This isn't a particularly original complaint

Fandom, I love you to bits, but do you think you could manage, just for once, to acknowledge that female characters exist?

Sincerely,

Ronni

This post is brought to you by Fandom A, which seems to have reduced its most awesome female character to being a sort of cheer squad to the main slash pairing, Fandom B, which alternates between ignoring my favourite character and blaming her for the stupidity of her husband and son and only mentions my second-favourite (teenage) character when discussing which creepy old man to pair her off with, and Fandom C, which prefers incest pairings to writing about female characters (admittedly, the canon is horrible in this regard and tends to kill off every female character as quickly as possible).

This post is also brought to you by the knowledge that if people wrote fic for my favourite mini-fandom, it would all be angsty incestuous pairings of the (male) Imperial family members, with a side order of woobiefied (male) villain.

Bonus points if you can guess the fandoms.

PS It's not so much that I want people to stop writing fic, making art and producing meta focusing on male characters. It's that I wish it could be supplemented with equally good amounts of fic, art and meta about female characters. I wish female-centric texts would become as popular as male-centric texts.

Epic 365-day meme

I'm thinking of doing this rather long meme that glamjam has begun. I'm not intending to do it within 365 days - some days I'll answer multiple questions, some days I won't post at all, or I will write about stuff other than meme answers. And some of the questions are more appropriate to people at a younger stage of life than I am, so I'll modify them accordingly. But I like these inward-focused, philosophical memes. I find they help, psychologically.

day 1: hopes, dreams, and plans for the next 365 days with a picture of yourself
My hopes, dreams and short-term plans are both small and dauntingly huge. I hope to finish my PhD by next (northern) summer, and get a job that will allow me to stay in the UK. I hope my boyfriend's life becomes less stressful. I hope that I can continue working towards better physical and mental health over the next 365 days and beyond.

More broadly and unrealistically, I dream that the powerful would think and behave with more empathy and with more of a view to the future that they are creating.



Please excuse the grainy quality. It was taken on my boyfriend's mobile phone.

( The other days )