#loved all of the cast. loved THESE FOUR. loved eppy..

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!!!! spoilers (sorta??? yeah) for midas man GOOOOO WATCH IT RIHGT NOW. AT ONCE !!!!

this will be engraved in my mind forever, im RUINED.

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Favorite female characters meme

Rules: Tag ten of your favourite female characters from ten different fandoms and then tag ten people.

as per Heroofthreefaces: “If you’re annoyed on behalf of someone else you know I would have listed if I hadn’t broken the rules and filled four places with one fandom, you’re tagged.”

I don’t think I even have ten people to tag, though. But in the spirt of the thing…

Guinevere: and it is the “King of Time and Space” Guinevere who I’m particularly fond of (as opposed to Malory or Twain or even White’s interpretation, none of whom were ever that good at describing sympathetic female characters- as opposed to villains). Snarky, ingenious, gives as good as she gets, queer (polyamorous!) I seem to recall Steinbeck’s Dora Flood in “Cannery Row” as a good rendition also, even though she’s not married to the lead there. Then again, I also tend to conflate the Doc of that book with a certain other Doctor…

Presbyterate Adventuress: Too brave to be tragic, too funny to be melancholy, and too lethal to be nice. A paradigm of paradoxes, and I do love me a paradox.

Ace: Because who doesn’t secretly wish they could solve all the world’s problems with a cool leather jacket, explosives, and a friend with a time machine?

Terise Haleakala-LoBrutto: Work name Arrhae i-Khellian t'llhweiir. Heroine of Diane Duane and Peter Morwood’s “The Romulan Way”, maybe the best novel ever written that has “Star Trek” on the front cover (she’s in several sequels too, happily). A hero, a historian, and a spy all at once: she’s far more interested in intelligence than flashy tricks with guns. “Ecstasy in Cosmogone” owes a lot to her.

Tiny Clanger: I don’t think her being a girl ever matters at all. Which is good. More shows should be like that. (There’s her pink bow, of course, but I’m willing to accept colour disambiguation on a show where none of the leads speak English. )

Tin-Tin: (yes, I know she’s called Kayo now.) There’s an anecdote that Warris Hussein (director of the first Doctor Who story, also Indian) tells about having to cast Caucasians on a ‘60s Kipling production because he just couldn’t find any actual Indian actors for the parts. So yeah, she’s a puppet, and limp in ways that have nothing to do with her strings, and doesn’t really get to do any of the exciting missions - but she’s there, dammit. And nothing offensive ever happens to her. Which is more than you can say about the girl one’s storyline in a lot of entertainment.

Eppie: “Silas Marner” is the Victorian novel I’d recommend for people who don’t read Victorian novels; it’s short, readable, and relatively to the point. So I won’t spoil it. Except that I like her much better than any of say, Dickens’ attempts at female heroines. Which is not surprising since, you know, George Eliot. 

Anyanwu: one of the books I was rereading in the first throes of composition for “Ecstasy” was “Wild Seed”. Octavia Butler’s tale of not-quite-intentional immigration, and how a woman perfectly suited to her old home patiently goes about constructing a new life for herself in a completely new environment. (Science fiction things happen too.) That probably shaped “Ecstasy” as well. Then again,  it’s my favourite of her novels and I just reread it a lot anyway.

Flora Poste: Cold Comfort Farm. Science fiction comedy of manners: Flora’s life-or-degradation struggle (the question of the good life being far more important than questions of mere mortality) to update the thinking of a thoroughly antiquated farm is a treasure. It is an extraordinarily indescribable piece of work, and I wish more novels just wandered through the looming walls of genre like this.