Astrid!

[lizbee]

Racialicious has an article on how Astrid Farnsworth (and Jasika Nicole) is AMAZECAKES. And it's not wrong, although I think it's a bit dewy-eyed about some of the bits I find problematic, like Walter never calling her by her proper name.

Anyway, it has this bit:

Astrid is a lifelong computer geek with a B.A. in Music who speaks five languages and bakes up a storm when she’s stressed out. ...Her sparkling emotional intelligence is a welcome change from Magical Negresses who solve white people’s problems with folksy wisdom and a hug to the bosom. It is rare for the Math/Science Nerd trope to be deployed subtly and it is almost never embodied by a women of color. Astrid is essentially a unicorn. A really, really good-looking unicorn.

And now I'm really nostalgic for Martha Jones. Who was vastly more of an everygirl than ... anyone on Fringe, but she was also an emotionally intelligent nerd, and I loved her.

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[copracat]

I was a bit WTF on reading Astrid got beaten up to give Walter his emotionally vulnerable moment of calling her by name. (Not a Fringe watcher, so hadn't seen this until pointed to it.) Then I went to Jasika's (slightly annoying noise and motion) website and fell madly in love with her comics <3<3<3

[lizbee]

Like I said, I feel like there are issues with Astrid that the writer is skating over. Which is fine, she has her squee, and Astrid is pretty amaze.

Then I went to Jasika's (slightly annoying noise and motion) website and fell madly in love with her comics <3<3<3

WHY SO MUCH FLASH? But her comic about inviting Kanye West over to hang out was worth it.

[such_heights]

Oh man, Astrid and Martha should TOTALLY hang out in a crossover fic or two sometime. *_*