot from Slewfoot by Brom did it for me 🙈

[@RoundSeal]

I'm ace so all of my 'hear me out's are related to which monster I want to turn into the most 😅 (Jean Jacket. Not a from a book I know, but hear me out...)

[@luckynumberme3188]

you're so correct for this

[@DontEffWithMeKid]

Same. It's cool to see that I'm not the only Ace who would rather become their "hear me out."

[@rachelny5209]

Serapio from Black Sun. Or, hear me out, Slewfoot.

[@jenniferlovesbooks]

Why was I nodding along at the Just Like Home mention.... 🙈

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Hahaha!

[@luckynumberme3188]

yes!! join me!!

[@jenniferlovesbooks]

@@luckynumberme3188 😂🏠

[@Meli4Live]

You are so right about the If We Were Villains cast

[@ameliezonato7450]

This! I was re-reading it a few weeks ago and I told my husband I was in lust/love with all of them

[@badfaith4u]

Hear me out is wonderful. Dark unhinged thoughts are coming out.

[@Amoscrts]

I’m completely with you on Dracula and the whole Shakespeare-quoting cast of If We Were Villains! 😊

[@meritxellcarceller7488]

I absolutely concur with Butler's Xenogenesis ooloi. And speaking of non human beings... hear me out, in Sherri S. Tepper's "Grass" there's this indigenous huge thelepatic creature (a fox-like big thing that, if I remember well, can't be fully understood by human senses). It makes it easier to feel the attraction the fact that Marjorie (the main character) and one of them have a inter-species romance.

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

Perfume is one of my favorite books but hear me out I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that Grenouille character in real life⚛❤

[@Dani10luv]

I am obsessed with your content and adore your work

[@citrinedragonfly]

So many of my hear me outs are characters in musicals and based on the actors/actresses who portray them, but I have a few literary ones as well. Probably not original at all, but Heathcliff and/or Catherine from Wuthering Heights. Dark and volatile personalities, self-destructive, but maybe they just need a mediator? Dodger from Seanan McGuire's Middlegame. Yelena, aka Sparkle Bright from the Velveteen Vs. series by Seanan McGuire. Several characters in the Velveteen vs. series, honestly, including Jackie Frost, the literal embodiment of winter. Vel herself. Are we counting comic books/graphic novels? If so, then Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler from the X-Men, definitely (especially when drawn by Alan Davis).

[@kathrynjohnson8011]

My hear me out would be Skulduggery Pleasant from the Skulduggery Pleasant. A funny wisecracking detective who's a walking skeleton, who's been dead for many years, has killed hundreds and is very much unhinged... absolutely!

[@andreecapper9259]

Agree!! 💯

[@luckynumberme3188]

oh my lord, I had the biggest crush on him as a kid. very much agree 💀🖤

[@luckynumberme3188]

positively obsessed with all these answers, especially Tove's Dawn masterpiece and the Wild Things

[@Androsynth75]

We’re still getting adaptions and movies about Ol’ Drac because he invented ‘sexy supernatural monster’ Stoker packed a hell of a lot of sexual tension into that novel.

[@rachel1021]

This is a fun video. I finished Beneath the Loch by SD Simper and I'm totally into Olphia. She's a pretty kelpie.

[@zachreads]

Gunna have to check that out! I just read Carmilla and Laura by S.D. Simper and really liked it!

[@jessayaki9496]

Denna from Terry Goodkind's "Stone of Tears" (Sword of Truth #2). She's basically a dominatrix with a magical pain stick. There's a whole sisterhood of them, but she's my favorite 😍

[@LadyMarianArt]

I'm in with Count Dracula for sure, but here me out, what about Dr. Frankenstein 👀. And I must confess that I had a thing with Count Fosco from The Whoman in White. What an intimidating man, but sooo charming and mysterious.

[@Nixx0912]

Thinking of my hear me out I would like a bone dog from "Nettle&bone". I always wanted to have a dog and bone dog would be probobly less problematic in a small, rented flat I have.

[@Amoscrts]

I’ve got a crush on Scalzi, too! I adore his work!

