#i'm pretty sure katharine hepburn!maedhros was about forty percent of the entire reason for my golden age fancast

[anghraine]

It's not really surprising, considering that I'm a lesbian, but it's still kind of incredible to me how much many characters I dislike or feel meh about become far more appealing when I mentally cast them with women or imagine their stories as women.

I'm also into this for my faves (this is obvious if you're familiar with my AO3 account, lol), but a beloved blorbo becoming an even more beloved blorbo isn't nearly as much of a change as ... idk, my profound frustration with canon Maedhros vs "whoa, that'd be awesome" when I think of Maedhros As Played By Katharine Hepburn. Or there's my ambivalence about canon Aragorn vs my affection for female Aragorn, who breaks the father to son chain of heirs of Isildur, but manages to hang onto the heirship anyway, and who is, additionally, 6'6" with shaggy, greying hair and an appearance that ranges from foul to beautiful depending on how regal she feels at that moment.

(I once wrote a fic about female Aragorn having a nightmare about taking the Ring and morphing into the dreadful Tar-Elessarnë. And Tar-Elessarnë would be dreadful. But 100x hotter than canon, also.)

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