Awesome Ladies, Day 26
Sep. 5th, 2011 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalWe are approaching the end of this, the longest month in the history of EVER.
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character
(from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March
Originally, I'd planned to include the March family on mother/daughter/sister day. But my lack of "classical" literature knowledge means that I don't have many other options, haha. Sort of cheating a bit, since I picspammed the movie, but I was also a huge fan of the books - not just Little Women, but the less-popular ones that came after it, too. I also had Meg and Jo dolls as a child. (Not sure how I ended up with two of the four, but Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz made a passable Beth and an Alice in Wonderland doll doubled as Amy, haha.) Pretty sure my mother still has them somewhere, actually. Anywho, being an only child, I am fascinated by stories about family and particularly siblings. I'm not sure if this was the first one to give me sibling envy, but it was one of the earliest I can remember.
I was a relentless Jo/Laurie shipper back in the day, which may have had more to do with Christian Bale than anything else. And I still cry EVERY TIME Beth dies. Man, now I kinda want to watch the movie again...
(from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March
Originally, I'd planned to include the March family on mother/daughter/sister day. But my lack of "classical" literature knowledge means that I don't have many other options, haha. Sort of cheating a bit, since I picspammed the movie, but I was also a huge fan of the books - not just Little Women, but the less-popular ones that came after it, too. I also had Meg and Jo dolls as a child. (Not sure how I ended up with two of the four, but Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz made a passable Beth and an Alice in Wonderland doll doubled as Amy, haha.) Pretty sure my mother still has them somewhere, actually. Anywho, being an only child, I am fascinated by stories about family and particularly siblings. I'm not sure if this was the first one to give me sibling envy, but it was one of the earliest I can remember.
I was a relentless Jo/Laurie shipper back in the day, which may have had more to do with Christian Bale than anything else. And I still cry EVERY TIME Beth dies. Man, now I kinda want to watch the movie again...
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2011 03:13 am (UTC)UGHHH JO/LAURIE TO THE DEATH. WHYYYYYYYYYYY.
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Date: Sep. 6th, 2011 01:31 pm (UTC)I MAY HAVE WRITTEN JO/LAURIE FANFIC IN MY HEAD. I WAS A PRECOCIOUS CHILD.