I do not have any Rory/Amy icons and that is gross

Aug 17, 2010 22:24

So, normally, I really hate the women in the things that I like. This started off when I was...thirteen or so and was all into Naruto and oh my god, Sakura. I hated Sakura. She annoyed me so much; her character was inconsistent, her motivations were pathetic, and she was just an overly-stereotypical girl. And I didn't want to read about a girl who ( Read more... )

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unstoppablei August 18 2010, 02:37:42 UTC
Yeah, females in popular culture generally suck. Have you watched Firefly? (someone online was recently talking about it but I don't remember who...) The female characters are all AMAZING in their own, unique ways (probably because Joss Whedon is the creator. He does women pretty well.)

I'd also recommend the show The Pretender (which you can stream online) just because Miss Parker is one of the most BAMF women in a series ever. She's just ... such a snarky, take-no-shit BITCH and she knows it, but there's this great soft underside that becomes more prominent as the series continues. I'm also pimping out The Pretender wherever I go, bc no one seems to have seen it and I know it's 10 years old but it's GREAT.

I'm in a show/book reccing mood tonight, so yeah. Those are my recs. :-)

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 03:11:10 UTC
I don't know if it's because males are the predominant writers or people just don't want to deal with controversy of having atypical female characters or what, but they definitely do. And no, I haven't, but I've heard it was good. I think we might have it in a boxed set somewhere around here...and knowing that it has decent female characters is encouraging. :D

I've heard of that, but considering it's ten years old, I was only seven or eight when it came out, probably. But I think I remember my mom watching it...

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unstoppablei August 18 2010, 03:17:32 UTC
GO WATCH THEM. They are both great series. And the main guy in The Pretender is just sex on legs. SEX. ON LEGS. I'M TELLING YOU.

OOO and Veronica Mars is a great female lead too. Snarky and smart.

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 03:24:56 UTC
I WILL. Oh, speaking of sex on legs and your icon, my French copy of Good Omens has these really awesome pictures of Aziraphale and Crowley and oh sweet lord the things I would do to them both. OBSERVE:

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gleeker13 August 18 2010, 03:09:49 UTC
UGH I NEED TO HURRY UP AND FINISH MY SUMMER WORK SO I CAN MARATHON SEASONS 4 AND 5. UGGGGGH DAVID TENNANT, I LOVE YOU BUT I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW MATT SMITH IS AS THE DOCTOR ( ... )

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 03:20:11 UTC
MATT SMITH. IS. AMAZING. Seriously season five is just so epic epic epic. The storylines are great (although I wasn't too fond of...whichever one has Winston Churchill, that's number three I think), the characters are fantastic and all so very damn lovable and it is AMAZING. I WANT TO SQUISH IT ALL THE TIME.

Some of the coolest women were prostitutes. Some were also pirates, or Harriet Tubman.

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unstoppablei August 18 2010, 03:30:49 UTC
Hahah I like that list: Prostitutes, Pirates, and Harriet Tubman.

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 03:49:14 UTC
That is just generally a list of really fly people right there. Because female pirates were badass and Harriet Tubman was the original hardcore chick. (Not the original gangster, though, that would be Liza Minnelli.)

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justsomehippie August 18 2010, 06:41:12 UTC
STEVEN MOFFAT CREATED SHERLOCK. :D JUST IN CASE YOU WERE DOUBTING THAT YOU WILL FUCKING ADORE THIS SHOW.

Also I need to hurry the fuck up with the series so I can read theeeeeeeese.

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 12:54:09 UTC
ALRIGHT I'M SOLD.

YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOO. Since you've seen the first ep of season five I think that you can read that second one. ALSO YOU HAVE TO ADORE RORY; THE FIRST TIME GOING THROUGH WATCHING THE SERIES I WAS JUST KIND OF LIKE "Ugh love interest gettin' in the way of the epic love between female and Doctor!" Y'know, kinda like another Mickey. BUT OH MAN HE IS WAY MORE AWESOME THAN THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. AND IT IS SO SAD WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM. BUT THEN IT GETS BETTER. AND THAT IS ALL I AM TELLING YOU.

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justsomehippie August 18 2010, 18:29:24 UTC
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. :3

I haven't seen the whole first episode, but I'm on the last episode of second season right now... and you said I could skip season three, right? So that's barely any episodes at all! :D

ALSO I TOTALLY LOVE THIS JAKE DUDE. THE SCOTTISH - I THINK HE'S SCOTTISH? - DUDE WHO SHOWS UP EVERY TIME YOU SEE THE CYBERMEN?

ALSO ALSO ANSWER MY FUCKING TEXTS, UGH.

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albatrossities August 18 2010, 18:54:56 UTC
Have you seen the part where Amy introduces Rory to the Doctor? That's what the fic is about. :D And I'll have to check out season three, I think there ARE a lot of episodes you can skip (nice thing about DW, there aren't a whole lot of serials) but there are a couple of eps that you have to watch. The first one so you get an introduction to Martha, because she does come up at other points, and I think there are a couple at the end where you have to watch so you know who the Master is. Also Jack shows up a couple of times. I'll write you up an episode list, kk?

OH MAN I LOVE THAT ENTIRE TEAM. ESPECIALLY THE OLD LADY, SHE'S SO RAD. BUT JAKE IS SERIOUSLY BOSS.

SORRY MY PHONE DIED AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE CHARGER IS. D: GET ON GODDAMN IM.

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