AK-47s, AR-15s, being on the run, blowing up computer factories, combat training, Cyberdyne Systems, Cyberdyne, destroying skynet, destroying terminators, fitness, future war, glocks, guns, krav maga, Linda Hamilton, m-16, mossberg, no fate, nuclear winter, physical feminism, preparedness, Sarah Connor Charm School, saving the future, self defense, shotguns, skynet, stopping judgment day, strength training, survival, survival skills, weapons, weight training
Music
Movies
Terminator, Terminator 2, but not Terminator 3. Also like the Alien franchise and other movies featuring strong women
Television
NOT The Sarah Connor Chronicles!
Books
Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense by Martha McCaughey, The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls by Collette Dowling
The Terminator by Randall Frakes & William Wisher, Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Randall Frakes, Terminator 2: Infiltrator (Book 1), Rising Storm (Book 2), and Future War (Book3) by S.M. Stirling, Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles -Dark Futures (Book 1), An Evil Hour (Book 2) and Times of Trouble (Book 3) by Russell Blackford,
Heroes
My son. Kyle Reese, the women and men who trained me after him, the women I've seen become powerful and strong. All the women who take a stand and fight back.
About me: *Before friending, please read this: How can I make it any clearer that this is not a site for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? If you're a fan of both the show and the movies, but show a lot of evidence that Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor is your fave, you might be friended back. BUT if all I see is Headey's face, if you are a roleplayer of a character from the show, if you have "save TSCC" all over your page, you're just not going to be accepted. PERIOD. This is a celebration of women's physical strength. There are tons of profiles for That TV Show, so go friend them. Thank you.*
In 1984, I was a waitress attending a community college, with absolutely no direction. I had no plans, no ambition and I just went through my day trying to not feel like a total mouse next to my roommate. Then I discovered that someone was killing women with my name, going through the phone book and I was next.
The next twenty-four hours or so are a blur, it seems like they went by in about 108 minutes. The killer came after me, while I waited for the police to come get me. A man, Kyle Reese, came to my rescue, got me away but he was telling me crazy shit about my son being the savior of the human race after the machines took over, thanks to a computer called Skynet made by Cyberdyne. And that the killer WAS a machine called a Terminator. I knew it was insane, but then he did get up after being shot....
The police caught up with us, the killer who had been chasing us still had disappeared. I thought I was safe, while grief stricken over the murders of my roommate and her boyfriend. But the killer came to the police station and killed most of the officers, the "lunatic" again saved me.
I began to believe. I fell in love with him, yes, I know it was quick. He died so that I could live and I managed to destroy the machine. My life was shattered, so many in it were dead, including my mother, due to this machine.
I realized that if my son was going to fulfill his destiny I had to be able to teach him. Going south of the border I found survivalists to learn from, I had my baby, I raised him in various locations always learning, always getting stronger, smarter, more prepared.
I kept thinking about what my beloved Kyle had said at one point. That "the future is not set, there is no fate but what we make." So I went about trying to learn how the war with the machines got started. I had a lead about a computer factory, but my attempt to blow it up led me to get shot and arrested. I got to play with the same doctor that Kyle had to deal with when he was arrested 10 years before. My son was found and put into foster care.
Another, more advanced Terminator was sent to kill him while I was locked up. The Resistance sent, of all things, yet another Terminator, the same make and model that tried to kill me, to protect him. He was reprogrammed, but when they came while I was escaping from the psych prison I had trouble trusting him after all I'd been through before. We first were going to go back to some of my colleagues in Central and South America, but I remembered Kyle's words again and was determined I WOULD keep my son from having to live through Judgment Day.
I nearly killed the Miles Dyson who was to create Skynet, having nearly lost all sense of the value of human life. I stopped myself just before John and the Terminator arrived. Dyson was horrified by what he was going to do, he helped us go in to destroy all his work. The police shot him, but of course I have been blamed for his death. He bravely stayed behind to let us get out before detonating the explosives. We finally destroyed the T-1000 Terminator after us, the other one had me destroy him so that his components couldn't someday be found and used to start it all over again.
