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Am I ever going to pass up an opportunity to babble extensively about AWESOME LADIES? The answer is: no, I most certainly am not!

Therefore, stolen from [livejournal.com profile] in_the_blue and a few other people by now: name a canon you know I know, and I'll tell you (in no particular order) my three favorite females and why. And then I'll name a canon for you, because I'm just as curious as I am eager to share.
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] web-of.livejournal.com
Princess Tutu! Because nothing says badass like a tutu.

Date: 2010-02-01 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] futuresoon.livejournal.com
BACCANO

AS IF YOU COULDN'T GUESS

Date: 2010-02-01 05:16 pm (UTC)
minkhollow: (anthill inside)
From: [personal profile] minkhollow
Discworld!

Date: 2010-02-01 05:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] futuresoon.livejournal.com
EXCELLENT CHOICES ALL. One of the things I love most about Baccano is the ridiculously high number of awesome ladies! Awesome ladies who get to do awesome things and are not looked down upon or oversexualized! (Nice may like to show off her cleavage, but that is more because she is Confident With Her Body rather than using it as a tactic to get what she wants, and also nobody ever comments on it anyway.)

MY PRINCESS TUTU ANSWERS WOULD BE PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS THE ONES YOU ALREADY GAVE. D: Give me something else?

Date: 2010-02-01 05:28 pm (UTC)
agonistes: a house in the shadow of two silos shaped like gramophone bells (grace finds beauty in ugly things)
From: [personal profile] agonistes
Firefly!

Date: 2010-02-01 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blacksheep91.livejournal.com
I don't know if you know, but I'll ask anyway:

Hana Yori Dango. (The LA drama preferably.)

Date: 2010-02-01 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wavesofwood.livejournal.com
DALEMARK♥

Date: 2010-02-01 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elspeth-vimes.livejournal.com
The Sun Sword!

Date: 2010-02-01 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blacksheep91.livejournal.com
Already had a back up. ^^ (And that's a shame! Nearly all the female characters are made of awesome!)

Sheeeeerlock Holmes.

Date: 2010-02-01 07:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-01 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] futuresoon.livejournal.com
It has been a while since I have read any of her stuff, but I shall work from my ingrained childhood memories!

MILLIE. I read The Lives of Christopher Chant before any of the others, and thus was introduced to her when she was a kid rather than when she was already grown-up and married, and I am pretty sure this is what formed my main opinion of her. Because she was a girl who wanted desperately to live a life like she read about in stories, and, well, back then that was me. And she actually got to do it! By forcing people to give her the chance! Seeing her later as a respectable witch with an (admittedly slightly off-kilter) family life was lovely, but it was the lonely girl who pushed herself into the world she wanted whom I loved so dearly.

--okay I do not remember this one's name, um. WIKIPEDIA WILL HELP ME ah, she is Claudia! From Year of the Griffin. I do not like that book as much as I did Dark Lord of Derkholm, mostly because of DWJ's decision to pair up everybody ever even with people they barely knew, but Claudia was one of the aspects I adored. For some reason the idea of a slightly greenish girl with muddy hair and a tendency to get sopping wet seemed absolutely beautiful to me. And she was cranky, but in a wonderful way, and again reminded me a bit of myself; as a kid, I didn't have very many friends, and knew all too well what it was like to be the weird one. So I was very fond of her, and, come to think of it, still am.

And, of course, there is SOPHIE. Seeing her in the movie did not impress me much, because, well, the movie in general did not impress me much, but seeing her in the book and in proper DWJ form was awesome. An eminently practical girl who takes bizarre situations in stride but will not take any crap from the equally-bizarre guy who is often the cause of them! And then she does not go all moony-eyed when she realizes she is in love with him, instead she goes and kills some plants and shouts at him for a bit. Basically, she is what I want out of a romantic heroine in every way. AND THEN SOME.

Date: 2010-02-01 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] web-of.livejournal.com
Aaaaa, Utena is kinda hard since there are so many awesome ladies to choose from!

Anthy: I love how Anthy changes, so very subtly, over the series, and how you get that little 'ohsnap' moment when you're rewatching and realize what she must've actually been thinking. I love how, despite being sympathetic in the end, she is still not completely a good person. And it's understandable that she isn't! And I love so much her giant fuck you to Akio at the very end.

Utena: You can't watch this series and not love Utena. She's completely awesome, in ways that I'm sure I don't have to explain. But what I love most about her are those little peeks at fucked-upedness we get as the series progresses, ultimately culminating in a complete deconstruction of her beliefs.

Nanami: Nanami is completely hilarious, for one thing. From her first appearance she is pretty much the best scheming Mean Girl ever. But out of all the characters in Utena, I think she's the one that grows the most, and, is, in a sense, the normalest out of the bunch. Compare her reactions to the news people are yanking swords out of duelists' chests with the rest of the student council's. Her main concern is how much it hurts. That's what I love about her, she knows she's in a weirdass show. And she's still obsessed with her brother.

Date: 2010-02-01 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oneechan19.livejournal.com
Avatar the Last Airbender!

I don't have an appropriate icon uploaded yet

Date: 2010-02-01 07:41 pm (UTC)
genarti: River from Firefly making a face. ([ff] o rly)
From: [personal profile] genarti
THREE GUESSES

(It's that or Inda. :D)

Date: 2010-02-01 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wavesofwood.livejournal.com
Hildy-- Oh, man, see, I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy Hildy at first! I can't remember why, now, but needless to say I got to the part where she draws Wind's Road and tears it in two, and writes Ynen on one piece and Hildy on the other, and then crosses her name out and writes Ynen again, and I loved her wholeheartedly from that point onwards. I love her because she's so stubborn and determined and kind of an idiot sometimes because of that, and I was really sad by her behaviour in Crown of Dalemark. I pretty much fanwanked it away too-- "She's caught up in being at boarding school! She'll sort it out eventually!"

Maewen-- OH MAEWEN♥ Maewen is sort of my favourite! She's so sensible, and she tries so hard to put everyone at ease when they're all busy hating and mistrusting each other! And I love her for inciting the miners (were they miners?) to strike, and for almost saying "I'm in love with--" when Al asks her for a truth, and for her "nervous, freckly look".

Tanaqui-- I love Tanaqui because of her arc, for how she grows to trust in herself and her own power, and how she saves the day with weaving! And I like how not-perfect she is, when she snaps at Robin, and her badly woven rhyme-skirt, how she's always Duck's older sister, and how she terrifies the Heathen boy she saves from drowning.

To conclude: &DALEMARK; &LADIES;
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