#Female Centric film

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Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava spotlights gender disparities in film industry at IIFTC; calls for equality in budget allocation for female-centric films

Prominent filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava has drawn attention to the persisting gender disparities in the film industry while speaking at 10th edition of the India International Foreign Tourism Conclave (IIFTC). She highlighted prevailing bias against female-centric films in the industry. Shrivastava is known for her work such as “Lipstick Under My Burkha”, “Made in Heaven”, and “Bombay Begums”.…

[torivegafromindia]

Gully boy - male rapper

Rockstar - male rockstar

Rock On - male band

Where is my fictional movie of female Indian musicians? Female rockstars? Female bands?

Just imagine the soundtrack. Imagine. Because where is the film?

[thesnadger]

The Goncharov meme is such a fun little spotlight on how people view media. Like, fake academic analysis about a movie that doesn't exist. Cool. But that's only the first level.

Next you have posts recreating a modern tumblr audience "discovering" an older piece of media and engaging with it through the lens of fan culture. Particularly tumblr-specific fan culture. Particularly in a way that feels like it got its blueprint from Dracula Daily. (Shitposts and memes, intense love for the most prominent female character, reads of complex romantic dynamics between characters, etc.)

Then you get fake discourse about the fake fan response to a fake movie that are quietly complaining about real ways real people respond to real media. I.e., America-centric readings, shallow, shipping-based readings, fans lionizing a protagonist not meant to be admired, etc.

(My personal favorite are posts that recreate the experience of being told a piece of media is so gay, you guys, only to watch it and find it isn't even remotely, that fans who wanted queer subtext wrung blood from a stone and thoroughly misled you.)

I also like the extra-meta ones about "this obscure movie being recently re-discovered," fake film history about copyright battles or the original cut being suppressed, etc. And of course, Johnny fucking Truant is here to give his editorial take on it, as he should be.

Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Goncharov. Humanity is such that every now and then we need to get really invested in fake arguments about a piece of media that doesn't exist.

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Suchitra Sen's impending loss is tearing my heart out. How can Bengali cinema's greatest female icon lose out in round 2 itself? I won't let her go down without a fight!

Suchitra Sen entered films as a married woman and a mother which was highly unusual for not just Bengali cinema, but for the whole of Indian cinema as well. In an age when actresses tried their best to hide the fact that they were married and had children, Suchitra Sen was not afraid to swim against the tide.

Hailing from erstwhile East Bengal (present day Bangladesh) she left with her family for present day West Bengal in India following Partition in 1947 and she had to adapt to the dialect and pronunciations used in Bengali films made in India.

Many talk about Suchitra Sen's quiet dignity on screen, but summing it up so briefly does her injustice. She played melodramatic without resorting to melodramatic acting. Her screen presence was so heartbreakingly real and didn't have the theatrical nature that was associated with Indian cinema of that era.

Starting from the 1950s, Bengali rom coms were all Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar. They had incredible chemistry on screen. But Suchitra Sen was determined to prove that she was not just Uttma Kumar's other half on screen but a capable and frankly good actress in her own right. So, in the 1960s she went on to do many women centric films opposite other lead actors (such as Bikash Roy and Soumitra Chatterjee), thus giving us some gems of Bengali cinema like Uttar Falguni (1963) and Saat Pake Bandha (1963), the latter won her the best actress award at the Moscow International Film Festival making her one of the first Indian actresses to win an International award.

In Uttar Falguni (1963), she plays a woman who flees an abusive marriage and becomes a courtesan to support her daughter. In Saat Pake Bandha (1963), she plays a young woman whose marriage disintegrates due to her mother's interference. In both these films, Sen doesn't need words, her loss, her pain, her anger are all etched on her face in different moments but never does it fall to melodramatic theatrics.

In Devdas (1955), Bimal Roy's classic production of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's celebrated novel, she plays the role of Paro and is in my opinion the best of the many Paro's I've seen on screen in adaptations ranging from 1936 to 2002 and beyond.

In Aandhi (1975), she played a politician estranged from her husband dealing with a clash of love and career.

Suchitra Sen was a classic Bengali beauty and an icon, not just of Bengal but of India as a whole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSV2xoFQCJ8&list=PLA_A9T_Uj7IxMGFk5Pif7gjJR46v8FRPZ&index=5

Suchitra Sen vs Cyd Charisse

The linked video:

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I know about the origins of the Bechdel Test, but I do think it's inaccurate to say it's not meant as a criticism of movies that don't do that. I think that when people stop thinking in binary terms of "is this feminist?" or "is this anti-feminist?" and instead look at things more holistically, that you can recognize both that a character like Mako Mori is great, a step in the right direction for female characters in action movies and especially WOC, go forth and stan her and write all the fanfic you want.... but yeah, it is also a valid criticism of the movie (and many others like it) that she doesn't talk to or have relationships with any other woman in the film.

