Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

Or: hi and welcome to day one of my Bonnie week of appreciation for womenlovefest. Now, I usually don’t tend to focus on one aspect of a character when I do meta, but there’s one thing that I’ve always wanted to rant about regarding Bonnie (or better, why she isn't so well-liked), so I’ll go with it to start with. Hopefully it won’t get indecently long.

Now: Bonnie Bennett happens to be my favorite female character from The Vampire Diaries. She also has the misfortune of getting an amount of hate that is completely disproportional to her actions.

Spoilers for both seasons including the S2 finale.

( it gets longer under here. )

In the next meta episode: something less hate-focused and more awesome focused.

Or: hi and welcome to day one of Brienne appreciation for womenlovefest. My first day ended up being some very wordy meta that was probably so wordy because I've been thinking Brienne meta for a month and never wrote it down. Actually it got too long so I'm splitting it in two parts.


In my for now mostly lurking time around ASOIAF, the most bashing I’ve seen about Brienne mostly consists in the following arguments (from what I’ve seen): a) she’s boring and her POVs drag (probably shouldn’t be considered strictly bashing, but if you wish a character dead because their POVs are dragging I’d say it is), b) she’s too naïve to survive in a place like Westeros (and therefore unrealistic), c) she’s there just to be Jaime’s moral compass and the rest of her story is a waste of space, d) she’s there to appeal to feminist readers only (and therefore she’s useless). I haven’t seen anything about her having to just stay home and marry, but I’m sure it has to be somewhere. Considering that I hadn’t thought any of that while reading the books in a row this summer, I was kind of baffled by most of these. So I figured I could start addressing these (except her POVs dragging because I’m planning to do meta on that specifically).

Spoilers up to AFFC (mostly for her backstory - though there are some pretty huge ones - and for someone she meets – for the rest, strictly facts-related spoilers are up to ASOS).

( What Brienne is not, or at least not according to me. )

In the next meta episode tomorrow (er, later today for me): three things that, according to me, Brienne is and that are imo overlooked half of the time.

aand, welcome to the follow up to yesterday's meta and to day two of my Brienne appreciation week for womenlovefest.

Spoiler warning stays the same - up to AFFC.

( what Brienne is, at least according to me. )

In the next meta episode, probably another way too long post on how Brienne’s POVs aren’t boring and aren’t a drag, and how she surely doesn’t deserve to die for having so many.