Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is the perfect excuse to update my sticky post!

First thing first, I'll link to my author's newsletter. I intend to update it about once every two months, or whenever I have important news. In it I also share some personal updates and recommendations.
Last year, I shared a teaser for a a project of mine, "Underground Elysium", a quite sui generis dystopian novella featuring a misandrist vampire society. I hope to have a polished draft of the real thing in a few months; then, I'll see how I go about sharing feedback.
My fandom username is laufire; you can find me in tumblr and in ao3. I likely won't be as active on the first in the upcoming year, but I want to continue my writing streak on the latter, where I recently published my 100th fic (!!!), after finally getting rid of all the prompts in my inbox ^^U. You can see them compiled here.

Now, as to my main fandoms; what you'll see around here the most:

Detective Comics Comics STILL has me in its clutches. It's terminal, I fear. I read mostly (and write exclusively) post-crisis/pre-reboot canon, though I dabbled in others (DCAU, Batman Returns, the Snyderverse, Batwoman s2... to name a few favourites). Jason Todd is the getaway drug into the rest, but my interests are expansive (other Bats, Arrows, Amazons, Suicide Squads, Talia, Catwoman...). Recently I finished reading all of new earth!Cass comics, and now I'm going through the highlights of Lady Shiva's appearances. During this month of January I also plan to do the same with Duke Thomas (about the one (1) thing I consider a vast improvement in the current continuity), and some key issues from Wonder Woman (1987).
My own original stories. My stories are largely focused on female characters (and if there's romance, it's likely f/f). This year, and in the short and medium-long term, I'll be focused on my standalone ideas, leaving aside more expansive series. Other than Underground Elysium, the list of the most advanced ideas includes "Chasing Fanny" (pseudo noir story about a medium, a femme fatale, and a sob-sister wannabe reporter), "The Leech of Wonderland" (a cynic take on the historical romance genre involving a naïve young woman and a dangerous suitor), "A Child's Covenant" (a dark fairy tale about a survivor trying to find some temporary happiness before it's too late), "One Over Many" (my take on the "what if one day you woke up and all the men were gone" speculative subgenre), and "All About Eves" (magical realism + historical realism + time travel).

Other interests and fandoms you might see around here:

Authors & Books: Ana María Matute, Angela Carter, "Beauty and the Beast" (Madame de VIlleneuve), Camilla Andrew ("The Essence of the Equinox", "The Sanguine Sorceress"), Catherynne M. Valente, "Carmilla", Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Dangerous Liaisons", Daphne du Maurier, Devin Grayson, "El cordero carnívoro", Greg Rucka, Hope Mirrlees, "Hymn to Demeter", Judd Winick, Marjorie Liu, Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley, "Medea", Miguel Hernández, Philip Pullman, "Pygmalion", Shirley Jackson.
Comics: outside of DC, I tend to go for Image Comics (Monstress, Paper Girls, Saga). I want to get more into Marvel, starting with returning to my Iron Man reading, and to begin on Black WIdow.
Films: the Alien franchise, Black Swan, Blancanieves (2012), Colombiana, El verdugo, Jupiter Ascending, Lust Caution, Pan's Labyrinth, Practical Magic, The Handmaiden, The Lion in Winter, The Mask of Zorro, The Terminator.
Musical artists: Aaliyah, Amistades Peligrosas, Amy Winehouse, Ani DiFranco, Antonio VIvaldi, Ariana Grande, Bear McCreary, Christopher Beck, Clint Mansell, Dessa, Ennio Morricone, Fiona Apple, FKA twigs, Florence + the Machine, Georges Bizet, Hole, Julie London, Kate Bush, Mariah Carey, Mägo de Oz, Mirel Wagner, Montserrat Caballé, Nancy Sinatra, Nina Simone, Peggy Seeger, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Queen, Richard Wagner, Serguéi Serguéievich Prokófiev, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Pretty Reckless, Tracy Chapman.
Shows: the Buffyverse, the Plecverse, Black Sails, Desperate Housewives, Dollhouse, Killjoys, Nikita, Person of Interest, Reign, Scandal, Severance, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Good Wife, The Wire, Underground, Veronica Mars.
Others: art history, creative writing, photography, history & historiography, criminal and international law, orcas, owls...

Current Music: New Year's Concert

There are still a few gift boxes to be filled in this event I'm participating it. Unfotunately the requests are all for fandoms I know nothing about, but I'll do my part and signal boost, in case anyone who follows me here can lend a hand.

writtenworldsaloud's box: Hazbin Hotel, Golden Sun, YuYu Hakusho (fic, vid)

Flaim_Ita's box: Kamen Rider Geats, Mahoutsukai Precure, Hana no Asuka-Gumi, Kamen Rider Decade, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (Fic, Art, Comics, Podfic of any of my applicable fics)

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Queen - 39

On tumblr, I was recently asked about nsfw headcanons about my darling Mia Dearden (among other characters I have yet to get around to). I'm just going to c&p them over here, because this is a fandom topic I've been thinking about a lot, and I'd welcome more discussion.

Heteroooo Mia

Initially, I was going to insert here some jokes about Heteroooo Mia; comment on why I see her this way, and on certain fanon trends that go against this and why.

This got long, and I have a few more nsfw headcanons I wanted to share. Luckily, I got another ask about Mia, so I’ll be dividing this and posting the second part in a moment (ETA: here it is!). Also, given the character and the topic, warning for mentions of csa and child trafficking.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about fandom’s approach to sexuality, about “queer headcanons”; about how I’ve personally moved further away from said approaches, if I ever followed it anything more than half-heartedly in the first place. And Mia happens to be a good case study to illustrate my points.

Fandoms are built largely on shipping. That’s just a fact, and it’s not something I particularly object to. I understand why it’s bothersome when that’s all there is, especially if you run countercourse, and especially in fandoms where everything is reduced to one pair of characters (or a trio involved in a ship war) to the detriment of everything else. But I can’t say I haven’t had my fun in the eternal game of smashing dolls together in various combinations. Dynamics and interactions between various characters happens to be one of the main things I’ll pay attention to in any given story; I enjoy a well-written romance, and I love to ask myself “what if…”, in any shape of form. My main fandom, all my previous main fandoms, are built on large, expansive casts, where there are several characters and countless relationships that hold my attention, and in those I’d be called a multishipper, even if usually, when I walk away, all but the few dynamics that retained most of my enthusiasm fade away in my memory.

