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/

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[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Cordelia Naismith/Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi novels. She's a space captain, she's loving and motherly, she's violent, she's incredibly smart and empathetic. And she doesn't just embody righteousness, she actively works to make things better for the people around her...

Also, I've just finished watching the first series of Deadwood on DVD, so I want to give a big shout out to all the women in that, for different reasons. Trixie, Alma, Jody, Jewel, Calamity Jane, even the mostly-mute Norwegian girl. They're not all sympathetic, and they're certainly not all people you'd want to be, but they're all so interesting.

Special mention goes to Calamity Jane, who is probably the first female TV character for a very long time who if you told me her looks are not important to her, I would believe you. She's such a breath of fresh air when it comes to female TV characters. She is drunken and dirty and violent, and screwed up, and still a good person, and she makes her own way in the world in a way that no other woman anywhere in the show has managed.

One more! OK, two more. Captain Roland and her daughter Emily, from the Temeraire novels. They're maybe not that unloved, but they are certainly completely awesome.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

OMMGGGGG JAAANNNEEEE AND ROLAND AND EMILY> ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Trixie! Joanie! Jewel! Totally. I wasn't a big Jane fan, but she totally belongs on the list. I recently watched all of Deadwood myself. Have you noticed the predominance of women on the writing staff? It was surprising. It looks like it was half and half, Milch notwithstanding. But when it's not David Milch himself, women wrote more episodes than men.

[handyhunter.livejournal.com]

Cordelia is awesome. And she makes people around her want to be awesome too.

I love also Ekaterin Vorsoisson, Kareen and Martya Koudelka, and Alys Vorpatril (having recently re-read A Civil Campaign).

[silentstep.livejournal.com]

Jane Roland rocks my world. She's strong and brave and plainspoken, and I love that she never questions her own worth.