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dolorosa_12Day Twenty-Four: Favourite female romantic relationship
Angela and Holly (The Lynburn Legacy, Sarah Rees Brennan)
This fictional couple is dear to my heart for several reasons. I love how fiercely they protect and defend one another. Most importantly, I love how clearly they recognise each others' boundaries, and defend said boundaries when necessary. They stand up for each other when other members of their group make unreasonable demands, and provide each other space when it's needed. Holly understands Angela's prickliness, her discomfort at being the focus of attention, and her unease with being touched. Angela understands Holly's insecurities, her desperate desire to anticipate others' needs and put them before her own, and her anguish at people's low expectations of her. Both fear abandonment in different ways and for different reasons, and employ different forms of artifice to guard against their fear that they are unlovable.
On a more meta level, I love this couple because it's comprised of a lesbian and a bisexual girl (who is identified as such). While each comes out at different times in the series, their stories are not 'coming out stories'. Holly is a point of view character in the third book, and that also makes me happy. I like Holly and Angela because they are Holly and Angela, but their representation is an added bonus.
Day Twenty-Five: Favourite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favourite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favourite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
Angela and Holly (The Lynburn Legacy, Sarah Rees Brennan)
This fictional couple is dear to my heart for several reasons. I love how fiercely they protect and defend one another. Most importantly, I love how clearly they recognise each others' boundaries, and defend said boundaries when necessary. They stand up for each other when other members of their group make unreasonable demands, and provide each other space when it's needed. Holly understands Angela's prickliness, her discomfort at being the focus of attention, and her unease with being touched. Angela understands Holly's insecurities, her desperate desire to anticipate others' needs and put them before her own, and her anguish at people's low expectations of her. Both fear abandonment in different ways and for different reasons, and employ different forms of artifice to guard against their fear that they are unlovable.
On a more meta level, I love this couple because it's comprised of a lesbian and a bisexual girl (who is identified as such). While each comes out at different times in the series, their stories are not 'coming out stories'. Holly is a point of view character in the third book, and that also makes me happy. I like Holly and Angela because they are Holly and Angela, but their representation is an added bonus.
Day Twenty-Five: Favourite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favourite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favourite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: A female-centric fic rec
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!
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