We succeeded at making our own fate at least for awhile, although now who knows what the future will bring. However, we were being pursued as terrorists for this because no one understands we saved their asses. At least for awhile, as I said. We made our way down to South America.
Then strange things began to happen. There were rumors that I died right after the date that Judgment day would have happened if we hadn't blown up Dyson's work at Cyberdyne. That my son became a whiny loser roaming the US and that he came to believe that Judgment Day came and was in hiding. We wondered if this was a plot by the Feds to get us out of hiding, but it made little sense. I mean, them believing this could only help us.
Now it seems that people think that we've both became skinny, whiny losers who then time traveled to this time, as our younger selves. That we'd lost all survival intelligence, that we stayed in the US, that we'd have used my beloved Kyle's name as an alias (how STUPID! my records certainly name him!), that my taste in men declined severely. Again, is this some strange plot to get us out of hiding?
If it is, then I know that we only managed to delay things. I actually think that the Feds are more intelligent than this, it must be Skynet's warped concepts of how humans are. Anyway, if anyone thinks these two are us, then that's their problem. We're still prepared, we're still strong and the names we use are not going to be easily figured out.
Shortly after we returned here, we happened upon a small group of do-gooder hippies, with some Peace Corp knockoff that obviously was less well organized and careless, who had been taken prisoner with one of the less savory drug runners that I sometimes had to deal with. We got them out. Most were ungrateful little twits, claiming our rag-tag group of survivalists who are likely the key to the future resistance were just as evil. But a couple, well, realized that their pacifist ways were no good when confronted with those who would hurt them. They joined us. One of the women, seeing that most of our group was male other than wives and daughters (who are as tough and prepared) talked me into starting the The Sarah Connor Charm School, to use my Waitress-to-Warrior story to empower other women to become fighters too. While many such women have joined us down here, there are those who are keeping camps going in various secret locations throughout the Americas, and now beyond.
Sarah Connor (22 Supernatural/Mundane, 63 Zealotry/Cynicism, 45 Thinking/Feeling, 40 Group/Maverick)
(Mundane, Zealotry, Feeling, Maverick)
You are Sarah Connor, heroine of "Terminator" and "T2." Linda Hamilton, perf.
The Terminator, a deadly killing machine from the future, failed to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn hero-son, John. The machines have sent another Terminator to kill John as a child. Using the keenly honed physical and martial abilities she developed while in a mental prison, Sarah Connor works to protect her son and avert the apocalyptic rise of the machines.
I suppose it should be no surprise, regarding the quiz above, that I had to fudge a couple of answers when the quiz maker is so clueless about me that she thinks that I developed, not maintained with great difficulty but DEVELOPED, my physique and martial skills a Pescadero rather than in the years before that! *shakesheadatthestupidity*
Who I'd like to meet: New Recruits, and maybe see some old students here. Those who are horrified by the casting of a emaciated actress as the new "Sarah Connor" and by the whininess shown by both the main characters. Champions of physical feminism. Women who believe in their own strength and the strength of other women. Women who are trying to find their own strength. Men who respect strong women without getting all fetishist about it.
i love you to death. If I don't get this back, I understand. But I have a game for you. Once you read this letter, you must send it to 15 people that you really care about, including the person that sent it to you. If you receive at least 7 back, then you are loved. Nobody knows what they have until they loose it. You never leave the person whom you love for the one you like, because that person who you like will leave you for the person whom they love. Tonight, right at 12:00am, your true love is going to realize that they LOVE you! Then something is going to happen to you between 1:00 and 2:00 a. m. Tomorrow, be ready for the greatest shock of your life. If you break this chain, you are going to have bad luck in love for the next years of your life. Send this to 15 people in 15 minutes.
Time goes by so fast. People come and go, in and out of or lives. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. Thanks for being my Friend!
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