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stvlti · 4 years

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10 female characters tag

@timothydraike tagged me to post 10 favourite female characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people, but honestly this list isn't gonna be too different from my 10 fave characters list cause most of them are women anyway 😂 😂 but here you go:

Nausicäa // Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind, Studio Ghibli

I didn't explain it last time, but I feel like she is the prototype for all the Ghibli girl heroines, free and autonomous, except she's a young woman who knows exactly what she believes in and wants to do. She's a warrior princess who believes in peace and kindness rather than war; she listens to mother nature and tends to her garden as deftly as she handles her glider jet; she's a born leader who puts her subjects' wellbeing before her own immediate safety. This gif here shows the moment she took of her own gas mask to boost morale while they're crashing into a toxic wasteland. I don't think I've seen many representations of female leadership as compelling and utterly human as hers was before or after this film debuted in popular media.

Harley Quinn // DCU

She's a bundle of contradictions but it's in that I find a female antivillain/antihero that feels real. Her stocky build and bit of chub in the tummy area? Real. Her slobbish habits and love for nasty junk food? Real. Her all encompassing empathy for animal welfare? Real. Disregarding the artists that draw her with too big boobs, she's so ordinary in her appearance and habits that it actually feels like she's the kind of girl that media often overlooks. She's like the manic pixie dream girl but rounded out with relatable human traits.

Tsunemori Akane // Psycho-Pass

I related to her when I was 20 (exactly her age at the start of the series) because I was at a crossroads in life, just as she was. I was searching for my calling, just as she was trying to understand her purpose and place in society. And at that point in my life, I could appreciate the duality between abiding by the system (legal reformation) and questioning the system (dipping into revolutionary ideas). I can't see myself relating to a cop anymore now obviously, but she's a rather unique figure that I still think about.

Ava // Ex Machina (2014), filmblr

She brings out all my post-humanist sympathies. And I think she captures a sort of queer android and Other perspective, one that the male characters feel threatened by, that women can understand well.

Maeve Millay // Westworld

She's my murder mom. Something something about "I've died a thousand times, I'm not afraid of death" (I'm paraphrasing majorly), she's so badass. The fact that she was one of the first androids to awaken and actually challenge the humans, there's so much power in her taking her trauma in stride and moving forward nonetheless. And I think you can see a recurring theme here lolol

Lois Lane (Gotham City Garage) // DCU Elseworlds

Perhaps this is just preserving a core attribute of her main continuity counterpart, but I absolutely adore the spirit she embodies of journalists who stay defiantly committed to truth and justice in the face of insurmountable odds. Fighting against a fascist terror regime - which hits very close to home - and keeping the broadcast going even out in the wasteland. In this last aspect she carries similarities to Dr. Death Defying's character from Gerard Way's Killjoys series, except she's a woman and she was actually fleshed out as a character with a heart and soul and a lot of gravitas. How can you not love her?

(and I forgot this was supposed to be 10 characters from 10 different fandoms until I finished this list but let's say her being an Elseworlds character counts as a different fandom 🤡🤡)

Ripley // Alien (even tho Sigourney Weaver's personal politics is a bit yikes)

The proto-final girl and original warrior mother in sci-fi wrapped into one. (Ok, the crown for modern scifi warrior mother might have to go to Sarah Connor actually, but that's also another Cameron invention so they can share that title.) Even tho I can't relate to most of her character arc, I'm still very impressed by her character. They even touch on her PTSD a little which is unheard of in the contemporary movies at the time.

Honorary mention: Sarah Connor // Terminator

Marceline the Vampire Queen // Adventure Time

Not the original goth gf, but she is a goth gf. Gay and aesthetics aside, I really liked that the show let her be a bit weird and gross (which she should be considering she's kind of undead) and her tragic backstory gets me every time. The best thing is she's still a big softie, who takes good care of Ice King / Simon when he's around; you don't see that kind of (grand)daughter character in media much.

Beverly Marsh // It (2017)

I haven't read the book but tbh I liked the agency the first movie awarded her enough that I'm afraid of jeopardising it; I don't like how the book portrays / handles her sexuality. She is a survivor of csa, but she's a fighter regardless. I like that about her.

Darlene Alderson // Mr. Robot

I honestly debated putting her on this list again since I haven't seen a single Mr. Robot episode in so long, but I do remember her character being given her own arc in S2 (and onwards I suppose) and she's a little fucked up in her own way. People look at Rami's character and get sucked in sorting through his alters but Darlene is no less complex - damaged, dangerous, and compelling.

Other honorary mentions:

Riko Sheridan // DCU (an Asian girl who isn't infantilised or reduced to the model minority? shocker!)

Missy // Colette (2018), filmblr (she's actually a real historical figure so I'm not sure if she counts. But she's so radical and ahead of her time - in fact the film seems to suggest she prefers he/him pronouns. I have never seen such intriguing butch representation and I just fell in love with her character. Worth a watch.)

