...and they'll call us such names, and we really won't care...
So—for a variety of reasons—I've had the song "Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves" stuck in my head for about three days. This has started to drive me insane. Consequentially, I spent a good chunk of yesterday composing new verses, just so I'd be singing something different. The last time this happened, I found it so entertaining that I decided to make it a party game, and now I'm doing it again (yes, this is now officially a party). Give me a girl from folklore, myth, literature, or hell, modern media, and if I have a clue of who she is, I'll write a verse.
A few rules:
1. Fictional people only. Real people go in the bridge, and I already re-write that every time we do the song live. 2. One girl per customer. 3. Jean Grey is not eligible. 4. Don't make me come over there. 5. Please don't reference the original entry and try to stump me. I'm happy to do second passes at characters I've done before, but only while it stays fun.
Game on!...annnnnnd game off. I have all the requests I can handle, and will be adding new girls to the list throughout the weekend! Thanks for playing!
(If (note the emphasis!) you want to catch up on Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan at any point... Actually, Taura's more wicked-girl than that, come to think... Ahem. Anyway, the author is Lois McMaster Bujold, the genre is science fiction, and the publisher is Baen. http://baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=lmbujold for the for-pay ones (ebooks for $4-5!), and here are the free book library offerings (both freebies focus on her son as protagonist).
It occurs to me that there are a number of girls (and women) saving themselves in those books, who tend to stay saved, in their various ways.)
Frozen and fallen and sitting alone in the snowstorm, Wishing for something a heart can hold onto to keep warm, When the angels arrived, she was already gone, For there's only so long little girls can hold on, And I wonder if she would have asked, had she known of her fate, Why angels would bother to come if they're always too late.
I love the Ariadne verse to pieces, and the Rapunzel one.
I played Wicked Girls for another friend of mine recently and she loves it, and the other day I went into an urban fantasy thread on RPG.net to rec the Toby books and someone else had already recommended them!
I want to say Rosalind from As You Like It, but I'm not at *all* sure any Shakespeare heroine can quite fit this mold (since they all quietly go off and get married at the end... well, maybe not Isabella in Measure for Measure. Or else they are villains/antagonists like Gertrude or Lady Macbeth and they die.)
How about Janet from Tam Lin? Either the ballad or any retelling you like.
The game was closed before you posted, so the specific point is moot (in terms of Seanan writing a verse), but on the Shakespearean heroine fitting the mold, I can't help thinking that the "adventurous engagement in the world followed by the quiet and meek getting married" is not at all dissimilar to the main characters in the song. Take Kate from Taming of the Shrew:
Kate was a shrew and she shared her opinions quite loudly She carried herself, and engaged with the world strong and proudly, She had no desire to be silenced and tamed Till the man that she married enforced what he claimed To be summoned, dismissed, loved and kissed solely at his desire Obediently dampening down spark and her inner fire
Wow... four pages of comments. Has Eowyn been mentioned as a candidate yet? She was always a favorite, given that she saved not only herself, but a whole lot of other people as well.
Seanan's a blue-eyed blonde girl with a penchant for horror She read and she read til one day a thought dawned upon her "I'll write my own books!" So that's what she did; Brought us Velveteen, Georgia, and that Toby kid She sings lyrical pasta, she only sleeps once in a while But if it's any comfort, her madness makes all of us smile.
Well, I would've requested Tan-Tan from Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber, but I'd have expected you to have no familiarity with it, so it all works out.
I'm too late to play, but I just want to tell you how this fills me with glee. I first became aware of your existence when you did this in 2009 and someone commented on one of Cat's posts about the verse you wrote for her wicked girls, and so much fun has led from that. <3
I'd be sorry the game closed before I arrived, except I had no idea who to ask for anyway. Instead I am going to GLEE because of the people who did, and the verses you've written already. GLEE, I say!
Have you encountered Lost Girl? Canadian TV show about a secret society of Fae living among humans, with their own society and leaders, and a female lead who's on the outskirts of Fae society and working as a PI, who knows less about herself and her parents than others do. At which point the resemblance to Toby ends sharply. Bo is a succubus (they stretch the definition of Fae more than a little), her partner is a human scam artist, they're both caught between the Light and Dark courts since Bo won't choose either, and there's a bisexual love triangle with a human doctor and a werewolf cop.
It's really good. I recommend it. You can't get it legally in the States yet, as it's only just finished its first season, but there are of course other ways.
Mae Crawford. Mae learned of magic when finding a cure for her brother A demon seduced him and then took the life of their mother In lantern-lit markets they practice their skill She's learning to dance and he's learning to kill so she'll dance up the demons, her eyes with that fever-fruit shine to fight evil magicians: their souls and their lives on the line.
I know I'm three years late to the party, but I was wondering if you planned on ever doing another round of this? Think of all the new wicked girls that have come out since 2011! Only if you have time of course!
Three years late to the party means that a) it would be a whole new post, and b) poking here actually reduces the chances, because I get balky. I'm sorry. :(
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(If (note the emphasis!) you want to catch up on Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan at any point... Actually, Taura's more wicked-girl than that, come to think... Ahem. Anyway, the author is Lois McMaster Bujold, the genre is science fiction, and the publisher is Baen. http://baen.com/author_catalog.asp?auth
It occurs to me that there are a number of girls (and women) saving themselves in those books, who tend to stay saved, in their various ways.)
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Any chance we might hear some new verses at LepreCon or Context?
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Wishing for something a heart can hold onto to keep warm,
When the angels arrived, she was already gone,
For there's only so long little girls can hold on,
And I wonder if she would have asked, had she known of her fate,
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I played Wicked Girls for another friend of mine recently and she loves it, and the other day I went into an urban fantasy thread on RPG.net to rec the Toby books and someone else had already recommended them!
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How about Janet from Tam Lin? Either the ballad or any retelling you like.
Or Jane from the Dark is Rising sequence?
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The game was closed before you posted, so the specific point is moot (in terms of Seanan writing a verse), but on the Shakespearean heroine fitting the mold, I can't help thinking that the "adventurous engagement in the world followed by the quiet and meek getting married" is not at all dissimilar to the main characters in the song. Take Kate from Taming of the Shrew:
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To be summoned, dismissed, loved and kissed solely at his desire
Obediently dampening down spark and her inner fire
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She was always a favorite, given that she saved not only herself, but a whole lot of other people as well.
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She read and she read til one day a thought dawned upon her
"I'll write my own books!" So that's what she did;
Brought us Velveteen, Georgia, and that Toby kid
She sings lyrical pasta, she only sleeps once in a while
But if it's any comfort, her madness makes all of us smile.
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Have you encountered Lost Girl? Canadian TV show about a secret society of Fae living among humans, with their own society and leaders, and a female lead who's on the outskirts of Fae society and working as a PI, who knows less about herself and her parents than others do. At which point the resemblance to Toby ends sharply. Bo is a succubus (they stretch the definition of Fae more than a little), her partner is a human scam artist, they're both caught between the Light and Dark courts since Bo won't choose either, and there's a bisexual love triangle with a human doctor and a werewolf cop.
It's really good. I recommend it. You can't get it legally in the States yet, as it's only just finished its first season, but there are of course other ways.
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Mae learned of magic when finding a cure for her brother
A demon seduced him and then took the life of their mother
In lantern-lit markets they practice their skill
She's learning to dance and he's learning to kill
so she'll dance up the demons, her eyes with that fever-fruit shine
to fight evil magicians: their souls and their lives on the line.
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Kaylee from Firefly..
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