Capitán Vidal: You could have obeyed me!

Dr. Ferreiro: But captain, obey for obedience's sake... That's something only people like you do. -Pan's Labyrinth

The Accused: Amanda Palmer

Status: Singer/Songwriter (Real World)

The Crime: Sings about unfeminine or unsavory topics, bisexual, and refuses to be traditionally feminine. 

Source:  Wikipedia page

             Born in 1976, Amanda Palmer is best known for being a member in the band The Dresden Dolls and recently, her career as a solo artist. The Dresden Dolls are an alternative band that is known for its unique punk/gothic cabaret style of music. What makes Amanda Palmer a bad girl are her lyrics to her songs, Both as a member of The Dresden Dolls and as a solo artist, her songs include references to runaways, alcoholism, female promiscuity, rape, and abortion. For example, the song “Coin Operated Boy” is one about a girl wishing for a purely physical relationship with a man who’d basically serve as a full bodied vibrator. And, the song “Girl Anachronism” deals with a girl being an problem child who acts out for attention. But the song that has gotten the most press for being seen as controversial is “Oasis.” Oasis is the perky upbeat song of a girl who goes to party, gets drunk, is raped, then gets an abortion, and called a slut at her school but does care “because Oasis got my [her] letter in the mail!” The song and music video was banned in the UK because it was seen as “making light of rape, religion, and abortion.”  Following quickly on that, Amanda Palmer’s record label wanted her to cover her stomach in the music video for “Leeds Unlimited” because she was “fat.” Amanda Palmer refused, and when fans found out they organized the ReBellyon where they sent in picture of their own stomachs with messages written to the label on them.

The Accused: Kara “Starbuck” Thrace

Status: Fictional (TV)

The Crime:  Overly sexual, agressive, prone to fighting.

Source: (Re-imagined) Battlestar Galaticia

            Introduced in the Sci-Fi channel’s 2003 Battlestar Galaticia miniseries, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace is the re-imagined version of the character, Starbuck.   Original (recipe) Starbuck was a foul mouthed, quick tempered, cigar smoking; liquor chugging, oversexed pilot. Who was a man. 2003’s Starbuck was also a foul mouthed, quick tempered, cigar smoking; liquor chugging, oversexed pilot. Only this time, Starbuck was a woman. And that was really the only thing changed. Starbuck still swore, fought with anyone, drank to excess, smoked stogies constantly, and still a highly sexual being. Starbuck was also still the best at killing cylons (the “bad guys”) even though she had a vagina, something that the original (male) actor felt would get in the way of the new Starbuck. Of course the re-imagined Starbuck came with a whole new set of problems: A special destiny that she didn’t believe in, a dead fiancé, a abusive childhood, a complex romantic entanglement with the brother of her dead fiancé, and self destructive streak brought on by everything listed above. Despite her faults, Starbuck remains the best pilot, the best shoot, and the one who was destined to lead humanity to its final resting place.

            Starbuck is the perfect example of the bitch being a woman who “suffers from the psychological malady of excessive animus” as defined by Jung. She’s engaged in male activates such as fighting, drinking, and sleeping around. She’s loud, authoritative, and not willing to take disrespect from anyone.

The Accused: Granny Esme Weatherwax

Status: Fictional (books)

The Crime: Witchcraft, crankiness, and putting the fear of God(s) into everyone everywhere.

Source: Terry Prachett’s Discworld series

            Introduced first in Sourcery, Granny Weatherwax is the head witch in the country of Lancre (home to the town of Bad Ass, named for a really disobedient donkey) on the Discworld (a perfectly flat world that is supported by four elephants on top of a giant turtle that swims through space).  Granny Weatherwax’s official duty as the head of her coven is to organize her fellow witches including at one time or another; Nanny Ogg who manages to be both motherly and cheerily perverse, Margrat (her mother couldn’t spell and was to shy to ask) who became queen, Agnes Nitt who as a fat girl does has a thin girl living somewhere inside her, and Tiffany Aching who defeats fairies with iron frying pans. Most of the time, Granny Weatherwax’s real job lies in saving the Discworld (from fairies, ancient gods, politics) with the force of her badass nature alone.   Cankerous and aggressive Granny Weatherwax is so hardcore that she has gone toe to toe with DEATH and won (at a game of cards). The people of Lancre live in fear of her one day using her magic (the best witches are the kind that know how not to use magic).

            So how is Granny Weatherwax a bitch? She can (if people weren’t so scared of her) be called a bitch because of her personality traits. Granny’s Aggressive (she must always win), cold, bitter, stern, vain (she must be the best witch), and completely dedicated to her magic. She has no need for a man or children, to the point where she can still lure unicorns. 

The Accused: Richard B. Riddick

Status: Fictional (movie)

The Crime: murder (multiple counts), escaped convict, theft, and being a Furyan. 

Source: The Chronicles of Riddick movie collection

                           Richard B. Riddick, commonly known as simply as Riddick, is a character from the B-movie sci-fi trilogy, The Chronicles of Riddick. Introduced in the movie Pitch Black, Riddick is a mass murder, and infamous for his ability to escape from any prison (which he has). When speaking of his own past, the only thing Riddick has said on the subject is that he was found in a dumpster in the back alley of a liquor store half chocked by his umbilical cord.   Though, it was later revealed, to both Riddick and the audience that he is last surviving Furyan. Who where destroyed by the High Marshall of the (surprisingly even more ridiculously named) Necromongers. While believed to be a cold blooded psychopath by most people, over the course of the trilogy Riddick develops affection for the runaway Jack/Kyra to the point that he killed for her, broke her out of prison, and tried (it is left unknown to audiences if he succeeded) to bring her soul back from the “underverse.”   While Riddick starts out the trilogy as an escape criminal at from the fringes of society, he ends up as the new High Marshall of the Necromongers based on the Necromancer idea that “you keep what you kill.”

