While we’re on the topic of what people wear, or don't wear, if you’re tired of illustrations or shots of warrior princesses obviously obsessed with looking “hot” risking their lives, limbs and prodigious mammaries by going into battle clad only in a leather mini and barely-there bra combo or a many-many-links-short-of-providing-any-kind-of-protection-whatsoever chainkini, then pop over to Women Fighters In Reasonable Armor. It features often stunning artwork of Women that don’t fight in high heels. Women that clearly give a shit about the practicalities of getting in a lethal situation.
I’d love to lift a few of the pictures and post them here, but the work is produced by professional artists trying to make a buck so copyright must be respected.
About Me
- Gitte Christensen
- Central Victoria, Australia
- Writer. Reader. Rider. My speculative fiction has featured in Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, The NSW School Magazine, The Year's Best Australian Horror and Fantasy 2010 and many other publications. I'm a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, and am currently a judge on the Short Works / Collections / Edited Works panel for the 2013 Australian Shadows Awards
OUT NOW:
BARDS AND SAGES QUARTERLY, April 2014 issue. Includes my humorous cops and aliens story 'A Moveable Buffet'.
Also out now:
Lakeside Circus, Issue #1, which includes my dark, political ghost story 'Winds of Change'
ANTHOLOGIES:
ALIENS: RECENT ENCOUNTERS, edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane, Prime Books. Includes my SF story 'Nullipara'.
DARK TALES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS, edited by Eric J. Guignard, Dark Moon Books. Includes my futuristic steampunk story 'Whale of a Time'.
RETURN OF THE DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING, edited by Julie Ann Dawson, Bards & Sages Publishing. Includes my 1920s Aussie vampire droving yarn 'The Snowy River Feral'.
PREREQUISITE WRITER'S CATS
April: Time to get in some adventuring before the cold times hit.
2 comments:
Yeah, some armor there that might actually protect them. On the other hand, those male Scots used to fight in just kilts.
I was reading an urban fantasy yesterday where the protagonist has hair that reaches to below her knees. She braids it up for battle, but it seems to me even braids that size would make a great handle for grabbing her and cutting her throat.
On the other hand, she hid a range of weapons in her braids while being patted down for said weapons. I reckon a half-way competent bodyguard might wonder about those big fat braids.
Ha – that made me laugh! For some reason, it conjures an image of a Xena-clad lady who, I don’t know why, looks like Miriam Margolyes as the Spanish Infanta in ‘Blackadder' with an over the top Princess Leia-like do pulling throwing stars and such from her gigantic buns.
And you're right about the bodyguards. Strategy-wise, if she’s a really amazing fighter, you’d reckon word would soon get around about her tendency to stash lethal nicknacks in her hair, which would somewhat negate the element of surprise.
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