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saedii-gilwraeth-simp · 6 years

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Top 10 Female Chracter Tag! Rules: write your 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 different people.

Tagged by @officialpittacuslore

In no particular order because it would be too hard.

1. General Diana Farley from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

I love her. She is better than everyone to ever exist anywhere. Gives Mare birth control while giving birth, loses her baby daddy but still fucking fights for her cause, single mom who brings Clara to all the war councils, corrects her dad when he calls her by the wrong rank, gets in trouble for insubordination at the beginning of Glass Sword and then she continues to commit insubordination because her dad is a dick, LEADS A GROUP OF NEWBLOOD FUCKERS WITH AUTHORITY PROBLEMS. She is a queen™.

2. Blue Sargent from The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Feminist icon™. Expert at standing her ground against dickheads (Kavinsky I’m looking at you.) Doesn’t instantly fall in love with Gansey (tbh I wouldn’t have either), dates Adam first which was cute, has excellent bromances with all her guy friends, gives all the women in her life the love and respect they inherently deserve as human beings, has proven to be just as, if not more, badass than the boys, doesn’t let anyone, even her friends, treat her with less respect than that which she deserves. A true supporter of respect and equality.

3. Cress Darnel from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.

Anyone who tells me that Cress Darnel from TLC is weak can die in a fiery spaceship crash bc Cress Darnel deserves the world. She was handed over to the government as soon as she was born bc she couldn’t be manipulated, spent 9 years underground and then was moved to a satellite where her only human contact was with her abuser and yet is still a fucking dreamy, star-eyed sweetheart who is brave and heroic and could fuck up your life and mine with 10 minutes and WiFi. Her and her boyfriend are one of the reasons I’m bisexual so...

4. Annabeth Chase from the PJO and HOO series by Rick Riordan

I have been in love with Annabeth Chase since I was 11 years old (and I didn’t even understand love at the time). She is a beautiful badass who is intelligent and commanding but at the same time, very human and vulnerable and I think that is what makes her such a great female character to look up to. She both kicks ass on the battlefield and the classroom, she doesn’t sit back and let things come to her, she gets up and works for what she wants and I think that makes her a great role model for girls reading Rick’s books.

5. Nesta Archeron from the ACOTAR series by Sarah J. Maas

Okay, Nesta Archeron gets a lot of heat from both the in-book characters and the fandom, but I think she’s a badass. She probably would’ve had the closest relationship with her mother out of the three sisters, so having to watch her mother die while her father did nothing would have been agonising for her. And then she went from riches to rags, and then she loses her littlest sister (don’t you fucking dare tell me that she didn’t care for Feyre) and then gets turned into the thing she’d been taught to fear her entire life, and then watches as her bae almost dies and her father does die sooo... in conclusion, #LeaveNestaAlone2K18.

6. Manon Blackbeak from Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Manon Blackbeak could kill me and I would thank her. She is truly beautiful and her character arc is amazing. She sees Abraxos and his fighting spirit and is full of exasperated pride at evrything he does. She treats her Thirteen with the respect that she is given and has earned her respect from the females by being this amazing pillar of strength. I love her opening scene in HoF (the foreshadowing tho) and how she doesn’t lose any of her scariness as the books go. Plus, let’s be honest, we’re all envious that she got to bang the king of hearts everywhere, the future Mr Manon Blackbeak AKA Dorian Havilliard.

7. Isabela Silva from the Legacies Reborn series by Pittacus Lore

Say what you want but Isabela Silva is a bisexual icon™ and I love her almost as much as she loves Taylor Cook. Like, she’s just so... iconic. Brazillian bombshell with a fucking heart of gold. Her boyfriend says she can’t join his team so she shows him up and then dumps his ass (while his head is still up there, mind you.) Literally convinces five other people to sneak out of a UN/US government guarded facility ‘cause why not? And then even when they get in the shit, they still tear a pub apart to help her out because they love her so much.

8. Nina Zenik from Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The reason Nina is so far down is because I couldn’t decide whether I loved her or Inej more (jury’s still out btw). Nina is who I want to be. She is self confident and flirty and knows how to get what she wants w/o sabotaging her dignity to get it. She also is such a ride-or-die friend. like, I’m sorry, your friends might be great but are they “take drugs that could kill you just so your friends will be safe” great. I don’t think so. She is amazing, she is stunning, she is intelligent, she could kill a man. I aspire to be her.

