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

Comments

[essbeejay.livejournal.com]

(Fuck me I had to split my long-ass comment into two comments!)

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I'm generally pretty neutral about Aang, and of course I find Toph pretty awesome, but Taang doesn't quite push my buttons. (I do really like Toph having an unrequited schoolgirl crush on Sokka!) Aang himself... I guess I'm just a cruel bitch about certain heroes, because both him and Harry Potter struck me as Celibate Heroes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CelibateHero), doomed to a life of never getting any. At least within the narrative of their series. (That's what fanfic is for, anyway XD)

As far as Haruhi pairings go, if we were in a world where sbj gets whatever the damn hell sbj wants, sure, I wouldn't mind me some canon!Kyon/Yuki. But I really like one-sided Yuki/Kyon... like, a lot. I also like one-sided Haruhi/Kyon (basically I love the idea of Kyon as the less battered protagonist typical of a harem anime, which TMoHS kind of is), but I am more receptive to that as a... resolved pairing for the sake of the narrative, if you will. Mostly I just love what one-sided Yuki/Kyon says about Yuki as a character. Oh, Yuki. ♥.

Dude it's my turn to apologize for the long-ass post. Oh, nerding!

[wei-chan.livejournal.com]

*Rolls on the floor laughing* You crack me up, seriously. I love the way your mind works!

I guess you're right when it comes the whole Maiko thing. Zuko did have a lot of emo moments and needed a good bitch slap. I can't tell you how many times I was ready to pull out my hair and shake the guy...or punch the crap out of him for it. You are actually the first Maiko fan that has made me sit there and nod my head in agreement. I suppose, coming from that perspective, I can see how Maiko works. Still favor Zutara over it, though, but I can see it now.

I'm a dork because I never saw the Tokka thing until it was too late XD For me, one moment Toph cared less about Sokka and the next moment she's crushing on him. I'm blind like that (and that is why I have glasses!). Tokka actually comes in fourth place in Sokka pairings. I was a big Suki/Sokka fan during the Kyoshi Warriors episode, so that's been a favorite for awhile. Then I (kind-of/sort-of) fell in love with the Yuokka pairing because of its tragic end (the start was too Romeo and Juliet for me, but the ending between them was ten times better than what Shakespeare wrote, haha). Finally, I kind of like Ty Lee/Sokka because of the giggle factor. By the time I already established those couples, the Toph/Sokka came out of nowhere for me XD. Truth be told, I like an unrequited Tokka - with Toph doing the pining.

(Continued because I suffer from dorkitis)

[wei-chan.livejournal.com]

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I watched season one in one go too, so I feel you with the whole "she was sucky" one moment and "OMFG! She's a master?!?!" the next. I think I just assumed that she was a prodigy because it seems to be a trend with most of the females in Avatar. I had to self-teach (teach? taught? whaaaaaat?) myself the alto sax and, though I picked it up very fast, I still struggled with keeping with the First alto in my section, so I get the whole analogy. Haha.

DUDE! Harry/Ginny came out of nowhere for me too! I (shyly?) admit that I thought Harry/Hermione was going to happen for awhile. Either that or Harry was: a) going to die, or b) not end up with anyone. I so did not see the Harry/Ginny thing.

As for that response with junsui_chikyuu, I totally get you. I felt that Aang cheated his way out that fight - very much like how JKR attached the crappilogue at the end of Deathly Hallows. Out of all the characters, Aang, to me, seemed to have gotten the least character development. War changed all the other characters, but Aang was definitely a static character stuck in the middle of dynamic characters. The whole Turtle-Lion scene seemed, to me, an attempt for character development, but it didn't get there. I mean, they deal with all these other serious issues (which you named very good ones) and then they completely skip around the biggest issue: Ozai's defeat.

Half of these kids are already watching anime, which has some serious issues on there as it is, so I don't see what the problem is. These kids hear, see and say worse at school or on the street. I had an eight-year-old cousin look at me and ask, "Why did they just skip out on Ozai's defeat?"...seriously, she asked me that. Teen Titans had a better finale than that! I don't mind happy endings, but sometimes it's like...unnecessary? I don't know.

What bugged me the most, though, was the whole Chakra thing with Guru Pahtik. Pahtik totally tells Aang that he has to let Katara go in order to reach the Avatar state and still manages to skip out of that. I get that he died in the Avatar state, but it still irks me to this day that crashing his back into a rock is what awakens him. We spend two seasons watching Aang try to learn how to master it and then "Oops! I bumped my back!" is what gets him there. MAJOR. PLOT. HOLE.

*Grumbles* Aang is a kid, remained a kid, and will always be a kid - at least the way Bryke makes it to be so. Like I said, a static character in a sea of dynamic characters. When dealing with humor, I love the kid, but when dealing with war, I prefer my beloved Zuko (even with all his emo tendencies XD). He was more realistic about this war than any of them.

YESSSS! I love the whole one-sided Yuki/Kyon thing, too! Personally, I can go either way with Kyon - Haruhi or Yuki. I'm not a big, big shipper on that one, though. I just enjoy for its comical aspects. I call it one of my comical relief animes - especially since I dwell in the "heavy" animes a lot like Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach or Rurouni Kenshin.


...I would love to see a conversation between Brick and Mai. How eventful would that be? *sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm*

[essbeejay.livejournal.com]

SO LATE TO REPLYING ON THIS, SORRY. Um, quick points! Ty Lee/Sokka = AWESOME. WANT. I don't mind Suki at all, though; mostly I like Ty Lee/Sokka because it's lol-fucking-tastic awesome.

For the longest time I was dead convinced the only way to end the HP series was for Harry to die. When it was pointed out to me that for all the dark stuff JKR put in the series, it was still ultimately directed at a younger audience, I (grudgingly) changed my tone and hoped Harry wouldn't get with anyone. (Though Luna would've been acceptable, IMO.) Ugh, was I ever wrong. (And irritated.)

As for Aang's Chakra, I felt the same way as you (WTF pointy rock fixed him?!) until my s.o., who knows more about my culture than I do (embarrassing...), brought up that Azula technically blocked his qi, and getting knocked into a rock unblocked its flow, etc., etc.. I had less of a problem with it after that.

HOWEVER, yes, there is a plot hole, and that is that Guru Pahtik and ALL THE OTHER PREVIOUS AVATARS told that motherfucker he needed to man up and lay the smackdown on Ozai! Not only that, but he's a freaking monk! He can't be chasing girls! GP told him he needed to let go of Katara in order to go into the Avatar State at will. Just, ARGH. ARGH. I feel like they favored the "You can do it your way!" message for the kid audience, when IMO, the better message for the sake of the narrative was Dude. Sometimes, when it counts, we gotta make hard decisions, and yeah, they're gonna hurt, and they're gonna suck - hard - but we gotta do what we gotta do. And then we move on, somehow. (Something tells me Aang would be a really, really clingy ex-boyfriend. Man, that would end badly.)

But yeah, essentially: Zuko! > Aang.

Brick and Mai having a "conversation?" LAWL.

[wei-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Ty Lokka is hilarious. I read stories like that when I'm in a bad mood and need a good laugh.

Someone else told me the same thing about Aang's ki being blocked and what-have-you, but, for some reason, it still bothered me. But, whatever. I guess it worked out for Aang in the end. BUT THE FREAKIN' PLOT HOLES BOTHERED ME!!

Poor Blossom - should she be in the middle of that conversation between Brick and Mai - would be driven nuts with all the silence and sarcastic barbs. Haha. Seriously, I think I may want to draw it now.