30 Days of Female Characters: Day 22 // RL update

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We had an incredibly frustrating and unproductive committee meeting at church tonight. Sometimes it feels like we're just spinning our wheels, never quite getting anywhere. *sigh*

Day Twenty-Two: Favourite female character you love but everyone else hates

Cassandra, Highlander. She's not hated by absolutely everyone in HL fandom, but there's a strong faction of outright haters and a relatively large contingent of fans who might piss on her if she were on fire, but maybe not. I'll admit that a lot of my Cassandra-love stems from my contrariness--there's so much misogyny surrounding her character that I purposely searched for reasons to love her. (Jennifer Keller is another female character whom I've grown to love, initially in reaction to the Keller-bashing in SGA fandom.)

And I'm glad I worked at it, because Cassandra is a wonderful archetype, full of potential, with a fascinating backstory and real, emotional connections with two of our heroes. There's nothing easy about her, nothing that's not complicated by history and tragedy and loss--and yet if we're more than capable of thinking/writing about a five thousand year old man, there's no reason we're not more than capable of thinking/writing about a three thousand year old woman.



Cassandra, Highlander



Dr. Jennifer Keller, Stargate Atlantis


Day 1: Favourite lead female character: Buffy Summers, BtVS
Day 2: Favourite supporting female character: Faith, Angel/BtVS (picspam)
Day 3: A female character you hated but grew to love: None!
Day 4: A female character you relate to: Dawn Summers and Tara Maclay (BtVS), JJ (Criminal Minds), Keladry (Tamora Pierce)
Day 5: Favourite female character on a male-driven show: Sam Carter, SG-1/SGA
Day 6: Favourite female-driven show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Day 7: A female character that needs more screen time: Nyota Uhura (STXI) and Ashley Seaver (CM)
Day 8: Favourite female character in a comedy show: Kate Beckett, Castle
Day 9: Favourite female character in a drama show: CJ Cregg, The West Wing
Day 10: Favourite female character in a scifi/supernatural show: Kira Nerys, Star Trek: DS9 (picspam)
Day 11: Favourite female character in a children's show: She-Ra, She-Ra: Princess of Power
Day 12: Favourite female character in a movie: Olive Penderghast, Easy A, and Lucy Moderatz, While You Were Sleeping
Day 13: Favourite female character in a book: Keladry of Mindelan, Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series
Day 14: Favourite older female character: Catherine Langford, Stargate the movie/Stargate SG-1 (picspam)
Day 15: Favourite female character growth arc: Faith, BtVS/Angel (picspam)
Day 16: Favourite mother character: Vala (SG-1), Teyla (SGA), Jeannie (SGA), JJ (CM), [spoiler] (Angel)
Day 17: Favourite warrior female character: Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess
Day 18: Favourite non-warrior female character: Hermione Granger, Harry Potter
Day 19: Favourite non-human female character: Star Trek women (picspam)
Day 20: Favourite female antagonist: Darla and Lilah Morgan, Angel
Day 21: Favourite female character screwed over by canon: Cordelia Chase, Angel
Day 22: Favourite female character you love but everyone else hates: Cassandra (HL) and Jennifer Keller (SGA)
Day 23: Favourite female platonic relationship
Day 24: Favourite female romantic relationship
Day 25: Favourite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day 26: Favourite classical female character
Day 27: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day 28: Favourite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day 29: A female-centric fic rec
Day 30: Whatever you'd like!

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