swim through the fires to stay in this world

There was a post going around tumblr that really got under my skin - it was a fairy accurate summary of the king and lionheart dynamic, but the line about not being able to find a example with a lady just***... triggered all my past experience of people dismissing het and femme-slash because [pick a square from your slash fangirl bingo card, pick any square].

*** I also want to note that the person I linked from tagged this post 'Kate/Clint' SO CLEARLY I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO THINKS THAT THIS DYNAMIC EXISTS WITH LADIES.

So, queen and lionheart dynamics. The examples that came to mind:

Lydia/Allison (Teen Wolf)
Sabriel/Touchstone (Sabriel, bolded because so much yes.)
Tremaine/Ilias (although that's more spy/lionheart)
Mulan/Aurora (Once Upon A Time)
Jane/Darcy (would be the super-fluffy version of this trope)
Any Evil Queen/Huntsman story would be the evil example of this trope
I'd accept a case for Hermione/Ron here.
I think a case could also be made for Cameron/John from TSCC.
Richard/Cara (LOTS)

Alice In Wonderland:

Inept Translations (Alice)

Avatar:

The Nature of Fire (Katara/Zuko)

Black Lagoon:

Making Good Choices (Rock/Revy)

Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

Belief (Anya)

Burn Notice:

Shotgun (Michael/Fi)

The Black Jewels Trilogy:

That Teenage Feeling (Saetan/Silvia)

Castle:

I Wouldn't Stop For Red Lights (Beckett, Alexis)

Community:

In The Blazing Offense (Jeff/Annie)
B– (Annie)
Campfire (Jeff/Annie)
Your Wake-Up Call Is Too Old For You (Jeff/Annie)
We Crashed Her Party (Britta, Abed, Troy)
History Of Film 201 (Annie/Abed)
Bad Metaphors (Jeff/Annie)
Leaving Home (Britta)
One Man Leaves (Jeff/Annie)

Criminal Minds:

Armor (JJ, Emily, Penelope)

Doctor Who:

Purple Toast (Amy/Doctor)
What Dreams May Come (Amy)

The Fall of Ile-Rien:

Progeny (Tremaine Ilias)

Glee:

Dramatic Irony Sucks (Jesse/Rachel)
Ain't Too Proud To Plead (Jesse/Rachel)
A High-Toned Woman Will Make You Walk The Line (Jesse/Rachel)
Life After High School (Rachel)

Harry Potter:

Wake-Up Call (Hermione/Ron)
Dreams (Luna)
Unspoken (Neville/Ginny)

How I Met Your Mother:

Moving Sideways (Ted/Robin)

The Hunger Games:

Adjusting (Katniss)
Once We Were Warriors (Haymitch/Johanna)
Peeta, After (Peeta/Katniss)

Iron Man:

High Voltage (Pepper/Tony)

Legend of the Seeker:

Different Names For The Same Thing (Kahlan/Richard)
Seahawk (Cara)
Fecundity (Kahlan, Cara)
Blessings (Richard/Kahlan)
Warmth (Richard/Kahlan)

Leverage:

First Time Diving Off A Building (Parker)

Nikita:

White Noise (Thom/Alex)

The Old Kingdom Trilogy:

First Time (Sabriel/Touchstone)

Percy Jackson & The Olympians:

Fragile Tough Girl (Luke, Annabeth, Percy)

The Queen's Thief series:

Everybody Rolls With Their Finger's Crossed (Attolia)

Questionable Content:

Heaven In A Cup (Faye/Angus)

The Sarah Conner Chronicles:

Baby, Baby, Ain't It True I'm Immortal When I'm With You (Sarah Conner/Derek Reese)

True Blood:

Starvation (Jessica/Hoyt)
Drink Up Baby (Tommy/Jessica)
You're An Animal, Too (Jessica/Tommy)
A Dead Girl's Guide To Dating A Shifter (Jessica/Tommy)

The Vampire Diaries:

Love Is A Blood-Sport (Damon/Elena)
Your Childhood Home Is Just Powder-White Bone (Elena/Damon)
Smashed (Damon/Elena)
The Most Joyless Time Of Year (Damon/Elena)
The Only Shape I'll Pray To (Damon/Elena, Damon/Katherine)
Another Flashing Chance (Damon/Elena)
21st (Damon/Elena)
Get Thee Behind Me, Temptation (Elena/Damon)
You Take The High Road (Pearl, Katherine)
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Caroline, Damon)
If Amber From Teen Mom Can Get A New Boyfriend So Can I (Caroline/Tyler)
Debatably First Date (Tyler/Caroline)

Multi-Fandom:

Text From Last Night Ficlets (Community, Glee, HIMYM and The Vampire Diaries)

....because Stuff Happened. You know, schoolwork, friends, life-sapping illness.... the usual.

But I did finally finish answering the questions you posed to me:

hireadd  - Top five femslash pairings:

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xlovelylightx  -– Top five awesome male characters.

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....And top five female fight scenes:

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chomiji  – Top 5 SF&F novels with female protagonists/principal characters?

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digthenym  – Top five female fights in shonen :D

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mzminola  – Top five domestic things for characters to do.

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rabidline  – Top five overlooked characters (by the creators)

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bellzooks  – Top 5 crossover pairings!

I went platonic with some of these.

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fairest1  - Top five 'lazy Sunday' pairings.

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pheonix_melody: Top five things in [fandom here]'s fanon that you would give a kidney for to be canon? (I picked Naruto)
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devimelete: Top five songs that reminds you of the characters or the overall canon. (Saiyuki)

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ryanitenebrae  - Top five shows, books, films, or plotlines of shows, books, or film, that you feel wasted potential. Describe the direction they could have gone in, and the direction they went in instead.

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iki_teru  - top five things you find most annoying in any given fandom.

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tobu_ishi  - Top five canon platonic moments between couples you shipped romantically.

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So, I have been quite thrilled with all girl love that has been going around; it's great to see the chicks getting some adoration for a change.

And in that vein, news that make me so excited I could barely read the post.

I have been saying that Sabriel would make an awesome movie since I first read the book, and many many times since I've said that it should be a movie, if only so someone talented could make a Sabriel music vid to Bob Dylan's "ring them bells" and one of the many versions of "Don't Fear The Reaper."