Female Characters Deserve Better
I love fanfic. Really, just so, so much.
And I get it, reading about tough men breaking down their walls to share their Secret Pain is really attractive. And kinda hot. But here's the thing. Female characters deserve more. We should create more stories about them, and their Secret Pain, and not just as a foil to the main character's plot.
Why aren't there more works about Jessica Jones dealing with her shit? Or Natasha Romanov struggling with flashbacks? Why don't fics about Isabelle Lightwood get any love?
Let's face it, female characters (well, non-male characters) get a raw deal when it comes to fanfic. So I want to challenge people to change it. I'm going to start a challenge/collection is aimed at challenging people to read and write more works where a female character is the focus.
I don't care if it is femslash, I don't care if it is gen, I don't care if it is a heterosexual romance.
It just has to be a fic where a female character is more than a love interest or a trophy. Bonus points for angst, because I love me some angst and there is basically no good female-centric angst around.
Female characters deserve better, and we are the ones who can offer it.
(Open, Unmoderated)
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i'll set fire to the whole place by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
17 Sep 2024
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In the process of giving the realm three daughters and a son, Alicent reflects on names, crowns, and legacies.
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- Part 2 of burn it down, i feel down
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i wanna taste you, i wanna skin you with my tongue by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Life is Strange (Video Games 2015 2017 2024)
20 May 2025
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"Don't be scared," Max says, watching Kate wedge a chair under the door handle.
"I'm not." Kate swallows and takes a deep breath, trying to harden her voice into something like iron. "Are you?"
___In a private moment, Kate and Max work together to help Kate back into her skin.
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when your heart's on fire, you must realize by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Flashpoint (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
09 Feb 2023
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Ms. J helps Harley prepare to take an important step in their relationship.
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- Part 17 of a kiss like a rose (to cut your mouth open)
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the lakes all darken, blackbirds flocking to and fro by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Video Game)
15 Mar 2025
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"She's dead," Nawal makes herself say aloud, voice croaking, harsh like she's just crawled out of the desert. She's dead, that's the most she can manage. Using Laura's name aloud, like this, feels like spitting blood.
__Nawal, in the aftermath.
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thinking that they've won (it's only just begun) by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
30 Jun 2022
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Bly post-order 66, post-Aayla, post the lost of almost everything she's ever known. She finds reasons to endure.
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naive: in defense of hannah abbott by dirgewithoutmusic for verbalpowers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2014
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When Voldemort had Cedric Diggory killed, he said this: kill the spare.
Hannah heard it whispered in the hallways, too, right behind "sheep" and "not smart/not brave/not cunning" and simply "Puff." Potions with Snape was always a treat. He hated Harry Potter, but the black and yellow earned his disdain. Even Flitwick sometimes sighed when Justin Finch-Fletchley just couldn't quite figure out a charm.
And Hannah, in her quiet, accustomed, burning way, fumed.
We are not spare parts.
You think we're your cast offs. You think we're the kids no other House wanted to take.
Well, here's a clue for you, suckers. This is a story about choice. The wand chooses the wizard but the wizard chooses the House. When that Hat goes on your head, it doesn't forbid you things, it offers them to you.
We are not your castoffs. We're just the kids who didn't choose you.
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Fennec wakes up to the sound of Leia reheating a mug of blood in the microwave, the electric hum and crinkle of the bloodbag a backdrop to the light spilling through the bedroom door.
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'I could kiss you. N̶o̶t̶ now I mean' by Anonymous for saiditallbefore
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
13 May 2021
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Children of Liberty by Quiet_Shadow
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
01 Jan 2020
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Part of her might die that day, crushed into nothingness, but she lives nonetheless, continuing to draw breath after breath as her vitals stabilize.
There is a tiny, stubborn spark insides her, a minuscule flame of will which refuses to dim and be blown away. It is this very spark which fueled her during her darkest times, making her continue to fight in the Senate for causes she already knew were lost, deep down. It is this very spark she ends up clinging to, thinking: no.
No, she can’t go like that, a broken woman swept away by the current of fates, dying of a broken heart while the love of her life stood and destroyed everything she had ever believed in and fought for.
Or wherein Padmé Amidala survives childbirth, thinks, cuts her losses and gathers her Handmaidens past and present around her to found a Rebellion. And if she weaponizes the hell out of Naboo's custom of using decoys and gives Imperial Intelligence fits while doing so, well, so much the better for her.
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Lost and found, reaching out by annathecrow
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends: Jango Fett Open Seasons (Comics)
26 Mar 2022
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When he got the message that Arla Fett was alive, on the run from Kyr'tsad, and asking for help, he almost erased it and forgot about it. But... he couldn't. Even if the chance that Jango's sister somehow survived was vanishingly small, Jaster couldn't stand the idea that he'd passed on it.
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Asajj Ventress is given as a payment to a different criminal.
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- Part 2 of Mando stories