I think one thing to help people realize just HOW much of women's lives are being left out of media representation when we never talk to other named women about something other than a man in movies, is to just think about your own life. I talk to my mom every day, and if we are not talking about my stepdad or my brother-in-law (and I don't think we've ever had a conversation that wasn't at least IN PART not about them or another man), then it passes the test. I'm a professor and when I talk to a female student about her homework or project (which is, again, something that happens pretty much every day I teach), that's passing the test. If I order food from a female cashier and she has a name tag, that's passing the Bechdel Test! It's literally just constant for the vast majority of women on the planet, and that's what's being left out of our stories.

Like, I like the takes I've seen about how part of the joke in Dykes to Watch Out For is that this is *particularly* alienating to lesbians - as a lesbian myself I agree - but I also think it should be frustrating to straight and bi and ace women as well, because like unless you are like exclusively interacting with your husband or male relatives every single day + you work in a workplace where you are literally the only woman, you are almost certainly passing the test constantly. That's a pretty big part of women's lives that Hollywood is leaving out!

But I think it's important to view it as just one piece of the discussion about feminism and women's representation in film, not the final judge on if a film is feminist or not. Which it wasn't intended to be - as you said, it was mostly a joke on the extreme maleness of 80s action movies. Honestly, I do not miss those days on Tumblr where people were obsessed with declaring certain movies/TV shows/other fandoms they liked as "feminist" or "anti-feminist" and the really bizarre granular discussions people would have between two works that BOTH had a long way to go in terms of representing women. I remember people in the Fullmetal Alchemist fandom would use this to argue about if the original anime or Brotherhood/the manga was better - when both have some fantastic female supporting characters, but are ultimately male-centered stories where even a lot of those women's lives and stories are centered around their male love interests and family members. It's better than a lot of shounen, but if that's your bar for feminism - either version - you have a long way to go (and need to watch WAY more anime because there's sooooo much of it that is female-centric). I also remember people coming up with other tests that were blatantly silly: like I thought the Mako Mori test about "if a woman has a motivation/story that isn't centered on a man" was fair because it did point out a legitimate criticism, but there was that ridiculous "Tauriel Test" where it was "a woman who is good at her job." And it was entirely about someone just disliking that movie critics and feminist commentators alike were down on the Hobbit movie trilogy, which a) were bad movies, sorry you have bad taste, b) are absolutely not where you should focus your attention if you're so concerned about women's representation in film, Tolkein has always been a sausage fest! And her big thing was being mad that people thought Judi Dench's M in Skyfall was a better female character, and so she arbitrarily decided she was "bad at her job" and Tauriel was "good at her job" even though that's completely subjective and can be challenged in both cases.... but also, once again, why are you looking to the fucking JAMES BOND franchise for movie feminism! There's nothing like comparing the relative "feminism levels" of JAMES BOND and LOTR to make it obvious that this is 100% about validating your subjective taste preferences by giving it a "progressive" excuse, not actually about feminism and not actually caring about women's representation beyond how it makes you look good. And yet SO many people took that transparently stupid post seriously. I'd see professional articles mention the Tauriel Test as "one of the new tests" like there was anything serious about it.

And then on the flip side, over-reliance on the Bechdel Test alone led to some clueless conclusions especially in anime fandom, given that anime has an abundance of shows that exclusively feature female characters in school clubs being cute, where those characters are nonetheless two-dimensional archetypes designed for the male gaze. Someone like fandomsandfeminism did a presentation at an anime con that called one of those types of shows "feminist" and some Japanese user eviscerated it, but that just led to the equally shallow fandom analysis of "everything a Japanese person says about anime is automatically more valid" and "any Westerner who wants to criticize anime on feminist/progressive grounds is culturally appropriating and ultimately coming from a place of ignorance, even if they literally have a degree in Asian studies."

Wow, this turned into a rant about the history of bad "feminist media criticism" on this website. Sorry about that, I think I had a point in here somewhere. I guess that the Bechdel Test is indeed a joke and those origins should be understood, but also, I don't think it's wrong to say that it identifies a real problem and one that people could probably take MORE seriously than they do - but as just one part of the conversation, not the Feminism Litmus Test, and certainly not as a dick-measuring contest about whose fandom gets them more progressive brownie points.

