because ladies are marvelous

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Ready for halfamoon? It's a celebration of women in fandom that runs from Febrary 1st-14th and I've never yet managed to catch it live. This year I'm working on a batch of Marvel Ladies icons - ladies from the Marvel films, 100 icons so far and I've only covered three films. Um, oops? (I'm having fun. Discovered when iconing screencaps of Peggy in Captain America that when she's being badass with a gun she has red nail polish on, hadn't noticed that before.)

I did do a bunch of Ladies recs for International Woman's Day last year. I feel the urge to do another, either for halfamoon or International Woman's Day again. Because of fics like sugar_fey's Conversation Over Tea and frea_o's The Bechdel Test. And because 'Women Being Awesome' is a tag on AO3 and I love that.

Other ladies things I've spotted recently: there's a multifandom women comment ficathon and a heroinebigbang happening, and I recently read an interesting post from YA author Sarah Rees Brennan on ladies in writing. If that's a bit too rage inducing, try her Real Lady Sleuths post as well or instead - I love that one, and I went back and reread it. Not tempted? Allow me to share two snippets from that:

When World War II started, her friends begged her to come home. Lee Miller instead became a photojournalist and correspondent for Vogue, and thus one of the first female war correspondents of World War II. Her pictures of the concentration camps are famous. In 1945, just after Hitler died and after a long day photographing Dachau, Lee Miller was photographed by the Life magazine correspondent, naked in Hitler’s bathtub, with her combat boots and army uniform beside her.

and

GESTAPO: BRING US NANCY WAKE! THE WHITE MOUSE IS OUR MOST WANTED CRIMINAL! WE WILL GIVE YOU FIVE MILLION FRANCS!
FRANCE: That is like twice as much as you’d pay for any of the dudes.
GESTAPO: Seems about right.

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for the heads-up re: halfamoon. How does it work?

rarewomen, which is a 1k gift fic exchange kinda like yuletide but for rare ladies rather than rare fandoms, is just getting ready to start noms for the year.

Your Kaylee icon is TOO ADORABLE, btw. Did you make it? :)

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As far as I'm aware, basically share all the things with a focus on ladies in fandoms :)

I spotted rarewomen, but like with yuletide, I got hugely confused as to what was going on and who I could write about, and ran away :S

That one's from sunrise_glance, I loved it and had to steal it :D And thanks for the compliment :D

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun!

Yeah, rarewomen is confusing. I think I have it sufficiently sussed to be able to sign up, but man was I lost at the beginning. I think the gist is that you get 5 noms per fandom in 5 fandoms, your lady needs < 500 complete fics on the AO3 to be rare, and when you request/offer, you will do 3-4 fandoms, with 2 women from the tagset per fandom. I THINK.

Ooh, I will have to go take a look at their icons, then!