slayerettespodcast:

“I think a lot about what makes a strong female character. You know, movies and TV shows, these things have influence, my own website. So I think the question of “What makes a strong female character?”, often goes misinterpreted. And instead we get these two-dimensional superwomen, who maybe have one quality that’s played up a lot. Like, you know, a Catwoman type, or she plays her sexuality up a lot and it’s seen as power. But they’re not strong characters who happen to be female, they’re completely flat and they’re basically cardboard characters.
The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple. When in actuality, women are complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy. And women happen to be people!”

-Tavi Gevinson for TEDTalks [x]

This is basically what I have to say to people when they think Buffy isn’t a strong female character because she has a lot of low-points and weaknesses.

She’s a strong female character because she’s such a human character. People expect “strong female characters” to be pretty easy to understand and all-around unrealistic in their strength. They don’t realize that strength is something you build through hardship and adversity just as much as you gain it physically with exercise. That even the strongest characters have their flaws and weaknesses. That even if they have super strength, it doesn’t mean that they can’t have moments when they feel helpless or weak.

The strongest female characters are the ones that aren’t shouting “GIRL POWER!” in your face every ten seconds. They’re the characters that are written like real people with real emotions that fluctuate. They’re fictional characters, yes, but a strong character will often feel just as real to you as a close friend you’ve known all your life. Male OR female. A strong character will impact you, whether they’re the hero or the villain, the victim or the assistant. It doesn’t matter!

Sorry about the ranting, guys! I got a little caught up in my own thinking.

-A

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alittlebitofdisneymagic:

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quarteralert:

livindavidaloki:

WE DO NOT FIX WHAT IS NOT BROKEN, DISNEY.

Where in the movie did it show that Merida hated dresses or dressing up? The one scene where Elinor tried getting her to wear the one dress that practically suffocated her and made her immobile? Well, of course she hated it… Anyone having to wear a dress like that would hate it.

But she’s seen in casual dresses and garb throughout the rest of the film. Yeah, she wants to stay single and let her hair flow through the wind as she rides through the glen, firing arrows into the sunset. That’s why we love her! But does that automatically cancel out the fact that she’s, well, a girl that DOES wear dresses? That played with dolls when she was younger? That liked to be sung to when she was scared of thunder? That doesn’t necessarily like OR dislike “girly” things? Did we also forget the entire last half of the movie where both her and Elinor had to compromise with each other about what they wanted and what they’re going to do for the rest of their lives as queen and princess?

Just because she “wanted to dress up for her coronation ceremony” doesn’t make her any less of the character she was in the movie. She just wanted to dress up for a very important event, albeit wearing a much more comfortable dress.

Bless you, quarteralert. Bless you.

*stands and claps*

OH and Fuck you (talk show host Snow White and Aurora may have needed true loves kiss to wake up, but they were CURSED. They were kind, brave in the face of danger, and have balls SIGNIFICANTLY bigger than yours.

Suck my dick ___ I will defend my babies till the end of time.

(I don’t remember his name hence the blanks)

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AWWWWW

This is just too cute it hurts

girl has more game the i will ever have

The adorableness of all these Peter Pan GIFs are starting to get to me. 

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