Some Serious Business and Some Fic Stuff That's Kind of Related

Well, looks like I ended up choosing a good time to wander back to internet fandom....

For those of you who may not have seen it: Fannish spaces, girls, and the culture of silence, an extremely well written post by bookshop that really dissects and brings up the tough truths about how female characters - and by extension women - are handled by fandom.

Fandom is not woman-positive. Fandom needs all the urging it can get just to talk about female characters, let alone talk about them nicely. Fandom prioritizes men above everything. Fandom prioritizes male-based fantasies, and fandom prioritizes the status of the people who write those fantasies.

Fandom perpetuates rape culture by silencing women, and we silence women when we remove women from our own narratives, when we refuse to write or read about women, when we talk about how female characters are stupid, slutty, saucy, too strong or too weak to enjoy, not written well enough, not worthy of as much attention as the boys are. We perpetuate victim-shaming when we degrade "women's issues" as inferior, icky, and gross. We perpetuate misogyny when we venerate canons that have high numbers of male characters and only one or two girls. We perpetuate the idea that boys' stories are better than our own, the idea that boys are better than us.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but...every single discussion on these very issues that I've ever encountered before has fizzled out and nothing changes. This has been a problem in fandom for a very long time, but hardly anyone wants to have to talk about it. And I can understand that, it can be difficult to realize just the sort of culture fandom perpetuates.

Anyway, this has inspired me to go for 100_women again. A few years ago I completed it for Fullmetal Alchemist. This time I'm doing it for Lost Odyssey, another fandom with absolutely amazing female characters. Though a lot less than FMA, so we'll see how that works out...

Point is: fictional ladies are awesome. :D

Fic: Until We Lose Sight of the Land; 100_Women

Title: Until We Lose Sight of the Land
Fandom: Lost Odyssey
Pairing: Seth/Ming, Ming/hand
Prompt: 017, Lust for 100_women
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1437
Spoilers: Full game spoilers, I think
Summary: Queen Ming Numara had nearly everything she could possibly have want of. Yet she couldn't get the pirate woman out of her mind....

( Until We Lose Sight of the Land )

Fic: That This Too Sullied Flesh Would Melt

Yeah, so...I'm just slowly gathering my fic over here, so I can tag and memory and whatnot. I WILL BE ORGANIZED! Finally. Yeah. But hey, look, a surprise cache of Lost Odyssey fic! Unless you've already read it all elsewhere...

Title: That This Too Sullied Flesh Would Melt
Fandom: Lost Odyssey
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Gongora/Tolten
Warnings: Inherent power abuse, may trigger manipulation squicks
Spoilers: None that I can think of, takes place before the game starts
Summary: Tolten had never experienced such affectionate attention before, had never truly felt someone cared for him as a person and not the future king of Uhra. His desperation to be loved blinded him.

( That This Too Sullied Flesh Would Melt )