So this is not an indictment against shipping, by any means. But there are approaches to shipping that I find less and less fitting to my own way of reading texts.

One is the “queer (most often bi) until proven otherwise” approach. Not because I think us queers are these freaks of nature, these aliens that don’t fit with the rest of the human experience. But because the vast majority of characters in the fandoms we move in, like it or not, have been written, with varying levels of awareness, with the intent of portraying heterosexual characters, and that has shaped them.

Some of them, taking a Watsonian approach in mind, wouldn’t change much, if they suddenly were queer, be it thanks to their particular personality or circumstances, or thanks to the context of the universe they live in. Such is life. But in many cases, likely more than I think fandom likes to acknowledge, this would be a more than significant alteration. And, instead, because it’s often filtered through shipping and which dolls we want to smush together to the detriment, and not alongside character exploration, a lot of m/m and f/f fandom content comes across as two straight people who just happen to fuck people of their same gender. And “fuck” might be a strong word, because sometimes any inkling of raw desire feels utterly absent.

Going back to Mia: I read her as heterosexual because that’s what’s in the text. This is a woman (a girl, when she starts) that likes men.

That is attracted to them, that gets passing crushes on them, that develops stronger feelings for them. Her interest in men over women isn’t limited to the romantic territory: her stronger bonds are with men. Ollie and Connor, of course. Dinah is her closest female bond, and that one is built largely off-panel and clearly not on the same level as the other two. She admires Roy and wants to take his mantle, follow in his steps (not just as Speedy II, but also on Roy’s activism and advocacy, by sharing her own personal stories, as he did). On the Teen Titans, the characters she has the most significant interactions with are Victor Stone and Tim Drake. It’s been a while since I read this, but I remember little to no bonding with the female Titans, barring a couple jokes to Rose on her very last appearance. We see one female friend of hers at school, very briefly.

I think it’s fair to say that Mia has an easier time interacting with men. And I can think of why easily. Yes, men are the people who hurt her most. They’re also who she was most used to. And I can see how her past as a trafficking victim, engaging in survival sex works while living on the streets, wouldn’t have been conducting to building solid friendships with other girls and women. Those bonds can be beautiful, but I can picture the kind of competitiveness she was facing in that environment, especially at 15 and younger. She tells Oliver that she took drugs to stay awake, a practice they all did to prevent assaults or robberies -the latter, at least in part, likely from each other. Because you can’t trust anyone 100%, because no one is trustworthy. Not even Mia, in such a dog eats dog world.

At one point, Mia brazenly references a sexual act she did involving other girls… and it was in the context of male clients paying for titillation. There’s absolutely no hint of Mia thinking of it beyond that. And a key detail here, is that this moment, not to mention the bulk of Mia’s character, especially pertaining her relationship with sex, was written by Judd Winick. An author who has never once been subtle about queer subtext (and, when allowed to, text). He even has a character of his own creation, Grace Choi, with a similar background to Mia as a trafficked child, a queer woman who only dates women. And yet, with Mia… nothing. Not even an inkling that she is remotely interested in anything but men.

Queer!Mia, and especially lesbian!Mia, aren’t readings that are accomodated by the text. They are, if not going actively against the text, at least way beyond its boundaries.

And that’s perfectly fine. But it means that you have to build them up, apart from the text.

I find that more and more, I prefer some kind of stronger foundation to built upon for these things, be it subtext (intentional or not, death of the author and all that) or, yes, shipping. Because seeing how a given characters interacts by members of their own gender vis a vis the other is something to build upon. There’s preciously little (nearly nothing, really) of that with Mia, and not seeing anything there to go from means I am not interested in that process, but that’s a matter of personal preference, if anyone else is, go ahead.

Go ahead with the awareness that a queer Mia, and especially a lesbian Mia (and, especially, as I’ve seen before, an amab Mia), is a different character. That these are non-canon readings. Ask yourself, how could this change her reactions to her trauma? Her relationships with Ollie? With Dinah, if she had latched on a safe, older woman to explore her feelings? With her diagnosis? With the Titans, maybe with her heroism? With the world?

Sadly, this isn’t what I see when I spy a lesbian!Mia headcanon in the wild. It’s either lip service, betrays a deep discomfort with the way this csa victim expresses interest in men, or *checks notes* becomes a rhetorical weapon against us ten Jason/Mia shippers.

And fuck, if that isn't boring. Not to mention quite offensive, as a lesbian, ngl.

Other headcanons

I dug deep on my Heteroooo Mia headcanon in my last post, so I’ll take advantage of this one to talk a bit about Mia and sex, especifically. Warning for allusions to csa and child trafficking.

I’ve talked about this with other shippers but I think she’d love very involved roleplaying. She likely has past experiences with those kinds of games, and not good ones (yet, at the same time, pretending someone else can afford you some distance), so she might’ve been unsure at first, but to her surprise and delight, it’s immensely fun. Especially with costumes involved, which is something she ponders and jokes about out loud with other capes, Because.

I think she and Jason would feed into each other with this (because you know this would be a shared kink). Through anyone else’s eyes, the result is way too convoluted and complicated. These two are building up an entire film, a saga. They’re enjoying themselves immensely.

I also have this headcanon that her limits, her comfort zone, are in constant movement. Not static, shifting, hard to predict. What sometimes feels right, other times becomes a hard limit. If sometimes giving head feels active, feels like being in charge, feels like indulging in how much she can affect the guy, other times the posture itself feels degrading. If sometimes certain possessiveness makes her feel wanted and desired, as herself and not just a body and a means to an end, there are other times when it feels like ownership and she gets the urge to escape. Or simply, physical touches that usually cause pleasure will suddenly, without her being able to find an explanation, feel awkward and immensely unsexy. It’s a headache and a half, and something that can add to her insecurities about being too “high maintenance” (unlovable) in a romantic relationship.

