30 questions fic meme, day 6: an even shorter and more definitive answer.

[dsudis]

6 - When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

Male. To such an extent that, until I started deliberately writing Bechdel Test fix-it fic for SG-1 a couple of years ago, I had never written a piece of fic that passed the Bechdel test. I'm getting better about it now (ahahaha, look! I am writing a whole AU that adds prominent

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[keerawa]

Yeah, me too, and it's rather embarrassing. I had to intentionally go back and rewrite bits of 'The Price of Interference' to make Grace less 2-D.

I do, however, have a few femme-slash fics that pass the Bechdel Test. I'm particularly proud of A Girl's Gotta Do, a Jo/Ruby case-fic curtain-fic femme-slash I wrote for last year's SPN Reverse BigBang.

[dsudis]

I think most slashers are in the same boat, tbh.

[rubynye]

This question is one of the reasons I really want to do this meme, because I have a whole masturbatory self-reflective essay to write that boils down to "I prefer female characters but my subconscious knows male characters tend to be more popular so I tend to write them more anyway.

(Or maybe I'll just go with that.)

[dsudis]

Well, hey. Self-reflective essays are more interesting (to me at least) than sheepish admissions that, hey, my internalized misogyny used to be a lot worse, okay. *g*