No interesting female characters, my ass

[darkemeralds]

Do yourself and your heart and mind a favor, and go take a look at this wonderful post by copracat, featuring icons of strong female characters.

Then peruse the comments, where lots more awesome women characters are represented. It made my day.

Comments

[alex_beecroft]

I don't recognize many of those characters. Perhaps I should do a grid of my own. It would certainly have my icon in it. I can't believe they missed out Ivanova!

[sporky_rat]

I knew I forgot someone!

[alex_beecroft]

I love her "God sent me" speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oF0i5nvPI

She had got to the point where she could completely carry even that off. Positively magnificent while always believably human.

[darkemeralds]

AWE. SOME.

[darkemeralds]

There was an Ivanova in there somewhere--one of the groupings in the comments had an Ivanova icon. She was a wonderful character!

And you should by all means do a selection of your own. I've begun collecting more female-character icons and it's really opening my eyes.

[alex_beecroft]

I've done one here,
http://alex-beecroft.livejournal.com/204233.html?#cutid1
but I seem to be missing icons for a lot of other characters I also like. I know I had an Eowyn one, and as people have reminded me I could do with a Ripley, Sarah Connor, Lara Croft and River Song one as well. (Not to mention Tiffany Aching and pretty much all of Pratchett's female characters.)