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I think as long as we grasp that the joke is "The bar is so far under the ground that we might as well go home and eat popcorn there", it's fine.

The real issue with the test is that people started thinking a pass was meaningful.

If you say something like "X% of 2020s movies can't even manage this weaksauce level of women existing", that's a meaningful statistic. Even if you got a couple of data points wrong, you're not factually wrong enough for it to matter because X is going to be some massive, massive percentage, and the overall trend is so clear.

But a pass is nothing to celebrate, and that's where we went wrong.

Like you say, litigating which of two big franchises that barely do anything with women wins on tumblr points is idiocy.

I think people are so unaware of what media that genuinely centers women even looks like that it's hard for them to even begin having a discussion.

I personally have been a massive fujoshi type from adolescence, and media that centers female characters isn't actually what I typically want. (Though media that is by and for women and that doesn't give a fuck what men think of this is.) I am also not much of a fan of slice of life in general...

But when I was coming out and figuring my shit out, being able to go buy collections of Dykes to Watch Out For was incredibly valuable to me.

Ditto the other lesbian comic books that were just sitting there in the bookstore. I'm sure if I went back and reread them all now, I could find things to nitpick or ways they were more for lesbians and less for me as a bi girl, but the really distinctive thing they did was let me exist in a world where media isn't all 80s sausagefest action movies where women are not people.

In fact, they were a world where men don't matter terribly much—not because they're dramatically rejecting men in some facile and reactionary way but because... who cares? They just had other priorities... and this was normal.

It feels like people who've never taken a vacation from really mainstream media just have no concept of what it would feel like to exist in some other space.

And I think that's a pity even if, like me, they later choose to go read mostly BL later instead of focusing on female characters or they genuinely love trash 80s action movies despite everything wrong with them. It's not just sexist media that's the issue: it's that feeling like the fish can't see the water it's swimming in.

[ilvero-love]

Clothes Maketh the (Wo)Man (or the colour coding of the Iron Trio)

I saw a post recently wondering about the significance, if any, of the colours our Iron Trio wears💙🖤🧡. It prompted me to go looking. Like everything Complete Fiction seems to do in regard to this show, the choices are careful and deliberate.

Lockwood is black and white🖤🤍 He has a business to run and his suited appearance declares that he is prepared to do just that. He’s business like because he has to be. The success of this company rides on his back and the choices he makes. He is ambitious certainly, seen in his constant striving to take Lockwood and Co to the top and in his drive to put them into the public eye, often at the expense of other’s wishes. But it’s understandable. He has bills to pay and people (George and Lucy) that rely on him. Even after they successfully square away their debts, Lockwood remains conscious that there are still other bills to pay.

Lockwood presents an adult façade to the world. Even Lucy (in the book) is surprised to realise he is scarcely older than her upon first meeting him. But, whilst he may appear an adult, he’s still very much a teenager navigating his way through a world where children are dispensable and adults, despite their general uselessness, still call the shots. It’s Lockwood’s sneakers and pink socks that give him away and reveal the teenage boy behind the façade. This was such a clever choice on the part of Complete Fiction 👏 They remind us that whilst Lockwood has been forced to grow up too quickly, at heart he is still a teen.

So, black and white. Very simple and clear cut. Except life isn’t like that, is it?Only Lucy has insight into how tenuous his grip on control can be, and we see this in the delightful stairwell scene 💖💖💖

😍Take a moment everyone- right, where were we?

Ah yes, Lucy and her blue persona (colour not mood). Lucy’s blue is a nice foil to the green of the ghostly world they inhabit. Both blue and green are heavily associated with nature. I don’t know what that means here, but it’s interesting to ponder.

Blue is traditionally seen as a colour of constancy, loyalty and reliability. She certainly provides this for Lockwood. But it’s also a strong colour, hence its traditional association with boys. A practical colour, heavily associated with working, it feeds into Lucy’s active strength.

(Some of these ideas came after reading the interesting article https://www.allure.com/story/beauty-and-the-beast-blue-dresses-in-female-centric-films . Not sure I agree with all of it but certainly food for thought).

Finally, George 🧡 Orange radiates warmth. George is the only from a stable family background, only leaving because of a burning desire to solve the Problem. 

