As long as people from Soul Eater and AtLA are talking to each other in my head....

[terajk]

....Maka and Katara would have a really fun....interaction, I guess? (Okay, okay, I would ship them.*)

They're both badass! They're both insecure about their own abilities at some point in time and work through it! (Katara being jealous/frustrated that Aang learns waterbending moves so easily; Maka feeling like she's not as strong as Black*Star or Kid) and angry with their fathers! They both get a lot of fandom hate/dislike for being female protagonists teenage girls angry sometimes as imperfect as the fandom darlings bitches! I am insecure about writing them both!

Actually, one reason I have trouble writing them both is because of the hate they get. Because I love that they get angry and frustrated and make mistakes! (And tbh, I can't think of any characters who never make mistakes, ever--hell, even local Joan Watson was wrong about Sherlock's asexuality.) And I'm like: "But how do I write them doing these things--which darling dudes do, too, btw--without them looking like Bad People? And then I chicken out.


*And I would ship them with/have them talk to Hermione Granger from Harry Potter.

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[lizbee]

It's funny you mention Hermione at the end, because back in the day I wrote some meta about how her emotional insights into Harry and Ron in OotP were not actually that good, and her Christmas gifts to them were really thoughtless, and she obviously felt pressure to be as good at the emotional stuff as she was at the intellectual. And I got all these responses accusing me of misogyny and whatnot, because hooooooooooooooow daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare you suggest Hermione is not perfect?!

Then, when HBP came out, and suddenly Hermione's emotional imperfections were made explicit, the same people were all, hoooooooooooooooooooooooooww daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare JKR ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuin Hermione????

TL;DR even as people hate on female characters for being imperfect, their imperfections are hard to deal with.

[terajk]

even as people hate on female characters for being imperfect, their imperfections are hard to deal with.

We can't win!

The hilarious thing is, every time I was REALLY annoyed with Hermione it was because she was doing something I would do. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.