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wasted-women · 6 months

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The Trope of the Day is Women in Refrigerators

Welcome to the wasted women tournament, a tournament to figure out what was the worst female character death!

If you don't know, women in refrigerators is a trope originally coined by comic writer Gail Simone in the 90s in response to the death of Alexandra DeWitt in the Green Lantern comics. She had been the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's girlfriend who had been killed by the villain Major Force and her body stuffed into the refrigerator for Kyle to find. Since then, "fridged" has become a verb to refer to female characters who are senselessly killed in order to the male protagonists sad or angry without much regard to the woman herself. While originally referring specifically to comic books, the terminology has started to spread to any media.

There are typically two ways that women tend to be fridged:

A female character is written specifically to be fridged. The loving mother/older sister or the disposable love interests are both examples of this trope. These characters typically have very little agency or inner-world outside of the male protagonist— their relationship with the male character is essentially their whole role in the story.

A female character who is a character in their own right— they DO have their own inner-world— but then is killed off to affect the male characters or for plot convenience.

With all of that said, here are the rules for for submissions. Please make sure you read them all before you submit.

The submitted character has be a woman. ABSOLUTELY, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, DO MALE CHARACTERS COUNT.

(Women in refrigerators is a trope about the senseless killing of female characters because they are thought of as more disposable by nature of being female. While some male characters are killed off for problematic reasons—see bury your gays or the black guy dies first tropes—this blog isn't about them. However, feel free to combine tropes by submitting queer women or women of color, as they are often killed off at higher rates than cishet or white women.)

For the most part, no resurrected characters. By that I mean no characters who die but later come back to life. However, if you think your character should still count despite their resurrection, feel free to make your case to me in the ask box. If you convince me, I will count them.

No characters who are injured or incapacitated but do not die. However, just like above, you can make your case to me in the ask box and if you convince me, I will count them.

Trans women are women, so feel free to submit trans characters. ABSOLUTELY NO TERFS ALLOWED ON THE BLOG— YOU WILL BE BLOCKED ON SIGHT. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

No nonbinary characters unless they also identify with being a woman. Nonbinary people ≠ women. There aren't many nonbinary characters in media in general so I do not think this will be much of a problem but I wanted to specify just in case.

If the woman was killed off for a reason other than making male character(s) sad or plot convenience, then it does not count. This trope is not just any woman who died—there are plenty of ways to kill off a female character in a well-written way!— it's specifically unnecessary or gratuitous killing of female characters in a badly-written way.

I reserve the right to reject a character if I do not think they were actually fridged.

I reserve the right to reject a character if I am not comfortable including them.

I think this goes without saying but no real people.

No unofficial or small media (ex. fan media, OCs, a comic on someone's Tumblr, etc.) as I feel like that could encourage bullying on individual people. Stick to comics, TV, movies, anime, etc. etc. etc. Even if they are smaller but "official" in some way it can be included.

Submissions will be open until December 1st, but if I get a lot of submissions early on I will close them early.

SUBMIT HERE

#wasted women poll #female characters #women characters #trans women characters #women of color characters #woc characters #rules #poll tournament #poll bracket #submissions #poll submissions

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scriptlgbt · 10 months

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Hi! Recently, I decided to make one of my characters a trans woman? I always hear about how cis people shouldn’t write “stories ABOUT being trans” and whatnot due to not really getting the experience of it, but what if you’re a transmasc who’s writing a transfem? Is there still a point you’re not allowed to write beyond, since the experience isn’t exactly your own despite the overlap, or can you go all out since the base experiences are still there?

I consulted my partner on this who is a trans woman. (I am trans, but TME.)

While we are Community(TM), there are a lot of things that just don't translate 1:1 with our experiences. Transmisogyny affected/targeted people experience different rates of violence and experience that violence in slightly different contexts to us.

She suggested that it really depends on how in-depth you're planning to go. She said if you're just meeting the vagueries of the experience, it might be okay, but a deep dive probably wouldn't be, because you'd have a lot more room for error.

I feel like this question is really vague in that what writing "about" being some way even means. Like what are you including? What is the purpose and intended audience? Are you incorporating inspiration from real people you know and your community? Are you making a character based purely on what you understand about the experience, but aren't close enough to any TMA people you could ask? Are you trying to use the character to explain to cis people what being a trans woman is like, like some kind of lesson? Where are you getting the information on said lesson? Is this just a character living life? Are you going into oppression, medical stuff, community and culture? (If you talk about oppression, to what level have you done the work on learning what transmisogyny is, and reckoning with the way that all other identities being the same, we do have privileges over trans women, and that it's transmisogynist and a misinterpretation of socialization theories to claim anyone is "socialized male"?) What is your view of trans women, as individuals and as part of our community? What is your actual plot and how does the character's identity as a trans woman come into it? What is the actual load of what you're taking on here, and are you willing to take responsibility and do the work for every aspect of it?

