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Kinks and Squicks
I've been meaning to do this forever and ever, ever since I read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snickfic's version and realized that we're the same person. But I never got around to it. Then I figured that since Yuletide is coming up, now is the best possible time to finish it up.
So I'm putting this here for now, and no doubt I'll edit it now and then from here until forever as more of my favorite things and least favorite things come to mind.
Things That Work for Me
+ Complex characterization. The recognition that people have mixed motives for anything and everything they do and that everyone has a rich inner life, even if others don’t see it.
+ Location/setting as a character. Whether this means Mieville-level fantasy world building, the planet Arrakis being the main character in Dune (it so is, don’t even pretend like it’s not) or Mary Stewart or M.M. Kaye describing the beauty of the landscapes of Britain and India, respectively, I just love specific, unique locations, especially when the plot is rooted in them or deeply tied to them.
+ Deserts. I adore hot weather and fantasize about deserts. Movies like Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient are like porn to me, and so is anything M.M. Kaye ever wrote. Heat. Sunshine. People lying in the sunshine and soaking it up--not to get tan (silly), but just to bask in the warmth like a cat (in case you can’t tell, Robin McKinley’s Sunshine made me really happy).
+ The South. Southern girl here, raised on Faulkner and obsessed with Welty, O’Connor, etc. But I don’t like stuff that that whitewashes or idealizes its problems, especially in the ante-bellum period. I’m very committed to social justice, so ignoring the problematic nature of a lot of Southern history is not okay with me. Basically, the South is a character as complex as any human. A quote to sum it all up: “Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” - “Mississippi” by William Faulkner
+ Hardy, hard-working people whose lives are never going to get better but who keep on carrying on. I love Appalachia and stories about miners. Break my heart, okay?
+ The past coming back for a visit. See also: Faulkner obsession. I love when people’s pasts catch up with them, as well as stories that have a profound recognition of the power of history, roots, family, blood relationships, etc.
+ Strong family relationships, especially sibling or cousin bonds. Also, parent/child relationships that have a lot of affection but in which the parents are still parents (see: Keith and Veronica Mars, the Taylor family of Friday Night Lights, etc.). Basically, I adore functional families that love each other and carry on despite everyone’s flaws. With lots of ups and downs and tension, but with a fundamental understanding that they’ll always be there for each other.
+ Marriage. Huuuuuge kink. Basically functional marriages, especially ones in which you never doubt their faithfulness to each other (cheating/adultery is easily one of my biggest squicks, and I hatehatehate above all things seeing it romanticized. I could enjoy a story that deals with the fallout of adultery in a real way, but how often do you see that?). Marriages that are partnerships, especially partnerships between people who are very different from each other yet make it work. Partnerships where they both always know they have each others’ backs.
+ Married people who fall in love. Marriages of convenience or that are arranged in which the spouses either hate each other, resent each other, or just don’t know each other and then slowly learn to love each other and form a real partnership.
+ Pregnancy. I’m fascinated by the workings of the body and the way in which your body changes during pregnancy. It becomes utterly different, and yet it’s utterly nature. Also, it’s dangerous but it brings forth life. How is that not fascinating? I ask you.
+ Complex dialogue or dialogue that’s really layered. When people are ostensibly talking about one thing, but they know (and the audience knows) they’re really talking about something else entirely. LOVE.
+ Banter/wittiness/snark. I love Wodehouse, Wilde, Sorkin, Whedon, etc. Put two people in a room and let them snark or banter and I will be your slave for life.
+ Apocalypses. Of any kind, though zombies in and of themselves don’t really interest me. All of humanity or civilization almost being destroyed or being destroyed and people trying to live in the aftermath of that. Post-apocalyptic anything is my bread and butter.
+ Survivalism. I have no interest in living primitively, but I love survivalist stuff. People stranded in the wilderness? People living in a destroyed city and trying to scrape by? THERE.
+ Competence. Especially in women. Women who just get things done. Teams made up of people who know their own roles and execute them wonderfully, while it all fits together into a larger plot (like the Ocean‘s movies, you know?). Basically, nothing in the world is sexier than someone who does something really, really well doing something really, really well. I also love it when something (especially something beyond their control) goes wrong and they have to scramble to fix it and pull it off because they are so good at what they do. Porn, I say.
