Steel and softness
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dolorosa_12I'm at the halfway point of the fandom meme, Day Thirteen, and the subject is:
M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
While I've lost almost all of my goodwill towards Joss Whedon over the years, and view his shows with a lot less uncritical adoration than I did when I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I still have a huge amount of affection for Buffy in particular. While I wouldn't rush to be part of the central friendship of Buffy, Willow and Xander (which I think tips over into codependency at some points, and is also awful to Buffy at various points in the series), I would love to be friends with Tara Maclay. She's kind, a good listener, very perceptive, and, over the course of the series, develops a spine and stops letting her friends walk all over her. She often seems to be the only character willing to tell people truths they don't want to hear. I feel that as a friend she'd be the right mix of compassionate and steely.
For similar reasons, I'd love to be friends with Emily Fields from Pretty Little Liars, who is a similar kind of character.
N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
While I've lost almost all of my goodwill towards Joss Whedon over the years, and view his shows with a lot less uncritical adoration than I did when I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I still have a huge amount of affection for Buffy in particular. While I wouldn't rush to be part of the central friendship of Buffy, Willow and Xander (which I think tips over into codependency at some points, and is also awful to Buffy at various points in the series), I would love to be friends with Tara Maclay. She's kind, a good listener, very perceptive, and, over the course of the series, develops a spine and stops letting her friends walk all over her. She often seems to be the only character willing to tell people truths they don't want to hear. I feel that as a friend she'd be the right mix of compassionate and steely.
For similar reasons, I'd love to be friends with Emily Fields from Pretty Little Liars, who is a similar kind of character.
N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!