I think there's a lot of aspects to this that exist on a huge spectrum and your mileage may vary significantly with this. The tried and true advice of 'when in doubt, consult a sensitivity reader' rings true here.

She has said it comes down to whether you can write it credibly, rather than necessarily realistically. And that comes down to sensitivity readers. Being able to write about it convincingly will depend on how much help you get and how in depth you go really.

mod nat (& mod nat's partner)

#mod nat #trans #trans characters #transgender #writeblr #trans women #trans woman #trans woman character #trans women characters #mod nat's partner

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queeruscant · 11 months

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Name: Sister Pronouns: she/her Era: Galactic Republic Appears in: Queen's Hope, Brotherhood

Sister was a clone trooper who served under Obi-Wan Kenobi in the 7th Sky Corps. She was transgender, and was given the name "Sister" by her fellow clones as a sign of support for her and her gender identity. She made a point to honour all of her fellow troops that fell in battle.

Learn more about Sister, and some criticisms on how she was written, in her profile video.

Full profile under the cut:

Sister was a transgender clone trooper in the Galactic Army of the Republic. She was part of the 7th Sky Corps, and worked with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on a few missions. She carried a DC 15-A blaster rifle and had pink and blue armour paint.

Sister was loyal to her brothers, and made a point to honour her fellow clones that fell in battle. Her brothers were just as loyal right back to her. Sister said that her name was “how her brothers tell everyone she belongs,” and that they “never let her doubt” herself when they left Kamino. Anakin Skywalker was also supportive and accepting of Sister, and assured her that the Jedi would also be accepting of her gender identity.

Sister has appeared in two novels: Queen’s Hope by EK Johnston in 2021, and Brotherhood by Mike Chen in 2022.

Johnston commissioned artwork of Sister for the book’s release. Made by Uzuri Art, Sister was originally depicted with pink and blue armour paint, and black cornrow-style braids.

As with all the clones, Sister is based on Temuera Morrison, who is Polynesian. In the original commission, Sister has cornrows, which is a culturally Black hairstyle. EK Johnston was criticized for this decision as both erasure of Maaori and Polynesian representation, and as cultural appropriation for using cornrows on a non-Black character. After this criticism, EK Johnston commissioned the artist to change Sister’s hairstyle to look more like French braids.

Johnston has also been criticized for Sister's poor inclusion in the novel. Sister appears for less than one page, and her few lines are about being trans.

This is a descriptive profile. Commentary on the character will be discussed in a separate post.

#clone trooper sister #trans characters #women characters #trans women characters #galactic republic era #queen's hope #brotherhood #e.k. johnston #mike chen #queeruscant*#queer character profiles #star wars #queer star wars #queer star wars characters

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wis-art · 4 months

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lesbian, trans and proud

ko-fi

#lucy #wiki #lesbian #trans #my art #queer #lgbt #hi #art #i felt like drawing lesbians #kissing #and being fat #i love lesbians #both of the characters are trans #i love women #and i love being a woman

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koboldfactory · 7 months

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if i were to guess... you are an enjoyer of 'woemn', yes?

what do you think

#koboldasks #koboldfactory #i am also an enjoyer of other things but being a trans gal without access to HRT a lot of my characters are gender fuel for me tbh #also the way women is misspelled and in quotes is very funny to me

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samlizzy71 · 3 days

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! <3

#lgbtq #lesbian #yuri #lgbt #original characters #animedrawing #lesbian pride #trans women are women #and they can be lesbians too #but i swear you're really pretty #Elizabeth Blacklock #Avelyn Stiller

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lucyvelvett001 · 25 days

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Would you let me suck you on the first date?

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baileyjayy1 · 17 days

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Say Hello to me and my big friend down there 😉🍆

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harleyklawz · 6 months

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Me, jokingly: Yea, I mean, in lancer you could be a trans catgirl if you wanted lol

My player who is the absolute epitome of unhinged gamer transfem: did I just hear a fucking challenge?

Anyway thats why now me and the entire group cry in terror at a little redhead catgirl because she talks with nya speak and also uses drones and artillary to commit massive warcrimes

#lancer rpg #lancerrpg #lancer #mecha #trans women and lancer #its the combo of the century #also mavis is a bamf character as a side note #even if her player is unhinged as fuck

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marzipanandminutiae · 8 months

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#poll #bad history #no Baylie Carson you cannot be 'she/they Boleyn'#you are a nonbinary actor playing a cis female 'character.' because she's not a character. she's a real person #who was a cis woman #with no known evidence of liking other women. ergo based on current scholarship...she was not queer #and it's cool I think! more trans and NB actors SHOULD play cis characters! god knows the reverse happens often enough!#but. yeah.#interestingly the pocket thing was a stolen and misrepresented bit of worldbuilding from another author #who was very clear- when the debate came to her attention -that it was fictional and she made it up #(it was from Alix E. Harrow's The Once and Future Witches)#but Forster blocked everyone who pointed this out and deleted all contradicting comments

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sugarclarice · 5 months

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