Anghraine

Maybe I should just have hatred empowers us as a tag.

It’s rather awkward when you run across conversations you’d really like to be involved in but … you aren’t, and even if it wouldn’t be inappropriate to butt in, it feels sort of pointless. So I’m just going to be passive-aggressive and declare this

UNPOPULAR OPINION FRIDAY

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Okay, maybe not quite afternoon. Anyway.

Oh! There was an interesting essay on Slave Leia here. I pretty much agree on the in-story level, and completely disagree on the meta-level; I think it's gratuitous fanservice, its use of valuable screentime shortchanges other plotlines (most notably the Vader-Luke one which is kind of the main point), the blatant male gaze-iness makes it uncomfortable for me to even watch, and Carrie Fisher's forced weight loss makes it still worse. And ... well, I won't bother recapping, since I covered all my feelings on it in this essay. So I do think Fangirl gave the men who came up with that sequence way too much credit.

Back to meming!

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I finally finished Avatar.  Some deep, treacly part of my soul wishes Zuko could have reconciled with that little boy in the Earth Kingdom. Or something. The silent Agni Kai with Azula (*sob*) was suitably epic, as was the coronation.  Also, I am totally a gen girl and at first couldn't understand how anybody could get worked up by romantic partnerships between 12-16-year-olds, and somehow I ended up desperately (if hopelessly) shipping Aang/Toph. What is wrong with me.  (As for Zuko, my only OTP is Zuko/Fire Nation. And possibly Zuko/honour.)

Anyway!  I don't know about you all, but when I'm working on something (or, as in this case, two somethings), I always have to fight off the temptation to just wander off and start working on one or two other things. Since I have two au_bigbangs going, this is Not Acceptable, and instead I've started jotting down my ideas for another day. And by "my ideas," I mean "ideas I'd like to see written by anybody, as long as it's halfway decent."

So all of this is to say that I'm not laying claim to any of these ideas or anything, it's just -- if anybody has ever wondered why I never finish anything, it's because I'm lazy and undisciplined my brain is a strange place.

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Gacked from irnan, because ... it's there?  Memes are basically the online equivalent of BRAAAAAAAAAINS.  So, character meme!

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined.

(1) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen
(2) Faramir of Gondor, Middle-earth
(3) Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
(4) Aravis Tarkheena, Narnia
(5) Harry Potter, Harry Potter
(6) Mary Lennox, The Secret Garden
(7) Romana, Doctor Who
(8) Susan Sto Helit, Discworld
(9) The Prince/Hal/Harry/Henry V, Shakespeare
(10) Aziraphale, Good Omens
(11) Dr Gillian Foster, Lie To Me
(12) Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel
(13) Roshaun ke Nelaid (etc), Young Wizards
(14) Belgarion of Riva, David Eddings
(15) Dr Temperance Brennan, Bones