+ People choosing to do the right thing even when it will hurt them or cost them dearly. Integrity at great personal cost.
+ To quotesnickfic: “Language and communication barriers, all variations: sign language, muteness, telepathy, language through song/math/fans/whatever.”
+ Moments of grace between enemies or people who don’t know each other that well. Bulletproof kink. Bulletproof.
+ Enemies who respect each other.
+ Enemies becoming friends.
+ Enemies who fall in love.
+ Enemies who have to become allies. Well, really any kind of unlikely or unexpected alliance. Enemy-of-my-enemy kinds of things or like Chekohv says, “Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” Especially if they start off with only having that hatred in common and end up becoming more.
+ Small groups of very different kinds of people banding together for survival or to fight a common enemy. Nakama.
+ Women who know their physical limitations and don’t try to win physically through strength but do it instead through their wits/resourcefulness/expertise. See: Veronica Mars, Brenda Leigh Johnson, Kalinda Sharma, etc.
+ On the other hand, I like to watch girls kick ass, especially with guns. I am weird that way. See: Buffy Anne Summers, Sarah Connor, etc.
+ Things blowing up.
+ Inanimate objects that take on great sentimental value or meaning.
+ Profound platonic friendships between people of the opposite sex.
+ Profound platonic friendships between people of the same sex. Heterosexual life partners.
+ Profound platonic friendships period.
+ Groups of friends who are very close.
+ Mentorship relationships, especially between women.
+ Relationships between humans and animals, especially cats and horses.
+ Character-driven humor. Slapstick does nothing for me, and neither does potty humor. But something that’s rooted in character or in dialogue? Favorite.
+ Physicality. Saying things through body language without verbalizing them. Acknowledgements of the ways in which people relate to each other through the way they position themselves in relation to each other.
+ Redemption arcs. Bad people trying to be good and either succeeding or failing or hopefully both.
+ Good people who are interesting.
+ Bad guys who are complex--either they have a lot of love or really struggle with doing wrong or something like that.
+ Love, especially romantic love, that’s communicated in ways other than words or through words that don’t tacitly acknowledge love. Love through action. When someone knows that someone else loves them despite them never having said it. Subtle demonstrations of love.
+ Explorations of faith. All faiths, really, but I’m Christian so I especially like the Christian or Jewish faiths. Faith that isn’t rooted in hypocrisy but that is humble and very real. Faith that isn’t over the top and that doesn’t beat anyone over the head but that is just a part of life. Faith in darkness.
+ Explorations of a worldview that’s very different than that of the author’s but in which the author treats it with respect. See: Aaron Sorkin writing Bartlett’s Catholicism or Ainsley Hayes’s everything. Do not see: Joss Whedon writing Shepherd Book.
+ Old things. Ancient things.
+ Finding beauty in melancholy or light in darkness. Knowing you won’t win, but clinging to goodness anyway.
+ Hope. Especially when it’s small and fragile and threatens to go out at any moment but still manages to keep alight.
+ Grace that’s so unexpected and beautiful that it breaks your heart.
+ Angst. Things that make me cry.
+ Goodness that moves you to tears. Sacrifice, especially as evidence of love that asks for nothing in return.
+ Complex points of view. Shifting points of view. Giving lots of different points of view and letting the reader/viewer piece together the truth. (Did I mention I’m a Faulkner stan?)
+ Seasons. Especially summer and autumn.
+ Time and a very profound awareness of it.
+ Depictions of old people and children who are fully developed and human. Basically, acknowledging that they’re people with stories to tell, with stories that aren’t in front of them or behind them but are happening now.
+ Memory. Anything having to do with it--loss of it, rediscovery of it, variations in it. Anything.
+ Big, rambling houses, especially ones that have been passed down through generations and seem to have personalities of their own.
+ Hurt/comfort that manages not to be too schmoopy.
+ Flipped gender roles. Especially women who don’t easily display their emotions and men who do.
+ Constructed identities, identity crises.
+ Fantasy elements. Anything involving the supernatural. Science fiction in which the ideas are solid and serve the characters.
+ Good guys messing up and acknowledging their flaws. The character who disagrees with the hero but isn’t portrayed as wrong. Heroes being wrong, then having to live with it.
