The Unpopular Woman Love Post

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

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

[arsonarsenal.livejournal.com]

A fantastic post for a fantastic character. The thing that kills me is that instead of focusing on the never-ending saga of vampire manpain, the writers just use the goldmine interesting narratives and character traits that the female characters have. Like, the whole matriarchal Bennett legacy which always seems to go hand in hand with sacrifice, blood-debts, and having this higher calling in the face of moral failings and frailty is one of the most interesting things on the show but they just won't let the ladies be great as they can be.

As for fandom, I feel like Bonnie has a lot more agency as times than Caroline or Elena and people just don't know how to handle that or any complexity. I hate that fandom seems to want morality to be black and white when the vast majority of characters are grey as hell. I could go on a whole other tangent about Bonnie's ruthless pragmatism and how Elena is becoming hardened and mercenary in response to the fuckery of her life but that's another time.

Sorry if this became rambly, I have a lot of feelings regarding the show's wasted potential.