We Love the Women That the Fandom Hates (spreading the word)

[puella_nerdii]

I think I saw this advertised in game_thrones yesterday, though it took me until now to get off my butt and sign up for it.

We Love the Women That the Fandom Hates is what it sounds like: a celebration of female characters who come in for their undue share of fannish vitriol

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[megkips]

...This looks fascinating oh my goodness. Thank you for pimping this out!

/Stares at female Rome cast and has all of the indecision.

[megkips]

This will probably spiral downward into some godless Baccano crossover.

I...don't know. But my friends want him to do it.

Of course they're already hypothetically writing his tumblr entries which include "Then I went for a drive in my convertable and I imagined what it would feel like to have the wind in my hair if I had hair.")

[puella_nerdii]

And that is a bad thing because...?

I have to admit, having my parents find/start following any of my fannish accounts is one of the things I fear most in the world. I do not want them to know how much I talk about gay porn.

[megkips]

Stop being right.

I think this is a fear MANY of us have. Heck, not even parents, but people who are less fannishly inclined. Someone who's in my MLS programme found my tumblr last night and I kind of panicked.

[jinsai]

Gonna second this.

With all of them.

[megkips]

My plans for this have a 50/50 chance for spiraling out and into "women's narratives in this entire series and you know for all that this is accurate for Roman gender roles ALL OF THESE LADIES ARE AMAZING."

[jinsai]

I just had a long talk/debate with a friend of mine about the glory that is Rome. The women in that series were amazing and I will accept no other answer! Oh, Atia and Anthony, but you kill me~.

(Don't forget the none-Roman ladies either! I loved Cleo and Charmian.)

[megkips]

Atia breaks my heart nearly as much as Vorenus and Niobe, and that's really saying something because that is all of my emotions right there. It kills me how good and tragic her development was by the end of s2 and just. aaaaaaaaah.

Pretty much I love everyone in the series, which really says something. (CHARMAIN DOES NOT GET ENOUGH CREDIT FOR HER AWESOME GOOD GOD.)

hello person with lovely taste in tv

[jinsai]

hello other person with lovely taste in tv and characters

Charmain!! Ye gods, no she doesn't. In fact, none of the slaves in that series get near enough credit for their awesomeness.

Atia is just so, so much. So horrible and wonderful and weak and strong, and this amazing contradiction of a woman and they did it so well. Oh Rome, ended before your time... (Though I hear rumors of a movie?)

[megkips]

it is lovely to meet you and spam puel's lj.

THIS THIS THIS. I actually read a really nice scholarly article analyzing them in relation to their mistresses which was basically "THESE ARE VERY NICE EXAMPLES OF SLAVES BEING THERE AND YET STILL BEING UNNOTICED AS THEY WOULD BE IN ROME" and. aaaaaaah.

Atia will always be my favourite fictional lady and nothing will ever change that. (Its in development hell, I understand.)

[jinsai]

*waves*Hi puel!

I want to read that article!!

[megkips]

The amount of times I've done this is alarming.

It's in this book!