+ Intelligence. Smart characters. Skilled characters. Especially profound intelligence from people who aren’t traditionally depicted with it. (See: smart Southern women with accents, any smart black or Latin@ characters, people who seem like jocks but are really smart, etc.).
+ Racial diversity that isn’t token or simplistic or stereotypical. I especially love fantasy worlds based on traditions that aren’t European in nature.
+ Realistic depictions of neuroatypical people. This is really hard to find, but my favorite TV examples are Buffy’s clinical depression in Season 6.
+ Acknowledgments of or explorations of the kyriarchy. Favorite example: Kindred by Octavia Butler.
+ Explorations of the way that the patriarchy screws up both men and women.
+ Characters who are genuinely sweet and kind but that’s not all they are and they also have real opinions and strength. My favorite example is Annie from Being Human. I absolutely hate it when that sweetness and kindness is all in support of the male characters, though. I am not fond of Kaylee from Firefly because I don’t feel like she got developed enough to overcome the whole, “Oh, she’s the perfect woman! She’s sweet! And adorable! And talks about sex!” Seriously?
+ Explorations of free will and destiny. Especially if it comes down firmly on the side of free will. People who fight for free will and for their own choices. People who are shaped by their choices.
Things That I Hate:
+ Plots that are hinged on idiocy. Basically, if the whole plot could be resolved in five seconds if people would just talk to each other, I start banging my head against the wall. This isn’t the same as people who are just really bad at verbalizing their emotions. That I like.
+ Cheating/adultery being romanticized or legitimized. Not okay. HATE HATE HATE.
+ Dialogue that’s too clever but is supposed to be realistic. I like it when people sound like people would in the circumstances they’re in. Keep their education levels, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. in mind, please, but don’t treat poor people like they’re idiots. They aren’t.
+ Characters that are supposed to be the “heart” of the group but really don’t actually contribute anything.
+ Too much explicit sex. Especially if it’s just about the sex. If you’re going to write a sex scene, make sure it actually tells me something about the emotional state of the characters and contributes to their development or the plot or something. Also, too much kink. Your kink is not necessarily my kink. Keep it to yourself. This is just how I am, sorry.
+ Soul mates, romantic destiny, etc. GROSS.
+ Sex treated too lightly. I like when it’s taken seriously and the repercussions are examined.
+ Breakups because of something manufactured. I’m not fond of breakups at all, but I absolutely hate it when I can tell the writer is just doing it for the ~DRAMA~. (Joss Whedon, I am looking at you.) My favorite kind of breakup (if I can be said to have one) is when two people realize they just aren’t headed in the same direction in life and sit down and talk like reasonable adults and respectfully move on.
+ To quotesnickfic once again, “Near misses: those ‘will she make it in time,’ ‘if he’d only gotten there sooner’ scenarios. That movie Serendipity? Hated it. Granted, this is much more an issue in movies/TV than in books.” Add to this scenarios in which both people have something to say, one says, “You first,” and the first person ruins what the other person had to say. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE.
+ Humiliation. Of any kind. Especially when the character is unaware that they’re being completely humiliated. I cannot watch The Office, okay?
+ Female characters who unrealistically physically kick ass. Buffy can kick ass--she has magical powers. I can totally believe Starbuck taking on Lee and winning. But if an average-sized woman goes up against an average sized man and they’re equally trained. Um, he’s probably going to win, since he’s bigger and stronger. And that’s okay. I’d greatly prefer it if the woman got out of that situation with either a weapon or through her intelligence.
+ Unrealistic recovery from wounds/battle. Yes, Buffy’s the Slayer, so she can take that hit and keep on going. But when Bruce Willis gets pummeled that badly? He’s not going to be able to hop up just fine. I really love it when writers acknowledge how long it actually takes to heal. Love that.
+ High school drama or hierarchies that aren’t either played broad or as metaphor. When they’re played straight, I cannot relate to one thing about them. My life was not like that.
+ Rape or questionable consent used just for dramatic effect, especially by male writers.
+ Fridging. SHUT IT DOWN.
+ Stories in which female characters or characters of color are there only to support the narratives of white men. Had enough of that for one lifetime, thank you very much, Eric Kripke.
+ Women who don’t have relationships with other women. Women who hate each other or are in competition for no reason.
snickfic's version and realized that we're the same person. But I never got around to it. Then I figured that since Yuletide is coming up, now is the best possible time to finish it up.So I'm putting this here for now, and no doubt I'll edit it now and then from here until forever as more of my favorite things and least favorite things come to mind.
Things That Work for Me
+ Complex characterization. The recognition that people have mixed motives for anything and everything they do and that everyone has a rich inner life, even if others don’t see it.
+ Location/setting as a character. Whether this means Mieville-level fantasy world building, the planet Arrakis being the main character in Dune (it so is, don’t even pretend like it’s not) or Mary Stewart or M.M. Kaye describing the beauty of the landscapes of Britain and India, respectively, I just love specific, unique locations, especially when the plot is rooted in them or deeply tied to them.
+ Deserts. I adore hot weather and fantasize about deserts. Movies like Lawrence of Arabia and The English Patient are like porn to me, and so is anything M.M. Kaye ever wrote. Heat. Sunshine. People lying in the sunshine and soaking it up--not to get tan (silly), but just to bask in the warmth like a cat (in case you can’t tell, Robin McKinley’s Sunshine made me really happy).
+ The South. Southern girl here, raised on Faulkner and obsessed with Welty, O’Connor, etc. But I don’t like stuff that that whitewashes or idealizes its problems, especially in the ante-bellum period. I’m very committed to social justice, so ignoring the problematic nature of a lot of Southern history is not okay with me. Basically, the South is a character as complex as any human. A quote to sum it all up: “Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” - “Mississippi” by William Faulkner
+ Hardy, hard-working people whose lives are never going to get better but who keep on carrying on. I love Appalachia and stories about miners. Break my heart, okay?
+ The past coming back for a visit. See also: Faulkner obsession. I love when people’s pasts catch up with them, as well as stories that have a profound recognition of the power of history, roots, family, blood relationships, etc.
+ Strong family relationships, especially sibling or cousin bonds. Also, parent/child relationships that have a lot of affection but in which the parents are still parents (see: Keith and Veronica Mars, the Taylor family of Friday Night Lights, etc.). Basically, I adore functional families that love each other and carry on despite everyone’s flaws. With lots of ups and downs and tension, but with a fundamental understanding that they’ll always be there for each other.
+ Marriage. Huuuuuge kink. Basically functional marriages, especially ones in which you never doubt their faithfulness to each other (cheating/adultery is easily one of my biggest squicks, and I hatehatehate above all things seeing it romanticized. I could enjoy a story that deals with the fallout of adultery in a real way, but how often do you see that?). Marriages that are partnerships, especially partnerships between people who are very different from each other yet make it work. Partnerships where they both always know they have each others’ backs.
+ Married people who fall in love. Marriages of convenience or that are arranged in which the spouses either hate each other, resent each other, or just don’t know each other and then slowly learn to love each other and form a real partnership.
+ Pregnancy. I’m fascinated by the workings of the body and the way in which your body changes during pregnancy. It becomes utterly different, and yet it’s utterly nature. Also, it’s dangerous but it brings forth life. How is that not fascinating? I ask you.
+ Complex dialogue or dialogue that’s really layered. When people are ostensibly talking about one thing, but they know (and the audience knows) they’re really talking about something else entirely. LOVE.
+ Banter/wittiness/snark. I love Wodehouse, Wilde, Sorkin, Whedon, etc. Put two people in a room and let them snark or banter and I will be your slave for life.
+ Apocalypses. Of any kind, though zombies in and of themselves don’t really interest me. All of humanity or civilization almost being destroyed or being destroyed and people trying to live in the aftermath of that. Post-apocalyptic anything is my bread and butter.
+ Survivalism. I have no interest in living primitively, but I love survivalist stuff. People stranded in the wilderness? People living in a destroyed city and trying to scrape by? THERE.
+ Competence. Especially in women. Women who just get things done. Teams made up of people who know their own roles and execute them wonderfully, while it all fits together into a larger plot (like the Ocean‘s movies, you know?). Basically, nothing in the world is sexier than someone who does something really, really well doing something really, really well. I also love it when something (especially something beyond their control) goes wrong and they have to scramble to fix it and pull it off because they are so good at what they do. Porn, I say.
+ People choosing to do the right thing even when it will hurt them or cost them dearly. Integrity at great personal cost.
+ To quote
snickfic: “Language and communication barriers, all variations: sign language, muteness, telepathy, language through song/math/fans/whatever.”+ Moments of grace between enemies or people who don’t know each other that well. Bulletproof kink. Bulletproof.
+ Enemies who respect each other.
+ Enemies becoming friends.
+ Enemies who fall in love.
+ Enemies who have to become allies. Well, really any kind of unlikely or unexpected alliance. Enemy-of-my-enemy kinds of things or like Chekohv says, “Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” Especially if they start off with only having that hatred in common and end up becoming more.
+ Small groups of very different kinds of people banding together for survival or to fight a common enemy. Nakama.
+ Women who know their physical limitations and don’t try to win physically through strength but do it instead through their wits/resourcefulness/expertise. See: Veronica Mars, Brenda Leigh Johnson, Kalinda Sharma, etc.
+ On the other hand, I like to watch girls kick ass, especially with guns. I am weird that way. See: Buffy Anne Summers, Sarah Connor, etc.
+ Things blowing up.
+ Inanimate objects that take on great sentimental value or meaning.
+ Profound platonic friendships between people of the opposite sex.
+ Profound platonic friendships between people of the same sex. Heterosexual life partners.
+ Profound platonic friendships period.
+ Groups of friends who are very close.
+ Mentorship relationships, especially between women.
+ Relationships between humans and animals, especially cats and horses.
+ Character-driven humor. Slapstick does nothing for me, and neither does potty humor. But something that’s rooted in character or in dialogue? Favorite.
+ Physicality. Saying things through body language without verbalizing them. Acknowledgements of the ways in which people relate to each other through the way they position themselves in relation to each other.
+ Redemption arcs. Bad people trying to be good and either succeeding or failing or hopefully both.
+ Good people who are interesting.
+ Bad guys who are complex--either they have a lot of love or really struggle with doing wrong or something like that.
+ Love, especially romantic love, that’s communicated in ways other than words or through words that don’t tacitly acknowledge love. Love through action. When someone knows that someone else loves them despite them never having said it. Subtle demonstrations of love.
+ Explorations of faith. All faiths, really, but I’m Christian so I especially like the Christian or Jewish faiths. Faith that isn’t rooted in hypocrisy but that is humble and very real. Faith that isn’t over the top and that doesn’t beat anyone over the head but that is just a part of life. Faith in darkness.
+ Explorations of a worldview that’s very different than that of the author’s but in which the author treats it with respect. See: Aaron Sorkin writing Bartlett’s Catholicism or Ainsley Hayes’s everything. Do not see: Joss Whedon writing Shepherd Book.
+ Old things. Ancient things.
+ Finding beauty in melancholy or light in darkness. Knowing you won’t win, but clinging to goodness anyway.
+ Hope. Especially when it’s small and fragile and threatens to go out at any moment but still manages to keep alight.
+ Grace that’s so unexpected and beautiful that it breaks your heart.
+ Angst. Things that make me cry.
+ Goodness that moves you to tears. Sacrifice, especially as evidence of love that asks for nothing in return.
+ Complex points of view. Shifting points of view. Giving lots of different points of view and letting the reader/viewer piece together the truth. (Did I mention I’m a Faulkner stan?)
+ Seasons. Especially summer and autumn.
+ Time and a very profound awareness of it.
+ Depictions of old people and children who are fully developed and human. Basically, acknowledging that they’re people with stories to tell, with stories that aren’t in front of them or behind them but are happening now.
+ Memory. Anything having to do with it--loss of it, rediscovery of it, variations in it. Anything.
+ Big, rambling houses, especially ones that have been passed down through generations and seem to have personalities of their own.
+ Hurt/comfort that manages not to be too schmoopy.
+ Flipped gender roles. Especially women who don’t easily display their emotions and men who do.
+ Constructed identities, identity crises.
+ Fantasy elements. Anything involving the supernatural. Science fiction in which the ideas are solid and serve the characters.
+ Good guys messing up and acknowledging their flaws. The character who disagrees with the hero but isn’t portrayed as wrong. Heroes being wrong, then having to live with it.
