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Fictional friendships
Apr. 20th, 2020 03:43 pmIt's now Day Eighteen for the fandom meme, and today's prompt is a great one:
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
Given I generally only feel fannish about something if I love the characters, and given that a lot of what makes me love characters is how they interact with the other characters around them, I am a huge fan of fictional friendships.
I'm not sure I could decide on an absolute favourite, though. I really love the central friendship of the four girls in Pretty Little Liars (and I love that the series is a celebration of the power of friendships among teenage girls, and that it is their friendship which saves and uplifts them, time and time again). I also love the friendships of Beatrice and Cat in Kate Elliott's Cold Magic trilogy and among the sisters in Elliott's Court of Fives trilogy (Elliott is just so good at writing friendships between girls and women, especially sisters). Sarah Rees Brennan is another author who writes friendship so well — her Demon's Lexicon and Lynburn Legacy series being prime examples.
I also adore all the frienships between the characters in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series, particularly Sally and Jim, and Sally and Rosa.
Which fictional friendships are your favourites?
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R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
Given I generally only feel fannish about something if I love the characters, and given that a lot of what makes me love characters is how they interact with the other characters around them, I am a huge fan of fictional friendships.
I'm not sure I could decide on an absolute favourite, though. I really love the central friendship of the four girls in Pretty Little Liars (and I love that the series is a celebration of the power of friendships among teenage girls, and that it is their friendship which saves and uplifts them, time and time again). I also love the friendships of Beatrice and Cat in Kate Elliott's Cold Magic trilogy and among the sisters in Elliott's Court of Fives trilogy (Elliott is just so good at writing friendships between girls and women, especially sisters). Sarah Rees Brennan is another author who writes friendship so well — her Demon's Lexicon and Lynburn Legacy series being prime examples.
I also adore all the frienships between the characters in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series, particularly Sally and Jim, and Sally and Rosa.
Which fictional friendships are your favourites?
( The other days )