Orange can represent physical comfort, which, when you add it to his cooking prowess completes the picture. Despite taking a while to warm to Lucy  (understandable when it’s just been him and Lockwood for a year) once he’s in, he’s all in 💯

Orange can represent physical comfort, which, when you add it to his cooking prowess completes the picture. He’s homely-he embodies home. As Lucy says to Lockwood, “Portland Row is my home-You and George”. And despite having taken a while to warm to Lucy (understandable when it’s just been him and Lockwood for a year) once he’s in, he’s all in 💯

It is interesting too that orange is also a complementary colour to blue, meaning that you can argue that George balances Lucy, providing stability for Lockwood.

So, there you have it, my thoughts, nonsensical or not, on the colour coding of our three heroes 🧡💙🖤

Maybe, just maybe, they were completely random colour choices based on what CF could source. But knowing Complete Fiction, I somehow think not 😉

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[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 9 / ADULT & FAMILY ANIMATION)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

Common Themes/Tropes:

-Woman/girl is OP and gets bullshit from other people for it

-Heroine tries desperately to fix the world

-Leaving home to go on adventures for the sake of a dream or doing the right thing

-Sisters are a lifeline

-Women/girls can literally do or be anything

-Violence is the only answer men will understand

-The world is so big, grand and beautiful and she wants to see more of it

-Girls being the conscience of an entire society

-Things going ham when she reaches Boss Level

-Magic (and violence) are good things, especially paired together

-A man (usually a father or guy friend) is the only conscience she has left

-F*ck marriage there's bigger problems TM

-I must save my father/sister

-Serious mommy issues

-Has an animal companion or IS the animal companion (robots also count as animal companions in terms of function imo)

-Making friends with the monster

OF WHICH ARE FOR ADULT AUDIENCES:

Pantheon

Scavenger's Reign

Blue Eye Samurai

Arcane: League of Legends

Trese

HAVEN'T WATCHED:

Pantheon

Lilo & Stitch

Fiona & Cake

Star Vs. The Forces of Evil

Trese

Princess Mononoke

Green Snake

The Breadwinner

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Violet Evergarden

Barbie in The Diamond Castle

Monsters Vs Aliens

Epic

Finding Dory

Encanto

The Incredibles II

Tinkerbell: Legend of The Neverbeast

Brave

WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND:

Blue Eye Samurai (10/10) (super gritty, but the perfect revenge story, puts John Wick to shame)

Scavenger's Reign (8/10) (split story, but two of the main characters are women, and one is a black lesbian! fantastic animation, though don't watch if you're intensely trypophobic, it can be sci-fi horror)

Mulan (9/10) (one of the most perfect animated Disney classics)

Turning Red (8/10) (this movie remembered the tween era)

Tinkerbell (if you crave matriarchy, sisterhood, magic and female centric society and story, then you need to watch the Tinkerbell movies)

Wolfwalkers (7.5/10) (an anti-colonial, anti patriarchal, pro-pagan fantasy movie with beautiful animation and a very touching, female-centric story)

Arcane: League of Legends (10/10) (gorgeous animation, amazing writing, incredible performances, and don't get me started on the sisters that take centre stage--also, lesbianism and gender nonconformity!)

The Legend of Korra (8/10) (good writing, a badass protagonist, a fantastic cast of characters, beautiful scoring, beautiful animation, amazing action sequences)

PERSONAL NOTES

The Mitchells Vs The Machines is basically a drama between a lesbian girl and her dad who have to figure their relationship out while they're running from robots. It was full of heart and fun and had some good jokes in there. I'd definitely recommend it.

Raya & The Last Dragon is the first Disney movie with a gender non-conforming princess! It also has some of the best action sequences in any Disney animated movie, however it doesn't hold a candle to The Incredibles II, which stars Helen Parr as the main character of the film. It's one of my favourite films of all time because of how they depict Helen and the main villain of the story (a badass genius of a woman). Really pro-female films, even for all their flaws.

Abominable has some of the most gorgeous visuals I've seen outside of a Disney animation. The texturing and coloring is so vivid it makes my mouth water. It's far better than Over The Moon, but both have their own charm. Abominable and Home have very similar plots. Also, the girl in Home is voiced by Rihanna while Beyonce voices the queen of the faeries in Epic.

One movie that shares a similar theme (kindness to animals even if we don't understand them or they scare us) with Abominable is The Sea Beast. The Sea Beast is one of the best animations with a black female girl as a lead I've ever seen. There's also a badass black woman pirate. There are some scenes that could have been written (or colored) better, but I loved it either way. I think it was the first animated film to depict shrinkage for black hair! And it didn't lighten the skin or whiten the features of the black characters!