+ Intelligence. Smart characters. Skilled characters. Especially profound intelligence from people who aren’t traditionally depicted with it. (See: smart Southern women with accents, any smart black or Latin@ characters, people who seem like jocks but are really smart, etc.).
+ Racial diversity that isn’t token or simplistic or stereotypical. I especially love fantasy worlds based on traditions that aren’t European in nature.
+ Realistic depictions of neuroatypical people. This is really hard to find, but my favorite TV examples are Buffy’s clinical depression in Season 6.
+ Acknowledgments of or explorations of the kyriarchy. Favorite example: Kindred by Octavia Butler.
+ Explorations of the way that the patriarchy screws up both men and women.
+ Characters who are genuinely sweet and kind but that’s not all they are and they also have real opinions and strength. My favorite example is Annie from Being Human. I absolutely hate it when that sweetness and kindness is all in support of the male characters, though. I am not fond of Kaylee from Firefly because I don’t feel like she got developed enough to overcome the whole, “Oh, she’s the perfect woman! She’s sweet! And adorable! And talks about sex!” Seriously?
+ Explorations of free will and destiny. Especially if it comes down firmly on the side of free will. People who fight for free will and for their own choices. People who are shaped by their choices.
Things That I Hate:
+ Plots that are hinged on idiocy. Basically, if the whole plot could be resolved in five seconds if people would just talk to each other, I start banging my head against the wall. This isn’t the same as people who are just really bad at verbalizing their emotions. That I like.
+ Cheating/adultery being romanticized or legitimized. Not okay. HATE HATE HATE.
+ Dialogue that’s too clever but is supposed to be realistic. I like it when people sound like people would in the circumstances they’re in. Keep their education levels, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. in mind, please, but don’t treat poor people like they’re idiots. They aren’t.
+ Characters that are supposed to be the “heart” of the group but really don’t actually contribute anything.
+ Too much explicit sex. Especially if it’s just about the sex. If you’re going to write a sex scene, make sure it actually tells me something about the emotional state of the characters and contributes to their development or the plot or something. Also, too much kink. Your kink is not necessarily my kink. Keep it to yourself. This is just how I am, sorry.
+ Soul mates, romantic destiny, etc. GROSS.
+ Sex treated too lightly. I like when it’s taken seriously and the repercussions are examined.
+ Breakups because of something manufactured. I’m not fond of breakups at all, but I absolutely hate it when I can tell the writer is just doing it for the ~DRAMA~. (Joss Whedon, I am looking at you.) My favorite kind of breakup (if I can be said to have one) is when two people realize they just aren’t headed in the same direction in life and sit down and talk like reasonable adults and respectfully move on.
+ To quote
snickfic once again, “Near misses: those ‘will she make it in time,’ ‘if he’d only gotten there sooner’ scenarios. That movie Serendipity? Hated it. Granted, this is much more an issue in movies/TV than in books.” Add to this scenarios in which both people have something to say, one says, “You first,” and the first person ruins what the other person had to say. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE.+ Humiliation. Of any kind. Especially when the character is unaware that they’re being completely humiliated. I cannot watch The Office, okay?
+ Female characters who unrealistically physically kick ass. Buffy can kick ass--she has magical powers. I can totally believe Starbuck taking on Lee and winning. But if an average-sized woman goes up against an average sized man and they’re equally trained. Um, he’s probably going to win, since he’s bigger and stronger. And that’s okay. I’d greatly prefer it if the woman got out of that situation with either a weapon or through her intelligence.
+ Unrealistic recovery from wounds/battle. Yes, Buffy’s the Slayer, so she can take that hit and keep on going. But when Bruce Willis gets pummeled that badly? He’s not going to be able to hop up just fine. I really love it when writers acknowledge how long it actually takes to heal. Love that.
+ High school drama or hierarchies that aren’t either played broad or as metaphor. When they’re played straight, I cannot relate to one thing about them. My life was not like that.
+ Rape or questionable consent used just for dramatic effect, especially by male writers.
+ Fridging. SHUT IT DOWN.
+ Stories in which female characters or characters of color are there only to support the narratives of white men. Had enough of that for one lifetime, thank you very much, Eric Kripke.
+ Women who don’t have relationships with other women. Women who hate each other or are in competition for no reason.