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Hey, thanks for the ask! 😊

1. the character everyone gets wrong

I think it's Obi-Wan. The shipping is too prevalent and I can't even criticize it, it's fun and I did it too, but ultimately shipping him is making him OOC. Obi-Wan is fully dedicated to the Force and the Jedi way. He couldn't understand Anakin breaking the Code. His canon film portrayal is proof enough that Obi-Wan just doesn't understand romance and it's outside of his experience. So, everyone gets him wrong, even Lucas and LFL when they give him a "love interest".

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

I'm more of a complainer though, lol 😅

Next on my classic horror list was The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow, so I read the entire short story anthology by Washington Irving. I enjoyed his writing style, it transported me to the American mountains and villages and the characters were very vivid.

Spoilers below.

Actually, Rip Van Winkle was the first story in the book. Rip helps an old man in the mountains and secretly drinks his beverage. When he wakes up, it's 20 years in the future. After confusion in the beginning, Rip is super happy because his nagging wife is dead and he can be a parasite in his daughter's house and sit in the tavern all day. Frankly, I'm taking the wife's side. She was clearly trying to make her husband care about their family's worsening financial situation and he just refused to do any work or communicate with her, instead he escaped to the tavern or to the forest. What I see is the story of a man who went our for milk for 20 years and when he comes back, he's rewarded for it and his wife is painted as a villain. I wish he came back and found that his wife remarried to a better husband who she never had to nag and they built a flourishing farm and had a great, happy life. Rip Van Winkle as a character sucks.

Funnily enough, the last short story, The Adelantado of the Seven Cities, had a similar premise with a man coming back after a century, but he's punished for breaking his promise to his fiancee and finds out she married someone else and had a great life and family while he abandoned her for an adventure and a non-existent island that he was searching for.

The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow - my first thought after reading this was that it's obvious that Brom killed Ichabod, buried his body somewhere in the forest and purposefully spread the rumour about the Headless Horseman so that everyone would believe that Ichabod was taken by the ghost. So a story that was supposed to be a supernatural tale feels completely fabricated to cover up a premeditated murder.

Dolph Heyliger was pretty interesting in how the ghost helps the main character find love and a family fortune. It was a nice adventure with a happy ending.