"Icky" is a 4-Letter Word
One of my favorite people was talking about the phenomenon "girls are icky" showing up in certain corners of fandom, which is always guaranteed to get my righteous rage up. And there's nothing like righteous rage to bring on a MEME
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More Morgana! I admit, I like Gwen best when she's telling Arthur off, being besties with Morgana, sighing and clucking over Merlin, and falling in love with Lancelot:) Can we get back to that?
Ooo, one more. XENA! And Gabrielle! The early seasons! Xena kicks butt and takes names and sings beautifully. I just love her ♥. Gabbie is annoying and funny and determined and tells stories. She learns to kick butt later too.
Wendy Watson and Lacey! ♥
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I would totally like to get back to first season Gwen AND Morgana - Morgana's current storyline is so epic myth arc and yet, so heartbreaking. I do not want her to be emo and tortured. :(
I never watched Xena (and thus, Xena and Gabrielle), but OMG, what a great example of women kicking ass! I never saw the Middleman either, but Wendy Watson is on White Collar now and she's adorable in that, too.
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AGREED! I want this Morgana to be happy.
Xena, online and totally worth watching (again, at least the first few seasons...)
Again, I like Wendy Watson best as Wendy Watson just because she gets the spotlight and the character is so awesome. But she is good on White Collar:)
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Leia Organa is awesome because being a distressed princess in a pretty white dress didn't mean she couldn't outshoot, outsnark, and outthink the guys trying to rescue her, and because she fell in love, got married, and had kids while still being totally In Charge--and having a husband who was just fine with that.
Catherine Chandler is awesome because she was a sheltered society flower who suffered a violent assault, and not only didn't she break but she said "You know what? There are other people this is happening to that I could be out helping, right now," and worked at that and kept working, no matter how hard or dirty or dangerous the job got.
Sally Acorn (Sonic the Hedgehog) is awesome because she's a strong leader who was fighting a guerrilla war before she was even out of her teens, who's good at ( ... )
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Pepper Potts is absolutely deserving of the occasional freakout, considering what her boss puts her through!
Awww, Catherine! I totally wanted to be her when I grew up, at one point. Sans violent assault, which I think my mother wouldn't let me watch anyway. Still, she was awesome. And then she was Sarah Connor.
And Leia! She was the epitome of awesome for so many people.
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Have you gotten to IM2 yet? Pepper is ridiculously cool in that (and boy, does she deserve to smack Tony repeatedly).
And then she was Sarah Connor.
...you know, while of course I knew this, I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite like that. Now I want to see the universe where Catherine has to fight off robot assassins from the future.
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Where to even START. There's an easy answer, because Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy, Sarah Jane, River Song - and so many old-school Who companions - are all amazing. But I feel like that's the easy out.
Jackie Tyler, actually, is where I pick to begin, because I love her no-holds-barred, smart-assed, me-and-my-kid-against-the-world attitude, and the ferocity of her love for her daughter, and her refusal to be cowed by paltry Lords of Time and Space. And because it is hard to be the one left behind, and yet it only made all the good things about her better.
Nancy. Because she kept the kids safe. Because she was in a bad situation, and it went from bad to worse when the war started, and worse to awful when Jamie died, and yet she could still crack wise. Because after everything, she still had enough imagination for hope.
Ida Scott. For dreaming big. For facing death calmly. For her constant push to know more, to question, to consider the possibilities.
Joan Redfern. For falling in ( ... )
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The Rani, for being smarter than the boys, for calling them on their Epic Rivalry Bullshit, for being unapologetically amoral and loving science more than anything, and for having the impeccable sense to knee the Master in the groin.
Liz Shaw, for being the original brilliant redheaded scientist. For proving that you can have multiple doctorates and still be gorgeous. For not taking the Brig's sexist crap or the Doctor's sexist crap. For getting the hell out of Dodge when she needed to.
Nyssa of Traken, for loving Tegan and Adric. For knowing when to get out, when she was needed. For surviving the death of her father and the destruction of her planet, and facing the man responsible time and again. For kissing Five goodbye.
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Teyla is my go-to-girl. She's comfortable with her body, she doesn't have to push to the front to prove herself, she can hand the boys' asses on a platter...
Oh, what the hell, I'll just link to my Seven Moments Of Awesome For Teyla Emmagan...
Gwen is my sweetheart because she speaks with tact and care, but is still human enough to lose her temper at a prince and exclaim at him when he's a guest in her house. She's practical and tender-hearted, and really does need to be given a storyline beyond the romantic one - but she's still beautiful and gracious and queenly without it.
Ziva David from NCIS is my recent character for love: I know she's not to everyone's tastes, but the fact that she strolled in that first morning after Kate's death and completely pinned Tony down in the conversation ("Phone sex?" "Women like to fantasise, too.") won my heart. And then almost everything else that followed after... I ( ... )
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