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Ooh! Fic challenge at the Harem!
But also for some reason it made me really happy to see this dry administrative post show up on my flist today (at the end of the Day of the Project Make Women Uncomfortable Wank, coincidentally), adjacent to the challenge:
The complete list of X-Files "other women" appearances by episode, compiled and reposted by Maidenjedi.
You know that FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME meme? It kind of makes me think of that. Even though the "Harem" isn't so active anymore, I remember how influential it was on me back in the mailing list days, when I was starting to look in a new way at various characters who just happened for some strange reason to be very unpopular with fandom at large-- Marita "Unablonder" Covarrubias, say, or Diana freakin' Fowley.
Actually, I remember being a wee bit surprised myself when I first signed up to the Harem list and discovered how many fans Agent Fowley had; I think it hadn't yet quite occurred to me that not hating her was a truly viable response to the text. But in short order I realized that FUCK YOU SHE'S AWESOME.
Also Cassandra Spender.
(Jeffrey Spender eventually became an honorary woman for our purposes, I recall, but I don't think I'm awake enough to say anything clever about that.)
But also for some reason it made me really happy to see this dry administrative post show up on my flist today (at the end of the Day of the Project Make Women Uncomfortable Wank, coincidentally), adjacent to the challenge:
The complete list of X-Files "other women" appearances by episode, compiled and reposted by Maidenjedi.
You know that FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME meme? It kind of makes me think of that. Even though the "Harem" isn't so active anymore, I remember how influential it was on me back in the mailing list days, when I was starting to look in a new way at various characters who just happened for some strange reason to be very unpopular with fandom at large-- Marita "Unablonder" Covarrubias, say, or Diana freakin' Fowley.
Actually, I remember being a wee bit surprised myself when I first signed up to the Harem list and discovered how many fans Agent Fowley had; I think it hadn't yet quite occurred to me that not hating her was a truly viable response to the text. But in short order I realized that FUCK YOU SHE'S AWESOME.
Also Cassandra Spender.
(Jeffrey Spender eventually became an honorary woman for our purposes, I recall, but I don't think I'm awake enough to say anything clever about that.)