i’m gonna be woke and annoying again so this is your warning to scroll because i genuinely can’t keep arguing in the comments it’s SO time-consuming! especially the "chill out it’s literally just fanfiction" keyboard warriors.
i can’t be the only person who’s noticed a steady decline in tolerable, well-written women in fanfiction (referring to both OCs and f!reader categories alike). i’ve talked about this already, but the "coqeuette, bimbofied, daddy’s little princess" trope has taken over my entire feed. it’s a freudian example of one of the many international consequences of lana del rey and choice feminism. but it isn’t just that trope entirely. it’s the half-assed attempts at different archetypes made to write the reader off as an empowering, dominant badass or sultry femme fatale, and failing because it all falls flat with snarky one-liners and glorified combat instead of any actual substance.
mind you, the same authors will praise male characters like leon kennedy and joel miller for being well-written and criticize women who goon to them without "appreciating their depth", as if PTSD is some generational, ground-breaking, never-before-seen character trait.
i’m looking forward to an increase in—not only well-written female characters—but ones that explore actual flaws that make the characters borderline evil. the normalization of docility, obedience, and abusive undertones that are somehow always followed by the same "it’s a kink, don’t be judgemental" excuse, is exhausting.
where are the evil women??? where are the women who are so unapologetically flawed and morally bankrupt that they make cersei lannister look like a septa???