Many people view Frozen II and Brave as "almost" masterpieces whose writers ultimately failed them, and I can say that I agree to some extent. There are many things technically wrong with the movies. Minor details that set the pacing off or take away from the immersion. However, I still love both of them. I really love daughter vs mother and sister vs sister stories (that includes Tinkerbell: The Secret of The Wings) because there's so much to explore in such relationships. They also both have some killer soundtracks, some amazing visuals and well-executed action sequences. I've truly seen way worse than these two films, and the characters are mostly loveable.

The Breadwinner is an animated film about a girl dressing up like a boy under the rule of the Taliban so she can earn some money to help feed her family. It's scored very high by critics.

I'd also recommend The Owl House (even though there's some appeal to genderism in later seasons). It's the first time I've seen a bisexual animated character and the enemies to lovers arc with Luz and Amity is unmatched in cannon magic school stories. I also really love the depiction of The Owl Lady who is treated like a male character in that she is allowed to be non-maternal, single and old (and wrinkled), arrogant and boastful, all without the show trying to punish her for it. The Boiling Isles are also fascinating as a setting.

If you like The Owl House, there's a chance you'll love She-Ra. There were many things I found annoying about She-Ra, but my experience was mostly positive. I'm not the biggest fan of Catradora, but I do appreciate the drama. I loved the world-building and magic system mainly, so the character quirks didn't get to me as much as they have others. Also, amazing antagonists in this series. It could have been more mature, but it's still entertaining.

I also definitely recommend Home on The Range. It's a whole movie with talking animals, but there's no tomboy like the main female protagonist in a Disney movie. She is one of the most tomboy characters Disney ever made. Also, I love 2D animation and this film reminds me why. Also, the idea of a feminine, micromanaging old heifer, a bull-headed, roughhouse new girl cow, and a young airhead cow that can't sing going on an adventure across the wild west to save their human's (a sweet old lady with some bark and bite) farm? And they have to compete with a hotshot, asshole male horse who is young and fast? It's like the perfect western comedy but with cows!

Anyways, if you can't tell, I love animated stuff and a lot of these are my comfort movies.

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BangtanWritersHQ Presents: Jimin’s Celestial Chaos Masterlist

Last month we celebrated our cutie, sexy, lovely Jimin’s birthday! We asked our members to share with us all of their Jimin centric stories, so that we could share them with you! If you are in a Jimin mood, this masterlist is for you! In this post you'll find fics from our authors that feature Jimin as the main character with various au types and tropes! Browse at your leisure and ENJOY!

KEY:

🔞 - nsfw (mature themes)

✅ - sfw (no warnings)

💖 - smut

⚠️ - other warnings

SET UP - emojis: Title (if link is to another platform) | Author [parts] pairings, genre, aus, warnings, word count, etc

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Need to Know | @magicshopaholic​​ [1/1] Jimin x OC, Exes; smut, angst, mutual pining territory language, alcohol, dirty thoughts, mind games, fingering, handjob, sex against a wall, drunken phone calls and misunderstandings 

🔞 ⚠️ Dwindling Healing || Masterlist | @btsstan12​​ [17/18] ✎ female reader X hybrid! Jimin ✎ Fluff, angst, hurt/comfort ⚠︎ past trauma, past sexual abuse, past abuse, murders, blood, usage of weapons, etc

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Pixie Dust (links to Twitter) | @colormepurplex2​  [1/1] Fairy!Jimin x Reader Fantasy/Fallen Fey M/F, Fingering, Edging, Praise, Oral, Magic Play  

🔞 💖 Below Your Mouth | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [1/1] ✎ Jimin x Reader ✎ Ex’s to Lovers, Angst, Smut, Fluff ⚠︎ 18 +, lies, mentions of cheating, fake friend, cunnilingus, tongue fucking, fingering, clit biting, nipple sucking, making out 

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Dimple Mini Series | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [4/4] ✎ Idol!Jimin x Girlfriend!Reader ✎ Idol!AU, Established Relationship, Angst, Smut Fluff ⚠︎ 18 +, Explicit Sex, Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum depression 

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Flowers & Sex | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [1/1] ✎ Jimin x Reader ✎ Best Friends to Lovers, Angst, Smut, Fluff, Partial Smau ⚠︎ 18 +, Explicit Sex, Sex Toy, Cheating Ex, Unprotected Sex, Blowjob 

🔞 💖 Good For Me | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [1/1] ✎ Jimin x Reader ✎ Established Relationship, PWP, Smut ⚠︎ 18 +, Car sex, Unprotected Sex, Fingering, Riding, Cum tasting, Marking, Creampie 

