Girls...
"Who are your top five female characters from TV and film? (Who are the five female characters you love exactly as written, as opposed to the dozens of female characters you'd like to fix-up and do a better job with than the mostly white guys who wrote them originally.)" - Yes another meme. It'a almost as if I don't have ideas of my own... Stealed from livevolutionary Please pass it on.
I don't have to explain, so I won't, but beyond 'she's fucking awesome and I sometimes wish I could be her' I don't know what I'd put down for each character anyway. ...In no particular order, with pictures and without a cut, my five...
1. Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2. Toph Bei Fong (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
3. Cheery Littlebottom (Discworld)
(Second Left)
4. Dorothy 'Ace' McShane (Doctor Who)
5. Fatima Maharassa (Friendly Hostility)
Special Mentions go to: Abby Sciuto, Donna Noble, Gert Yorkes, Jennifer Jeroe, Kaylee Fry, Lisa Cuddy, Luna Lovegood, Maddy Magellan, Marion Ravenwood, Martha Jones, Molly Hayes, Nanny Ogg, Nefertari Maharassa, Dr Nikki Alexander, Nyota Uhura, 'Pepper' Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, Romana, Sarah Jane Smith, Susan Sto Helit, Lady Sybil Vimes, Tegan Jovanka and Ziva David who were all considered, but just beaten for the Top Five.
I suggest you lot go forth and find their canons because they're all worth checking out. I've limited myself to one from each canon, Doctor Who especially is a minefield of alternately epically well written and epically badly written females, but if I can only pick one Doctor Who girl to be then I'll be Ace all the way! Also apologies for the crappy pic of Cheery, she's a book character, that's about the only picture of her there is.
♥
I don't have to explain, so I won't, but beyond 'she's fucking awesome and I sometimes wish I could be her' I don't know what I'd put down for each character anyway. ...In no particular order, with pictures and without a cut, my five...
1. Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2. Toph Bei Fong (Avatar: the Last Airbender)
3. Cheery Littlebottom (Discworld)
(Second Left)
4. Dorothy 'Ace' McShane (Doctor Who)
5. Fatima Maharassa (Friendly Hostility)
Special Mentions go to: Abby Sciuto, Donna Noble, Gert Yorkes, Jennifer Jeroe, Kaylee Fry, Lisa Cuddy, Luna Lovegood, Maddy Magellan, Marion Ravenwood, Martha Jones, Molly Hayes, Nanny Ogg, Nefertari Maharassa, Dr Nikki Alexander, Nyota Uhura, 'Pepper' Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, Romana, Sarah Jane Smith, Susan Sto Helit, Lady Sybil Vimes, Tegan Jovanka and Ziva David who were all considered, but just beaten for the Top Five.
I suggest you lot go forth and find their canons because they're all worth checking out. I've limited myself to one from each canon, Doctor Who especially is a minefield of alternately epically well written and epically badly written females, but if I can only pick one Doctor Who girl to be then I'll be Ace all the way! Also apologies for the crappy pic of Cheery, she's a book character, that's about the only picture of her there is.
♥