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Okay, the timeline on the show is complicated enough. As most of you probably have heard a few hundred times already, I'm working on a Next Generation fic, and I'm trying to figure out a correct timeline to know how old everyone is supposed to be.


*Do you guys think I'm right in thinking Brady is about 3 years old in s5? I've read a lot of fanfics where she's said to be five, but I have a nephew who is five, and there's no way Brady was that old. I did some checking, and Georgia-Taylor Woods was born November 99, and on IMDB it says the show aired between March and September of 2003, meaning they must have filmed s5 in late 02/early 03 (that fits with the Christmas specials photos on tribeworld to, that they filmed s5 during Christmas). That would mean Georgia turned 3 years old while filming, so I think that's a good assumption. It does raise some questions about other storylines though.

*And that s5 lasted the shortest amount of time? By that I mean, the supposed time that passed for the characters from beginning to end. In all other seasons I can see the possibility that they lasted a while, that there are periods where they could have skipped some time. I think in s2 there's even a direct mention that something in the previous episode happened a few weeks ago for them. In s3 there's also Amber going from not showing to big bump between episodes. But in s5 I always had the impression that there wasn't much more than a few months that passed.

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Don't have a fancy banner, and I didn't talk to nemesisofamor about putting this up, but I had the idea and decided to go with it.

I saw a discussion topic on this over at thesovereignty and thought it would be interesting to have a similar discussion on the tribe girls.

Female characters are often the most discussed and debated in most fandoms, or even outside of fandoms. Still there is really a lack of strong female characters to relate to, that aren't modelled after how women should be (in the oldfashioned sense) but rather how women are. Too often female characters are introduced and written as a love interest alone, and seem to have no other meaning in whatever book/movie/tv-show they are in. But there are some really good awesome female characters out there as well.
Which of the female tribe characters do you think are good role models? Or bad role models? I don't necessarily mean that as who you would most want to be like, but when it comes to strengths and not being a stereotype (like the typical damsel in distress who can't do anything or think for herselft without a man to help, or the Mary-Sue who is so kickass and awesome and perfect at everything that it goes far beyond girl power into ridicilous).

Any opinions?

Some of you might know of communities like fandomsecrets. Well, we wanted to do something similar for our own little fandom. Only we extended it a bit to include non-anonymous things you've been wanting to get out.

Basically, leave a comment to this post. It can be just text, or you can make a graphic to post (make sure to not make it too big, smaller than wallpaper size at least).
If you want to post a secret, remember to log out. Otherwise it's not a secret, is it?
If you don't want to be anonymous, remember to log in. Or if you don't have an lj, simply sign the comment with the name/username you're known by other places.

Nothing directed at specific people at all! Positive or negative. If you have something to say to a specific person in the fandom, this isn't the place. Any comment singling out another person (or people) will be deleted.

All secrets and confessions have to be tribe-related. Either fandom or directly related to the show or at the very least related to the actors/actresses.



We might do this type of post again in the future if people are interested, but for now it's a one-off.

ETA: Okay, I can't figure out how to enable anonymous comments. Will try again tomorrow when I'm less tired. I've changed settings both on the community and on my personal journal, but it still won't work. any ideas?

ETA 2: Can not for the life of me figure out how to allow anonymous comments in this community, but my other journal allows anonymous comments, so I made a post over there. basically, if you want to leave an anonymous secret (text or graphic) then log out and post it there. If you are visiting from somewhere else and don't have an lj account, you can sign your comment with your username like mentioned above. Anything left in comments to that post I will myself post here and either mention who they are from or if they are secrets.

POST YOUR SECRETS HERE

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