#and writing a whole story is an undertaking and plot and dialogue confound me

[girlscience]

i love nico robin, but she is not discussed. i see millions of posts analyzing the boys and only ever see pictures of her looking beautiful. the boys get to be powerful and she gets to be pretty. (same with nami but she also gets to be bitchy).

lotr has amazing women..... none of whom are dwarves so i find i care about them significantly less (sadly) and all of whom are side characters which means, as far as i can tell, they are not as important to the fandom as the main characters (which makes sense). the hobbit has tauriel........ who well. outside of her being in love with kili she is pointless.

hannibal has some pretty great women who are all there only to act as fodder for will and hannibal's character arcs and emotional development (and half of them die, or there's uhhh reba? who's there for francis's development). and even though the fandom loves abigail there's only so much you can do with a character who spends most of the show "dead" or dead.

stargate sg1 has sam and she's amazing and wonderful and i love everything about her.... but i am not captured by sg1 the way i am atlantis. and atlantis well. the wraith are imo the most important part and the queen's are developed not even a tiny bit. and according to the sga fandom i'm pretty sure the whole show is actually just about john and rodney being in love. and i personally am slowly growing to actually hate the ship for its ubiquitousness.

dragon age has great women that largely no one cares about because why would they when cullen and solas and zevran and the other cullen and so on exist. solas is the only inquistion romance that actually matters, sera is written terribly, cassandra can only romance men, and josie feels like an afterthought (scout harding is wonderful but is barely a character at all).

the witcher worldbuilding states women cannot be witchers and i literally couldn't give less of a shit about anything in the witcher outside of the witchers themselves.

transformers has women but i never got deep enough into the lore to learn much about them and outside of optimus and megatron's relationship (because angst and politics) and starscream (because he's hilarious) i never cared much about the story.

star wars i care more about the worldbuilding and the aliens than anything else. there are women and they are pretty good and i think a reasonable chunk of the fandom likes them, but i don't super care about the actual story of star wars so... i think i miss a lot of that.

i liked warrior nun, but i can be honest, it was not a masterpiece of a show. it does not have an enormous fandom and it got canceled and it did not capture my mind the way some other stories have.

all the fantasy/medieval anachronism stuff i can find is pretty much all men. except for some women who talk about sewing and fashion.... where are the women who are testing out different fire starters to figure out which will work best for an adventurer? where are the women making stew in the woods and talking about it on youtube? where are the women discussing the best sword to use as an adventurer? they have to exist!!!! but i cannot find them and it makes me horribly sad.

i could keep going on and on but i think my point is made. i am just incredibly frustrated. and i try to read books about women and i love a lot of them but none of them get fandoms and i get tired of loving something alone with no one to talk to about it. but i also enjoy watching shows and movies and there are far fewer of them that focus on women and even fewer i actually care about even when they do have fandoms. i just.... i feel like i having been waiting and waiting my whole life for that perfect story about women adventurers and i'm starting to wondering if it will ever exist.