...the "ummmm where is all the f/f" folks realize that a massive chunk of it is that the lady characters are straight up just not given as much screen time, characterization, or character Moments, yeah????? the appeal for a LOT of fic writers is "premade dolls i can move around without thinking about characterization or background" and... when a character doesn't have characterization or background..... that makes it a BIT hard. yell at the show's writers and not the ficcers, maybe. punch UP, not down.
see also: it's easier to write a relationship with premade substance, like a friendship with established moments and huge amounts of screentime—like m/m ships or m/f often have and f/f ships do not. again, blame the show's writers!! tell THEM you would like to see better character moments, but POLITELY, and not in this god awful entitled way you've been telling ficcers!
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Weeeell... I do think this can be remedied by consciously choosing different media. A lot of the best genres and mediums for heavily female casts and relationships between women don't appeal to me for various reasons, but those works are still out there.
I don't think criticisms like "You ought to like X" are valid.
I do think people who say "If you're so sure you want X, why is your entire media diet Y?" have a point.
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Mr. & Mrs. Gingerbread | 8 Days of SKZcember 2023
Prompt: putting a gingerbread house together
❣ Summary: The perfect ginger house for the perfect ginger family. ❣
❣ Word Count: 875
❣ Warnings: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Felix and Reader are really passionate about their gingerbread people ❣
❣ Female! Reader [No use of Y/N] | You/Your pronouns ❣
❣ Additional Tags: Felix is referred to as Lix[ie], and Mr. Gingerbread, Reader is referred to as Sunshine, and Mrs. Gingerbread
❣ Stray Kids Masterlist ❣ General Masterlist ❣ SKZcember 2023
“Are you sure you don’t wanna make the gingerbread house from scratch?”
You had to fight yourself from falling for those pleading brown eyes, knowing full and well that there was already half an hour left on the three hour chill time for the gingerbread dough he previously made, and if he made another batch you wouldn’t be making the house until it was well into the evening.
“Lixie, honey, you’re already making the gingerbread people from scratch - we can cheat and use the premade cookie house again, okay?” Sliding the unopened box on the kitchen island, you drummed lightly on the cardboard, “Besides, we already bought extra candy and icing so we don’t have to use the, quote, ‘cheap icing and stale candy with no true theme’.”
Felix blushed, taking the box from your grasp with a small huff of indignation, “Hey! You agreed with me when we were at the store!”
“I never said you were wrong, now did I?” Pinching his cheek lightly, you busied yourself with taking the extra sweet decorations out of their packaging while he took care of unboxing the project of the afternoon.
With each piece laid out and carefully inspected, operation Gingerbread Builders was a go.
“So, I’m thinking this is Mr. and Mrs. Gingerbread’s first time in the housing market, so we have to make this an extra special house for them.”
“Mhm - They need a house that’ll stand out from all the rest, they wanna make a statement in this neighborhood.”
“As they should, it’s deserved!”
A natural silence fell over you both as you each worked on your respective parts of the house; you with the back and left wall, Felix with the front and right wall, saving the roof for the final piece to put together.
“Who do you think has more say in the design of the house?” Felix mused as he cut pieces of gummy candy into small squares.
“Mr. Gingerbread for sure, he went to school for Gingerbread Home Design, with a minor in theater.”
“Figures, Mrs. Gingerbread went for Ginger-Fashion in Uni, and we all know fashion prowess doesn’t translate to houses well.”
“Then it’s a good thing they met through the theater club, isn’t it?”
Giggling at your fictional gingerbread lore, you both continued decorating the house in colorful candies and icing accents; the soft background music of a carefully curated winter themed Animal Crossing playlist playing to fill in the peaceful atmosphere.
With some blatantly obvious sneaking of candy here, and playful marking of icing on hands there, the walls of the home were finished and it was time to put them together.
You dutifully lined the edges of the gingerbread panels with the thick icing provided from the box, sticking them together carefully before repeating the process with the other sides until both walls, and the front and back of the house were in place.
“Do you think they’re a weaved panel or classic snow-top type of couple?”
Carefully placing the roofless house onto the icing-layered plastic foundation, you shot him a look, “What does that even mean, Lix?”
“Should the roof be in a lattice design,” he explained, mimicking the lattice design with his hands, “or should we make it look like it’s a snowy roof?”
“Well…” Taking a look at one of the roof pieces, you carefully lined one side of the rooftop, “Mrs. Gingerbread likes the way the snowy roof looks, especially since all of the other houses on the block have some extravagant design - she’s a simple elegant gingerbread.”
Nodding, Felix smiled happily, “Mr. Gingerbread likes that, especially since it leaves more room for a gumdrop design!”
“Oh, Mr. Gingerbread, always the one for showing the beauty in subtlety.” You hummed warmly, sticking one roof panel carefully on top of the icing.
“Mrs. Gingerbread loves him for it.” His tone was just as warm, as sweet as the icing currently sticking to your fingers.
“Yes, she does.”
Sticking the second roof panel on the house, you swapped positions with the freckled blond to let him have creative authority of the soon to be snowy rooftop; watching as the bland gingerbread squares slowly transformed into a beautiful snow-topped roof with a rainbow licorice topping, gumdrops and mini jawbreakers dotted in a beautiful pattern where the ‘snow’ hadn’t reached - with your help, of course.
Just when you thought the decorating was complete, Felix leaned over the house and began using the remaining white icing to create an icicle pattern along the edge of the roof, leaving you to watch in amazement like a child watching toffee being made.
“And… Done!” Standing straight, his cheeks pulled up into his usual sunshine smile, as he gazed at the collaborative masterpiece in front of him, “It looks amazing, doesn't it?!”
Your heart swelled, a smile finding its way onto your own face as you nodded, “It is, you did wonderful, Mr. Gingerbread.”
Turning his head to you, you could see what you could only describe as pure love in his sparkling eyes. “You did wonderful too, Mrs. Gingerbread.”
The sound of the oven alarm beeping broke you from your reverie, though it only made Felix’s smile grow wider than before.
“Wanna clean up and make our ginger-people?”
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