Blogiversary! and hoydens carrying an axe!

By tigtog on September 11, 2012

Blogiversary was actually yesterday, and I forgot. Fortuitously, I was reorganising my images folder and came across this idea I had ages ago, and today I felt it was rather symbolic of the last 6 years of blogging. Thanks so much to all of you who continue to drop by here to read and comment.

Lucy Lawless as Xena the Warrior Princess (TV Show) - she is wearing minimal leather armour and holding a stone axe with a fiercely determined expression on her face

Xena with a stone battle axe

Top Panel : Rose gets a fire axe Bottom Panel: Rose wades through icy water in the sinking Titanic with the axe so she can save Jack

Rose saves Jack with a fire axe

Jessica Alba in a screenshot from the movie *An Invisible Sign* - she has her hair in bunches, is wearing a winter coat and a shoulder bag and is holding an axe while smiling

Jessica Alba takes an axe to school in the movie *An Invisible Sign* for no good reason - and it doesn't end well

A young pale-skinned woman with golden-brown hair tied back in a ponytail stands on a stage holding a very large bladed axe with a long handle. She is wearing anime-style school uniform - white blouse, red tie, short red tartan pleated skirted, white over-knee socks and flat shoes.

Fierce cosplayer(?) with a serious battleaxe - source unknown

A bronze statue in the open air - a woman in mediaeval European dress holds a battle standard in one hand and wields her hatchet with the other. Her expression is one of calm determination.

Statue of Jeanne Hachette ('Jean the Hatchet') - her heroism prevented the capture of Beauvais in 1472.

Audrey Hepburn is standing on some logs in the middle of a frozen snowy lumber yard. Her shoulders are bare because she is wearing an elegant apricot evening gown, complete with satin slippers and elbow gloves. Her hair is swept up into a complicated hairdo and held back with something shiny. In her left hand she is holding a traditional lumberjack axe resting gently against a log.

Audrey Hepburn wears a sleeveless evening gown and elbow gloves in a snowy lumber yard (as you do) while nonchalantly holding an axe

17 responses to “Blogiversary! and hoydens carrying an axe!”

Mindy September 11, 2012 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

Happy Blogivesary Hoydens. Here’s to many more years *clink*
Sunset September 11, 2012 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

Happy Blogiversary!

The pictures made me think of Buffy.
Rebekka September 11, 2012 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

YES, BUFFY. This pic.
tigtog September 11, 2012 at 4:54 pm | Permalink *

Thanks for the Buffy pic – image magicked it for you!

Any other photos of awesome women with axes, please drop a link, everybody (full web page, not just the image URL).
mimbles September 11, 2012 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

Happy blogiversary! Thanks for all the writing, sharing, moderating and commentariat awesomeness you’ve provided over the years!

May I present mini-Buffy – my daughter when she was 7.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimbles/7975699632/
tigtog September 11, 2012 at 6:45 pm | Permalink *

Mim, image magicked to share the awesomeness.
tigtog September 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm | Permalink *

I think at this point I have to stretch the idea of “axe” enough to include Susan Sto Helit with Death’s scythe.
Feminist Avatar September 11, 2012 at 7:28 pm | Permalink

This is where need a like button! Happy Blogiversary!
Arcadia September 11, 2012 at 8:12 pm | Permalink

The show is on, and I love the wood chopping.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/australian-womens-woodchopping-team-captain-amanda-beams-tops-field/story-e6frea83-1226468552954
Aqua of the Questioners September 11, 2012 at 8:33 pm | Permalink

Congratulations Hoydens!

I’ve pulled out a few battleaxes (hah!) I found via Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor:

http://www.mcotie.com/norse.htm

http://www.deviantart.com/print/8524178/

http://ericbelisle.com/weblogs/wp-content/gallery/paizo/sassy-bandit.jpg
(it’s the second from the left, bottom row here: http://ericbelisle.com/weblogs/?p=234)

http://ericbelisle.com/weblogs/wp-content/gallery/wotc/128481-battlemind.jpg
(it’s also the second from the left, bottom row, in this post: http://ericbelisle.com/weblogs/?p=213
Eden September 12, 2012 at 3:42 am | Permalink

Congrats! (Also, do you ever remember the blogiversary on time? :P)

Love the hoydens with axes. Every one I thought of was already here though. Gonna have to make a D&D fighter with a battleaxe after all this inspiration.
Beppie September 12, 2012 at 7:14 am | Permalink

Hooray!
tigtog September 12, 2012 at 7:25 am | Permalink *

The one pic I want that I can’t find is Sylvia Noble (Donna’s mum) saving Wilf from the smog-car by smashing the windscreen with that axe she keeps by the front door (as you do).
Jo Tamar September 12, 2012 at 9:53 am | Permalink

Yay! Happy Blogiversary!

Love the pics.

However – grammar quibble (because I know you love such things – so it’s actually my blogiversary present ;) ) – shouldn’t it be “carrying axes”? They are not all carrying the same axe :p
tigtog September 12, 2012 at 10:17 am | Permalink *

Ooh, pedantry! What a lovely blogiversary present, especially when it’s so very perspicacious – I’d thank you profusely were I not so crushed by the shame.
Jo Tamar September 12, 2012 at 10:19 am | Permalink

:D
Kirsty September 15, 2012 at 9:24 am | Permalink

Happy blogiversary HaT! Loving the axes as I’m currently re-watching Buffy on DVD!