Whyyyy is filling out an online dating profile so haaard????
All I really want to say is:
But no, I gotta write half a novel about who I am and what I’m looking for and come up with a headline that is witty enough to entice Tom Hiddleston-esque young men and fool them into thinking I’m erudite long enough for me to trap them and thoroughly corrupt them.
So there I was, strolling down the Boulevard St Germain in Paris with my mother, when Lo! I see in front of me a comic book/geekery store called Album. D’ya know what I scored there?
Black Widow: The Name of the Rose. I probably paid too much money for it (16€) but hey, I have it and I can say I got it in Paris!
“What is this place?”
“Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D, Ms. Noble.”“Ms Noble? Or should that be Doctor Donna. I hear that’s what they call you these days.”
Donna whirled around as a man walked into the firm that she was temping at. He wasn’t dressed in the usual business attire and he had an eye patch over one eye.
“Who are you? How did you find me?”
His face had the weary amusement of someone being asked a question they’d already been posed a few dozen times before.
“Oh, I’ve been keeping an eye on you for some time now.”
He said, pointing at the uncovered eye.
“Know all about those adventures you’ve had with the alien time traveller.”
Donna froze. No one was supposed to talk to her about the Doctor. They all still thought that she couldn’t remember.
“What do you want from me?”
She shouted. She didn’t mean to shout, but she’d rather come across as angry or impatient than scared.
“I want to talk to you about the Avengers Initiative.”
I think the major problem here is that women were clamoring for “strong female characters,” and male writers misunderstood. They thought the feminists meant [Strong Female] Characters. The feminists meant [Strong Characters], Female.
So the feminists shouldn’t have said “we want more strong female characters.” They should have said “we want more WEAK female characters.” Not “weak” meaning “Damsel in Distress.” “Weak” meaning “flawed.”
Good characters, male or female, have goals, and they have flaws. Any character without flaws will be a cardboard cutout. Perhaps a sexy cardboard cutout, but two-dimensional nonetheless. And no, “Always goes for douchebags instead of the Nice Guy” (the flaw of Megan Fox’s character in Transformers) is not a real flaw. Men think women have that flaw, but most women avoid “Nice Guys” because they just aren’t that nice. So that doesn’t count.
So what flaws can female characters have? Uh, I don’t know. How about the same flaws a male character would have?
http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/08/18/why-strong-female-characters-are-bad-for-women/ (via ungoodpirate)
OMG I LOVED THIS DOLL. And I mean… the babies VELCRO ON TO HER BODY. It’s so fucked up! But I loved having those little babies, oh man. (More babies to orphan and stick poor Skipper with.) Never mind how what are presumably triplets have different complexions and hair color AND PONYTAILS.
OH MAHHHH GAAAWWWDDD! I had this one! Although now I’m horrified at the thought of poor teenage skipper having screaming infants velcro’d to her clothes. Worst nightmare, right there.
I started reading ‘A Discovery of Witches’ by Deborah Harkness (amazing read so far!) and I’m totally picturing Loki!Tom Hiddleston as the main male character/vampire.
And me as the main female character.
