[ SECRET POST #5569 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5569 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I must ask, what fandoms love strong female leads? I'm a slasher, I'm focused on two guys in my fandoms, so I may be missing these fandoms, but I can't even think of what they might be. Hit me!

[(Anonymous)]

Star Trek Picard adores its female leads. The most popular ship (more than twice the next most popular) is Seven of Nine/Another Woman in Her Fifties. Agnes Jurati is pretty popular, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Very cool, thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of Star Trek and Leverage I haven't really seen any, tbh, but I am also not looking so that might be why.

[(Anonymous)]

I know Parker is popular but I guess I would have assumed most fics do revolve her around Hardison and Eliot, so she wouldn't quite fit the 'not revolve around a guy' part of the secret. And I would have assumed Sophie gets ignored, it's great if she doesn't!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, femslash fandoms, obviously

[erinptah]

...I feel like most shows with female leads (or co-leads) tend to pick up fandoms that are into them. Doctor Who, Once Upon A Time, Legends of Tomorrow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Steven Universe, all the criminal procedurals led by m/f duos, all the Disney princess franchises, and the entire magical-girl genre, for instance.

(Unless you were asking for cdrama fandoms specifically -- I'm not familiar enough with those to list any.)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know cdrama shows, so those names wouldn't mean much to me.

I've watched some of the shows you mentioned but not been truly fannish fic-wise for them, so even a show like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, yeah, it feels like the fandom should love the strong female leads, but the people I know slash two of the male characters and complain about Buffy being mostly written in unhealthy relationship fics with Spike. It's good to know people are seeing more sides to fandom than I have!

[erinptah]

Heh, Buffy is definitely one of those fandoms that's so big, you can pick a specific niche, ignore all the others, and find more than enough content to stay occupied.

A quick glance at AO3 stats says that of the top 10 most-tagged ships, only 2 are m/m, while 4 are somebody/Buffy -- including #1 through #3, all m/Buffy. Buffy/Spike is the most-tagged relationship by far -- no idea how many of those fics make it a healthy ship or not -- but it's only 1/3 of the fics tagged with Buffy as a character. So, yeah, wide range of fandom activity going on over there.

[feotakahari]

Most cartoons for young girls. Not sure about anything for adults, though. I sometimes see Killing Eve fans—are their women “strong”?

[caecilia]

The female leads in Killing Eve are complex and interesting, if that's what you mean.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, Killing Eve! That does seem like a show where the fans should love the strong female leads.

(I'm not into cartoon fandoms, I don't even think about fandoms existing for them.)

[(Anonymous)]

Agent Carter had its flaws, but it was pretty good in this respect. So were Captain Marvel and WandaVision. Agents of SHIELD was an ensemble show, but I really loved the recurring female characters in it, particularly Jemma Simmons, Bobbi Morse and Melinda May. I also liked Daisy Johnson a lot when the narrative wasn't turning her into a Mary Sue.

[(Anonymous)]

Good to know! I have read a lot of MCU fic, but I'm a slasher so I'm looking for fics of my m/m pairing(s). I don't tend to see a lot of the female characters being used at all in what I'm reading. Some Natasha, some old Peggy. But I realize at least that I also haven't seen a lot of fics with the females being wildly OOC and getting between the boys, so that's good. I hope there's lots of Yelena/Kate, I thought they were adorable in Hawkeye.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I also really liked Hope van Dyne as the co-lead in Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp! Fun movies with a focus on family relationships rather than/as well as romance.

[philstar22]

Tolkien fandom, at least the Silmarillion part, may be very, very slash heavy, but I don't see much hate for female characters. Galadriel, certainly, is adored, as is Haleth. Luthien is often considered boring, along with Beren, but I haven't seen much hate.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting! I've never read the Silmarillion, but it seems appropriate that Tolkien book fans would have respect for the female characters.

[(Anonymous)]

The X-Files, definitely! Scully's strength tends to be portrayed in subtler and more low-key ways than some other strong female characters, but the vast majority of fandom respects and adores her, and IMO she's not written as helpless and lovesick anymore than Mulder is. If anything Scully tends to be the emotionally stronger of the two of them, while Mulder is a bit more of a mess.

I'm not in the fandom, but I'm pretty sure SG-1 fandom generally does right by Samantha Carter, too.

Kara Thrace and Laura Roslin from BSG are magnificent badasses, each in such different ways from the other.

And okay, it's campy AF and painfully "early-aughts" in vibe, but Sydney Bristow from Alias is another badass female lead whom the fandom generally respects.