"So you're saying that the moon is called Birmingham?"

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A very shiny meme, stolen from all over: 100 of my favourite female characters from anything ever, in no particular order:

1. Buffy Anne Summers (BtVS)
2. Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
3. Bernice Summerfield (Doctor Who)
4. Sophie Hatter (Howl's Moving Castle)
5. Ace McShane (Doctor Who)
6. Romanadvoratrelundar (both of her) (Doctor Who)
7. Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine)
8. Jadzia Dax (Deep Space Nine)
9. Wendy Watson (The Middleman)
10. Zoe Alleyne Washburne (Firefly)
11. Kaylee Frye (Firefly)
12. Zoe Heriot (Doctor Who)
13. Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
14. Anji Kapoor (Doctor Who)
15. Sarah Connor (Terminator-verse)
16. Karrin Murphy (The Dresden Files)
17. Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5)
18. Delenn (Babylon 5)
19. Dido Twite (the Dido series)
20. Katara (Avatar)
21. Lynda Day (Press Gang)
22. Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)
23. Nanny Ogg (Discworld)
24. Agnes Nitt (Discworld)
25. Tiffany Aching (Discworld)
26. Magrat Garlick (Discworld)
27. Jenna Stannis (Blake's 7)
28. Cally (Blake's 7)
29. Dayna Mellanby (Blake's 7)
30. Dawn Summers (BtVS)
31. Leaf (Keys to the Kingdom series)
32. Harriet Vane (Lord Peter Wimsey series)
33. Worrals (W.E. Johns' Worrals series)
34. Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)
35. Sydney Bristow (Alias)
36. Sophie Aubrey (the Master and Commander series)
37. Original Cindy (Dark Angel)
38. CJ Cregg (The West Wing)
39. Beka Valentine (Andromeda)
40. Trance Gemini (Andromeda)
41. Rommie (Andromeda)
42. Bellis Coldwine (The Scar)
43. Irene of Attolia (Attolia series)
44. Lacey Thornfield (The Middleman)
45. Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey)
46. Miss Howe (Clarissa)
47. Tara Maclay (BtVS)
48. Cordelia Chase (BtVS/Angel)
49. Lilah Morgan (Angel)
50. Gwen (Merlin)
51. Morgana (Merlin)
52. Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes)
53. Ruth Evershed (Spooks)
54. Veronica Mars
55. Meg Manning (Veronica Mars)
56. Donna Moss (The West Wing)
57. Angua (Discworld)
58. Chihiro (Spirited Away)
59. Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)
60. Georgia Lass (Dead Like Me)
61. Roxy Harvey (Dead Like Me)
62. Ellen Harvelle (Supernatural)
63. Teyla Emmagan (Stargate: Atlantis)
64. Elizabeth Weir (Stargate: Atlantis)
65. Bela Talbot (Supernatural)
66. Tara Thornton (True Blood)
67. Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins (BtVS)
68. Kitty Cobham (Hornblower)
69. Georgina Jones (Adam Adamant Lives!)
70. Rani Chandra (SJA)
71. Maria Jackson (SJA)
72. Alesha Phillips (Law and Order: UK)
73. Constable Habib (The Thin Blue Line)
74. Fran Katzenjammer (Black Books)
75. Pauline Fossil (Ballet Shoes)
76. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)
77. Kate the Farrier (A Knight's Tale)
78. River Tam (Firefly)
79. Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who)
80. Polly Wright (Doctor Who)
81. Izzy S. (Doctor Who)
82. Helena Justina (the Falco series)
83. Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch)
84. Thursday Next (Thursday Next series)
85. Rusty Dickinson (Back Home)
86. Alanna (Song of the Lioness)
87. Veralidaine Sarrasri (Immortals series)
88. Lyra Belacqua (His Dark Materials)
89. Cassandra Mortmain (I Capture the Castle)
90. Cottia (The Eagle of the Ninth)
91. Margaret Thursday (Thursday's Child)
92. Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings)
93. Dicey Tillerman (The Tillerman Series)
94. Marian (Maid Marian and her Merry Men)
95. Vicki Nelson (Blood Ties)
96. Coreen Fennel (Blood Ties)
97. Dr Angie Marsh (Ultraviolet)
98. Victoria Waterfield (Doctor Who)
99. Jo Harvelle (Supernatural)
100. Leela (Doctor Who)

(On a vaguely related note, am v. tempted by the Martha Jones action figure wot I saw in the window of FOrbidden Planet for only £4. On the one hand, I fear this may be the thin end of the wedge in the action figure buying department and really my flat is far too full of stuff already. On the other hand, MAAARRRRTHA! Decisions, decisions.)

