“I Don’t Hate This Female Character, I Only Hate The Lazy Writing and Shallow Male-Based Wish Fulfillment That Went Into Her”, an increasingly frustrated ongoing novel.
i know someone probably makes this addition to this post every now and then but it is cycling through my dash again and i’m just here to remind everyone that badly written female characters deserve the same kind of painstaking, loving headcanoning and analyzing than your 2-minutes-of-screentime male faves do. if the writing is lazy, fix them with the same amount of dedication background male characters are given. if she has a bad story, rewrite it in 50k fics like u do for yr male faves with no lines, fandom is transformative, you have the power to make those female characters the best characters there are. try it, it’s quick, it’s easy, it’s free
also, slightly off topic but i think relevant: there’s plenty of legitimately well-written female characters who fandom sexists brush off or excuse their hate for by claiming ~they’re just badly written. please actually consider whether that female character you’re bemoaning for being Alas, Just Lazily Written is actually all that lazily written, or you’re just not, for whatever reason, getting it.