It seems that you can still leave me a gift (fic, art, edits...) in femgiftboxes!

I'm asking for stuff about (pre-reboot) DC comics, Severance, Black Sails, The Expanse, Killjoys, or Nikita. Alternatively, you can drop some book recs for me.

🎁🎁🎁

I had the time to put something myself in a couple of other people's boxes, the ones I set as goals for myself, so I'm pleased about that :D

Current Mood: cranky
Current Music: Kelela - Far Away

observance

It's an eventful day for the Bats in Gotham. However, Jason has been invited to a birthday party. Jaymia ft. the Arrow and Bat clans. 11k, Rated M.

(This is the longest work I've published yet and with ao3 acting up all day getting it ready was a goddamn nightmare lmao. But it's done! Just in time! I'm so so happy about it LOL)

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: FKA Twigs - Wanderlust

Just finished The Other History of the DC Universe! It’s a five-issues long mini-series that explores the timeline of the ‘verse (circa late 80s-00s, aka my favouite continuity) from the perspectives of non-white characters, each narrated by a different one. My favourites are #1 and #5, centered on Jefferson Pierce and Anissa Pierce, respectively. I didn’t think the three middle issues were as good as those two, but they’re more than worth the read regardless; these just happen to be really good LOL. I love how they’re in dialogue with each other, from father to daughter.

I love it even how it doesn’t pull punches with white fan-favourites LOL. I’m sure many would see the way some of these characters talk about them (some of whom I love as well!) and complain that oh, it’s not the whole picture, oh, the situation is more nuanced than that. Nuance isn’t bestowed upon equally in the hearts of readers. And in this issues, said nuance is only wholly afforded to the narrators, the characters of colour, who are presented in such a stark way and… god, is there a good word properly encapsulates “descarnada” in English… laid bare, I suppose. Unafraid to show their darks, their flaws, their short-comings, in a way that feels refreshing and wholly removed from model minority narratives.

From how often it’s the white characters that can be whole people, warts and all, and characters of colour the ones that have to reach for the sky in sainthood to receive a crumb of the attention and admiration the first group gets.

And by being written this way, I doubt these characters got that kind of reaction from the audience. If I had to guess, based on the little I’ve seen around [ETA: I read through the comments some of these issues got on scans-daily, and oh boy, was I right lmfao], I’d say a lot of readers would get defensive; sometimes of the white fan-favourites mentioned in passing, often negatively, but even of the characters of colour and how the way they’re portrayed here could make them targets for criticism. But I admire the series all the more for doing it this way.

I have inadventently entered my Jefferson Pierce era.

It all started while I was reading some preboot!Talia comics I had left, and she happened to appear in two issues of Black Lightning: Year One (AND she wasn’t written as the world’s most aggravating orientalist stereotype, despite this being the 2010s!!). Oh well, I thought. It’s only six issues long, and I like Black Lightning, so I might as well read the whole thing! That’s how they get you, but sometimes it’s nice. The mini-series was neat. A bit too neat at a couple of places, but a fun, enjoyable and short read.

Then I started reading The Other History of the DC Universe. It’s a five-issues mini-series that retells the story of the ‘verse through the perspectives and narration of non-white characters. I’m over halfway through, but I’m reading it slowly, because each chapters deserves to be chewed on properly.

The first issue is centered on Jefferson, and it’s the strongest by far. I LOVE how he is written, in particular. The good and the bad. How neither he, nor the narrative, pulls punches, towards others OR towards Jefferson and his real, truly ugly flaws. It specifically refuses to pull punches on the same parts I felt were a bit too neat in BL:YO, which made it amusing to read those almost back to back.

Then, between yesterday and today, I read Detective Comics #983-987, and Batman and the Outsiders (2019), two arcs from my Duke Thomas Reading List where Jefferson has a central part. The latter even sparked a brand new ship, which is rare for me with modern comics.

The ship in question is Jefferson and Tatsu Yamashiro, aka Katana. TOH’s third issue is narrated by her, and there were a couple of things during it that made me wonder if I was reading too much re: the two of them. Nothing outwardly romantic, just Tatsu herself reading into their commonalities and contrast (with focus on their family loses: her murdered husband and sons, and her stranged ex-wife and daughters), and then a particularly resonant moment where Tatsu is awed and immensely happy for Jefferson, because he gets to be in a team with his daughter, that got to me. Then BATO went and made their feelings for each other explicit and messy and well. Of course I was going to be weak for that. Have you met me.

Anyway. Yeah. Me in my Jefferson Pierce era. It’s been fun so far. I should pick the Black Lightning show back up and finish it once and for all. Though of course I maintain my attachment to comics (preboot) continuity most of all, so I’ll be expanding my focus there, eventually (there are so, so many interesting comics in my to-read list).

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: Amy WInehouse - Rehab

I gave myself a prompt challenge back in January, during the Snowflake event over Dreamwidth, and finally completed and posted them \o/

voyeur’s instincts. BTVS + Bewitching. Willow, Faith, Buffy.
wildflower. Black Widow + Flourish.
indomitable willpower. Stephanie Brown + Wanderlust.
of narratives. Merricat Blackwood + Harbinger.
to build and to endure. Black Sails + Invincible. Max.
on a high note. Practical Magic + Crescendo. Gillian Owens.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: La Oreja de Van Gogh - 20 de Enero

The "Bruce is a girldad and suuuuuch a good father to Cass" takes are irksome and inaccurate and often used as a crutch to write Cass in without actually having to put any effort on her character in Batfamily/Batboys centric fics. Most troubling, even at its more earnest when it's done by genuine Cass fans, it operates on the premise that Cass matters because she matters to Bruce (who, despite David Cain setting the bar at approximately the height of the Earth's core, still managed to pull a few outstanding performances. Read Batgirl00, it's good).