[@bobbykeniston7240]

Okay, here me out: Ina, the wet nurse/witch from "Lapvona." I know at first thought it might seem really... well, strange and off-putting... but she's magic, she smokes herb, and at the end has horse eyes. Talk about a powerful woman in even the worst of times, am I right?

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I genuinely nearly added her to my list!!

[@blubeagle55]

I have a thing for gangster stories, so mine are all variants of that. Not one in particular.

[@loxley75]

Okay hear me out, finding yourself bored on a long ocean cruise and striking up an intimate 'friendship' with Edmond Dantes and Haydee from The Count of Monte Cristo (The Robin Buss version not the boring sanitised victorian translation!). Or if we are to get really obscure with literary crushes, the ever problematic Calanthe from Storm Constantines 'Wraethu' books. 😁

[@gamewrit0058]

I'd never thought a bully or villain attractive, unil I read/played the VN/Otome Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds and first saw and heard Mikki Saburo - last name presented first, in Japanese fashion - voiced by Kondō Takashi. Me: Oh! This is probably the closest I've ever been to understanding why (friend) lusts after fictional villains. 😄 I also love "good guy" Okita Souji, voiced by Morikubo Shōtaro, even though he's a bit of a troll and repeatedly threatens to kill the MC as a joke-not-joke. He and his bestie Saito Hajime, voiced by Toriumi Kōsuke, are my platonic Bonnie and Clyde. When I see videos of the two actors at fan events, I love their shenanigans there, too. As for the real-life historical figures these fictionalized captains of the Shinsengumi were based on, I assume they were very different. 😆

[@pegy6384]

No love for Pippin? I know he's an idiot, but hear me out....

[@PumpkinMozie]

Yeeees Billy Boyd’s pippin performance was my sexual awakening as a preteen 😆 then I read the books and I loved him all over again

[@Bolineandhob]

Lord Veterinari. Tbh, he seems kinda ace coded, but also he seems like he still knows how to... You know. And he's a politician. 🤢 But also ❤️‍🔥

[@TaniaLovesCake]

ACAB but I LOVE ANGUA

[@marocat4749]

grenui is pretty fun because yeah he is human and even faced hardships, plus he realizes no love drug perfume can fill his emotional need and yeah he doe cause some fun orgies and pretty sweet end all things considered.He was burn in the gutter and chose to die in the gutter making some people happy. Fun antivillain? Yay werewolves that are actually great weird. Plus she is a responsible cop. Through Carrot deserves here, i wish them the best .

[@zachreads]

Now hear me out… Lash from The Dresden files, sure it would technically all be in my head but she could become anyone or anything I wanted, and sure she would eventually break my mind and take over… but worth it!

[@tonibettencourt8900]

Tess in The Others series by Anne Bishop. I just won't make her mad!

[@tyghe_bright]

Ooo. If We Were Villians, for sure. I've got a soft spot for pretentious smart folks. But...hear me out...Pie Oh Pah from Barker's Imajica.

[@Salaciousreader]

Why are you so rude about police officers? I’m a COP (as you mockingly say the word)and have worked in the domestic abuse and sexual violence team for years and dedicated myself to seeking justice and giving the most vulnerable in our society a voice . I’ve suffered with mental health issues and have sacrificed a lot to do all I can to help victims of crime and their families. This isn’t the first time you’ve made comments like this which I find really problematic and upsetting. Yes there are officers who bring down contempt and shame on themselves and the police as a whole but there are thousands of good officers and police staff who have worked tirelessly at the detriment of our own wellbeing to help others in their time of crisis . I would like to think you were more open minded but clearly you have your own biases despite what you say on here. I loved your book content but your ignorant, inflammatory comments on a livelihood that I as a woman have sought out to help other women is hurtful and insulting.

[@rachelny5209]

There are enough cops that are sexist and racist that it's become the reputation of all cops. I personally have had great interactions with the police, but that doesn't stop me from feeling apprehensive around them.

[@zachreads]

Willow was clearly being light hearted when she said that, also that much defensiveness and hostility isn't a sign of securty in your beliefs. Most of the problems can only be addressed on a systemic level and recognizing that good individuals can operate within a corrupt system is not a personal attack.

[@oana-mariauliu5828]

Mine is Varys from ASoIaF. + Littlefinger