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Okay, so, I was tagged by @mrsgordo84 and later by @buffy-angel-and-co (who reminded me I had been tagged in the first place) to name 10 favorite female characters from 10 different fandoms! Thank you for remembering me!

Okay, so the first 5 are part of what I call my “fictional girl squad” because I don’t have an actual rl girl squad :( They are basically characters that I fucking admire or want to be like. 

1. Lara Croft (Tomb Raider games - not the fucking awful movies or even the comics I never read but think exist).

So, Lara means a lot to me. I grew up with her because my dad has been playing TR since the first game came out when I was born. I used to make my Barbies be archaeologists because Lara is one. 

Lara’s physical appearance might be catered to the male gaze but the writers really respect her as a person. Regardless of how good or so so the games are, Lara is always such a fucking hero. She’s intelligent, dedicates her life to the pursuit of knowledge, to the separation of myth and reality, to following her dad’s footsteps and honoring his work. She’s always the smartest, most knowledgeable person is the room. And that never happens with women. No matter how smart the heroin is there’s always the guy she goes to for advice or who is wiser: the Giles to Buffy, the Dumbledore to Hermione, etc. And although Lara had some brainy dudes and even a couple of mentors, she was always the smartest one to me. Particularly in the games after PS1. Lara can speak almost any language (dead or not), she’s daring, an explorer, ambitious, determined to the point of ruthlessness, warm, moral, brave, isolated, sad, traumatized (by her parents’ deaths). She’s essentially everything men are allowed to be except she’s a woman and she’s always been like a friend and a role model. I love her so much. I also adore how she doesn’t have love interests and how her love or sex life is a non issue - no one cares. 

2. Trinity (The Matrix)

I’ve said before that Trinity is probably the reason I love black leather, but it’s so much more than that. Trinity is, in many ways, the badass sidekick/love interest, but she’s written and played with such integrity and respect that it doesn’t even bother me. She first appears as Morpheus’s favorite, as one of FBI’s most wanted. She finds herself in a tight position and gets out of it alone. She’s intelligent, resourceful, patient, caring, loyal, trusting and trustworthy. She also becomes a loving partner but maintains always her own beliefs (like when she tells Neo he can go to hell if he doesn’t want her to help him get Morpheus back). Trinity, like Lara, is someone I want to be. Mature, strong, kind. 

3. Carrie Hopewell (Banshee) 

Banshee is like a show most people don’t know and it’s one of the reasons why I love it so much. It’s intimate, loving something most people don’t love. I watched two seasons of Banshee while they were airing (which always makes me fonder of a show that I already like) and I bonded with the characters. Carrie is like this beautiful badass woman. She wears black jeans, a black tank top and black boots. She wears smoky, dark eye shadow. She’s the type of woman I want to be and look like. There was obviously an attraction there. She’s not particularly moral, she’s the clichéd daughter of an Ukrainian mob boss, but the more I think about her, the more I like her.

Carrie is a fake persona created when Carrie’s boyfriend went to prison because the two of them betrayed Carrie’s father (the mob guy). Carrie was pregnant and needed a place to hide, so she found Banshee (the typical small town with a dangerous story). She had a good life becoming the perfect women society forces us to be: a mom of two, perfect wife to the town’s prosecutor, arm candy when she needs to be, owns a family house, has an easy, respectable job. And it’s not like she didn’t like being a mom or a wife but she chose it because she had no choice and because it was easy and convenient. It’s difficult to juggle all of these things and when the ex returns, he brings back memories of the life she used to have and was born in to. She used to be Anna, an expert safe cracker (the task she performed during robberies), driver of the getaway car, rule breaker, dutiful daughter. Carrie finds an escape from her perfect life in Anna. She makes a living doing something she’s good at and loves (crime) and indulges in the lack of perfection and rebellion offered by that side of her. No one can be perfect all the time and trying to achieve this normalcy and perfection often leads people to search for less than healthy outlets. I relate to this and also sympathize with Carrie’s identity issues and struggle to be a good mom and wife. 

4. Lilah Morgan (Angel the Series)

It’s hard not to love Lilah. Intelligent, ambitious, confident, glamorous, witty. She’s the perfect femme fatale. She finds freedom in the fact that she knows she’s not a good person and doesn’t care. She’s not hypocritical or confused. She’s genuine and sincere even in her manipulations. Yet, she can also reveal a tender side. She’s full of bravado and sadness - again, the perfect femme fatale, but she lives her life unapologetic and unafraid which is more than I can say about myself and almost everyone. 

5. Nymphadora Tonks (Harry Potter)

She’s my latest addition to the squad. Tonks is this delightful, vibrant girl. Her favorite hair color is bubblegum pink. She can change her body at will but she’s confident enough to only change her hair! She’s brave, a rebel (part of the Order), patient, kind, hard working (she’s a Hufflepuff). She found joy in the middle of a war. She married and had a baby - and she was so excited about both of those things. She wanted to stay at home during the Hogwarts Battle but her love for Remus and her responsibility as an Auror and a member of the Order got in the way. She treated everyone like a friend and died a hero… *sobs*

Non squad members (without lengthy descriptions) are as follows:

6. Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 

7. Paris Gellar (Gilmore Girls)

8. Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)

9. Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

10. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) 

I’m sorry for the lengthy reasoning. I tag whoever wants to answer! 

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Obi-Wan stood, and this time he walked away. “If I did not…love…him,” he said, his voice unsteady, his back turned, “I would not be here now.”—

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I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

Michael Cunningham, from The hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998)

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Eleanor Pargiter, The Years by Virginia Woolf (1937). x Rose De Witt Bukater, Titanic by James Cameron (1997).

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how mbti types procrastinate

entp, enfp, intp, infp: considers possibilities of what to do instead of said task. starts typing but gets distracted when trying to choose a song to listen to. probably scrolls through tiktok. thinks that said task is too overwhelming. can't schedule an appointment on the phone by themself.

intj, infj, enfj, entj : plans out everything, but doesn't actually do it. wayyy too perfectionistic. has a bunch of pinterest boards (or playlists) related to said thing. not inspired. not enough pressure. "scheduled procrastination."

estp, esfp, istp, isfp: thinks the task is stupid and boring, and there are more fun/interesting things to do. also thinks that they have enough time to get it done but actually only has 2 hours. doesn't narrow down priorities. probably forget it existed in the first place

isfj, istj, estj, esfj: associates task with bad past experiences and avoids it. thinks it's not important + a waste of time compared to other things. keeps getting stuck on minor criticisms or flaws. doesn't put said thing on their to-do list (not in sight, not in mind!)

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