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rose_griffes) wrote2010-12-20 08:27 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2010-12-20 08:27 pm
day 26 of favorite female characters
edited to add: delicious.com isn't going away. (Probably.) This is a big relief. I'll try to remember to mention it again if anything changes.
I was just in gmail chat saying that I hope my Yuletide writer has a quarter of the excitement about her writing that I have about what I've written. Right now I'm in that "Yay, my story is awesome!" stage and I can't wait for it to be available for my recipient. So yes, I hope my writer feels some degree of the same enthusiasm. It's fun!
Hah, remember a week ago when I was in the "WOE, my story is awful (and unfinished)" stage?
Time for another fantastic female character, I think.
Somehow I missed reading the Anne of Green Gables series when I was a child. I didn't read them until after watching the mini-series of the same name, with Megan Follows as the title character.
Anne from the mini-series. She's responsible for me reading the books.
When I finally read them, I fell in love. The books became a safe haven while I was feeling my way through the real young adult years. I reread them several times. Oh, Anne. You madcap, headstrong, excessively romantic girl. She makes ridiculous mistakes, prefers to hold a grudge rather than acknowledge being wrong, and generally makes a mess of things.
She's also self-sacrificing in a completely non-begrudging way, loyal, motivated and keenly intelligent.
In short, she's human and lovable and one of my favorite characters ever.
The books actually give a wonderful portrait of womanhood in all its varieties: single women, mothers, widows, young girls... Though the time period obviously put constraints on these women's choices, they were still characters with agency who were emphatically NOT alike.
As for the mini-series, this is one of the few examples of me being an excessively invested fangirl for a romantic pair. Anne and Gilbert forever!
Hee! I think we had a VCR tape at one point (maybe from the library?), and I played this scene multiple times.
Anne is one of three characters that overlap my list and Chaila's list.
I was just in gmail chat saying that I hope my Yuletide writer has a quarter of the excitement about her writing that I have about what I've written. Right now I'm in that "Yay, my story is awesome!" stage and I can't wait for it to be available for my recipient. So yes, I hope my writer feels some degree of the same enthusiasm. It's fun!
Hah, remember a week ago when I was in the "WOE, my story is awful (and unfinished)" stage?
Time for another fantastic female character, I think.
Somehow I missed reading the Anne of Green Gables series when I was a child. I didn't read them until after watching the mini-series of the same name, with Megan Follows as the title character.
Anne from the mini-series. She's responsible for me reading the books.
When I finally read them, I fell in love. The books became a safe haven while I was feeling my way through the real young adult years. I reread them several times. Oh, Anne. You madcap, headstrong, excessively romantic girl. She makes ridiculous mistakes, prefers to hold a grudge rather than acknowledge being wrong, and generally makes a mess of things.
She's also self-sacrificing in a completely non-begrudging way, loyal, motivated and keenly intelligent.
In short, she's human and lovable and one of my favorite characters ever.
The books actually give a wonderful portrait of womanhood in all its varieties: single women, mothers, widows, young girls... Though the time period obviously put constraints on these women's choices, they were still characters with agency who were emphatically NOT alike.
As for the mini-series, this is one of the few examples of me being an excessively invested fangirl for a romantic pair. Anne and Gilbert forever!
Hee! I think we had a VCR tape at one point (maybe from the library?), and I played this scene multiple times.
Anne is one of three characters that overlap my list and Chaila's list.
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Yay, your story is awesome now! I think we forget someone out there angsted over us too and hoped we'd like what they'd written. I didn't participate this year but I have to remember that about any holiday gift. People really try to give you something that you'd like. :-)
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Yes, I think that's why it's something I ended up re-reading multiple times. Rich friendships and real connections between the different women.
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I broke the spine in the last chapter of Island when Anne realized she loved Gilbert I read it so many times. I had to special order Windy Poplars because they never stocked the books past #3 back then (at least where I was), and I was so upset that all her letters to Gilbert CUT OUT all the mushy stuff!
er, last second realizations of love... gee, not one of my fannish sweetspots AT ALL. *kof*
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*snickers* Yeah, um, I wouldn't know anything about that either...
...I was so upset that all her letters to Gilbert CUT OUT all the mushy stuff!
ME TOOOOOOO!
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er. I was very fixated as a small child. =D
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I have a niece with gorgeous red hair. Part of me is still jealous.
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