Jo March // Little Women (2019), filmblr (since we're talking about historical women... well, she's a period film character but not a real one, but she's highly evocative of certain female experiences in much the same way)

Blue // The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (so I didn't wanna crowd this list with too many android ladies but she's the first queer android girl character I came across and I loved her instantly. Too bad they buried her gay but her entire concept is my aesthetic)

Rem // Death Note (I feel like I'm obligated to mention DN, too bad it has shitty writing wrt female characters, that's why I have no choice but to stan the lesbian monster gf friend who is so in love with her gal pal she would die for her. Ugh, poetic cinema)

Ok now I am gonna tag @lawliyeeeet @sweetgloss @dressed-to-keehl @3dnygma @hikenacedabi and anyone else who wants to I guess

#tag meme #long post

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kingofthereunitedkingdom · 5 years

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Answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better

another excuse to go off about myself on main courtesy of @chirrutbaze, sick :’) I barely know 2 people let alone 21 so I’m gonna say that if you follow me you’ve been tagged. congrats!

nicknames: a few peeps call me G which is the first letter of my real name, around family I’m known as Wolf (stupid + long story don’t ask)

zodiac sign: scorpi-yo

height: 5′4″

hogwarts house: gryffinclaw

the last thing i googled: “avatar fancast” (booboo stewart as sokka is Not Bad)

favourite musicians: coldplay, imagine dragons, lana del rey, quinn xcii, grizfolk, drake, slow meadow, xxxtentacion, kodaline, i also have a deep emotional attachment to norah jones

song stuck in your head: “o” by coldplay, or perhaps “silent movies” by aquilo

following: 25

followers: between all my sideblogs maybe a couple hundred, but my most popular sideblog is original content only so i don’t follow back from it

do you get asks: not on here, only on sideblogs, but i definitely wouldn’t mind some :)

amount of sleep: Bad

lucky number: 29

what you’re wearing: lightwash boyfriend jeans, @chirrutbaze‘s red fuzzy sweater that i’ve lowkey commandeered for the week oops, and birkenstocks

dream job: too many?? i wanna teach. i wanna write. i wanna make movies. i wanna live in other countries. i wanna live at home. i wanna practice law. i wanna work in a museum. i wanna do archaeology and research and also maybe nap a lot :’) i’m currently getting my degree in history tho so that’s what i have to work with

dream trip: rome !!! that’s the dream, also perhaps new zealand

instruments: i am an excellent piano player and if you don’t believe me you can ask @chirrutbaze

languages: english + enough spanish to maybe not die in central/south america. i also know a few scattered phrases in lakota, and exactly one phrase in mandarin chinese (”i don’t know”)

favorite songs: burning love by elvis presley is the best song ever made and no i won’t hear arguments. currently tho: “river” by leon bridges

random fact: i finally figured out how to eat with chopsticks and i’m v proud of myself

aesthetic: floral prints, golden sunlit fields, drives by the ocean, the 1940s, oversized sunglasses, rusty swords, roses, glass bottles of perfume, mirrors with gilded edges, white down comforters, silver necklaces, a thunderstorm rolling across an open plain

#personal tag #tag games #:)

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ramialkarmi · 6 years

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The creators of Netflix's 'Everything Sucks!' told us how they made the 'sleeper hit' series on a tiny budget, and still managed to pack in all those 90s songs

Business Insider spoke to the creators of Netflix's new 90s comedy, "Everything Sucks!"

They discussed how they managed being one of Netflix's lower budget shows by casting locally in the Pacific Northwest.

They also talked about how they approached writing the show's central character, Kate Messner, a sophomore in high school who is realizing that she's a lesbian.

Netflix's "Everything Sucks!," a 90s-set coming-of-age comedy that made its debut Friday, has been called the service's next "sleeper hit" by its very own programming boss.

The series follows A/V Club nerds and drama kids from Boring High School in Boring, Oregon (a real town) as they reluctantly make a movie together. It takes place in 1996, and has all the 90s references and 90s songs to constantly remind you of the decade.

Business Insider recently talked to the show's creators, Michael Mohan and Ben York Jones (who appears in the show as the teacher running the A/V club), about writing a show with 2018 stories set in the 90s.

We also discussed writing for a lesbian character as two guys, casting the series beyond Los Angeles and New York for budget reasons, and the series' inspiration: It's a mix of "Freaks and Geeks," "My So-Called Life," and a Swedish film from 1998 about a love story between teenage girls.

Carrie Wittmer: "Everything Sucks! " tells the story of a high-school sophomore coming to terms with being a lesbian, and a black freshman with a single mom. These are both obviously very different experiences than you two had in high school. What kind of research went into getting these stories right?

