petra: Woman making quote-unquote marks in the air (Alex Drake - Sarcastiquotes)
LJ comment-sized stories written for the Awesome Ladies Ficathon, still in progress.

Ashes to Ashes: Alex Drake, Anyone's ghost (teen, implied violence, s3 spoilers)
DW copy )

Just like a little girl (teen, implied sex, s3)
DW copy )

Big Bang Theory: Penny, This provincial life (all ages, no warnings needed, no spoilers)
DW copy )

Mad Men: Joan Holloway, Too clever to lose control (all ages, no warnings needed, set post-s2)
DW copy )
petra: Don McKellar with a scarf, looking superior in black and white. (Darren - Dubious look)
My contribution:

"So, Mr. Nichols, you have Ms. Holloway playing a monster."

"I'm aware of my casting. Is this a question?"

"Most audience members wouldn't define her appearance as even slightly monstrous."

"They haven't seen the girdle she--eventually--consented to wear. Do you have any idea what kind of nonsense society has pressed upon women in the past? If we could have got away with it, I would've put her in as Gibson Girl Caliban, but the health inspector wouldn't have it."

"Gibson Girl Caliban?"

"All of the hideousness is internal and internalized. Something to do with rearranging organs, or some such thing, I forget what the doctor said precisely. But Caliban as the specter of perversely exaggerated femininity--is that not a monster? What kind of creature says, and means, that they have to put their damned face on in the mornings? That is my Caliban."

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