This is incredibly common across the board when it comes to female characters of colour with strong ties to important white male characters, regardless of the nature of such ties. Audience racism very much manifest in her detractors doing everything in their hands to deny those ties, to minimise them and instead elevate the importance of the man's relationship with another white character. But the opposite reaction from her fans (including, for characters in worse positions, trying to link them to a guy via rareships and the like) still accepts the premise that proximity to the white man is the winning ticket.

Which... oftentimes isn't an inaccurate premise; many, many canons definitely support and reinforce that mentality. Fans aren't making it up in their own heads; they're reacting and simply want their faves to "win" the game. I've been there.

But it tends to come with a stubborn denial that the game exists, and that it is rigged, and that there are BETTER possibilities for female characters. That there are bigger victories for them outside these confines and that they can be worthwhile characters in their own right. The start of the show, instead of acting as if being chosen as the plus one is the greatest role they can aspire to.

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Lacuna Coil - The House of Shame

Between one thing and another I've barely read this week, but this past month or so I've watched some tv here and there and I thought I'd talk a bit about them.

I continue to watch Severance and love it. The last two episodes have SO much to them: expansion on the world building, answers, yet more questions... all while putting front and center two female characters of the sort that rarely get that place, and being superbly filmed while at it. I am eagerly awaiting the next two episodes, and already anticipating how hard it'll be to wait for another season LOL. I caught up with season 1 right on time to watch the finale premier and oh boy, that was hard xD

I've started The Pitt, a medical drama where each episode is a "real time" hour for the characters in the emergency room, with the season being just ONE shift in their lives. It's pretty intense and realistic, with many interesting characters, and really good at playing with audience's biases. It's apparently been renewed for a second season (I've heard they weren't sure/weren't expecting that, and season 1 seems to be filmed with that in mind). I'm curious of what that'll mean going forward, because idk if this format, which is what has made the show stand out in its subgenre, can sustain itself for so long. We'll see. Noah Wyle plays the lead character, btw: the attending in charge, still traumatised by his experiences during the earlier days of the pandemic, with this shift being the anniversary of his mentor's death at that time. I never watched ER, but I know it's a classic among medical shows, so maybe some will entice some.

I FINALLY got around watching the first season of Twin Peaks. It's a very, very charming show, in its way. I find Laura and Audrey in particular fascinating, and like Cooper even more than I expected. I'll continue to watch, despite hearing mixed things on the rest of the show, I think it'll be worth it. Though first I might try to finish Kevin Can Fuck Himself.

Later today I'll be going to a live play for free. The last two I've attended this year were either attrocious or mediocre, so wish me luck LOL.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Emilie Autumn - Gentlemen Aren't Nice

This week I devoured Harrow the Ninth and absolutely loved it. I liked the first book, but this novel took the series to another level. I quite enjoyed getting to read something a little different, and piecing together the answers by the information that slowly trickled chapter after chapter. I want to read something else in between this and the third installment, but I can't wait to read that one. I look forward to catching up and finally being able to look at what my TLT mutuals have been saying without fearing getting myself spoioled LOL.

I also read a few short stories by the same author: Chew and The Woman in the Hill, two independent stories both available in Nightmare Magazine, and The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, set in TLT universe, a little tale of an adventure Camilla and Palmedes have as teens that shows a bit of how the Sixth House works.

What I've picked for the in-between of TLT was a reread of The Clan of the Cave Bear. There's a good chance I might only read that first book, but who knows. Maybe this time around I finish the saga. I think I made it to the beginning of the 5th book, back when I first picked them as a preteen.

And I've started Yellowface, which has been on my TBR for a while. R. F. Kuang seems to be a hit-or-miss for people, as an author, but that first chapter and the narrator's voice hooked me immediately. I'm not surprised, because a friend of mine read it over a year ago and shared some quotes that felt very, very promising.

On the non-fiction side of things, I finished The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed, which I wholeheartedly recommend. I also read a few hand-picked essay chapters from larger books: Hélène Cixoux's "Coming to Writing", which will merit a second, more paused read to digest every bit, and Tricia Lootens's "Whose Hand Was I Holding?: Familial and Sexual Politics in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House".

Comics-wise, there's not much to tell. I continue to enjoy Absolute Wonder Woman. I'm keeping up with Iron Man and the West Coast Avengers runs; they're better than most Tony runs of the recent past LOL, but I might only give them a few more issues to impress me. And I'll probably stop reading Wayne Family Adventures until the arc is over, at least, because the last few issues have done little more than aggravate me, and I have a firm "if it sucks, hit da bricks" philosophy with comic books.

Current Mood: restless
Current Music: Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Summer Wine

Yesterday I finally watched La virgen roja ("the red virgin"), a Spanish film based on the story of Aurora and Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, a mother-daughter duo who lived in the early 20th century, specifically set during the time of the Second Republic.

I have mixed feelings about this film. On the one hand, I think it is a good film. Stunning visuals, compelling acting, and a good soundtrack that all together immerse you in its period, which is what I ask of historical fiction. But as historical fiction, its adherence to facts is something that merits its own scrutiny, separatedly, or maybe in addition, its artistic value (something I do not dispute).

It focuses on a harrowing and rarely discussed event; despite generally being interested in this period and it hitting, frankly, an eerily accurate interesction of my interests, I only found out about it on January of last year. The film reignited my interest, and I'm sure it's awakened many others', which is a huge point in its favour. But it's also made me think about how women's narratives are told, the shape they form, and why that is; something I think about a lot, regardless, but of which this particular film has become a good case of study.

To be as brief as possible: Aurora raised Hildegart on her own, conceiving her with eugenist goals in mind, desiring to shape "the first free woman" who would ~change the world and liberate us. She raised her by strict rules, and the result was a prodigy. Hildegart had a law degree at 17, when she started another few (philology and languages, medicine). She published sixteen monographs and over 150 articles on politics, sexology, and other matters. She participated in politics, joining leftist parties and advocating for women's liberation. She spoke multiple languages and wrote and established professional relationships with famous authors of the time, such as H.G. Wells or Havelock Ellis.

On June 9th, 1933, at the age of 18, Hildegart was murdered by her mother while she slept.

