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This is spliced together from several of my posts about Nimona.


Why I Love Nimona

I love Nimona.

I love the fact that she's a polymorph who can take any shape. She uses them all with fluid grace and great effect in combat.

I love the fact that she refuses to define herself as more than "Nimona." She won't try to be anything else but what she is. She just wishes other people would accept her for who she really is.

I love how casually destructive and violent she is, especially when it comes to tearing down symbols of the corrupt social order. And she breaks a few things in Ballister that he frankly needs broken. We could use someone like that in local-Earth.

I love how she is wild and fierce and free, a forest spirit even in the city. She brings a breath of fresh air everywhere she goes.

It's not so much one scene as one character, one aspect of Nimona -- that she's chaos incarnate. The trailer really captures that sense; this movie is so, so queer in all the best ways. That's Nimona for you. At least with her, life is never boring.

I grok that.

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I posted the below meta on my journal about Femslash, the importance of missing scene fic to our history, and why there can never be too many takes on a ship.

Here: This is what Femslash is to me
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Over on my journal, I wrote up some rough thoughts on women characters, romantic subplots, and the way fandom reacts to them. (Basic conclusion: not great.)

Over here.
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I wrote a meta post on White Collar's Sara Ellis and why I consider her such a feminist character.

Why Sara Ellis is One of the Most Feminist Characters on TV
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In response to the prompt "What's your approach to writing femslash in times and places that are notoriously unfriendly for f/f relationships, especially historical settings?"

The very first femslash fic I ever wrote (and also my first fanfic at all) is about Mary Bennet and Anne de Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice. One of my motivations was annoyance at the fact that pretty much all the femslash fic I've read set in historical fandoms is full of bittersweet angst, or experimentation before marriage. There's nothing wrong with these sorts of stories, but I yearned for "and then they lived together happily forever and ever".

Of course once I started trying to write such a happy ending I realised why they're so rare.

Lovers in a Dangerous Time (at my journal)
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I did some number crunching on femslash and related tags for Supernatural fanfic on Archive of Our Own, with some discussion thrown in. The post is at my journal for anyone who is interested.
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OT3s: Are there any awesome OT3s out there? Are any of them all from the same canon? Can you still call is femslash if one of the three is a man?

I can't speak on this topic authoritatively but I have some thoughts based on my personal experience.
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A few reasons why the character of Cara in season 2 of Legend of the Seeker is something special in today's TV landscape, touching on archetypes (the kind that don't often get to be female), depictions of sexuality and sexual identity among other things, but mostly me rambling about how they did it right:

We'll Always Have Cara

(contains some spoilers for the latest episode, 2.20 - Eternity)
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I've been thinking about this post for a few weeks now, and my insomnia last night gave me the perfect opportunity to write it.

It's broadly about rpf and it's relationship to rpf, and it asks some general questions about the legitimacy of rpf. Because it is really long, I'm linking it from my journal:

Some thoughts and questions about rpf and it's relationship to femslash fandom.
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