The Unpopular Woman Love Post

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Guys, what's up with halfamoon this year? It's so very, very quiet... Anyway, to breathe a bit of life into this community, I decided to come up with the ever popular Unpopular Woman Love Post.







I simply nicked the rules from bofoddity's fabulous post in 2011:

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. Absolutely no bashing allowed. Please avoid making negative comparisons to other characters, other character types and "well this character sucks more!" kind of comments as well as disparaging remarks about actresses or other versions of the same character. Those characters, character types, and actresses have their fans too and hey, it's a love post. Save negativity for other things.

In other words, this post is all about celebrating and loving our favorite unloved women. Now, love away!

Comments

[sophia-gratia.livejournal.com]

♥ Cat! ♥

First, some shameless self-promotion, in the form of feel-good Cat-fic. Because let's face it, Cat and Cat-fans alike could all stand to feel good about something:

A Short Grammar of Eros and Honor: On Naming (http://archiveofourown.org/works/279763) : Catelyn Stark/Ned Stark : Rated T : ~1329 words

‘As the Lady of Winterfell, she has learned to take practical matters into her own hands. She sees no reason why the intimate matters of her marriage should be any different.’ Pre-canon.

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And now a wee tiny bit of meta.

SPOILERS

I think Cat's story is such a clever parable of what happens when implacable strength meets the brick wall of patriarchy. One of the great things about ASoIaF is that it provides such a huge range of female characters, each with her own distinct relationship to her culture's norms of femininity. Cat's fascinating, because despite some basic tension and difficulty, she embraces her role as wife and mother – and tries to fulfill that role to the greatest extent possible. She is, allegedly, doing everything that you are supposed to do, as a woman, under patriarchy. It gives her power, for a while. And then it kills her. And then – death not really being her thing – re-animated into irrational pursuit of vengeance, she gains the power to avenge herself and her family only at the cost of her basic humanity.

And it's so wildly compelling. Oh, Cat. I'll be in your corner, cheering for you against the odds, forever.

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She is, allegedly, doing everything that you are supposed to do, as a woman, under patriarchy. It gives her power, for a while. And then it kills her. And then re-animated into irrational pursuit of vengeance, she gains the power to avenge herself and her family only at the cost of her basic humanity.

YES. YES. THIS. EXACTLY THIS. ;_; ;_; ;_;