Okay, that's it.

[apocalypsos]

Tell me something awesome about a woman you love in any fandom. Wax poetic. I want to hear people talk about what they love about female characters. And try to pick female characters or women in RPF who haven't already gotten love so we can spread it around.

And no bashing other people's comments!

You know what? I'm picking Boo. Yeah, okay, she's a very tiny woman. Who cares? She's silly and fun and adorable, and looking at an icon of her always makes me feel better, and she learns how to be brave right before our eyes. I heart that so much that I really wish I had the time to rewatch Monsters Inc. before I leave for work, but I don't, damn it.

Now you go. :)

EDIT: Guys, if you want to do more than one character, go nuts. The more, the merrier, right? \o/

Comments

[shinga.livejournal.com]

I'm going with an unpopular one...

Ana Lucia from Lost. She is flawed, she makes frequent mistakes... she lost her child and fiance and killed for revenge and ran away from the one person willing to help her but she relented, realized her fault, and was trying to fix it when the plane crashed. She shot Shannon and owned up to it. And despite her hatred for the Others, she had grown past her burning need for revenge and in the end couldn't bring herself to kill Ben.

She is strong, stubborn, determined, and protective. Everything she did she did to protect her people against impossible odds. She is proud to a fault but can and will admit when she's done the wrong thing and can put all of her pride and fear aside to apologize.

Why she is so hated by fandom, I will never guess. Maybe they don't like Michelle Rodriguez. Maybe Kate filled their "tough chick" quota. Maybe Ana Lucia didn't cave in or fall apart in girly tears as soon as a man came along and that makes her a cold bitch. (Meanwhile Kate falls the fuck apart as soon as there's ~*~romance~*~ in the air and everyone still thinks she's ~*~so strong~*~... but I digress)

I love Ana Lucia. <3

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Ana Lucia! :-)

I didn't like her for a while because I didn't quite get on board with MR's performance, but then I read some meta on the character and really thought about it and was like, "You know what? I'm being silly here. Yeah. She's cool. Interested to see where they go with her." And then LOST did what LOST tends to do with any character I have an actual interest in. Gah.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

I adored Ana Lucia from her first second on screen and am still angry as hell at Lost for the way her character ended up being treated. I actually stopped watching the show after, because I hated the way that scene seemed to go against every bit of characterization we'd seen from her.

MR is awesome, and she played Ana Lucia has such a fantastic, strong, frightened, powerful woman.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

I liked both Ana AND Kate. I'm not going to get into my current feelings on Kate though. Because its about women we love.

I love Juliet from Lost. She went to some unknown island to, what was it? Help to try and cure cancer or something. I don't really remember. She wanted to help women like her sister had been helped, I think. And she got held HOSTAGE there and the man she fell in love with was murdered and she fell into the same boat as Ana with the distrust. And she's awesome under pressure. I like her. I like her A LOT.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

I love Kate for her strengths and her flaws. Sure, she's not all together in the braine but hell, after four months on the island, who IS?

I tend to try and ignore fandom hatred.

[slippery-fish.livejournal.com]

Hell, yeah. Took me a while to come around to like her though. Because she is complicated.