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this is a tournament where we defend all our favorite characters who are also victims of fandom misogyny. this post contains a link to the submission form, but before that, here are some rules:

no real people (obviously there are lots of real life women who are victims of fandom misogyny, but i feel like having those women compete in a poll against each other and also against fictional characters would be kind of disrespectful to the actual real life shit they were put through)

no men!!!! idc if he's like a woman to you, this tournament isn't for him!!!!

obviously, misogyny does not have to be the only factor here, it just has to be one of the factors. if racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc. are also part of the problem, do not hesitate to bring that up in your submission! it's highly relevant! the last thing i want is a tournament consisting of only cis straight white women, especially because so many of the hated/mistreated women of fandom are also marginalized in other ways that the fandom hates them for.

idk if this is a rule exactly, but just to clarify, this tournament is about which one of these characters is your favorite. it is emphatically not about trying to quantify which character is the biggest victim of fandom misogyny. that seems like an utterly exhausting and pointless thing to argue about, please don't subject me to that. i just want to see people defend their favorite overly maligned or mistreated girlies in my notes, i cannot stress this enough

characters don't have to be overtly hated to be victims of fandom misogyny. they can also be perpetually ignored in favor of men, or constantly characterized as the wise mom friend who the fandom has apparently decided has no desires or goals or needs besides being a sounding board for their favorite white boy, etc.

there's no time limit on this thing. even if the hatred/fandom mistreatment has died down and the character in question has been re-examined since, if there was ever a period in which they were subjected to fandom misogyny en masse, they count.

that said, don't choose characters who are generally universally beloved and always have been but you saw one person shit on them one time in a misogynistic way and got annoyed. i hate when that happens too, but it's does have to be a trend, not just one annoying guy, even if the guy in question is really annoying.

submit as many characters as you like!

you can submit a character here:

Ali Louis Bourzgui winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical at the 79th Tony Awards

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no real people (obviously there are lots of real life women who are victims of fandom misogyny, but i feel like having those women compete in a poll against each other and also against fictional characters would be kind of disrespectful to the actual real life shit they were put through)

no men!!!! idc if he's like a woman to you, this tournament isn't for him!!!!

obviously, misogyny does not have to be the only factor here, it just has to be one of the factors. if racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc. are also part of the problem, do not hesitate to bring that up in your submission! it's highly relevant! the last thing i want is a tournament consisting of only cis straight white women, especially because so many of the hated/mistreated women of fandom are also marginalized in other ways that the fandom hates them for.

idk if this is a rule exactly, but just to clarify, this tournament is about which one of these characters is your favorite. it is emphatically not about trying to quantify which character is the biggest victim of fandom misogyny. that seems like an utterly exhausting and pointless thing to argue about, please don't subject me to that. i just want to see people defend their favorite overly maligned or mistreated girlies in my notes, i cannot stress this enough

characters don't have to be overtly hated to be victims of fandom misogyny. they can also be perpetually ignored in favor of men, or constantly characterized as the wise mom friend who the fandom has apparently decided has no desires or goals or needs besides being a sounding board for their favorite white boy, etc.

there's no time limit on this thing. even if the hatred/fandom mistreatment has died down and the character in question has been re-examined since, if there was ever a period in which they were subjected to fandom misogyny en masse, they count.

that said, don't choose characters who are generally universally beloved and always have been but you saw one person shit on them one time in a misogynistic way and got annoyed. i hate when that happens too, but it's does have to be a trend, not just one annoying guy, even if the guy in question is really annoying.

submit as many characters as you like!

you can submit a character here:

You'll see what I mean.

i’ve been talking about doing a giles fanzine to go with the faith the vampire slayer zine i put together 4 years ago. and the devastating news of anthony head’s death yesterday made it seem like maybe now is the time?

TECHNICAL INFO: the zine will be A5 (148 x 210 mm / 5.8 x 8.3 in) and in black & white. please keep this in mind when make in art (line work will print the best as this will be photocopied / not professionally printed) please try to keep your essays under 1000 words and fanfic under 1500 words (for space reasons) however this is flexible! (email or message me!)

this is unpaid zine - however contributors will receive a free pdf of the zine and a discount for a physical copy (pay for postage as i most likely wont be able to afford international postage for everyone, but we'll revisit the subject nearer to publication.)

if you want, you can send us a pitch for your idea so we know what to expect, but it's not necessary in order to be included. it's appreciated in case there's lots of overlap and also so we know what's 'missing'.

PITCH SUBMISSION FORM (not mandatory) you can also send us your idea via the ask box but remember that if you send it anonymously, we won't be able to reply to you (idea submissions will not be published but questions related to the zine will.)

Buffy/Faith can't happen because Faith had a soul when she turned evil.

The souled/unsouled dichotomy is very important to Buffy because if someone without a soul (ie most vampires) can be a person, and worthy of love, then that makes Buffy, who hunts and kills those people every night, a killer and a monster.

It also means she would have to face the fact that Angelus did what he did to her because of who HE was, not just because he lost his soul, and that Angel wasn't as different as she'd like to believe, and that her first real love was never really good or pure, it was always twisted and losing the soul just made it more obvious.

And you can argue about whether or to what extent either of those conclusions is actually true- but I think Buffy needs to believe that there is a clear souled/unsouled division. And canonically Buffy is afraid that she is a monster, and more offended by the idea of a person with a soul committing murder than an unsouled monster doing it.

That said, I do think, for closely-related reasons, Buffy believes in, desperately needs to believe in, the possibility of redemption- and specifically that having a soul can make a difference.

She can't really forgive Faith because Faith committed her crimes as an ensouled person. Tolerate her? Yes. Make use of her as an ally and a tool, just as she did with soulless Spike? Yes.

But love her? No.

But if Faith had been turned, murdered a bunch of people as a vampire, and then been reensouled, I fully believe that she and Buffy would have slept together by the end of the series. The chemistry and attraction is 100% there.

Buffy's type is not "monster" or "vampire" and its certainly not "male"- its Redeemed Monster who's redemption through regaining a soul reinforces the Souled/Unsouled dichotomy on which she psychologically depends.