I'm the worst - and some pictures

[kwritten]

I'm the worst at deadlines.
Also our Vampire Diaries ladies are evil lovely and refuse to be constrained to a decent word count.
Therefore, Marta, you will have epic Bonnie love tomorrow evening (for me - for you it will be tomorrow morning... timezones are weird)!

In the meantime, I had ~feelz about my ladies and their inner darkness. So I whipped

Comments

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This is why I wish I had had more time to do ALL THE LADIES. Because Tara says something very similar. So does Caroline. And Taylor Townsend.

Anna's demon = wanting to love and being told she isn't allowed to... and then getting so fed up with the injustice of it all she *dares* to yell at her lover while pregnant #what even

Blair - told she has to squash her darkness: no more kinky!sex, no more pleasure in power plays, no more manipulation

Buffy - convinced she is "wrong" for being depressed and liking kinky!Spike~sex (aka: for not being ~perfect "like she was before)

Elena - has to separate herself from her past life and make herself into two beings in order to account for her #darkness

Darkness is relative. I LOVE your example!!! But I was also (too vaguely) suggesting that all female characters are told at one point or another that they have a #darkness within them that needs to be fixed.

... or, at least. Female characters that aren't either Stepford Wives or the Femme Fatale from the start. The "well-developed" and fleshed out females are so often depicted as having an inner-self that has to be battled into submission.

#feelings

The first one who comes to mind is Kalinda from The Good Wife. She's unfailingly--almost scarily--loyal to the people she cares about, but she is cold and badass to anyone else. She's excellent with a gun and a baseball bat (and on more than one occasion has tried to run someone over omg I LOVE HER) and she doesn't give away much. I LOFF her.

I WANT TO KNOW HER.

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But I was also (too vaguely) suggesting that all female characters are told at one point or another that they have a #darkness within them that needs to be fixed.

YES TRUE.

I think you'd really, really love Kalinda. The Good Wife is super quality and the female leads are all fantastic (and some of the male characters are amazing, too!), but it's not a fandom-y type show.

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Darkness is relative. I LOVE your example!!! But I was also (too vaguely) suggesting that all female characters are told at one point or another that they have a #darkness within them that needs to be fixed.

... or, at least. Female characters that aren't either Stepford Wives or the Femme Fatale from the start. The "well-developed" and fleshed out females are so often depicted as having an inner-self that has to be battled into submission.

Have I been channelling you or did you infect my brain? I'm trying to write a (relatively short?) Dru/Buffy meta *struggling* re: women, madness, sexuality etc and this idea has been on my mind so much this week.

And that Buffy banner? GAH, yes. Bargaining calls back to Nightmares and that's another meta I want to do -becoming a demon, losing her humanity, has been one of her worst nightmares the entire series. Why does this not get talked about more in fandom? (or have I been hanging around the wrong places? IDK.)