Name/stats/about you: Esmenet. Sixteen, big on fandom and short on normal-people social skills.
How are you participating in ladiesbigbang? Beta and cheerleading. I'd also be writing fic, but I'm not sure I trust myself with long stories yet.
Your top three favorite women: I'm going to cheat on this one. Top three fictional women of the moment: Sasaya Yuu (from Ashita no Ousama), Major General Olivia Armstrong (from Fullmetal Alchemist), and Bianchi (from Katekyo Hitman Reborn). Top three real women of the moment: bookshop, Lady Gaga, and branchandroot (I don't remember if you ever actually said you were female or not. Sorry?).
More space to love on women: You know those works (particularly some manga) that are in all other ways great, and then you notice there's a huge gender imbalance and the female characters who are there seem to spend there time cooking, cleaning, and getting rescued? I think I'd like to spend some time just fleshing out their characters. Because even if the canon trivializes them, ignores them, robs them of agency, I don't have to.
Also, Yoko from Sea of Shadow is really really fantastic, as are all the characters in Monstrous Regiment. And I've recently fallen hard for a certain subset of josei manga -- things like Ashita no Ousama, Oishii Kankei, Nana, and Gokusen -- that explores female characters through both their career and their everyday lives.
What sort of works do you like to consume/create? I mostly go for (and write) fic and meta, although I've been thinking of trying to make a fanmix. I'm still learning how to like things despite their problems, instead of ignoring the issues altogether -- which is, surprisingly, less of a problem in fandom than it is in original fiction. What's your style of journaling? I mostly talk about fandom meta stuff -- ranging from 'I just noticed this thing in Utena that references work-X and is also a good place to get a discussion started about issue-Y' to 'I HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR A CROSSOVER' -- but I sometimes do fic and non-fandom stuff, too. An example post or a few:This do? Any woman-centric recs to share?This is one of the loveliest Luna-centric fics I've ever read. Free space:lgbtfest. You will love it, no matter who you are or what kind of fic you like.
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Date: 2010-05-17 01:22 am (UTC)How are you participating in ladiesbigbang? Beta and cheerleading. I'd also be writing fic, but I'm not sure I trust myself with long stories yet.
Your top three favorite women: I'm going to cheat on this one. Top three fictional women of the moment: Sasaya Yuu (from Ashita no Ousama), Major General Olivia Armstrong (from Fullmetal Alchemist), and Bianchi (from Katekyo Hitman Reborn). Top three real women of the moment:
More space to love on women: You know those works (particularly some manga) that are in all other ways great, and then you notice there's a huge gender imbalance and the female characters who are there seem to spend there time cooking, cleaning, and getting rescued? I think I'd like to spend some time just fleshing out their characters. Because even if the canon trivializes them, ignores them, robs them of agency, I don't have to.
Also, Yoko from Sea of Shadow is really really fantastic, as are all the characters in Monstrous Regiment. And I've recently fallen hard for a certain subset of josei manga -- things like Ashita no Ousama, Oishii Kankei, Nana, and Gokusen -- that explores female characters through both their career and their everyday lives.
What sort of works do you like to consume/create? I mostly go for (and write) fic and meta, although I've been thinking of trying to make a fanmix. I'm still learning how to like things despite their problems, instead of ignoring the issues altogether -- which is, surprisingly, less of a problem in fandom than it is in original fiction.
What's your style of journaling? I mostly talk about fandom meta stuff -- ranging from 'I just noticed this thing in Utena that references work-X and is also a good place to get a discussion started about issue-Y' to 'I HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR A CROSSOVER' -- but I sometimes do fic and non-fandom stuff, too.
An example post or a few: This do?
Any woman-centric recs to share? This is one of the loveliest Luna-centric fics I've ever read.
Free space: