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Day 12: What makes you fannish? And by that we mean, what is it about a tv show/movie/book/band/podcast/etc that takes you from, "Yeah, I like that," to "I need MOAR!!!" Is it a character? A plotline? The pretty? Subtext that’s just screaming to be acknowledged? Tell us what it is that gets you to cross that line into fandom.
This is pretty easy.
A female character.
I'll enjoy media with guys in it, but it's rare that I feel the urge to explore further.
So, a female character, usually kickass, always intelligent and/or cunning, adaptible, of independent mind even if she doesn't rebel (and this is important; Mako Mori has her own mind, the fact that she goes along with Pentecost is painted - for Raleigh and the audience - in a positive light rather than a negative one; I have no patience for characters who buck the system merely to be rebellious), and quite frequently someone who gets passed over for more snappy/snarky female characters.
Bonus: a woman of colour, or a woman performing 'women's work' - by which I mean cleaning up the mess and doing the emotional labour of making everything run smoothly. Basically being a woman in the way that our society doesn't recognise as valid because it's "just women's work": cleaning up after the menz and the womenz who act emotionally and psychologically like men.
So a female character, her love, her life, her personality, what makes her tick. And frequently one that isn't hugely popular.
And then I write fic about her, because that's what I can do - write words.
This is pretty easy.
A female character.
I'll enjoy media with guys in it, but it's rare that I feel the urge to explore further.
So, a female character, usually kickass, always intelligent and/or cunning, adaptible, of independent mind even if she doesn't rebel (and this is important; Mako Mori has her own mind, the fact that she goes along with Pentecost is painted - for Raleigh and the audience - in a positive light rather than a negative one; I have no patience for characters who buck the system merely to be rebellious), and quite frequently someone who gets passed over for more snappy/snarky female characters.
Bonus: a woman of colour, or a woman performing 'women's work' - by which I mean cleaning up the mess and doing the emotional labour of making everything run smoothly. Basically being a woman in the way that our society doesn't recognise as valid because it's "just women's work": cleaning up after the menz and the womenz who act emotionally and psychologically like men.
So a female character, her love, her life, her personality, what makes her tick. And frequently one that isn't hugely popular.
And then I write fic about her, because that's what I can do - write words.