The Unpopular Woman Love Post

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

Well. Another year, another halfamoon fest of awesome. Another chance to celebrate the characters who are unappreciated and unloved.

Personally I'm the kind of fan who always roots for the underdog, and there are many female characters who fill that role, and even more of them fill it role in fandom if not in their respective canons. This post is for people who want to fan the hell out of their unappreciated women and do it as loud as they can. It works like this:

1. Start a thread and put the character's name and the canon they come from in the subject line.

2. Those who love the character comment on the thread with squee, thoughts, fic/art/vid recs, picspams, essays, links and everything they can think of. Make sure your character gets all the love and the attention she deserves.

3. If a character has a thread and you want to talk about her, comment to the thread in question. General comments and threads for new characters go to the main post.

4. Focus on the love. This is an all positivity, all time post. Embrace your happy!

5. Avoid making negative comparisons to other characters or other character types. Those characters and character types have their fans too.

Links to the threads will be compiled in this post.

Being a love post for unpopular characters, this post is bashing free. If you have any negative thoughts either about the characters discussed or their rivals in fandom (meaning no "well this character sucks more!" kind of comments), please keep them to yourself. This is about celebration and love, so let's keep it that way!

And now, celebrate!

Threads

Gwen, BBC Merlin (Thread includes pictures, vid rec, fic rec and a link to picspam)
Gwen Cooper, Torchwood (Thread includes pictures and a vid rec)
Thirteen, House (Thread includes a link)
Ellen Harvelle, Supernatural (Thread includes a vid rec)
Kido Saori/Athena, Saint Seiya (all series)
Winry Rockbell, Fullmetal Alchemist (Thread includes pictures and fic recs)
Dawn Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Thread includes pictures)
Kate, Terminator (Thread includes pictures)
Anastasia "Dee" Dualla, Battlestar Galactica (new) (Thread includes pictures)
Riley Dawson, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Thread includes pictures)
Bela Talbot, Supernatural (Thread includes pictures, vid rec and a fic rec)
Niki Sanders, Heroes (Thread includes a link to fanmix)
Jo Harvelle, Supernatural (Thread includes links to fiction journal and to delicious links)
Cally, Battlestar Galactica (new) (Thread includes pictures and a fic rec)
Bonnie Bennet (Thread includes pictures and a vid rec)
Anji Kapoor, Doctor Who
Relena Peacecraft/Darlian, Gundam Wing (Thread includes pictures)
Jennifer Keller, Stargate: Atlantis (Thread includes pictures, fic recs and link to picspam)
Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter (Thread includes a link)
Izumi Orimoto, Digimon Frontier
Betty Draper, Mad Men
Chloe Payne, Mercy (Thread includes pictures)
Helen Cutter, Primeval (Thread includes pictures)
Nymphadora Tonks, Harry Potter (Thread includes pictures)
Amy March, Little Women (Thread includes pictures)
Alex Fielding, Wire in the Blood (Thread includes pictures)
Rita Bennett, Dexter (Thread includes a vid rec)
Tear Grants, Tales of the Abyss (Thread includes a shrine link)
Sophie Aubrey, the Aubrey/Maturin novels (Thread includes pictures)
Diana Villiers, the Aubrey/Maturin novels
Kate Freelander, Sanctuary (Thread includes pictures)
Elizabeth Weir, Stargate Atlantis
Kate Pulaski, ST:TNG (Thread includes pictures and vid rec)
Tosh, Torchwood (Thread includes a fic link)
Melanie Bush, Doctor Who (Thread includes pictures)
Josephine Grant, Doctor Who
Tory Foster, Battlestar Galactica (new)
Christine Everheart, Iron Man (film)
Myka Bering, Warehouse 13
Claudia Donovan, Warehouse 13
Diana Fowley, The X-Files
Jolinar, Stargate SG-1 (Thread includes pictures)
Anise/Freya, Stargate-SG-1 (Thread includes pictures)
Yuffie Kisaragi, Final Fantasy VII (Thread includes pictures)
Tifa Lockhart, Final Fantasy VII (Thread includes pictures)
Aerith Gainsborough, Final Fantasy VII
Anamaria, Pirates of the Caribbean (Thread includes pictures)
Atsuko Jackson, Michiko to Hatchin (Thread includes pictures)
Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean
Shan, Doctor Who (Thread includes pictures)
Mai, Avatar: the Last Airbender (Thread includes pictures)
Lila, Dexter (Thread includes pictures)
Christine Hill, Dexter (Thread includes pictures)
Amy Burley, True Blood (Thread includes pictures)
Chibiusa, Sailor Moon (Thread includes pictures)
Ezri Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Tess Harding, Roswell (Thread includes pictures and a video clip)
Britta Perry, Community

