February 2012
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30 Days of Women: Day 20
Day 20: Favourite female antagonist
Marisa Coulter (His Dark Materials). She’s power-hungry and calculating and highly intelligent. An academic, amongst other things, she recognises that in the smaller patriarchal society of the university she will be dismissed and ignored unless she harnesses her sexuality and her beauty: no one can overlook her, no one will leave her out of a...
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Emergency NHS warning: Do not buy these bracelets... →
Dear Colleague
We have received an alert regarding the sale of the following bracelets that have been on sale at Eden Project in Cornwall and another 36 retailers across the UK; urging customers to return the red and black bracelets made from the Jequirity bean, the deadly seed of the plant abrus precatorious. It contains the toxin abrin, a controlled substance under the Terrorism Act that if...
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30 Days of Women: Day 19
Day 19: Favourite non-human female character
Laura (American Gods). She isn’t a nice person. She pulls her husband into her schemes, gets him put in jail, cheats on him while he’s in jail…and gets killed while attempting to give the person that she’s cheating with a blowjob in a moving car. She’s deeply flawed, often selfish, but despite all of her actions she...
“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via valjeans)
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SID: Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern... →
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brodinsons:
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Sherlock Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose...
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30 Days of Women: Day 18
Day 18: Favourite non-warrior female character
Rose (Titanic). I read a really interesting essay a while back about how Titanic is one of James Cameron’s most feminist films. I think Rose is certainly a very positive portrayal of a traditionally feminine woman, whereas his other women have generally been soldiers and fighters. Rose is neither of these things: she’s sheltered and...
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“I’ve shared the onigiri (rice balls) that I make with my fellow cast-mates in...”
– Ken Watanabe talking about the time he shared rice balls with Leonardo Dicaprio and Cillian Murphy during the filming of Inception (x)
the part of this story we should all reflect upon is that Ken Watanabe carries onigiri in his pockets. Like this is just something he has. In his pockets. All...
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30 Days of Women: Day 17
Day 17: Favourite warrior female character
George (Feed, by Mira Grant). She’s trained to use firearms. She’s also a journalist investigating the reason for the zombie apocalypse. Feed is set nearly thirty years after zombies decimated most of the globe. Unlike the usual fare, in which people live in small villages, bake bread, go to church and run through the woods trying to escape...
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Calanthe's Mantelpiece | Echo Bazaar →
If you aren’t playing this…you really, really need to.
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30 Days of Women: Day 16
Day 16: Favourite mother character
The Bride/ Beatrix Kiddo AKA Black Mamba (Kill Bill). In 2003/2004 she was a very new portrayal of a mother figure on the big screen. She is a revenger - believing her daughter dead and her lover the murderer she sets out on a quest to kill him and every one of his henchpeople. She is probably the most accomplished fighter of the group that she was a part of;...
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30 Days of Women: Day 15
Day 15: Favourite female character growth arc
Mai (Avatar). She’s a gloomy girl who sighs a lot. She’s sarcastic, lounges around in the background and occasionally takes the time to throw a few weapons and, you know, help save the day. I love that she has reasons for being quiet and dismissive, and it was one of the crowning moments of the series when she finally got up to defend...
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30 Days of Women: Day 14
Day 14: Favourite older female character
Granny Weatherwax (Discworld). Known by the trolls as Aaoograha hoa (“She Who Must Be Avoided”) and the dwarves as K’ez’rek d’b’duz (“Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain”). She does what people need, not what they want, is feared and respected by everyone that knows her name, and her best friend is a...
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“We have anti-choice women in for abortions all the time. Many of them are just...”
– A physician at an abortion clinic (via fuckititsfriday)
I remember reading this link. It turns your stomach and hurts your head, but it’s worth reading.
(via dark-siren)
I bookmarked this link a while back, and it’s absolutely worth a look.
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30 Days of Women: Day 13
Day 13: Favourite female character in a book
October Daye. She’s sort of the anti Merry Gentry, I suppose? She’s a very real woman, one who has married and had a daughter, is estranged from her family, faces her problems maturely and treasures her independence. She is a competent investigator, decent with a sword, clever and crafty and dedicated to her job. This doesn’t mean...