(meta)fanart: Women Who Kick Butt

[astridv]

So, inspired by the Flowchart of Fail I decided to expand on my previous "Fuck You She's Awesome" post. This is off the top of my head so I bet I forgot a number of characters I really want to include [eta: have since edited in a bunch more]... anyway, these chicks kick ass in various ways and I love them.



That is all.

Melaka Fray (Fray), Alanna of Trebond (Song of the Lioness), Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)

Sarah Walker (Chuck), Olivier Armstrong (Fullmetal Alchemist), Claudia (The Americans), Sophie Devereaux (Leverage), Winry Rockbell (FMA), Tess Kaufman (Reasonable Doubts)

Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada), Parker (Leverage), Jennifer Keller (SGA), Samantha Carter (SG-1/SGA), Teyla Emmagan (SGA), Vala Mal Doran (SG-1), Nyota Uhura (ST), Kathryn Janeway (Voyager), Abby Sciuto (NCIS)

Mrs Pollifax, Ziva David (NCIS), Kate Lockley (AtS), Gwen Cooper (TW), Winifred Burkle (AtS), Buffy Summers (BtVS), Jadzia Dax (DS9), Atia of the Julii (Rome)

Illyria (AtS), Kira Nerys (DS9), Red Zora, Liz Forbes (TVD), Joy Merriweather (Drop The Dead Donkey), Helen Cooper (DtDD), 7 of 9 (Voyager), Amanda (Highlander)

Xena (Xena, Warrior Princess), Nina Van Horn (Just Shoot Me), Lilith Sternin (Frasier/Cheers), Amanda King (Scarecrow and Mrs King), Kaylee (Firefly), Cordelia Chase (BtVS/AtS), Faith (BtVS), Riza Hawkeye (FMA)

Margaret Houlihan (M*A*S*H), Phoebe Buffay (Friends), Rachel Green (Friends), Monica Geller (Friends), Daphne Moon (Frasier), Sam Waters (Profiler), Maya Gallo (Just Shoot Me), Ros Henderson (Bugs)

Modesty Blaise, Mara Jade (Star Wars OC), Pippi Longstocking, Temperance Brennan (Bones), Roz Doyle (Frasier), Frankie Heck (The Middle), Andy Sachs (The Devil Wears Prada), Dr. Eleanor „Ellie“ Arroway (Contact), Dana Scully (The X-Files)

Zoe Washburn (Firefly), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), River Tam (Firefly), Natasha Romanoff (Avengers), Madam Christmas (FMA)

Anya Jenkins (BtVS), Julie Winters (The Maxx)


p.s. The rules of the original meme apply: I genuinely like these characters; some of them I adore. You’re free to not adore them or have issues with the way they’re written but I don’t really need to hear about those.

Comments

[general_jinjur]

this is gorgeous and awesome.

[cathalin]

Oh wow, this is AWESOME. I may link this if that's okay with you? (Not sure but hopefully I'll actually do that thing called Posting in my Journal someday soon... )

It's just gorgeous

[astridv]

Glad you like. :) Sure, linking's cool.

(Not sure but hopefully I'll actually do that thing called Posting in my Journal someday soon... )

Yeah, I know the feeling. I have a bunch of posts I want to write and fic I want to rec, just don't get around to it. I would like a time freezing device.

[less_star]

Hell yes! So much awesome!

[astridv]

I'm glad you like it. (love your icon...)

[astridv]

Hee :D

[rheanna]

This is just wonderful. I've been having fun seeing how many I recognise.

[stultiloquentia]

Woo, awesome!

I'm stopping by partly to tell you how much I've been enjoying your FMA recs tag. I finished Brotherhood a couple weeks ago, but finding The Good Fic is taking a bit of digging. You are helpful, and have good taste. :)

[astridv]

Thanks, I'm really glad you like the recs, I'm happy when I can share the fic I like. I hear you about digging up the good stuff in FMA... yikes. I'm actually about to post a few more sets; too late tonight but I have tomorrow off. :) In the meantime, have you read the stuff at fma_ladyfest? My faves so far are, lemme see... A girl worth fighting for, The wicked age, Mine to use... but there's lots more. I haven't even read all that was posted.

[stultiloquentia]

I've read some of fma_ladyfest. "Mine to Use" and "Building Blocks" are my favourites so far.

[astridv]

Yeah, I had a lot of fun putting it together. I only planned to google for a handful of pics to get the thing started, but once I got going I had so much fun I finished the whole thing. Well, as much as it is finished; I'm adding here and there. It's a nice trip down memory lane, I haven't thought about some of these shows in quite a while.

[rabid1st]

I have found you and scanned down your list of tags to "Fuck You She's Awesome" because it suits my mood at the moment.

Of course, I do a shout out to Scully, Buffy and Xena, but I am not sure if I'm overlooking Kate Beckett on this list, but she is also awesome. I have just recently started a rewatch of Castle and I was reminded of how impressed I was by Stana Katic in that roll. When I first tuned in back in the day, it was for Nathan Fillon, just to support him a bit and I was like...seriously, they cast HER? Physically, she's a super model lightweight in the wrong shoes and designer outfits, but the delivery of her lines and the respect that they let the all male crew hand out to her is wonderful. Also, she has sensitive depths as well as kick-ass bravado.

In an episode I watched just last night Katic had to deliver this steely-eyed line about hunting down Tahmoh Penikett's Black Ops Vigilante guy and on the face of it the whole scene was ludicrous and yet, I definitely believed her. I also loved that her origin story wasn't "I was abused by some man and got strong." She is the hunter. I feel like the best female heroines have an origin story centered in their own characters.

[astridv]

I actually never watched Castle! It was on my to-watch list for a long time but so many to-watch shows piled on there that I just ended up forgetting all about it

[rabid1st]

If you can find the time, I think you would enjoy it. Rob Bowman from the X-Files was involved with it and that was another one of the reasons I gave it a shot. I clearly remember my initial reaction to Stana Katic in the role of Beckett as it caused me an eye-roll headache. But she is went on to justify that casting, completely. The entire cast turned out to be better than I imagined they could be. Nathan Fillon is the weakest link, but his sense of comedy works well for the character.

If you decide to give the show a try, there is an ongoing mythology in it, involving the unsolved murder of Beckett's mom who was a social worker. It takes the X-Files sort of approach to having mythology episodes mixed in with MOW, or maybe that is Crime of the Week (COW) ones. A really good sample episode to watch is Season 4, Episode 6 "Demons" which gives you a nice example of the interplay of characters and a general feel for the show, without touching on deeper character issues or ongoing arcs.