New community announcement: Supernatural ladies!
The community where Supernatural's women come out to play
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This is a community intended for fanworks, recs, and discussion that focus on one or more of the women of Supernatural, RPF or FPF.
The idea is to share fanworks in which a woman or women appears not just as a support or sounding board to a man, but with real focus on her story and her character arc. Think the essence of the Bechdel test: do you feel that the female characters continue to exist when the male ones aren’t around? Do they have motivations, passions, friendships, perspectives of their own, or are they only there to support the plot? It’s not about screen time: a female character might appear only very briefly in a much larger fic, and still feel like a convincing person in her own right; but, on the other hand, she might appear in every second scene to chat sympathetically with one of the men about what’s going on in his life and without the reader getting the sense that she has a life of her own.
Obviously, this is highly subjective. But since the point of this community is to go ‘hooray, more Ellen or Charlie or Danneel!’ - if in doubt, post anyway! Who knows - it might spark an interesting conversation about what counts as a strongly written female character. The point is to focus on those characters that we so rarely remember to explore, next to those charismatic show-stealing men! It’s too easy to turn these women into support characters, but just look at the list of fascinating people in that interests list - let’s turn that around.