Where do you go when you wanna read fic about women?
I've been thinking about how all of the fic I read lately is about boys. I'm feeling pretty glum about it.
(These fandoms I've been following, guys, they are killing me with the woman-hate. SPN and Merlin and Sherlock and their shiny, sexy boys and their dead or evil or broken (or what's maybe worse - uninteresting) women. It becomes so easy to pretend those dead women don't matter, because they don't matter in canon, and they don't matter in a lot of the slash out there, and all that woman-hate is creeping into my brain, and I've got to start saying no to that shit.)
I had a whole rant written about my genderfail shame, but I think a more productive approach would be to actually go read some fic about women. Maybe renew my reading of where_no_woman and femslash_today , then work my way back to some old-school Xena fic. But I also want to find new characters and fandoms and stories, ones I haven't experienced yet. And I do know that if I actually start looking for it (instead of waiting for it to show up on the rec lists and comms that I've been following), I will find it.
So I'm wondering, f-list, where do YOU go when you want to read about female characters? Which fandoms and comms and authors produce really juicy female-centric and feminist fic?
(These fandoms I've been following, guys, they are killing me with the woman-hate. SPN and Merlin and Sherlock and their shiny, sexy boys and their dead or evil or broken (or what's maybe worse - uninteresting) women. It becomes so easy to pretend those dead women don't matter, because they don't matter in canon, and they don't matter in a lot of the slash out there, and all that woman-hate is creeping into my brain, and I've got to start saying no to that shit.)
I had a whole rant written about my genderfail shame, but I think a more productive approach would be to actually go read some fic about women. Maybe renew my reading of where_no_woman and femslash_today , then work my way back to some old-school Xena fic. But I also want to find new characters and fandoms and stories, ones I haven't experienced yet. And I do know that if I actually start looking for it (instead of waiting for it to show up on the rec lists and comms that I've been following), I will find it.
So I'm wondering, f-list, where do YOU go when you want to read about female characters? Which fandoms and comms and authors produce really juicy female-centric and feminist fic?