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

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

Gillian Darmody (Boardwalk Empire)



Gillian Darmody is not a monster, I would like to make that perfectly clear.

Is Gillian scarily twisted in the head? Yes.

Does Gillian look down on a lot of fandom's woobies and say mean things to them? Yes.

Has her love for her son gone so far beyond motherly and straight into a hellish mix of Jocasta and Lady Macbeth? Most definitely.

However, we should remember that Gillian had one of the most horrific childhoods in existence - pimped out to middle-aged men at 13, impregnated by her rapist, and left to raise her son with only her pimp to depend on. She survived, and maybe the way she raised her son in the backrooms of vaudville/burlesque houses (with occasional trips to his father's creepy-ass mausoleum of taxidermied animals) wasn't "normal", but as she says, "it's normal for us".

Gillian didn't let herself be trapped into a loveless marriage. She didn't allow herself or her son to become a punching bag for anyone. She saved up enough for her own apartment, and she worked to support herself and her son. Definitely a woman ahead of her time.

Moreover, Gillian Darmody is *awesome*. Exhibit A - the way she deals with Charlie Luciano, a man she knows was hired to kill her son. She sees straight through his "roughneck" side, and suckers him in good. Just when he's at his weakest, she lets her son wake him up with a cup of hot coffee to the chest and steals his gun. Exhibit B - her 25-years belated revenge on the Commodore for raping her. Punching and slapping a man who's had a stroke may not be the most PC way of dealing with it, but as Kander and Ebb said, "he had it coming". Gillian is cunning as hell, and this show needs more women like her, to keep up with all the dangerous men running around.

She's the uncrowned Queen of Atlantic City. Long may she reign.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

This post makes me want to give BE another try. When does she show up?

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

\o/

Gillian's first appearance is in episode 102, "The Ivory Tower". It's rather, uh, revealing. She's a slow burn, like many of the other characters on the show. The layers just continue to peel back.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

It is not emotionally possible for me to love a character more than I love Gillian Darmody and you've done an excellent job of pointing out many of the reasons why. She is so damn strong and so damn broken all at the same time and everything about her is complicated and conflicted and amazing and horrible and I could spend forever trying to work out all the twists and turns in her brain. She is utterly, utterly magnificent and heartbreaking and beautiful. LOVE!

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

Gillian snuck up on me. I knew I'd like her - I have a long and documented love of batshit insane redheads who have inappropriate levels of love for the men in their lives - but I didn't think I'd love her. Or how much.

She is absolutely magnificent. I want her to do so much in season three (which, in my brain, involves taking her son's combat knife to some people and then hightailing it to New York to provide Mr. Rothstein with an excellent lady counterpart).