Absolutely stunning!
![[ Description: Two women with short hair — one dark skinned with dark hair being held protectively by the other who is pale skinned with orange hair. They both wear ornate tailored military dress uniforms with frilly black skirts. ]
hyperbali:
In case you needed even more reasons to go read Monstrous Regiment, there is also a canon lesbian couple in the book, Tonker (Magda) and Lofty (Tilda).
Together they escaped from the Girls’ Working School—an institution where “Bad Girls” [aka anyone who breaks the absolutely ridiculous religious rules in Belgravia] go—and joined the army, intent on putting it as far behind them as possible. They’re absolute sweethearts and totally in love, always holding hands whenever they’re on patrol together.
Tonker is intensely protective of Lofty, and seems to be the only one who can get past how quiet the other girl is; Lofty, for her part, mostly keeps to herself and finds joy in fire…as in, she always seems to find matches and can make explosives from anything.
They disappear after the main events of the book, but the last Polly hears, the Girls’ Working School is burnt down and two slim hooded figures robbed the nearby bank…
(also I’ve been drawing the ladies in the tailored uniforms they get at the end because the book doesn’t really clarify if everyone gets every piece of regalia from the army stores, as it’s all shoddy and pilfered off of already dead soldiers x: )](http://25.media.tumblr.com/f45f9bdf3fbaf46efd9da71f1792a877/tumblr_mhmvl9OBsB1qdvfm5o1_500.png)
[ Description: Two women with short hair — one dark skinned with dark hair being held protectively by the other who is pale skinned with orange hair. They both wear ornate tailored military dress uniforms with frilly black skirts. ]
In case you needed even more reasons to go read Monstrous Regiment, there is also a canon lesbian couple in the book, Tonker (Magda) and Lofty (Tilda).
Together they escaped from the Girls’ Working School—an institution where “Bad Girls” [aka anyone who breaks the absolutely ridiculous religious rules in Belgravia] go—and joined the army, intent on putting it as far behind them as possible. They’re absolute sweethearts and totally in love, always holding hands whenever they’re on patrol together.
Tonker is intensely protective of Lofty, and seems to be the only one who can get past how quiet the other girl is; Lofty, for her part, mostly keeps to herself and finds joy in fire…as in, she always seems to find matches and can make explosives from anything.
They disappear after the main events of the book, but the last Polly hears, the Girls’ Working School is burnt down and two slim hooded figures robbed the nearby bank…
(also I’ve been drawing the ladies in the tailored uniforms they get at the end because the book doesn’t really clarify if everyone gets every piece of regalia from the army stores, as it’s all shoddy and pilfered off of already dead soldiers x: )
Katee Sackhoff talks all-female Expendables
Adi Shankar’s “all-female Expendables” project has been moving gradually closer to fruition, with Katee Sackhoff one of the first names to sign on the dotted line for the forthcoming action fest…
AHHHHHH YES. YES GOOD.
I would watch this so hard, even if it wasn’t any good.
!!!!!!!
BLESS
Don’t read the comments.
Cathay Williams - Became the first and the only known female Buffalo Soldier. Enlisting in the US Regular Army 1866 at St. Louis, Missouri for a three year engagement, passing herself off as a man.
She is the first African American female to enlist, and the only documented to serve in the United States Army posing as a man under the pseudonym, William Cathay.
Williams travelled with the 8th Indiana, accompanying the soldiers on their marches through Arkansas, Louisiana, and Georgia. She was present at the Battle of Pea Ridge and the Red River Campaign. At one time she was transferred to Little Rock, where she would have seen uniformed African-American men serving as soldiers, which may have inspired her own interest in military service. Later, Williams was transferred to Washington, D.C., where she served with General Philip Sheridan’s command. When the war ended, Williams was working at Jefferson Barracks.
The exact date of Williams’ death is unknown, but it is assumed she died shortly after being denied a pension, probably sometime in 1892. Her simple grave marker would have been made of wood and deteriorated long ago. Thus her final resting place is now unknown.
[ Description: A photo set of 18 women from a variety of different television shows and films, all of them armed and taking names. Lucy Liu, Anna Silk (as Bo from Lost Girl), Lena Headly (as Sarah Connor from the Sarah Connor Chronicles), Rosamund Pike (from Wrath of the Titans), Erin Cummings (as Hel from Bitchslap), Rosario Dawson (from a Bust Magazine photoshoot), Tania Raymonde (as Carla Rinaldi from Death Valley), Gina Torres (as Zoe from Firefly), Sarah Michelle Gellar (as Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Olga Kurylenko (as from Centurian), Jaimie Alexander (as Sif from Thor), Paula Patton (as Jane Carter from Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol), Hayley Atwell (as Peggy from Captain America), Grace Park (as Kono from Hawaii Five-0), Lucy Lawless (as Xena from Xena Warrior Princess), Rachel Taylor (as Maggie Madsen from Transformers), Milla Jovovich (as Alice from Resident Evil), and Rutina Wesley (as Tara Thornton from True Blood) ]
I do not have a gentle heart [x]
![[ Image: A light skinned woman wearing the uniform — furlined jacket, white scarf, leather flying cap with square-lensed goggles — of a WWII military aviator. ]
inmaledress:
coolchicksfromhistory:
During World War II, over a thousand women served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in the US. The goal of the WASP program was to free male pilots for combat duty by enlisting female pilots for transport duty and service as test pilots. Although they enlisted and served under Army command, these women were not granted military status until 1977. Not only were they ineligible for military benefits until that point, the thirty eight WASP pilots killed while on duty were not even transported home by the government.