🔞 💖 I Do Believe Your Galaxy | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [1/1] ✎  Veterinarian!Jimin x Farm Owner! Jungkook x Half Alien!OC ✎ Alien!AU, Strangers to Lovers, Angst, Smut, Fluff ⚠︎ 21 +, Mentions of alien/human experiments, mentions of genocide, oc can see images/memories when touching someone, implied masturbation, fingering, double vaginal penetration, anal fingering, threesome/poly relationship

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Like an Old Film Reel | @7deadlysinsfics​​ [1/1] ✎ Co-Worker!Jimin x Co-Worker!Reader ✎ Angst ⚠︎ 18 +, Implied sexual content, alcohol consumption, implied cheating, destructive behavior, insecurities, toxic relationship, exes 

🔞 ⚠️ To, My Dearest | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ female reader X Jimin ✎ Fluff, angst, hurt/comfort ⚠︎ mentions of death, mental health 

🔞 ⚠️ Yours Truly | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ female reader X Jimin ✎ Fluff, angst, hurt/comfort ⚠︎ mentions of death, mental health 

✅ Endless Hug | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ Jimin X reader ✎ Fluff, established relationship ⚠︎ none 

🔞 💖 Test Drive (links to Twitter) | @SugaKookiE07_ (twt) [1/1] Jimin x Reader Established Relationship Smut, fluff, language, oral sex, exhibitionism, slight Dom/sub. 1.6k words 

🔞 💖 The Dream (links to Twitter) | @roxyjean82​​ [1/1] Jimin and Jungkook x Reader, Smut, Fluff 

🔞 💖 No Turning Back (links to Twitter) | @roxyjean82​​ [1/1] Jimin x Reader, Smut, Hint of Fluff

✅ Starry Eyed | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ prince! Jimin X royal! reader ✎ fluff, strangers to lovers, royalty au ⚠︎ none 

✅ Lucky (links to Twitter) | @roxyjean82​​ [1/1] Jimin x Reader, Fluff

✅ Bangtan Butterfly Affect: Ski Trip choice 2 (links to Twitter) | @roxyjean82​ [1/1] Jimin x Reader, Fluff

🔞 ⚠️ Come Home | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ Jimin X Taehyung (platonic) ✎ Angst ⚠︎ violence, guns, war, blood, death, etc 

✅ Tiny Feet | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] ✎ dad! Jimin x fem! reader ✎ Fluff ⚠︎ none 

🔞 ⚠️ A Siren's Call | @btsstan12​​ [1/1] siren!Jimin x reader, angst, fluff (?), fantasy au, character death 

🔞 💖 ⚠️ In Flagrante Delicto | @hisunshiine​​ [1/1] ⟢ lawyer!jimin x lawyer!reader ⟢ nsfw. 18+. angst, smut, fluff. ⟢ law firm au. coworkers2lovers. ⟢ warnings: criminal case with a murder trial, fear, stalking, weapon discharge 

🔞 💖 Filter | @hisunshiine​​ [1/1] ⟢ Influncer/secretcamboy!jimin x reader ⟢ nsfw 18+. minor angst, smut, fluff ⟢ explicit smut [exhibition] 

🔞 💖 ⚠️ Inked | @hisunshiine​​ [1/1] ⟢ Tattoo Artist!Jimin x First Time Tattoo!reader ⟢ s2l | smut, fluff, tattoo shop au ⟢ 18+, nsfw ⟢ minimal blood/pain (she’s getting a tattoo) 

🔞 💖 ⚠️ i need u | @hisunshiine​​ [1/1] ⟢ BTS!jimin x f!reader ⟢ e2l | angst!!!, smut, fluff, idol au ⟢ 18+, nsfw ⟢ alcohol use, dubcon, self-hate, talks of ED, arguing 

🔞 💖 who said i was an angel | @hisunshiine​​ [1/1] ⟢ Jimin x f!reader ⟢ established lovers | smut, fluff, wedding au ⟢ 18+, nsfw ⟢ themes of christianity used in what could be considered sacrilegious 

All stories copywritten of the specified author. The authors provided consent for their stories to the network to be shared by submitting their stories. Stories posted in the order of submission to the event.

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(That’s if anyone is at all lol. Who would've thought that a film franchise about the navy would've had enough female characters to count on one hand? (/s))

[lol-jackles]

Hi! I like your blog, it's very informative. Thank you for answering the questions. I have a couple, I hope you can answer.