And another meme, from lizbee: my top 100 songs by female artists or female fronted bands (according to last.fm). I am not entirely sure how accurate this is for me: last.fm doesn't scrobble from my MP3 player and even my most played tracks have a fairly low number of plays, so if I get something new and play it a few times, that skews things rather. I am surprised by the complete absence of ABBA, I must say.

1 Hole – Violet
2 Vienna Teng – Harbor
3 Martha Wainwright – BMFA
4 Christine Fellows – Lost Overtures
5 The Ditty Bops – Wake Up
6 Superchic[k] – One Girl Revolution (Battle Mix)
7 Anna Nalick – In My Head
8 Regina Spektor – On the Radio
9 Sam Phillips – One Day Late
10 Kate Walsh – Bury My Head
11 Tegan and Sara – Nineteen
12 Sarah McLachlan – Plenty
13 Kim Richey – A Place Called Home
14 Suzanne Vega – Knight Moves
15 Aimee Mann – Pavlov's Bell
16 Sarah McLachlan – Good Enough
17 Anna Nalick – Drink Me
18 Natasha Bedingfield – I Wanna Have Your Babies
19 6 Day Riot – Go! Canada
20 Cathy Davey – Sing For Your Supper
21 Jenny Owen Youngs – Fuck was I (Album version)
22 Kendall Payne – Aslan
23 Alison Krauss – That Kind of Love
24 Alanis Morissette – Hand In My Pocket
25 Cathy Davey – Clean And Neat
26 Cibo Matto – Sugar Water
27 Garbage – Temptation Waits
28 Natalie Imbruglia – Big Mistake
29 Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – You Are What You Love
30 spring awakening – My Junk
31 Tilly and the Wall – Bessa
32 Alanis Morissette – Right Through You
33 Platinum Weird – Taking Chances
34 Aimee Mann – You Could Make a Killing
35 Garbage – Fix Me Now
36 Kate Bush – Waking the Witch
37 Anna Nalick – Breathe (2 AM)
38 Charlotte Martin – Every Time It Rains
39 Catatonia – Don't Need the Sunshine
40 Aimee Mann – Put Me on Top
41 PJ Harvey – Shame
42 Jenny Owen Youngs – Drinking Song
43 Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
44 Anna Nalick – Paper Bag
45 Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time
46 Emilíana Torrini – Summerbreeze
47 Patti Smith – Gloria
48 Melanie Doane – I Can't Take My Eyes Off You
49 Tori Amos – Here. In My Head
50 Aimee Mann – Nothing Is Good Enough
51 Garbage – Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)
52 Velvet Chain – Strong
53 Cathy Davey – Cold Man's Nightmare
54 Sophie B. Hawkins – Mr. Tugboat Hello
55 Aimee Mann – 4th Of July
56 Garbage – #1 Crush
57 Sophie B. Hawkins – Swing From Limb to Limb (My Home Is in Your Jungle)
58 Aimee Mann – Satellite
59 Catatonia – Game On
60 Bif Naked – Choking on the Truth
61 K's Choice – Winners
62 Cathy Davey – Nervous Twitches
63 The Mummers – March of the Dawn
64 Alisha's Attic – Air We Breathe
65 K's Choice – To This Day
66 Kathleen Edwards – Run
67 Regina Spektor – Samson
68 Rasputina – Transylvanian Concubine
69 Natalie Imbruglia – Starting Today
70 Aimee Mann – Save Me
71 Tom Jones and Cerys Matthews – Baby It's Cold Outside
72 Anna Nalick – Wreck of the Day
73 Alison Krauss & Union Station – Daylight
74 Doris Day – Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
75 Natalie Imbruglia – Butterflies
76 Catatonia – Johnny Come Lately
77 Lisa Hannigan – I Don't Know
78 Ani DiFranco – 32 Flavors
79 Aimee Mann – This Is How It Goes
80 Chris & Meredith Thompson – Tanglewood Tree
81 Kelly Clarkson – Irvine
82 Nico – Fairest Of The Seasons
83 Adele – Chasing Pavements
84 Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway
85 Aimee Mann – Mr. Harris
86 Nerina Pallot – Sophia
87 Aimee Mann – It Takes All Kinds
88 Aimee Mann – Red Vines
89 Alanis Morissette – Not All Me
90 Sarah McLachlan – Ice Cream
91 Regina Spektor – 20 Years Of Snow
92 Patti Smith – Dancing Barefoot
93 Garbage – I Think I'm Paranoid
94 Aimee Mann – I Should've Known
95 Catatonia – Goldfish and Paracetamol
96 K's Choice – A Sound That Only You Can Hear
97 Amy Winehouse – Some Unholy War
98 Regina Spektor – Hotel Song
99 Cathy Davey – Save Button
100 Catatonia – I Am the Mob