The WASP program was not strictly whites only, two Chinese American women served. However, no black women served and at least one black woman was rejected for service as a WASP based on her race. Sherri L. Smith uses this information to build a fictional story about a pilot named Ida Mae Jones who passes as white in order to join the WASP. In Flygirl, two historic themes are intertwined, the challenges of women joining Uncle Sam’s Army in World War II and the repercussions of a person of African ancestry pretending to be white in the Jim Crow South.
I’m interested in the WASP program, so this book had immediate appeal for me as a reader of historical fiction. The outline of the book isn’t as exciting as most military fiction since Ida Mae is never involved in combat, but Sherri L. Smith does a good job at keeping the reader engrossed in the challenges Ida Mae faces as a trainee, a pilot, and a black woman passing. Flygirl is a young adult novel, so it is a pretty quick read and a good choice for younger readers.
Flygirl on Amazon](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzt3ujSIgA1qi1raio1_400.jpg)
[ Image: A light skinned woman wearing the uniform — furlined jacket, white scarf, leather flying cap with square-lensed goggles — of a WWII military aviator. ]
During World War II, over a thousand women served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in the US. The goal of the WASP program was to free male pilots for combat duty by enlisting female pilots for transport duty and service as test pilots. Although they enlisted and served under Army command, these women were not granted military status until 1977. Not only were they ineligible for military benefits until that point, the thirty eight WASP pilots killed while on duty were not even transported home by the government.
The WASP program was not strictly whites only, two Chinese American women served. However, no black women served and at least one black woman was rejected for service as a WASP based on her race. Sherri L. Smith uses this information to build a fictional story about a pilot named Ida Mae Jones who passes as white in order to join the WASP. In Flygirl, two historic themes are intertwined, the challenges of women joining Uncle Sam’s Army in World War II and the repercussions of a person of African ancestry pretending to be white in the Jim Crow South.
I’m interested in the WASP program, so this book had immediate appeal for me as a reader of historical fiction. The outline of the book isn’t as exciting as most military fiction since Ida Mae is never involved in combat, but Sherri L. Smith does a good job at keeping the reader engrossed in the challenges Ida Mae faces as a trainee, a pilot, and a black woman passing. Flygirl is a young adult novel, so it is a pretty quick read and a good choice for younger readers.
![[ Description: A head and shoulder’s colour photo of a pale skinned woman with brown eyes and hair in a bun. She wears the camo-fatigues of the UK armed forces, a green beret with a divisional pin, and carries an SA-80 rifle on her shoulder. ]
albinwonderland:
pastelchainsaw:
fuckyeah-nerdery:
Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.
With her bare hands.
Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.
In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.
This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzi1ooQ32U1qe757yo1_500.jpg)
[ Description: A head and shoulder’s colour photo of a pale skinned woman with brown eyes and hair in a bun. She wears the camo-fatigues of the UK armed forces, a green beret with a divisional pin, and carries an SA-80 rifle on her shoulder. ]
Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.
With her bare hands.
Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.
In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.
This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.
![[ Image: A colour photograph of a pale skinned woman with short brown hair, in the uniform of the Continental Army (the armed forces formed by the colonies that became the USA). The uniform consists of white pants and a matching high collared tunic fastened with a long line of metallic buttons, held in place with a dark leather belt that matches her throat protector. Over this she wears a dark navy blue jacket with broad deep red cuffs, collar and trim all decorated with more of the same metallic buttons. The uniform is completed by a dark navy blue tricorn hat trimmed with pale yellow ribbon. Bone coloured cloth webbing forms an X over her chest. A long barrel musket is held butt-down in her left hand. ]
inmaledress:
Women Warriors: Deborah Samson Gannett by emulatingeve on Flickr.
Deborah Samson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army, as “Robert Shurtlieff”, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyu9jv2DT71rn4cyyo1_500.jpg)
[ Image: A colour photograph of a pale skinned woman with short brown hair, in the uniform of the Continental Army (the armed forces formed by the colonies that became the USA). The uniform consists of white pants and a matching high collared tunic fastened with a long line of metallic buttons, held in place with a dark leather belt that matches her throat protector. Over this she wears a dark navy blue jacket with broad deep red cuffs, collar and trim all decorated with more of the same metallic buttons. The uniform is completed by a dark navy blue tricorn hat trimmed with pale yellow ribbon. Bone coloured cloth webbing forms an X over her chest. A long barrel musket is held butt-down in her left hand. ]
Women Warriors: Deborah Samson Gannett by emulatingeve on Flickr.
Deborah Samson Gannett (December 17, 1760 - April 29, 1827), better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who impersonated a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army, as “Robert Shurtlieff”, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783.
