Sister, Sister
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(This month, I'm contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)
As I mentioned yesterday, female-centric gen, especially family, is as often sidelined as femslash. One relationship that does stand the test of canon - though not necessarily the test of fandom - is that of sisters.
Relative to mothers and daughters, media is rife with sisters: Buffy and Dawn Summers, the Miyazawa girls, Kate and Susan Bishop, Morgana and Morgause, Hinoto and Kanoe, Susan and Lucy Pevensie, Padma and Parvati Patil. (It helps that sisters aren't fridged to provide drama at the same rate mothers are, though it certainly does happen to them.) Sisters are still nowhere near as numerous as brothers (or brother and sister pairs), but they do exist.
Sometimes fandom latches onto these sisterly relationships, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm often surprised by which relationships are adopted and which ones leave barely a ripple as they pass through fandom's collective consciousness. So today I'd love to hear about your favorite sisters. Got a favorite canon or work? Leave me a note!
Freeforms of the day: Sisters and Sister-Sister Relationship
Who're your favorite sisters?
As I mentioned yesterday, female-centric gen, especially family, is as often sidelined as femslash. One relationship that does stand the test of canon - though not necessarily the test of fandom - is that of sisters.
Relative to mothers and daughters, media is rife with sisters: Buffy and Dawn Summers, the Miyazawa girls, Kate and Susan Bishop, Morgana and Morgause, Hinoto and Kanoe, Susan and Lucy Pevensie, Padma and Parvati Patil. (It helps that sisters aren't fridged to provide drama at the same rate mothers are, though it certainly does happen to them.) Sisters are still nowhere near as numerous as brothers (or brother and sister pairs), but they do exist.
Sometimes fandom latches onto these sisterly relationships, and sometimes it doesn't. I'm often surprised by which relationships are adopted and which ones leave barely a ripple as they pass through fandom's collective consciousness. So today I'd love to hear about your favorite sisters. Got a favorite canon or work? Leave me a note!
Freeforms of the day: Sisters and Sister-Sister Relationship
Who're your favorite sisters?
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Date: 2013-02-18 07:07 pm (UTC)(I can't think of a single sisterly relationship in any of my actual canons, bar the Pevensies. ARGH.)
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Date: 2013-02-18 09:15 pm (UTC)Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet. Not to mention Mr. Bingley's two sisters.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Lizzie, Jane and Lydia Bennet.
Sense and Sensibility: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.
A Song of Ice and Fire/A Game of Thrones:
Sansa and Arya Stark;
Catelyn Stark and Lysa Arryn (both born Tullys);
the Sand Snakes (the bastard daughters of Prince Oberyn, called the Red Viper: "Sand" is the surname given to bastards of noble blood in their homeland)
Lilo & Stitch: Lilo and Nani Pelekai
The Hunger Games: Katniss and Primrose Everdeen
Downton Abbey: Mary, Sybil and Edith Crawley
Harry Potter:
Lily and Petunia Evans;
Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa Black
(And, of course, the aforementioned Patils.)
Sisters (TV): Alexandra 'Alex' Reed Halsey Barker, Georgiana 'Georgie' Reed Whitsig, Theodora 'Teddy' Reed Margolis Falconer Sorenson, Francesca 'Frankie' Reed Margolis and Dr. Charlotte "Charley" Bennett Hayes
Charmed: Prue, Piper and Phoebe Halliwell and Paige Matthews
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna
Applejack and Apple Bloom
Rarity and Sweetie Belle
Brideshead Revisited (1981 miniseries): Julia and Cordelia Flyte
Chinatown (1974): Evelyn Cross Mulwray and Katherine Cross
Dead Like Me: George and Reggie Lass
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Date: 2013-02-20 06:48 am (UTC)NCIS:
Kate Todd, Rachel Todd Cranston (not shown together onscreen)
The Brady Bunch:
Marcia, Jan, Cindy Brady
The Waltons:
Mary Ellen, Erin, Elizabeth Walton
Mamie & Emily Baldwin