April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers

Link via sink_or_swim: cidercupcakes is running an event called Home Team to highlight favorite female fictional characters; she'll be accepting nominations until the end of Sunday July 21st. I strongly recommend you check it out, whether it's to nominate your own, to support another nomination (you can do so by replying to a nomination; all replies to nominations are counted as support votes for nominations, so don't bother reply to anything unless you're trying to show support for a nom. You cannot make a negative vote). If you do want to nominate someone, please check first to make sure the character hasn't already been nominated--characters should only be nominated once, although you can nominate as many unique characters as you'd like. More detailed rules are of course listed at her LJ entry, linked above.

Even if you don't want to nominate or support a nomination, the comments are totally worth a look-see, because people are encouraged to say a little bit about why they're nominated the character, which means it's 7 8 pages and counting of people saying positive things about female characters that they love. (Last time I checked, there were over 700 900 comments to the entry, and there must be a few hundred unique character noms by this point). It's been a long time since I saw a bunch of people being so enthusiastic about so many female characters, and it's filling my heart with warm fuzzies--I haven't seen a single person violate the spirit of the event with character bashing yet. It's such a brilliant fucking idea, and it's working so well. I'm just amazed.

So far, I've nominated Katara (Avatar the Last Airbender), Vala Mal Doran (Stargate SG-1) and Demona (Gargoyles), and of course supported a metric ton of other noms. So go weigh in! Nominate! Support noms! Refresh your soul by watching fandom do something positive and cheerful for once!