The promised essay for womenlovefest. Some of this is taken from comments I made at Mark Reads; a lot of it is new. HUGE GIANT SPOILERS for Mockingjay, so be warned.

Katniss Everdeen, and Character Strength from Unexpected Sources
by PuelKatniss Everdeen is not the easiest character to like. She's distrustful, judgmental, and prickly; she reacts to kindness ( Read more... )

So yeah. womenlovefest! That. Uh.

...ahem.

I couldn't really put anything together for the first few days, but I'm going to try and push to get stuff done for the time remaining. So in that spirit, have ten icons, all featuring quotations from Katniss Everdeen. The quotations are from all three books (though none are, I think, hugely spoilery), so be ( Read more... )

I think I saw this advertised in game_thrones yesterday, though it took me until now to get off my butt and sign up for it.

We Love the Women That the Fandom Hates is what it sounds like: a celebration of female characters who come in for their undue share of fannish vitriol ( Read more... )