The facts as we know it paint a picture of a rapidly deteriorating relationship. Aurora was extremely controlling, and as she grew into adulthood, Hildegart chaffed more and more against it. Things came to a head when H.G. Wells invited Hildegart to come with him to England, and not Aurora, something that would let her step free from her mother's shadow in a definite way, and that increased Aurora's rapidly growing paranoia about people wanting to steal her daughter. As well as, possibly, her disappointed in Hildegart herself: she apparently described her as a "failed project" and, as an sculpture who sees an "imperfection" in their work, tore it down.

The movie, rather than in Hildegart's professional ambitions, or in an intrinsic desire for freedom after a lifetime of such strict control, put much more focus on a romance.

The real facts on this seem dubious at best. There has never been a definite confirmation of its status. Aurora seemingly denied it on the trial and refused to discuss it further; the man himself, a lawyer and leftist politician called Abel Velilla, denied it on an article shortly after Hildegart's death. Given Aurora's... everything, and that Velilla was 13 years older than Hildegart, I don't consider those denials the most trustworthy. And as a narrative, it makes sense. It makes sense that someone like Aurora would consider this one more failure and betrayal on Hildegart's part. It makes sense that Hildegart, 18yo, saw in this man another avenue for freedom.

When I say "it makes sense", I mean that it's a familiar story. A story we've all been familiarised with, have expectations about, and thus, that it makes sense to pull on this thread for a film, a structured, fictionalised story.

But I find it a good example of how restricted women's narratives often are. How creatives turn to the familiar, the romance, man and woman, to tell their story. How it romanticises this dynamic (painting them more like peers than a teenager and the 30yo man they were in reality) to portray a classic tale of young love versus jealous and controlling mother. How it blurrs the line of Hildegart's possible infatuation with Abel being a manifestation of her desires to escape her home or the cause of that desire existing at all.

How a story about a woman that removed, or even minimised, the romantical aspect, or treated it more cynically, might have struggled more to find its audience, or even to built up its own narrative, by rebuffing more familiar structures.

Another nitpick I have, less important to me than the above, but plenty relevant in terms of historical fiction trends IMO, is the choice of actresses to portray Aurora and Hildegart. They're good actress and do a good job, to be clear. But boy, they look NOTHING like their real-life counterparts. They're not even prettified-within-characterisation versions, women who look similar but fit beauty standards (and specifically Hollywood beauty standards) much better. They're straight up nothing alike. And with Aurora, I can't help but think this would've been a double-edged sword (I can just imagine what a film would've done with an ugly woman in this role), but with Hildegart, the choice of going with a waif-like actress that in no way looks like the photographs we have of a chubby, baby-faced Aurora seems very, very pointed to me.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: Maria Arnal - La virgen roja

One of my goals for this year was to read more non-fiction, in general -for enjoyment, and not just academic purposes as I've done some past years lol. This past week I finished two non-fiction books, and started another, so I thought I'd post about it a little.

The first of them was "City of Corpses" by Ōta Yōko, recently translated to Spanish. The author, already an established writer by then, was one of the survivors of Hiroshima's bombing, and wrote this book in the immediate months afterwards, convinced she was inevitably going to die from "atomic bomb syndrome", as many others did even when the danger had seemingly passed. She also wrote a short article that avoided the censorship from one or other side by being published at just the right time, "A light as if from the depths", included at the end of my copy. The book itself was censored, and even its first edition omitted some parts as well, which lead to the author publishing a second one later on, aka the one I read. This edition comes with a prologue that really gets into the history of the time: the literature of the atomic bomb and how it was received, Ōta Yōko's complicated journey as an author, etc., which paint a very interesting context. And the novel itself is harrowing, very descriptive, painting a very vivid picture of her mental state as she lived through this. I definitely recommend it.

The other one was "Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine" by Tim Hanley. It's by the same author as "Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the Daily Planet's Ace Reporter". That book analysed the complete journey of the heroine, while this one focuses almost exclusively on the pre-crisis time, particularly on Marston (with a full-on psychological profile of the guy LOL). It talks a lot about how "Corruption of the Innocent" and the Comics Code of Conduct shaped comics, of the Golden/Silver/Bronze era of the character, of the Women's Liberation movement and how it intersected (and didn't) with Wonder Woman's development, comparison with other heroines, public perception of the character... Another recommended read if this kind of thing interests you. I'm definitely going to hunt down his other books on DC/comics history.

The one I just started yesterday is "The Feminist Killjoy Handbook" by Sarah Ahmed. I anticipate finishing it this week, because it's quite an engaging read.

On non-fiction news, today my hardcover copies of "Harrow the Ninth" and "Nona the Ninth" arrive! I tried to start HtN on epub format but it's. Probably not a good idea LOL. I got my copies in Spanish as well, because that's how I read the first and eventually I might try to push these books on other people IRL who aren't fluent in English, so.

Lastly, comic-wise I'm keeping up with a few things (what little Jason is doing, Absolute Wonder Woman, Saga, Monstress, The New Gods...) I just started Zatanna's new run, and the first issue looks promising and came with great art. Next thing on the list is to finish reading through the main appearances of Duke Thomas and New Earth!Talia, before I really get on with Wonder Woman comics from all over the place. Recently I read Wonder Woman Historia by Kelly Sue DeConnick, which I loved, and Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story by Trina Robbins (another author who entered my list thanks to Wonder Woman Unbound), a heavy one-shot about domestic violence. 2025 is going to be Diana's year for me, surely.

After that... we'll see. I've been eyeing Kate Spencer's Manhunter for a while, but there are a few comics I left half-finished that I want to complete, as well (Young Justice '98 and some of its characters' history, the original Suicide Squad, Gotham Central...). The love-hate affair with detective comics comics will continue for a while, suffice to say xD

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Current Music: Donna Summer - Bad Girls

You can leave me a gift (fic, art, edits...) in this little event centered around female characters!

I'm asking for stuff about (pre-reboot) DC comics, Severance, Black Sails, The Expanse, Killjoys, or Nikita. Alternatively, you can drop some book recs!

