Never forget who you are, for surely the world will not.

Real Woman Never Wear Dresses or Female Characters Can't Do Anything Right

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:44:11 GMT

I've been saving this rant for awhile now, spurred on by fandoms attitude towards female characters. I have made this rant public so it may reach more of an audience then just my friends list.

In fandom it is tough to be a female character, you just can't do anything right. If you're a girly girl people are going to think you suck just because you like cute and fluffy things and like to wear dresses. If you're a tough action chick you will also get criticism for being too tough and not feminine enough. I don't see the latter much in fandom actually, but it is out there. No, this rant is mostly about the former and how just because a character is girly doesn't make them a horrible character.

Why can't a female character act girly? Just because she doesn't fight with her fists doesn't mean she isn't a strong character. She still has her brains to fight with you know, it's not just about being able to kill a whole bunch of people. Why do characters have to fight anyways, are there really no pacifists in fandom? What happened to wanting peace, why does violence always have to always be the answer?

Thinking of modern fantasy stories with a main female character, I have a hard time finding one who doesn't want to be a knight or be just like the men. I see this allot with characters who happen to be princesses. Why would she want to fight, she's most likely been raised to think woman can't do that sort of thing? It's almost never shown where this train of thought comes from. People don't just get ideas out of thin air; they learn things from the people around them.

Why can't she want to be involved in politics, she can do more good trying to reform peoples thinking through this then being a warrior and slaughter people in battle.

Princess is such a dirty word in fandom, a woman always has to want to be one of the boys. Is that really feminist to say that to be a woman you have to act more like a man?

I see the attitude of if you wear a dress than you are automatically trying to fit into the mold that men want you to be in allot and it really bugs me. Why can't a female character want to wear dresses and look pretty, is that such a crime? Woman can make decisions on their own you know, they might just like dresses because they feel more comfortable in them.

If taken too far this can also become a bad thing, saying that you have to be really feminine to be a woman. The opposite is also bad if taken too far, like I have mentioned above. The only thing you have to do to create a strong female character is give her a brain, let her be independent. To be independent you have to be able to make decisions on your own, not do things just because people tell you too.

Friends Only

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:30:38 GMT

Dear Secret Yuletide Writer

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:14:03 GMT

Thank you so much for agreeing to write me something for yuletide. This is my first year participating so I'm really exited that someone is writing me fanfiction.

Things I like, in general: slash, het, gen, femmeslash, humor, banter, hurt/comfort, friendship fics, imperfect love.

General squicks: character bashing, one true love stories, tons of gore, necrophilia, really awful spelling.

Anne Bishop - Black Jewels series

I would like a Saetan/Andulvar fic, don't really care when it takes place. I also want something fluffy, please nothing too dark. Lastly nothing too explicit, as long as it doesn't go over NC-17 I'm cool.

I don't really have much to add to this request. I do want to stress the fact that I don't want really dark fic. I would be okay if it was a little dark, but please nothing to gruesome or horrible happening.

The Brave Little Toaster

I'm not really to picky here. I want something light and fluffy, slash is optional.

Like I said, not too picky. Though if you write slash I would love it if you wrote Lampy/Radio. For gen fics I would like some friendship between all the objects, like what they did before they decided to leave.

Casablanca

I would like a fic focusing on Ilsa's character, something set after the film.

When watching the film I wasn't fully satisfied with Ilsa's character in the film. Her whole role revolved around the men in her life, so I would like fic exploring her life before she met both Viktor and Rick.

Spin City (tv)

I'm fine with any character, as long as the fic is funny I don't really care where you go with this.

Again I don't really care where you go with this. Slash, femmeslash, het, or gen doesn't really bother me. All I want is humor to be involved because c'mon it's Spin City!

Once again, thank you so much for agreeing to write me some fanfiction. Hope you have fun writing either one of my requests.

The Beggining To A Beautiful Friendship

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:40:11 GMT

Okay to start off I wrote this piece just a few short hours ago for the fandom Music of the Spheres. This piece may be the first chapter to a fanfic I had always wanted to work on about two of the main characters of the book; Jonathan Absey and Alexander Wilmot.

It would help me to know what you think of the story so far and if I should continue. If you haven't read the book then the beggining may be confusing to you, but it will start to make sense as the story goes along; I hope you enjoy and comment.

Morning was slow in coming; the sun was just starting to peek out from behind the clouds and the stench of warmth flooded the streets as people started setting up shop. The flames from the Montpellier's house were dying down leaving it in ruins. Jonathan Absey, just like the sun, was starting to wake up; he blinked his eyes open and sat up slowly. After a few minutes he was starting to look around himself almost frantically until his eyes spotted his half-brother, Alexander, still asleep.

Jonathan stared at his half-brother for some time before trying to get him up by shaking him softly. Alexander opened his eyes slowly even though they were worthless to him now that he was blind.

"Jonathan is that you?" Alexander questioned, feeling his nerves well up inside him; after last night he expected only the worst to befall him. Jonathan gave a small shaky smile even though he knew that Alexander could not see it.

"Yes it's me; now get up we must run from here." Jonathan said, helping Alexander stand up. Alexander turned his blind eyes to Jonathan and closed them hurriedly.

"How are we supposed to make our way from this place if I can't see where I'm going?" Alexander said, his voice shaking slightly. Jonathan sighed, hating how Alexander's voice sounded; soft and nervous; he then took Alexander's hand and pulled him towards the gates leading to the streets.

"I'll guide you." Jonathan said starting to drag Alexander along. Alexander sighed, hating not being able to help; he didn't feel it was right for Jonathan to do all the work.

As the two made their way down Kingston Gore people stopped to stare at how close their hands were held together; self-consciously Jonathan let go of Alexander's hand in favor of his wrist. Alexander sighed when he felt the exchange of hand to wrist knowing all to well why Jonathan did it.

The two had been walking all of several hours before Jonathan managed to call a seat for the both of them. Jonathan helped Alexander get in the carriage and followed; shutting the doors behind them. He then directed the rider to take them to Richmond; giving him enough time to think of a plan.