Beyond Selidor

Like many people in my Dreamwidth circle, I tend to have firm preferences for which character is hurt, and which one is doing the comforting.

Interesting.

Stories in which the ordinary work of everyday life is made magical and heroic, especially tasks typically perceived (whether correctly or incorrectly) as having been 'women's work' in a historical setting.

I'm not sure if this is quite what you mean, so forgive me if I'm hijacking, but I do think people sometimes don't bear in mind that a lot of what we consider "just" women's work actually gave women a lot of power in their own right. Obviously I'm not saying we should all go back to the way things were, times were terrible for women, but women have always been intelligent beings who often found ways to game the system, without being generations ahead of their time and stabbing all the menfolk with swords. You know?

And I love seeing women working together, as opposed to being bitter enemies or indifferent to one another.