One Girl Revolution

[redbrunja]

gacked from droiche:

 Post a comment, and I'll give you a top 5 to provide. It could be anything.

Top 5 Fictional Ladies I Admire

1.) Iwaya Sumire, Tramps Like Us

2.) Katara of the Southern Water Tribe, Avatar: The Last Airbender

3.) Kusanagi Motoko, Ghost In The Shell

4.) Alanna of Tortall, Alanna: The First Adventure

5.) Eddi McCandry, War for the Oaks

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

4. Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel La Motte, A.S. Byatt's Possession (http://www.amazon.com/Possession-Romance-S-Byatt/dp/0679735909). It's a tragically ill-starred relationship, which isn't generally a deal-breaker for me, and it's a double infidelity (Ash is married, La Motte is in a closeted lesbian relationship), which typically is a sticking point -- but the passion-of-the-mind aspect, which is absolutely central here as it's a relationship built on correspondence about writing, is strong enough to outweigh that squick. (It probably helps a lot that it's presented as a sort of madness, both parties deliberately cut it off after a time to try to prevent any pain to their original partners, and there are still all sorts of unhappy consequences anyway...) I'd also list the parallel modern relationship between Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey here -- it's so inextricably tied in to the Victorian story line that I can't really list it on its own, and while it's also very much an intellectual passion, the component of physical attraction is more immediate as they're working together in person, whereas the Ash/La Motte relationship is, other than their lost weekend together, purely a matter of correspondence...

5. Lian Nichang and Zhuo Yi-Hang, The Bride With White Hair (http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/bride_with_white_hair.htm). Epic tragic romance that hits oh so many of my pet kinks and tropes. Enemies as lovers, and trust issues by the bucketful! Books usually get me much, much more strongly than visual media, but there's just something special about this film. Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung were at the top of their game, the chemistry is great and the love scenes are astonishingly sensual for the time and genre.

Honorable mentions to Robin of Loxley and Lady Marion in the 1980s UK television series Robin of Sherwood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_of_Sherwood), Sarah and Jareth in Labyrinth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(film)), Túrin and Níniel/Nienor from J.R.R. Tolkien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BArin_Turambar), Amelia and Emerson in Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Peabody), and Oscar and André (Oscar is a girl, honest!) in The Rose of Versailles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_of_Versailles)...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for these.

Shamelfully, when you posted this, I had not yet even started reading 'Mara', (I swear, my to-read pile is insane. Not to your standards, but to mine...) but prompted by this, I did. And I have to say, I REALLY like Mara. Although I'm sad that the queen is going to end up being evil - I have a soft spot for the Egyptian queens who said, 'fuck it, I'm ruling' and did.