🎁🎁🎁

(after taking a look at other people's boxes I realised I forgot to put ABO in my Do-Not-Wants lmao. Oh well. It IS a female-characters-centric event and people don't go there as much... and ig if they do there's a bigger chance they'll be original about it ñaldkfjasf)

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Current Music: Sam Vance-Law - Faggot

Here are all the drabbles (exactly 100 words long) I wrote for the event.

BUFFYVERSE

live and learn. Angel/Buffy + "miss you already". Wishverse.
a slayer unborn. Slayer!Darla.
spark. Tara/Willow + "magic tingles".

DCU

luddite. Barbara/Dinah + sexting.
red scape. Jason & Sasha + "paint the town red".
neither by nature nor by law and yet. Dick & Tim + "what 'brother' means".
broken glass. Cass/Rose + "in the empty mirror, I run and run to you / run away from me".
the storm before the storm. Bruce & Steph + "Batman, Batman & Robin(s), a Robin (or a few Robins) under Batman's cape".
a place and a calling. Helena Bertinelli + "home".

PLECVERSE

consumption. Josie & Lizzie + The Merge.

WYNONNA EARP

sweet as poison. Rosita/Waverly + poison kisses.

And here are my own prompts, in case anyone wants to leave me something :P

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Current Music: Halsey - Lilith

I borrowed these from

luckyzukky

1) First time you encoutered canon femslash

Well, I was a Xena fan from early childhood, so xD. I watched episodes as they were shown on tv, so I've never actually watched it the whole thing, and I should definitely remedy that.

2) First times you encountered femslash shipping

Circa 11 years old, when I first started lurking in the Buffyverse fandom.

3) Is femslash the main part of your fandom life?

Fandom-wise it might be more balanced, if only because in what's been my main fandom for over a year now (and most active fandom ever), aka DC comics, my best beloved characters happens to be a guy. I post and love a lot of het ships too (rn the ratio on my ao3 fics is 45 F/F, 42 F/M, I just looked lol).

Femslash is however extremely dominant in my original fiction. I write about women first and foremost, about the relationships between them, of any all of types, and if there's romance, it's 99% guaranteed to be F/F. I might utterly fall in love with (admittedly very few) male characters created by OTHER people (primary examples being Jason Todd or Black Sails' John Silver), but my personal creativity is extremely biased towards women LMAO.

4) Have you already started a canon just because you knew there would be femslash shipping opportunities?

Nah, not really. Sometimes a femslash ship reblogged on tumblr caught my eye, yes, but I need more than that to give a canon a try. Especially because my shipping preferences rarely are aligned with that of the rest of the fandom. I even made an ask meme about it once: give me a popular F/F ship, and I'll tell you which antagonistic F/F alternative I vastly prefer xDD

5) Canon, subtext, or make-everything-work-by-yourself ships?

It definitely depends, though I'd say most of my femslash ships are probably on the subtext territory first, canon second. In general, I need a canon push to become interested in a ship, with some exceptions. I like it when characters are important to each other, one way or another!

6) A femslash ship you feel like you're alone in shipping

I know there were a few other shippers around, but Rosita Bustillos/Waverly Earp (which I named Rosewaves on tumblr) definitely fits. Especially because it seems people shipped it as like... a nice rarepair to multiship alongside Waverly's canon relationship, and I could NOT care less for that one LMAO. I was ALL about Rosewaves, and I would've paid real money to see it be the show's ship instead of Wayhaugh.

7) Did you see a change in femslash fandom since the time you started fandom?

I didn't see as much of this... defanged, toothless, out-of-convenience-only femslash shipping when I started. Because homophobia xD, but also the trends in fandom misogyny. Before it was all about WHAT A BITCH the female characters in question were for getting in the way of my slash ship/being the object of interest of the guy EYE find hot/not being a perfect fluffer/whatever.

Now instead of insulting and bashing the woman, because that would make them Look Bad, it's all about how she's the BESTIE, the fujoshi, and sometimes, how ACTUALLY!!! she's a lesbian (even when she's shown no hint of it and often her life revolves around men in a way I'd find insulting for a lesbian character, tbqh)!!! ew how can you ship her with MEN who are UNWORTHY of her!! Nonono, let's pair her with this other woman (often someone she wouldn't be interested in in a million years, but okay) and put them in the background, being generic as fuck.

BUT. I don't really consider this as part of The Femslash Fandom, because again, this is Convenience Shipping and nothing that actually puts the care into the characters involved.

8) Some femslash poly ships? What are your opinions about f/f/m poly?

One of my longest original WIPs will involve a F/F/F triangle/messy triad, so there's that xD

In fandom I rarely seem to go for it? In general I ship things 1-on-1, it's how I like it lol, that kind of... claustrophobia. The few polyships I've been REALLY into (like Jason/Mia/Tim at the moment) were F/F/M or F/M/M.

I think in part it's because in general I prefer Triangulation Drama TM in my femslash over the classic Let's Solve Things With Polyshipping. If there's a set-up with more than two female characters with sexual an emotional tension between them, I'm more likely to want them to fight about it lol. Tbf that's also semi-present in my other poly configurations but. I REALLY want F/F conflict lol.

9) Do you feel like shipping femslash is different from shipping slash, het or other? How?

It's different in the sense that you better get used to be a minority in fandom and all that it entails LOL. Otherwise you'll be endlessly frustrated.

10) Favourites tropes for femslash ships?

One of my favourite things is older/younger woman configurations where the older one sees ~her younger self in the other and that configures how the relationship takes form (resentment? Protectiveness?). In general, "mirror" characters pair really well in F/F imo.

11) Fluff, humor, angst, or smut?

Angst is my area of expertise, though I definitely mix in the others. A little flavour makes the angst even sadder xD

12) Are there some m/m or m/f ships that you love genderswapped as f/f?

I'm not much for genderswapping, but I have done it once: a Pepper/Tony fic. Except it's based on the fact that Marvel *did* create a continuity where Tony was a woman. Generally speaking, if a given male character was genderswapped from the start, I would've probably liked them MORE lol, given my usual patterns, but the times I *really* like a male character... I like them as is and their gender and how they interact with it is usually a feature of it, not a bug, because it happens to be interesting on its own.

