I'll charm the chicks! - Hey, are those things real? Ha!

[essbeejay]

You can always tell when sbj's rl is less crazy because then I'm here, wasting not only my time, but everyone else's.

Hey there was a meme I totally forgot to mention yesterday! But whatevs, I'm doing it now and I totally stole it from somebody awesome (juxtaposie).

Comment with the name of a female character and I'll tell you why I love her.

Since this lj is pretty much exclusively PpG and that isn't fair, here is a list off the very tip top of my head of female characters I love/have loved unfailingly in my fannish lifetime. (Besides the obvious, of course.)

Toph (Avatar - not that shit movie, mind you)
Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury (DUH)
Tiffany Aching (from The Wee Free Men series/Pratchett's Discworld universe)
Granny Weatherwax (Discworld universe)
Zoe (FIREFLYYYYY)
Daria Morgendorffer (MTV's Daria)
Hiiragi Kagami (Lucky Star - I fucking LOVE this girl)
Kanzaki Hitomi (Vision of Escaflowne)
Lola Bunny (Space Jam YEAH I'M FUCKING SERIOUS)
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Susan (Death's Granddaughter from the Discworld universe)
Midori (Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood)
Sawachika Eri (School Rumble)
Takano Akira (School Rumble)
Nagato Yuki (Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)

What the fuck, why is there so much anime/manga on this list D: I keep going through things I love in my head, but then I'm all Oh wait, my favorite character in that one is male, so damn... which, interestingly enough, most of my favorite characters in western animation are male characters. Maybe there is an interesting reason behind this...

There are probably about 8 bajillion more that I cannot remember for the fucking life of me, so if someone occurs to you that I might like try asking and I'll see what I have to say :B

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For all that I have to admit that Tiffany Aching is a Mary Sue when I step back and look at her - in that she is better and smarter than everybody else at and about everything (though this gets scaled back in A Hatful of Sky) - she is the best kind of Mary Sue. Her overpowered awesomeness as a character exists because she is a girl with a brain who really is that awesome; it doesn't exist solely to diminish the talents of the other characters around her. I wish I'd read more books with Tiffany Aching-type heroines when I was growing up, because Tiffany Aching is also just a fantastic portrayal of an adolescent girl character whose story isn't that more familiar one of the quiet wallflower with extraordinary talents who eventually gets discovered by a teacher/mentor/friend/boyfriend and is urged to share or exercise those talents - no, she decides for herself that she is extraordinary, she is talented, and brings everything about on her own. She is not greatness waiting to be discovered, she makes herself great, and that is so fucking awesome like you wouldn't believe.

Granny Weatherwax! I just, I don't know, she's so fantastic! She is the best HBIC ever, especially because everyone acknowledges that she is without ever outwardly acknowledging that she is. Again, the women who won't stand for other people's shit tend to be my favorites, possibly because that is my ideal self standing there and by loving those types of characters I feel like some of their awesomeness might possibly rub off on me. I love how she just owns everything she does; one of my favorite Weatherwax-related lines from the books is "She strode over the moors as if distance was a personal insult," and it just sums up her character so perfectly. She does everything with purpose, no matter how big or small, and she gives credit where credit is due and is very straightforward with her opinions, and I find all those qualities so admirable not just in women, but in people in general.

So much yes to Tiffany Aching being younger, well-adjust Granny Weatherwax. Man, now I am picturing them body!swapping in my heads and IT IS SO AWESOME.