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

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[upupa_epops]

Oooooh, the Buffy banner! Elena, too, but OMG the Buffy banner!

Thank you <3333. I can't wait!

[kwritten]

Buffy exists to break my heart.

((I'm not super happy with the Elena banner? I think it's the font or something: because I <3333 those scenes and I love how crystal clear her face is but... idk... something feels off about it.))

<3333

[vergoldung]

Wow that Anna Karenina banner takes my breath away... Gorgeous work! ♥

((will be back for the meme))

ETA : okay meme time :)

favorite dark lady : La Marquise de Merteuil, motherfucking Queen of everything. There are no words to express how much I love this character. She is my hero ♥

question : favorite album atm. favorite album ever.

[kwritten]

Wow that Anna Karenina banner takes my breath away... Gorgeous work! ♥

*g* Thanks!!!

((OMG HAVE YOU SEEN IT YET? ALL I WANT TO DO IS TALK ABOUT HOW PERFECT THIS FILM WAS!))

La Marquise de Merteuil, motherfucking Queen of everything.

Someone I've been dying to meet since I was a child and saw the film tucked away with the "adult" films in the closet. ("adult" read: not Disney or starring Cary Grant #sheltered)

favorite album atm. favorite album ever.

At the moment: Good Co.'s only album. Electric Swing. Also! I have met the band. And am in love with the main musician/trumpet player. There are a couple of songs available for streaming on their website. And they are just perfect.

A couple on YouTube:
Jazz Singer (which actually features the voice work of Captain Roberts from Abney Park ... another delicious Steampunk band based out of Seattle. Sleep Isabella is a song he wrote for his daughter and used to sing on the road to her every night... until she got old enough to be annoyed and made him stop. So now he performs it on

[vergoldung]

I haven't :( if I get around to it, I promise to scream at you ^^

The Marquise is the mother of all BAMF female characters. Like, literally the mother. YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOK. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE OF FEELS. Everything about this book is perfect (except the ending, but it's rather easy enough to fanwank away). PERFECT!!! READ IT READ IT READ IT! I'm pretty sure it's fine to read translated too, so yay. The movie is awesome, but seriously THE BOOK!!!! /peer pressure

THANK YOU FOR ALL THOSE RECS :DDD AWESOME AWESOME :D Can't wait to discover all of these!

♥

[kwritten]

(I will hold you to it. It will give you all the ~feels, I promise.)

YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOK. YOU ARE GOING TO DIE OF FEELS.

OKAY I WILL TRY.

THANK YOU FOR ALL THOSE RECS :DDD AWESOME AWESOME :D Can't wait to discover all of these!

I hope you love them!

[eilowyn]

Ooh, pretty!

[kwritten]

During Anna Karenina, she is just lovely. But! She also says repeatedly: "It's the demon in me." And just two weeks on Gossip Girl, Blair said: "I have a darkness in me."
And it made me think of how women are told that anything but the gender norm is considered a "darkness" and I just really wanted to celebrate that. Because women are fucking awesome.

[eilowyn]

This is a really well-written explanation! Ladies are fucking awesome. Oh, and I haven't said congratulations about your proposal! I just squealed a little on your facebook!

[kwritten]

Ladies forever.

"Darkness inside" = the motif breaks my heart.

THANK YOU AND YES I SAW AND I'M SUPER EXCITED TOO AND YAY FOR US GOING TOGETHER AND I CAN'T WAIT AND I WAS SO NERVOUS!

[lutamira]

My favorite dark lady is probably Darla. (DARLA!!) But, I don't know TVD, so am perhaps missing out on some lovely ones.

Questions for you: top 5 favorite books ATM.

Also, you are a successful professional musician. What kind of professional musician are you?

[kwritten]

Your love gave me Darla/Macbeth ~feels::

[vergoldung]

omfg!! I just had an epiphany re: The Elegance of the Hedgehog!!!!

I haven't read the book (although I own it /bad self), but of course I know it! See, this is an example of translation fail ;) I thought Hedgedog was some kind of place or maybe the name/nickname of character... BUT OF COURSE!

Also : I begin as a singer-songwriter with a keyboard in a coffee shop. I am faced with the choice: sign a pop record deal, or join a rock band that will probably only ever tour fairs and small venues. I choose the rock band. And become the peppy female vocalist for a grunge/punk rock band. And am heaps of happy. YOU ARE THE CUTEST <3

(okay sorry for the interruption, 'm out now)

[kwritten]

It seemed so odd that you didn't know of it!

YOU MUST READ IT!!!

It's so pretty and yummy and I can only imagine that it will be even better for you.

YOU ARE THE CUTEST <3
I really just want to be Taylor Momsen, is all.

[penny_lane_42]

Pretty!

I don't tend to be drawn to the darker ladies (though lots of my favorites, like Buffy, etc. go through dark phases which I love). 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.

[kwritten]

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

[penny_lane_42]

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.

[red_satin_doll]

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.)