I got into a discussion about Dirty Dancing on Facebook, which led me to search out old post, which made me realize I hadn't done a "30 Days of Female Awesome" post in forever. Which, yes, I'm aware that's not how it's supposed to work. But hey, I'll make one now.

Day Sixteen: Favorite mother characterThere are a lot of good mother characters out ( Read more... )

Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching

This is where I have to start keeping myself in check so as to not shout "Press Gang!" at every turn. They'll be plenty of time for that later. Instead, in view of how you guys failed to recognize the Mason/Daisy quote a while back, I'll say


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Here are the answers from the questions asked in my previous post. Feel free to ask me more questions!

From oneiriad:

Top Five Female Swedish Fictional Characters

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Gacked from musesfoolselenak, taraljc, and possibly others.

List 10 (or however many) platonic male/female relationships in fiction that you enjoy. My attempt at rules ( Read more... )

From the part of Katta's brain that makes up crossover ideas when tired ( Read more... )

I've been watching a whole lot of Zorro lately, and I've found that I get a bit desentisized to the badness after a while - by now, I can almost hear phrases like "Indian burial ground" without wincing. And I do my best to ignore Sergeant Mendoza. (The badness of either Alcalde is more bearable - moustachio-twirling villains have their charms, ( Read more... )

I'm now going to say something that'll make some of you a little bit stressed out ( Read more... )

verstehen has a good rant about good 40+ female characters on TV. With a list. And it just so happens that last week when I was having a long boring train ride to an interview in Bålsta, I started making a list much like that one. That is to say, it started as a list of TV mothers I liked, but soon morphed into 40+ women in general. After that rant, I ( Read more... )

I had a thought concerning Dead Like Me - and before you die of shock that there's something besides Doctor Who in my brain right now, the thought actually started with the Time War ( Read more... )

I decided to rate ten of my favourite TV shows according to the standard that one should never see a film that doesn't have at least one scene with women talking about something besides men. (Who came up with that, anyway?) Now, all ten shows are favourites, so I'm not completely dissing the ones I give a low rating. And in any case, I discovered ( Read more... )