13) Did you already write original femslash? If so, what was it about? If not, what would it be about if you did? If you would never, why?

Nothing complete that I've shared (well, some in an old writeblr, but that was deleted), but as I said, this is my primary interest in original fiction. Some of the examples in my original stories, for your amusement:

stylish butch former pirate/princess + messy former assassin have a ons and then end up in the same space ship.
powerful witch + her codependent best friend + a third woman who becomes enamoured with the first before everything goes sideways and has a hate/hate realtionship with the second before they slowly fall for each other.
immortal scholar + the also immortal woman who's in unrequited love with her and wants her to kill her.
secretary of a hardboiled detective that actually does the job and can hear echoes of the dead + the femme fatale who seduced her and used her + the sob-sister serious journalist wannabe investigating them.
newest victim of a serial abuser + his former flame he still pines for.
doomed woman with little time to live + the butch princess she's obsessed with ever since she was kind to her once.
theatre diva with a dwindling career + the femmish literal angel who wants to become her.
whatever the fuck is going with all the women in Underground Elysium which includes: the dictator, her ever-faithful guard, her human maid she regards as little more than a pet but gets horny for her vampire bites, the tyrant's rival who hates her for that one time she mutilated her, the rival's daughter who she groomed to beat the dictator, and a couple more others.
many, MANY more lol.

14) Favorite femslash ship of all times

I couldn't pick just one, but I just finished reading Gideon the Ninth and Griddlehark has me on a chokehold at the moment. I need to finish the other two books before I allow it to consume me, though. I don't want spoilers or misinterpretations on my part xD

15) A guilty pleasure

N/A.

16) A fandom where I have so many femslash ships

DC comics is definitely high on the list, even if 1.) I think ultimately I have more het ones, or at least they're pretty level, and 2.) given how many women I love there, and how many possible combinations there are, it's very unsurprising.

17) A femslash pairing I like on principle without even being in the fandom

I have yet to start Interview with The Vampire, but I think I'll like Claudia and Madeleine.

18) A character I headcanon as lesbian/wlw without having big ships with her

Quite a few, probably, but the first one that came to my mind was Mary Winchester from Supernatural. I ship her with a few characters, but it's more lowkey than my desire to indulge in HOW FUCKED UP it'd be if she was a lesbian.

19) Rec day! Canon or fics, as long as it's femslash! Or even shippable!

In Pursuit of Perfection by Camilla Andrew. Doomed, unbalanced femslash pair between an ambitious imperatrice and her too loyal warrior. Its sequels, though they have a central F/M ship, offer plenty of F/F possibilities, including an exes pair turned complicated best friends that mirrors this one.
DEFINITELY check out The Locked Tomb because the F/F possibilities there are off-the-charts. Griddlehart has my heart but Ianthe/Corona broke my brain negl.
Red by resnullius-bells. Camilla/Laura ficlet with a Snow White/Sleeping Beauty vibe.
I do love Carmilla as a novel as well LOL.

There's so much more but I'm drawing a blank here, guys xD. Some books/films/etc. I'm gonna recommend for femslash shpping, canon or not, Just Because: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Marjorie Liu's Monstress, Nikita, Person of Interest, Dangerous Liaisons, Judd Winick's Outsiders (2003), Paper Girls (comic and show, even cancelled as it is), The Handmaiden, Black Swan, Black Sails (the dyke drama in this one is SO important), or Killjoys.

20) Do you like your femslash homophobia-free?

If it's a secondary-world that pulls it off well, I welcome it. If it's our world? At this point I want to shout BRING IN THE HOMOPHOBIA ñalskfjaf. Well-done, of course, but I think that certain attitudes about it are less about wanting an homophobia-free world than about like... having trouble with any conflict more difficult than who takes the last orange home in the supermarket, and with wanting the straight characters to Look Good.

21) Thoughts about lesbian tragedy and bad endings?

Given how history has evolved there's obviously issues present, but... I think queer authors especially need room to freely want what they want to write. I'm a lesbian who loves writing about lesbians, and I love a good tragedy.

22) Thoughts about (purely fictional!) lesbian unhealthy relationships?

They are amazing and we should all support them wholeheartedly.

23) Historical, fantasy or sci-fi? (or, if none of the above, what and why?)

Love all of it and more.

24) A time where a canon really surprised you, in a good (and femslash) way

I'm gonna go with Black Sails and Max/Eleanor. I expected to outright dislike it, and yet I absolutely love everything about it.

25) A time where a canon really disappointed you (in a femslash or lack of femslash way)

Too many to count lol. I'm picking Wynonna Earp for the absolutely mid toothless main ship.

26) What do you love the most, and what do you love the least, about femslash fans?

They're passionate and committed to something that, lbr, gives little reward lol.

As for what I like least... the very few times a femslash ship happens to be MASSIVE? They're just as awful as every other fanbase of a juggernaut ship. Absolutely no difference, and equal ammounts of racism each and every time.

27) Very last time you encountered canon femslash. Was it a surprise or were you looking for it?

Again, I just read Gideon the Ninth, a novel from a series openly marketed as "dyke drama" xD

28) Now answer the important question about femslash I've forgotten to ask.

You didn't forget, but I'm taking this as an opportunity to link to all my F/F fics LOL.

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Yesterday I read Wonder Woman Historia. I loved it. I'd almost go as far as saying it's reconcilled me with modern comics. Now whenever DC Does Some Bullshit I'll just hold my physical copy of it (it'll arrive in June) and touch is infinitely beautiful artwork and all will feel right in the world.

Anyway. Wonder Woman Historia is a fantastic comic and you guys should read it and give it attention so DC greenlights the rest of the run (which otherwise stands on its own), but that's not the point of the post.

The point is that the third issue made a choice that might, would have likely bothered me in another context, by another author. but it wasn't the case here, and I've been thinking about why that is.

(spoilers for #3, ig).