So, the first one. I noticed that Jared is officially declared at only three of the eleven Creation conventions. Given the rumors about his participation in the upcoming Disney series about Nova, could this be the reason for his absence from most of the cons in 2024? The contract with the studio would oblige him to be available to work on their projects, right? Would that be a priority?

Although Disney isn't having the best of times right now, are they still developing this series?

In this regard, one more question: for what period is a contract with such corporations concluded? I read that they used to be imprisoned for five years. Has anything changed? That is, I am interested in this point: if work on the series has been suspended, the contract is not broken. So for the duration of the contract, Jared will not participate in other projects, including conventions?

If that's not the case, what is your opinion on why Jared is almost not participating in SPN cons next year?

And the last question: your forecast, how will Jensen's career develop next year?

I'm sorry if my questions are a little silly, I don't understand the movie business at all. And in how the organizers of the conventions work, too. I hope you can help me figure it out.

My guess is yes, Jared may be limiting his convention appearances due to filming commitments for non-Walker projects.  Jared has repeatedly told Gilmore Girls stories when he wasn't scheduled to film on a particular day so he slept in.  But GG had rescheduled filming and decided they would film Jared's scene on the said particular day.  Jared's friend had to break into his apartment to wake him and get him to the set.  The experience gave him nightmares and he vowed to always be available even if the AD said he's not scheduled to film that day.  Disney is notoriously unforgiving so IF he will be working in the Nova project then he best make himself available.

Disney had a series of film flops this year, including a Marvel film with the lowest box office opening. Every long-running franchise goes through growing pains. Just as James Bond franchise didn’t die when there are a few clunkers at the box office, and Batman managed to survive the Batman & Robin debacle, the Marvel franchise won’t die, it's an institution at this point. Sure it's a little tired and nursing a black eye, but as we all know, that’s often when heroes rise to their best selves.

While Disney and every major studio are cancelling projects, they still need new contents.  Recently Disney's CEO has pretty much said that going woke is making them go broke so they will be course correcting their Marvel brand by returning to more traditional storytelling entertainment aka more male-centric contents aka Chippendale for the female gaze.

"imprisoned" for 5 years??  Maybe you're thinking of a typical 5-year tv series contract.  Studios have these contracts in case the show is a big hit and syndicated in season 4 or 5 will make them even more money as long as the lead actor don't run away, which is why tv contracts are at minimally 5 years.  This doesn't prevent the actors from taking other projects, it just prevents them from leaving the original project. So yes, Jared can technically take on other projects but his first obligation is to fulfill the requirements of his first contract, which means being available for filming.  

With that said, while TV contracts are typically 5 years, it is easily 7 years because in California all personal service contracts well limited by law to a maximum of 7 years without re-negotiation.  With that said, if the show is a hit, the actors will often band together and ask to re-negotiate their contracts after 2 or 3 years. The studio will usually accede to this, because they don’t want to jeopardize a hit show, though the actors are technically in violation of their contracts.

But regardless, I also think in general Jared is moving away from SPN-only conventions anyway.  Not only because he has a fanbase outside of SPN and its genre, but he also he wants to find work for his Walker colleague where multi-fandom conventions are more suited.

[cannibalmetaphor]

something interesting I think in cinema is how gendered the descent into violent madness is. generally, the man is cold, vacant, empty. he is violent in an emotionless way. I’m thinking patrick bateman, I’m thinking funny games. and yet the woman’s descent into madness is so full of emotion. it is a build up of feeling. its release is cathartic. you are rooting for her, you are empathetic for her, you understand why she does what she does. when you watch female centric horror films as a woman - such as the black swan, or may, or perfect blue, or possession, or phantom thread, or even pearl - you are always aware that in another world, they could be you. women’s violence in cinema is always subversive. male violence is often just a reflection of our reality.

[captainzontar]

i think i know why the Furiosa movie didn't do the big box office numbers. Incels , proud boys, maga republican misogynists didn't like it because it was female-centric. They also didn't like the fact that basically everyone in the film was in good physical shape. Those who eat mcdonalds 3 times a day can't bear to see how people should look. Add to that the nostalgia for that fucking anti-semite catholic zealot mel gibson. I can't even watch the first 3 mad max films anymore and i was a huge fan of the first 2 since i was a kid, thunderdome was garbage though, rated pg, made for children. Furiosa is better than all of the disney star wars films that made a billion dollars each. Remember Tron 1982 did poor box office, now a classic, Tron Legacy did poor box office. Blade Runner 82 failed at the box office, now a bona fide classic, Blade Runner 2049 did poor box office, also a great film. The general public are morons.

