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flamingswordTop 10 Challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
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Top Ten 🔟’s
In no particular order
• You know who’s a 10? Elliot Spencer from Leverage. Even the Russian judge would have to give him the gold, in basically whatever he was competing in, and that could be anything. Walking competence porn.
• Dr. Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1. I thought she was so cool that I got that haircut once. I should try to see if anyone local will try to recreate that 20000’s-era shaggy pixie cut.
• Chani and Muad’dib from Dune. I had crushes on the 80’s/David Lynch versions when I was a kid, but their modern adaptations aren’t half bad either.
• Cindi Mayweather / the Archandroid / Jane 57821 / Janelle Monáe. The Revolution Who Dances, the Dirty Computer, the Time-Traveling (possibly-multiverse-hopping), android of our dreams who will lead us past oppression and to the promised Wondaland - the place where creativity destroys oppression.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi, wandering monk of infinite suffering. You know, in all his Jedi-repressed buttoned-down-without-buttons glory, there is a certain je ne sais quoi about him that draws the heart of everyone who is trying, and failing, to hold back the tide of the worlds troubles from those he can’t admit the extent of his care for.
• Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place, because he cares. So much. About everything.
• Adorable Belle Dearheart AKA Spike AKA Killer from Going Postal of the Discworld books. I don’t hold with the smoking, so much, but she is a character after my own heart: fearless, rude, and an avatar of sarcasm.
• Cosmo Brown from Singin’ In The Rain. Funny and affable and cheerfully catty. So very queer-coded and visibly polyamorous with stars in his eyes for both Don and Cathy. Definitely a 10 out of 10.
• Garnet from Steven Universe, 7 foot tall lesbian alien rock. So very genderqueer, so very wise but constrained by the limits of her abilities.
• us. So much better than the fictional versions in our heads that we fear we are, or that we hope one day to become. Perfectly in this moment, because we are actually happening right now. Remember that sentient lives are always both a noun and a verb, because as much as we are a being, we are a doing, too.
So, who are your tens? Who are your problematic faves, your Han Solo problems, your “when they smile it makes me have a problem” characters?
Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so. Also, feel free to entice engagement by giving us a preview of what your post covers.
Top Ten 🔟’s
In no particular order
• You know who’s a 10? Elliot Spencer from Leverage. Even the Russian judge would have to give him the gold, in basically whatever he was competing in, and that could be anything. Walking competence porn.
• Dr. Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1. I thought she was so cool that I got that haircut once. I should try to see if anyone local will try to recreate that 20000’s-era shaggy pixie cut.
• Chani and Muad’dib from Dune. I had crushes on the 80’s/David Lynch versions when I was a kid, but their modern adaptations aren’t half bad either.
• Cindi Mayweather / the Archandroid / Jane 57821 / Janelle Monáe. The Revolution Who Dances, the Dirty Computer, the Time-Traveling (possibly-multiverse-hopping), android of our dreams who will lead us past oppression and to the promised Wondaland - the place where creativity destroys oppression.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi, wandering monk of infinite suffering. You know, in all his Jedi-repressed buttoned-down-without-buttons glory, there is a certain je ne sais quoi about him that draws the heart of everyone who is trying, and failing, to hold back the tide of the worlds troubles from those he can’t admit the extent of his care for.
• Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place, because he cares. So much. About everything.
• Adorable Belle Dearheart AKA Spike AKA Killer from Going Postal of the Discworld books. I don’t hold with the smoking, so much, but she is a character after my own heart: fearless, rude, and an avatar of sarcasm.
• Cosmo Brown from Singin’ In The Rain. Funny and affable and cheerfully catty. So very queer-coded and visibly polyamorous with stars in his eyes for both Don and Cathy. Definitely a 10 out of 10.
• Garnet from Steven Universe, 7 foot tall lesbian alien rock. So very genderqueer, so very wise but constrained by the limits of her abilities.
• us. So much better than the fictional versions in our heads that we fear we are, or that we hope one day to become. Perfectly in this moment, because we are actually happening right now. Remember that sentient lives are always both a noun and a verb, because as much as we are a being, we are a doing, too.
So, who are your tens? Who are your problematic faves, your Han Solo problems, your “when they smile it makes me have a problem” characters?
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Date: 2026-01-12 06:40 pm (UTC)The first "I have a PROBLEM" character that comes to mind is Klavier Gavin, from Ace Attorney and also my icon. He's ridiculous and has an impossible number of careers that he's somehow good at (prosecutor and rockstar? okay, Klavier), introduces himself by shamelessly hitting on the protagonist of the game, and is named Piano. He thinks he's extremely cool, he's such a dork, and I love him. Also his best friend, Daryan Crescend, who loses some points for committing murder and making baffling hairstyle choices, but mostly makes up for them by being weird about his best friend and having a ridiculous shark jacket.
And then for the other end of the 10/10 spectrum, characters who are actually cool: almost every version of Elita One that Transformers has ever handed me is just. So. Cool. Badass warlord with a throne made of body parts, guarding an ancient titan ship that she cannot ever set free? Very cool. Original flavor 80s action robot defending her planet with a team of less than 10 for literal millions of years? Awesome. Turned into a spider and now she's out for revenge? I'm here for it. (Okay, that plot didn't quite live up to the potential, but that's not her fault.)
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Date: 2026-01-12 08:27 pm (UTC)