Comments

Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

Not just a badass woman, but a badass woman of my generation. That's getting rarer and rarer to see.

(I really do need an Ellen icon - I should get on that).

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've only seen two episodes with Ellen (the season 5 ones) but even on such a short acquaintance her epic amounts of win are obvious.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[leyna55.livejournal.com]

Badass, no-nonsense, with a take-no-prisoners attitude to monsters and and a fierce love for her daughter.

(I don't have an Ellen Icon, either, so I'll use my other badass woman-of-a-certain-age icon *g*)

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[purely-distel.livejournal.com]

WORD! Ellen was a brilliant character!

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[slartibartfast.livejournal.com]

Ellen is one of my favourite characters in Supernatural. She's fantastic!

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

Ellen was steady, strong and sensible and she loved the hell out of her daughter. What is NOT awesome about any of that?

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[heather.livejournal.com]

Ellen! One of the best characters on that show.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

I love how she's badass and in so many different ways -- she knows how to use a gun but doesn't seem to like hunting, she does what has to be done. She runs her own business, she's a mom, and juggles that with stepping up to help save the world.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[teand.livejournal.com]

Ah, Ellen -- she took no bullshit from anyone. She lived a hard life without being made hard by it. She loved her daughter and for years she provided a sanctuary for people who desperately needed one. She could drink, cuss, shoot, and make the hard choices... every damned time.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

And this is why I LOVE Ellen Harvelle! Also...Your explanation is perfect because it's as straight-to-the-point as Ellen herself:)

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[crazy4dw.livejournal.com]

A lady I'd be proud to call MOM!

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[mosaic.livejournal.com]

Ellen is one of my favorite female characters of all time!!

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[mythtaken.livejournal.com]

I adore Ellen. I love it when women get to be competent and determined and over 35.

ancastar posted a fiercely wonderful Ellen and Jo vid (http://ancastar.livejournal.com/59512.html) recently.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

I've only seen a few eps of Supernatural, but she is definitely my favorite—wow, wow, wow. (Don't have an icon for that Ellen, but I do have one for another badass Ellen)

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[mrsfrankenstien.livejournal.com]

Ellen! I stopped watching SPN in the middle of season 3, but in what I saw she was absolutely the most compelling character and I wish we'd seen more of her. She found a place for herself and for her daughter in the otherwise hypermasculine Hunter community. If I'm even half as awesome as Ellen when I reach her age, I'll call my life a success.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[silverkit.livejournal.com]

Ellen was the ultimate mama bear on this show. She could have had her own show and I would have tuned in every day to watch.

She raised Jo on her own after her husband was horribly killed. She ran her own business, and knew how to handle a weapon even through she never pulled it out unless it was called for.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[scintilla10.livejournal.com]

Yes! I adore Ellen so much.

Re: Ellen Harvelle - Supernatural

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

I love, love, loved Ellen; because she kicked ass without ever sacrificing being a really, really damn good mom, a good friend to the boys, and she always, always kept her head straight even in the worst situations; she's the sort of woman you hope you'd be in an Apocalypse and I adore her for it <3.