Ben York Jones: What was great was when we were collaborating with Jahi [Di-Allo Winston] and Claudine [Mboligikpelani Nako], the actors that play Luke and Sherry, is when we rehearsed their scenes, we'd actually rewrite their dialogue together so it felt even more authentic to their experience with little affectations. Like when Sherry refers to Luke as "little man." That was not us. That was all them.

Michael Mohan: In 1996, even Ellen DeGeneres hadn't come out yet. So to try and sensibly depict a 15-year-old girl living in Oregon, it just seemed like a very compelling coming of age story that we hadn't quite seen.

Jones: We had a writers room that was as diverse as we could make it, and everybody contributed to the character of Kate and lent a voice to her arc. We had a representative from GLAAD come in and we got to pick his brain a little bit about what some of tropes were in this kind of depiction. You know, what we might want to steer toward, and what we might want to in turn avoid.

Wittmer: The show's been getting compared a lot to "Stranger Things." And it seems like that's happening simply because this is a Netflix show that has teenagers kids in it, set in another decade. What show or movie do you want the show to be compared to?

Mohan: The obvious comparisons are "Freaks and Geeks" or "My So-Called Life." "Freaks and Geeks" is like the best high school show ever made. And what's so great about "My So-Called Life" is that it was one of the first times you saw characters in a very real and grounded way. But the biggest influence for our show is actually this Swedish movie from 1998 called "Show Me Love," which is just a beautiful coming-of-age lesbian story about a girl living in a small town and just trying to deal with the purgatory of high school.

Jones: Thematically and aesthetically, it probably seems like an outlandish reference, but we both like that filmmaker quite a bit. And that movie in particular is incredibly funny but also very emotionally raw, and we certainly look up to his sensibilities.

Wittmer: You had to cast a lot of kids for this show. What was the casting process like?

Jones: It was indeed extensive. The whole process lasted maybe four months. Amey René, our casting director, she's based in both Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest, and she really put out feelers in all four corners. I mean, Peyton Kennedy, who plays Kate, we found in Toronto. And Jahi, who plays Luke, is from Atlanta. The kids are from all over. We saw well over 1,000 kids. In the evenings, there were months and months where I didn't watch any TV or movies, just two hours of watching audition tapes.

Mohan: We're one of Netflix's lower budget shows [Netflix did not confirm this], so we knew that we had to cast a number of roles from the Pacific Northwest. But what was incredible was some of the roles that we weren't expecting to cast from there, we actually did. Like Claudine who plays Sherry, she's a woman from the Seattle theater scene up there who came in to read. And originally we figured we'd be casting Sherry from Los Angeles or New York.

Jones: Yeah, we assumed, wrongly. And Claudine came in, who had a bit part on the show "Grimm" and was really known for her work in theater up there. She blew everybody away. Like, everybody. She was for sure the right person and Netflix supported our decision to cast this no-name actor in a lead role.

Mohan: Similarly, Quinn Liebling, who plays Tyler, is from the Pacific Northwest and that was another role we thought we were gonna have to probably cast from New York or LA and we were wrong: We found him right there. I think he's from a place called like Bainbridge Island.

Wittmer: I think casting outside of New York and LA helped you bring this diverse little group together.

Jones: I'm glad to hear you say that. And to add to that, a lot of our "featured" extras casting, of course, is pulling people from the Pacific Northwest and they add such character and texture to the show.

Wittmer: Is that where you shot the show?

Mohan: Yeah, we shot it in and around the town of Boring, Oregon, which is a real place about 20 miles south of Portland.

Wittmer: There's a song that dominates each episode and it typically serves as that episode's theme. Did you think of a song when you were writing an episode? Like the use of "Breakfast at Tiffany's?"

Jones: Speaking specifically to "Breakfast at Tiffany's," we kind of imagined that Ken Messner's personal playlist would be the soundtrack at Applebee's. So somehow, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which is a catchy and rocking song, became the flagship for Ken's musical taste. But frequently, needle drops were written into the scripts and were conceived in the writers room.

Mohan: We didn't know we'd be able to get this much music in the show. I was shocked. Every episode has four or five big songs. But the one that is my personal favorite that derived from our very, very initial inception of this show, is Ace of Base's "It's A Beautiful Life."

Wittmer: That episode made me cry.

Mohan: Oh, that's good to hear! I mean, sorry.

Wittmer: No! It was tears of joy. I've also been on a bus in the 90s singing an Ace of Base song with my classmates.

Mohan: Exactly! And it's just the perfect song to be like, when the episode begins and everyone's happy and it's this bittersweet thing and then the end of the episode when everyone is just destroyed and how that plays in counterpart to that.

Jones: Something about that pop song under images of these depressed teenagers really stuck us as poignant somehow.

SEE ALSO: 7 reasons you should binge-watch Netflix's sweet 90s comedy 'Everything Sucks!' this weekend

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