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[trace_of_scarlet]

I'M ALIVE, FOLKS. Yes, really and completely. I'm even EATING STUFF now!

Also, boycrush is back on the scene. Kinda. \o/ I didn't realise quite what a crush I had on him until he dropped off the face of the earth, which was annoying. Silly men.

I can't remember who linked me to it, but bofoddity has created The Unpopular Women Love Post. It's a fantastic idea, and so far I've contributed threadstarters for Dr. Martha Jones from Doctor Who and Torchwood, and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.

To c&p:

I fucking love Doctor Martha Jones. Her plots aren't without issues (could we have some episodes where she doesn't get captured/kidnapped already, PLEASE?), but as a character she's tough, brave, funny and clever. She figured out for herself that the man she fell in love with was never going to love her back, and got herself out and made a life of her own away from it.

Plus, SHE SAVED THE WORLD. All by her ownsome, this student medic from London, with her family enslaved and her friends being tortured, and Martha Jones went off and did what had to be done. And that's what I love about her: this total willingness to do what needs to be done, even if it means losing her own life to do it. She laughed in the face of the man who was destroying Earth, in the face of her own imminent death, because she knew she'd won. She is that awesome.

Martha seems to incur a lot of hatred, especially from the Doctor Who side of the fandom, and this makes me sad. I think part of it is that she was the companion to follow Rose, who had a very vociferous fanbase, and part of it was some of the dodgy writing she got. But damnit, she saved the world, and she's one of the many reasons why I'm definitely a heroine addict.

Ginny gets some of the most breathtakingly vitriolic hatred I've ever seen directed against a character, especially since book 6. I think a lot of it is that the canon Harry/Ginny ship breaks up Harry/Hermione, and generally that many female Harry Potter readers identify with Hermione more than they do with Ginny.

Well, you know what? I love Hermione. But I love Ginny, too! YES, IT'S POSSIBLE. Okay, Ginny is the sporty, popular, pretty girl who gets the boy. I'm not sure what's wrong with this. I mean, there's a reason lots of popular girls are popular, and that's because people like them. Because, you know, they're actually pretty nice. (Also, four boyfriends by the age of sixteen does not make you the school bicycle, it makes you a normal teenage girl, and the sexist insults thrown at her because of her - gasp! - daring to date boys makes me want to lay about with a cricket bat.)

More importantly, Ginny is smart, talented, funny, loyal, fiercely individualist and independent, and BRAVE AS A FUCKING LION. I love the way she was friends with Luna when Luna was crazy unpopular, I love how fierce she is in defence of her loved ones, I love the way she understands Harry, I love her competitiveness on the Quidditch pitch, I love the way she refuses to be pushed around, I love her wicked sense of humour, and I love her handiness with a bat-bogey hex.

Ginny is a fantastic character, who really could have done with more page time (OMG her and Luna and Neville as leaders of Dumbledore's Army. STILL RECRUITING, bitches!), and I will never understand how people get so frothy with rage over her.

What female characters do you love the most? Tell me, and then go tell that post. :D

Comments

[imsane-honest.livejournal.com]

Yayz! Non-dead Bethan! My favorite kind!

And also, that post sounds kick-ass. *frolics to*

Plus boy-crush? *is intrigued* Does Mr. Borrowman know about these developments? You know how sensitive he is about these things! *shifty eyes*

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of in love with that whole comm, actually.

Myranda, I hate to tell you this and I know it'll come as a shock but, well, John Barrowman is kind of... a little bit...

Gay.

Yes, it's unbelievable, I know. *offers tissue*

[imsane-honest.livejournal.com]

Wait. Are you trying to tell me that the beautifully fabulous man known as John Borrowman is not inclined toward the fairer sex????

*lip wibble*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOES!

*pouting ensues*

[mandalorean.livejournal.com]

Glad your feeling better. Your house was almost literally turning in to the 'House of Pain' with all the bruising and belly aches.

As for female characters; DI Alex Drake (Keeley Hawes) from 'Ashes To Ashes' currently springs immediately to mind. I'd like to be as eloquent as you with my reasons but my feelings are mostly primeval ;oD
Time for a cold shower.......

Oh and Keeley is the voice talent for the latest generation Lara Croft in the games....
Back to that shower then........

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

You don't think my love of Martha Jones is just because she's a great character, do you?

Mmm, pretty.

[mandalorean.livejournal.com]

Nope, hang on, let me just think about that for a moment.......
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:oP

It's just that you're obviously better at giving other work safe reasons too ;o)

[fayera.livejournal.com]

Hooray for a better Bethan! Poor you, I didn't realise how sick you were or I'd have come over with soup! There sure are some nasty things going around at the moment, glad you're clear of these Miranda!

Whilst I've got no primeval interests in her, you can't beat Cuddy (house)... any girl who can dish it straight out back to House has my votes. :D Also, provides a nice antidote to whichever flimsy bit of whimpering female house has clinging on to him in his team.

[marcella-riddle.livejournal.com]

My problem with Ginny is the way Jo wrote her in DH. We were led to believe she would be massively important and incredibly powerful and she turned out to be neither. All she did become was Harry's wife. Admittedly, according to interviews she became a quidditch player and a journalist, but that's beyond the actual text. I guess what it comes down to is that I expected more of this zomg awesome character.