9. Marlee Tames from The Selection Series by Kiera Cass

This was a close one between Celeste and Marlee but Marlee Tames is a sweetheart who nearly died for love so she won. She understands that things like money and caste aren’t the only things that matter and when it came down to it, she stayed true to her heart and chose love over wealth. She offered to take double the beating just so Carter didn’t have to. She acted as America’s wing-woman which couldn’t have been easy by virtue that America is angsty and confused. She was kind no matter what crap was thrown at her by others and I have infinite respect for her bc of it.

10. Fleur Delacour from Harry Potter by J.K Rowling

*screams about how much I love and respect Fleur Delacour and all she stands for* Let’s get real, not choosing a HP women for this list is a literary crime. I personally love Fleur bc she is a combination of all the things I admire in a woman. She could kill a man while painting her nails, she used her education to get what she wants, while still be aware of her stunning appearance. She is a woman who has worked hard so no-one with a brain can discredit her. Plus I like to think that she named her first daughter ‘Victory’ just to flip death eaters the middle finger.

I tag @deathgoddessnesta @propshophannah @highlady-cas @catastrophicallyinlovewithbooks @lovelunarchron @nothingtoseehere-move-along @accio-shitpost @dademigods @regolithheart @fourmillionkruge

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petruchio · 4 years

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whats thalico????? republican annabeth???? can u please explain?????

whats thalico GOD ANON I WISH THAT WERE ME. thalico is people shipping thalia and nico and it was a HUGE thing in like 2011. but this ask really made me think so im going to actually answer this as thoroughly as i can. so first, let me set the scene...

back in the early days of the pjo fandom, we were in sort of the second wave of internet fandom culture. we'd moved past livejournal and book-specific website forums, and most fans were on fanfiction.net and deviantart, posting fanfiction and fanart respectively. (at least. most 12 year old fans.) we were writing songfics, lemons, and fanfictions solely in chat form. author's notes in the middle of stories were rampant. ragecomics and cat memes ruled the internet. they were dark times anon, dark times. this era happened to coincide with the conclusion of many popular YA book series--harry potter, the hunger games, twilight, and, you guessed it, percy jackson and the olympians. all these series published their final book between 2008 and 2010, right around the time when this sort of internet culture was on the rise.

now, my personal theory is that this type of shipping came out of that tragic epilogue in harry potter, where jk rowling just threw in a bunch of random characters in the last 10 pages of the series, and hp fans took it upon themselves to create these whole elaborate fanon relationships and backstories, and started shipping them based on little more than a few pages of information at the end of the deathly hallows. back in those days (and maybe a bit still now, but i would argue less so) the percy jackson series was kind of like a "baby harry potter." it was shorter, it was perhaps aimed at a slightly younger audience, but it still featured a sarcastic, black haired protagonist who discovers a magical fantasy world that is living in tandem with our own. the similarities were clear to fans and critics alike, and percy jackson was literally marketed as "the next hp" like that's one of the critic quotes thats on most of the books in their original printing.

so against this backdrop, we can begin to think about why ships such as thalico or tratie (travis stoll/katie gardener) emerged. in an effort to mirror the sort of side character shipping we were seeing in harry potter, fans found side characters in pjo and invented these huge stories about their relationships--keep in mind that this was before hoo was even close to being on anyone's radar, so there was only one really "big" couple in the series, and if you wanted to expand past that, you had to really dig.

now, for me, thalico was always the weirdest one of these because like? they barely interact at all in canon. i think the ship really came to prominence after the titans curse because they both are introduced as characters in that book and you sort of get to know them at the same time. they also are both sort of "goth" i guess, which again was really trendy in this early 2010s world. then after the series ended it just sort of took on a life of its own, and it was all over fanfiction.net and the like.

anyway it's pretty much completely dead since the mass migration to tumblr in like 2013/2014, and ever since hoo came out there hasn't been much need for MORE ships. then since house of hades its been literally dead in the water, for obvious reasons. a quick glance into the thalico tag its mostly just like, me making fun of it and a few random posts.

long story longer, if you want to truly understand what it was like you can go to fanfiction.net and filter for thalia/nico, it's literally balls to the wall insane, but there was a time when that was unironically the one of the biggest ships in this fandom.

#in regards to republican annabeth i just answered another ask about that #anyway thats my hot take for the day #thalico #answered #anonymous #pjo thoughts

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