100 (or so) awesome (fictional) women

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My (inarticulate) response to the feminism!fail discussion running around recently.

1. Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice)
2. Tiffany Aching (Discworld)
3. Elizabeth Burke (White Collar)
4. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
5. Emily Prentiss
6. Elle Greenaway
7. Jennifer Jareau
8. Penelope Garcia (all Criminal Minds)
9. Jo Harvelle (Supernatural)
10. Macy Queen (The Truth About Forever)
11. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
12. Esmerelda Weatherwax
13. Magrat Garlick
14. Nanny Ogg (all Discworld)
15. Keladry (Protector of the Small)
16. Beka Cooper (The Provost's Dog)
17. Jane Bennett (Pride and Prejudice)
18. Nyota Uhura (Star Trek) (oh xenolinguistics lady, you are awesome)
19. Pippi Longstocking (from same) (I grew up loving her, and she is made of sunshine and puppies and lab grade awesome)
20. Susan Pevensie
21. Lucy Pevensie
22. Polly Plummer (Chronicles of Narnia)
23. Miri (Princess Academy)
24. Rose Tyler
25. Martha Jones
26. Donna Noble
27. Sarah Jane Smith
28. Rani Chandra
29. Maria Jackson & her mum (all Doctor Who or SJA)
30. Cho Chang (Harry Potter)
31. BELLE (Beauty and the Beast)
32. Mulan (Mulan!)
33. Parker (Leverage) (<33333PARKER)
34. Kara Thrace
35. Laura Roslin
36. Sharon "Athena" Valerii
37. D'Anna Biers
38. N. 6 Caprica (all BSG)
39. Katara
40. Toph
41. Suki
42. Mai
43. Ty Lee
44. Azula
45. Jun
46. Ursa (all Avatar) (I never said they would all be good, just AWESOME)
47. River Tam
48. Kaylee Frye
49. Inara (all Firefly)
50. Willow Rosenberg (B:tVS) (Willow in Season 7 was the single awesomest thing in the world)
51. Pepper (Good Omens)
52. Eowyn
53. Luthien
54. Galadriel (all Middle Earth) (man, Galadriel's backstory is fabulous)
55. Elizabeth Swann (PotC)
56. Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden)
57. Jane Drew (The Dark Is Rising)
58. Nancy Drew
59. George Fayne and Bess Marvin (Nancy Drew)
60. Nan Bobbsey (The Bobbsey Twins)
61. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
62. The Girl Who Stole The Hat (xkcd)
63. Evanlyn/Cassandra
64. Lady Pauline
65. Alyss (all The Ranger's Apprentice)
66. Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
67. about half the victims/almost victims/female family of victims on Criminal Minds
68. Betsy Ray
69. Tacy Kelly
70. Tib Muller
71. Winona Root
72. Julia Ray
73. Maida Bartlett
74. Mrs. Main-Whittaker all Betsy-Tacy-Tib)
75. and every other lady ever in the entire Betsy-Tacy-Tib series
76. Temperance Brennan
77. Angela Montenegro (both Bones)
78. Sophie Devereaux (Leverage)
79. Morgana
80. Guinevere
81. Morgause
82. Hunith (Merlin)
83. Mary (Sherlock Holmes)
84. Angua
85. Cheery Littlebottom
86. Sybil Ramkin (later Vimes) (all Discworld)
87. Jadis & the Green Witch (Narnia) (okay, okay, evil, but. AWESOME.)
88. Nimueh (Merlin) (see above)
89. Harriet Vane (The Lord Peter Whimsy Mysteries)
90. Kate (The Good Master & The Singing Tree)
91. Charlotte (Sanditon: by Jane Austen and Another Lady)
92. Lauren Cruz (White Collar)
93. Ellen Harvelle (Supernatural)
94. Harriet Jones (Doctor Who)
95. Padme Amidala
96. Queen Jamillia
97. All handmaidens of the queens
98. Leia Organa (all Star Wars)
99. Anne Elliot (Persuasion)
100. Augusta Longbottom (Harry Potter)

Comments

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Macy! I always loved The Truth About Forever best of all.
Sarah Dessen women are always awesome.
(Except the beeyotch ones of course. I would NOT want to run into any of her bitchy girls)

*hyperventilates * Holy crap, Nan Bobbsey! It's weird, I was just thinking it would be super cool to revive the Bobbsey Twins for fic/new novels.

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Sarah Dessen! The Truth About Forever is, for some reason, ridiculously amazingly good. MACY. darling! oh man.

BOBBSEY'S. they were so adorable. and Nan was so practical! she was like a mini-Susan or something, only with a twin. oh man.

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I know! I love all her books (and I'm envious of the way she writes) but Forever is just special.
(Did you know that Sarah got intrigued by the Twilight craze in a YA-author-to-YA-author way? Brrr...I'm just relieved she stayed neutral, upon watching the movie.)

Haha, Bobbseys <3 I always thought of Bert as who Peter would have been if Narnia hadn't come along.
(Am I the only one who liked them better, characterwise, in the modernized version? They actually bickered there and not everyone coddled Flossie XD Plus Bert and Nan were in a tweeny 'is it just me or is the opposite sex confusing' phase which was so cute.)

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my sister and I are both completely addicted to Forever. :)

I have not read the modernized version! what is this?

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These books?They ran from 1987 to 1992; pretty much adventure-lite compared to the original hardbacks (only about a third of their length) and the cases were more basic (mostly set around Lakeport).

I guess that’s why they didn’t click much with the old fans though I always found the twins more realistic in them! Like, Freddie and Flossie had interests outside of dolls and fire engines (hee!)-- ice-skating and juggling and ventriloquism to name a few—and they bickered like crazy (Bert always had to referee) but were also insanely protective of each other when it counted. And Bert and Nan were more daring when it came to cases—I remember at least three books where Nan forced a confession out of a suspect—and they had a more teenager feel to them. Like, I remember this one scene where Bert is complaining to Freddie that he just doesn’t get why Nan's friends gossip about him all the time. XD Plus, I think the older twins played in a band at some point and were established to be great scuba divers.

I'd still read them! They didn't have much room for all the shenanigans from the old books, but they were fun in their own way.