Trying to keep it brief: in Wonder Woman (1987) #1, we're told the story of how Herakles and his men tricked the Amazons, drugged them, and slaved them. How they raped them, how Herakles took Hippolyta's girdle as a war prize. Hippolyta prays to the gods, who free her and ask her that the amazons don't violently retaliate against their captors, and when that doesn't happen, the Amazons are punished for it.

This one goes differently; there's no mass rape and enslavement (the way the Amazons are robbed of their freedom happens in a different, quite interesting way, btw). Herakles, sent by the gods, attacks, and the leader of each Amazon tribe fights him, subduing him and killing him all together. Hippolyta's "girdle" here is a mere rope she had around her waist, now used to tie the bag holding Herakles's dismembered body as it's flown towards Olympus (which was meant as a more respectful gesture than what the Amazons did to other men they killed to save and avenge brutalised women).

The writing even makes a point of it, saying that we, the audience, might've heard different stories of how Herakles "got" Hippolyta's girdle.

I think in a different story, this change would bother me. I would wonder (and in some cases I would different sense) if there was an implication than the rape of the Amazons makes them lesser in the eyes of the author, when it says absolutely nothing about them as people. It's just something that happened to them, and that's how I think it should be treated.

I didn't sense any of it here, first of all, because of the way the story as a whole writes women; all women, from the goddesses (including Hera, who Zeus explicitly abuses and batters), to the thirty original Amazons born from the souls of women murdered by men, to most importantly, the seventh tribe, Hippolyta's. All made of mortal women who escaped some horror by men; women like Hippolyta, who barely escaped murder, or who were about to be sold as slaves. Wronged, hurt, mutilated women. They're all upheld as entire entities, by and for themselves, not defined let alone made less by the actions of others.

The story highlights patriarchal misogyny as the primary wrong that it is (Hera's desperate fury when she says women won't get justice a thousand years from now was !!!); something that men, mortal and gods alike, utterly dismiss as unimportant. It never handwrings about the wrongs of revenge and retribution or trying to tell us they're remotely equal. Its simpathy is firmly located with the women, even when they make dubious or difficult choices. The (male) gods's punishment upon them is framed as an injustice.

The other important bit is how it writes Herakles. When I think of other stories that go out of their way to remove rape from the picture I think of cases like this, like the endless romantic retellings about Hades and Persephone.

The choices made in those are always about the Hades of the tale. About cleaning up his image, in the end. But Historia doesn't even come close to doing this with Herakles: it's very clear what he would've done to the Amazons if he'd gotten the chance (Hippolyta puts it explicitly into words, when she says he would've defiled them). Hell, the version of canon where he indubitably raped Hippolyta romanticises them a lot more (George Perez turn on your location so I can tell you how much I love your comics AND endlessly berate you for this).

But also, ngl. As DC's Herakles #1 hater... I just loved seeing him be torn to pieces. That was very cathartic, honestly. It's exactly what he deserves <333

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Last week was Cassandra Cain Week on tumblr, and I wrote a ficlet for each day:

(I) – marred. Scars | Flowers + Cass/Steph. 100 words. Angst, post-breakup.
(II) – oracle’s long: day 43 of no man’s land. Alone | Together + Barbara & Cass. 200 words. First meeting.
(III) – the touch of a ghost. Silence | Music + Brenda/Cass. 300 words. One Year Later, angst with a happy ending.
(IV) – we are lion’s cubs. Quotes | Comic Panels + Cass & Helena. 400 words. One Year Later, teacher!Helena.
(V) – accomplices. Death | Rebirth + Cass & Jason. 500 words. Cass’s time on the streets, catatonic!Jason.
(VI) – dance of the little swans. Past | Future + Cass & Duke. 600 words. Cassbats & Robin!Duke, dance teacher!Cass.
(VII) – unmotherly instincts. Happy Birthday | Free Day + Cass & Shiva. 700 words. Cass remained with David Cain AU. Implied sexual abuse/incest.

And here I'll c&p my Three Sentences Ficathon prompts, in case they tempt anyone 👉👈

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Challenge #15

Talk about an unexpected joyous moment you experienced last year.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of skier kicking up snow on a snow white background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Without getting into too much detail, last year in the summer I received news that I got entry into a very sought-after course for university graduates -one particularly geared towards my own professional area/goals. The course was from October to December and everything it promised to be. I sent my curriculum not expecting much, but I had nothing to lose (the course is also free btw), so I went with it and luck was on my side lol.

Over the last year I also made a lot of new friends in the DC fandom, especially on the Jaymia side of things, and it's nice to have people you can shoot the shit there. Its a fandom filled with annoying discourse and sometimes you just want to bitch about it in the chat for a few moments xD

All in all, though 2024 was a very mixed year in other respects, I managed to find some good things there.

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Current Music: Mariah Carey - Fantasy

Challenge #14

In your own space, create your own fandom challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of gingerbread Christmas trees, a silver ball, a tea light candle and a white confectionary snowflake on a beige falling-snowflakes background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

I'm going to rescue a prompt list from my old writeblr. You can send me one of these words and, optionally, a fandom (you can look at my sticky post for inspiration), and I'll write a short drabble/ficlet with it.

PROMPT LIST

Abomination
Astral
Bewitching
Blazing
Bucolic
Candor
Catharsis
Chrysalis
Colossal
Crescendo
Dalliance
Dauntless
Diaphanous
Elixir
Eloquent
Euphoric
Flourish
Fortitude
Furtive
Harbinger
Holiness
Invincible
Jubilation
Labyrinth
Languor
Lyrical
Mellow
Minutiae
Murmur
Omnipotent
Opulent
Panacea
Paradisiac
Penumbra
Petrichor
Pyrrhic
Quietude
Rapturous
Ripple
Serendipitous
Solitude
Subterfuge
Symphony
Talisman
Thunderous
Verity
Vulnerable
Wanderlust
Yearn
Zenith

Challenge #13 was about interacting with someone new, so I didn't make a post, but that I posted a few fills to the Three Sentences Ficathon, one of which fit the bill, a Rosita Bustillos/Waverly Earp drabble that took me right back to one of my old favourites :')

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New update! I don't think I'll prompt anything else, unless somehow we reach a 4th post.

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