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Your name: Megan
Age: 27
Location: United States
Five things you think are awesome: TV, the internet, chocolate, fanfic, fictional women
Three major dislikes: heat+humidity (one is bad enough but together, they are wretched), hatred for anyone/everyone who is different, female character bashing in which the women are called misogynistic/hurtful names (even worse when done to REAL women, though)

Current Fandoms: Doctor Who, Nikita, The Walking Dead, Bomb Girls, Spartacus, Elizabeth Mitchell's face, Being Human UK, The Vampire Diaries, Lost Girl, Game of Thrones and lots of other shows I'm not really fannish about
Past Fandoms: BSG, Firefly/Whedonverse, SGA/SG1, Farscape, Lost, Merlin and lots of others
Things you like about these fandoms: (ships, characters etc. etc.)
Ships: Amy/Rory, Doctor/River, Michael/Nikita, Andrea/Michonne, Betty/Kate, Crixus/Naevia, Bonnie/Jeremy, Bonnie/Caroline, Bo/Lauren, Kara/Sam, Wash/Zoe, John/Elizabeth, Sawyer/Juliet, Arthur/Gwen before season 4, and many others including LOTS of femslash
Characters: Kara Thrace, Aeryn Sun, Zoe Washburne, everyone from Firefly, Nikita, Rory Williams, Juliet Burke, Sam Anders, Cameron Mitchell, Annie Sawyer, River Song, Elizabeth Weir, Vala Mal Doran and many, many more
Movie you are most looking forward to seeing this year: Star Trek, Catching Fire, lots of others I can't remember
Book you are most looking forward to seeing this year: pretty much any new book in any of the series' I'm reading. Which are mostly Young Adult or Urban Fantasy
TV Show you are most looking forward to seeing this year: BOMB GIRLS, MIRANDA, Lost Girl, Doctor Who, the final season of Spartacus :(, The Walking Dead, Nikita

Hobbies: reading, writing, the internet, tv, other basic hobby-type stuff
Favourite season: fall
Favourite food: Does chocolate count? I like chicken?

What you are looking for in a friend: Someone who is relatively active and who doesn't mind that I post mostly fandom stuff. Someone nice. Someone who likes any of the following: female characters, femslash, vidding, multi-shipping like a boss
The optional gif part:

(how come if it's optional, i always feel the need to dig one up?)

Ooh...Juliet/spoon is another good ship :D

Let's bond over our hatred for female character bashing, y/y? And Elizabeth Mitchell's face is one of my main fandoms, too.

(I'm not that active yet, but only because I'm slowly moving over here from LJ.)

Elizabeth Mitchell is a fandom all on her own and like, the BEST one :)

Female characters are awesome. Bashing them is not.

I shall add you :)

Totally the best one!

Adding you back. :D

I see your Elizabeth Mitchell/spoon and raise to Elizabeth Mitchell/everyone.

What I hate even more than female character bashing is badly written female characters in a show. Because it's the ultimate form of female character bashing.

Elizabeth Mitchell has RIDICULOUS amounts of chemistry with everyone, this is true. But I mostly ship everyone/everyone anyway so, I always assume I'm a bit biased :)

What I hate even more than female character bashing is badly written female characters in a show. Because it's the ultimate form of female character bashing.

On the one hand, yes but at the same time, a lot of people seem to use the 'she's poorly written/doesn't get enough character development/only a love interest/so on' excuse as reasons to hate on female characters. And I think there's a difference between female characters who are truly badly written and ones that just don't get enough character development or are surrounded by terrible storylines. For instance, the women of the Stargateverse tended to be overlooked or stuck in ridiculous plots a lot of the time. But I don't really think any of them were badly written, they just got screwed over by the writers.

Yeah, a lot of people do that; it annoys the heck out of me. On the other hand, I've been given the 'you just use it as an excuse to hate on her' speech myselfs once, when I pointed out that a female character was in fact badly written. There's a fine line, especially when people accuse others of something.

Sometimes characters are badly written, and mostly I love them anyway. Sometimes there's shows who have no plot, ridiculous storylines, and ludicrous logic, and mostly I love those, too.

Totally yes to what you say about Stargateverse gals.

You're right, there is a very thin line. And honestly, just disliking a character because she's poorly written (or for whatever reason) is fine. The only thing that really bothers me is when people use disgusting, misogynistic language to express their dislike of said character or wish really horrible things would happen to that character. Like, that's just not necessary.

I agree. Belittling and derogative language is just not necessary; it never is.

Friends for the fandoms! And uh, just because you seem cool? My post is on pg 2 :)

Sure :)

So we both love Elizabeth Mitchell's face, fictional women, Doctor Who, Bomb Girls, Kara Thrace, Zoe Washburne, Miranda, femslash, chocolate.... many, many things is what I am saying. I would love to be friends! Is this acceptable?

Sure :)

Female bashing gets me every time. Glad that there's someone out there that agrees.

Also: yay for another DW fan! Friends?

Sure :)

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