[saintsenara]

Would you ever consider writing Ron/Hermione? Like, as the main ship of the fic?

thank you very much for the ask, anon - and you've definitely brought up something i have been thinking about myself...

obviously, i'm on the record as a paid-up romione defender, and i certainly think that the two of them deserve a far greater fandom presence as a couple than they currently have. i've never vibed with any of the usual non-ron partnerships hermione tends to end up in [although i am much more amenable to ron in other ships - i love a bit of ronarry and i love a bit of dron] and i do share romione fans' exasperation with the way romione-as-a-couple are treated in a lot of fandom discourse, whether because of the impact of the films or because they get in the way of other popular pairings.

and i've definitely thought about some vague plot outlines for romione-centric fics. i'd like to see a version of half-blood prince from hermione's perspective, because her scheming how to get at ron [the mclaggen plan makes me howl every time] is iconic, and i'm obsessed with the potential from so many of the romione missing moments we get hints of in canon, especially the evenings ron and hermione spend alone in gryffindor tower while harry's off on his schemes [and especially the bit in deathly hallows when they fall asleep in grimmauld place holding hands]. i think there's great potential for a big post-war romione epic too - not least because i think ron would be excellent at guiding hermione through the relationship she'd have to rebuild with her parents once she restored their memories.

my issue is that, to be quite honest, i have to be in a certain mood to want to write hermione - and i find it quite difficult to write dialogue etc. for her which doesn't just sound insufferable. while ron has always been my ride-or-die, she's a character i've never vibed with [i have a very low tolerance in real life for all of her most... striking traits] from the very first time i read the books. she's fine as a background character in one year in every ten [the wip I'm writing in which she currently appears] because she's perfect for the genre: it's a murder mystery and she's a lawyer, so her turning up to be pedantic about things is exactly what i want. but i'm not sure i've got the writing chops yet to produce something which centred her which would do her justice as a fully-rounded character - with her good qualities [which i do recognise there are many of! especially her unbelievable loyalty!] given just as much space as her more negative ones - and i don't think it would be enjoyable or fair for anyone for me to write some dogshit in which hermione's just a shrew.

but, you know, never say never... i enjoy reading romione, i enjoy writing female characters as real people, i enjoy anything in which ron features... who knows what the future holds.

[i can promise you won't catch me writing dramione though.]

[twopoppies]

Oh my, I remember when Harry signed onto DWD and the fandom was HYPED! We were all so excited for a movie and a female director and a female centric cast and Flo and Chris Pine and absolutely no one said a single bad thing about Olivia. Most people just thought she was hot. Then we discovered the old script and we were like the script sucks but they’re reworking it, it’s fine. And then all the nonsense started and Olivia did some weird fucking ode to Harry being the reason women can make films (even though he was a last minute add and so much less experienced than the stellar names in the cast already) and the the Covid shitshow started off the stupidest stunt in history and everything spiraled from there. We had no clue.

I also remember that we were all excited because everyone on the cast had a partner, so we thought there wouldn't be any PR relationship nonsense.

😩

[curator-on-ao3]

To be honest, I don't see the issue with Christine becoming a doctor.

The way Star Trek sidelined nurses (and Chapel in general) is definitely problematic, but SNW can treat Christine's current position as a nurse with respect without changing the canon.

SNW Christine seems to be more interested in research than face-to-face patient care and I can see her becoming Doctor of Medicine in the future.

I think a healthy fandom has a variety of opinions and I’m glad you’re expressing yours. 💪

To my mind (and I hope others will chime in, especially if I’ve got this wrong), the main concern about Christine becoming a doctor is that the change is seen as a “promotion,” as if nursing isn’t enough. Meanwhile, nursing is actually its own discipline that works with doctors — and nurses certainly can be researchers.

My guess is that, at the time of The Motion Picture (1979), Christine becoming a doctor was seen as female equality and empowerment. Women were no longer forced to become nurses (or teachers) and could be doctors. I looked it up and, the year after the film came out, only 13.3 percent of doctors in the US were female. By contrast, that same year, 95.9 percent of nurses in the US were female. (source: A Demographic Profile of Doctors and Nurses, and I thought US figures made sense given the US-centric production of the film).

So I think Chapel’s career change (as opposed to promotion) may well have been with good, feminist intentions. And, hopefully, if SNW or other Trek uses that canon, it will be done with respect for nursing as a profession and for Christine as a character. ❤️

[baddingtonbitch]

clocking in for another long day of filming disassembled cribs at the elevated female-centric horror factory