Lady Business

Slightly later than planned, we bring you a week of posts dedicated to women in positions of authority starting with a guest post by Memory Scarlett. Memory Scarlett reads a lot of comics. She writes about the experience on her blog, In the Forest of Stories, and tweets her comics-related feels on Twitter as @xicanti. She’d very much like to be BFFs with Carol Danvers and Jessica Drew.

Carol Danvers, codename Captain Marvel, isn’t just a superhero with stellar powers: she’s also an army officer with a talent for command. Whether she’s heading the Avengers, as she does at the beginning of Brian Michael Bendis’s run on Mighty Avengers, or serving as the organization’s ambassador to the stars, as in Kelly Sue DeConnick’s most recent Captain Marvel series, Carol takes charge.

She’s earned the right to call herself Captain, and she keeps on earning it every day of her life.

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Fanwork is awesome and sharing fanwork is even more awesome. Join us as we keymash and squee over our favorite fanwork, from fic (both written and podfic) to art to vids and meta and back again. In our final 2014 installment of Fanwork Recs, Jodie looks back at her favorite vids produced this year and Renay attempts to clear her to-rec file to prepare for incoming holiday exchanges while she desperately tries to figure out what she loved most.

Recommendations included:

• Alien — art (1)
• Borgen — vid (1)
• Call the Midwife — vid (1)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier — art (2), vid (1)
• Final Fantasy VIII — art (1)
• Final Fantasy X — art (1)
• Guardians of the Galaxy — fic (1)
• The Hunger Games — vid (1)
• MCU — fic (3), art (6), vid (1)
• The Musketeers — vid (1)
• The 100 — vid (1)
• Pacific Rim — vid (1)
• Peaky Blinders — vids (2)
• Person of Interest — vid (1)
• The Raven Cycle — vid (1)

( On to the recs! )

Fanwork is awesome and sharing fanwork is even more awesome. Join us as we keymash and squee over our favorite fanwork, from fic (both written and podfic) to art to vids and meta and back again.

Recommendations included:

• The 100 — vid (1)
• The Avengers — gifset (1)
• Black Widow — art (1) [we've decided she's her own fandom. WE DO WHAT WE WANT, KEVIN FEIGE.]
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier — art (2), vids (2)
• Final Fantasy IX — art (1)
• Guardians of the Galaxy — art (3)
• The Hunger Games — vid (1)
• Marvel — cosplay (1)
• Merlin — vid (1)
• The Mindy Project — vid (1)
• Pacific Rim — vids (2)
• Person of Interest — vids (2)

( On to the recs! )