                           It is clear that Riddick is a “bad boy”, “bad ass”, and psychopathic killer based on his own actions from the films. He kills, injuries, steals, and hurts other people for his own amusement; though in the end he redeems himself and becomes an antihero by stopping the Necromonger force. But why? Based on Jung philosophy, from the introduction of The Bitch is Back, one could conclude it is because he is a male who contains too much animus. While animus is male (and anima is female) a healthy person should have a healthy balance between the two. While it is “expected” for women to have more anima and men to have more animus, the character of Riddick takes it the extremes. His aggressive and violent nature, traits that are considered to be masculine, suggest that there is an overabundance of animus and little or no anima. 

Fuck.  So, my brain has finally been all "Hey, you know what I want to do?  I wanna write.  No!  Not your capstone or other papers.  Psssh, that's for pussies and other driven academics.  Fanfiction.  What?"  Which, is not possible at this time due to the semester O' Hell (Now with more term papers!) though my brain has not realized this.  So, I really want to start working on one of these ideas (Hell, I want to start working all but I have the attention span of a caffeinated squirrel in a crystal shop) the problem is I need help.  With beta stuff.  Someone who is willing to walk the line between encouraging and understanding about my freakish school load? 

These are the ideas:

1.A completely fucked up Battlestar Galatica Kara/Lee Story:  Like really wrong. Not dirty, bad fun wrong. When where Kara has completely damaged in the head and dependent on Lee. And Lee likes it ‘cause it means he can finally have Kara.   The story will end with Kara and Lee still in this really fucked up relationship.

‘Cause the BSG fandom needs more angst.

2.  BSG Kara/Lee time travel: This one would be Kara centric and would take place after “Maelstrom.”

That’s really all I have on this one. I just know I really want to write a BSG time travel fic.

3. NCIS Ari/Kate fic: Ari and Kate somehow fake both their deaths from season two and three (I’d have to change how they die or come up with a really, really good explanation).  They’ve been living a rather normal life together but now (unknown) they have to reunite with the team at NCIS. Awkward angst ensues.

This is clearly the product of my sick inner psyche and the actors’ really good chemistry. Why else would I want to write a love story about a Navy cop and the terrorist who killed her?

4. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Cameron=Alison fic.  This fic would explore the idea that Cameron is robo! Alison. So she would essentially be a human in a mechanical body.

I dig this because after Alison from Palmade, we really had no more information about what Cameron.

So, uh, yeah.  That's what I got it.

The Accused: Benedetta Carlini

Status: Real (from Counter-Reformation Italy)

The Crime: Heresy, Fraud, and Immodest Acts (i.e. lesbianism)

Source: Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown

During the Renaissance period, Benedetta Carlini was one of the many girls who where shipped off to convents without their consent by their parents. Unlike many of these girls, young Benedetta took to the religious life very well. To the point, where at very young age of 30, Benedetta stopped being Sister Benedetta and became Abbess Benedetta. Unfortunately, when Benedetta became Abbess she also became crazy. Very, very crazy. How crazy? Well, first Benedetta started having visions of Jesus coming to her and telling her that she was his one true bride. Then, she developed stigmata on her hands and head. But, really compared to what happened later this early development was relativity normal. Later on, she began to reenact her “marriage” scene to Jesus in public. During which, a “ruby ring” would appear on her ring. Also, demons began to torment her at all hours until an Angel named Splenderfous appear and began to inhabit her body. When she was possessed by the angel, Benedetta would speak in tongues and make prophecies. All standard mysticism. Then Spenderfous started demanding that he (by way of Benedetta) and a Sister Bartolemea have sex. Eventually, the Church, who were going through some crackdowns due to the Reformation caught on to what was going on at the convent. Abbess Benedetta eventually was proclaimed a fraud by various members of her convent and by her lover, Bartomemea. The Abbess was striped of all her titles and power and spent her rest of her life imprisoned under her own convent. History is still trying to decide if Benedetta was really, truly crazy or faking it out of some need.

Lilith is the original bad girl and possibly the first feminist. While Lilith has mentions and counterparts in various Middle Eastern mythologies, she is most commonly known for the role she plays in Jewish mythology - being the first wife of Adam. According to lore, Lilith was created at the same time as Adam. This caused problems in their marriage. During sex, Lilith refused to have sex with Adam in the missionary position; instead she wanted to be on top. Adam refused, stating that he was superior and he should be on top. Lilith, who believed that since the couple were created at the same time, they were equals was having none of that. Saying God’s One True Name, she flew out of the Garden of Eden to live with the demons in the outside world.

             God eventually sent three angels (Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof) to bring Lilith back to the Garden of Eden. Lilith decided that she was having more fun outside. So instead, Lilith dedicated herself to an immortal life sleeping with demons, sucking the lives out of babies, seducing married men, causing nocturnal emissions from men (i.e. wet dreams), and being really, really bad ass.