You want it darker?

My motto in life at this point is "The world needs more Byronic women, dammit." So I made this playlist to try to catch the vibes of what I mean. It's a surprisingly subtle thing with these characters that I am always excited when I stumble upon, that I try to write in my own work, and that sometimes I will try to retrofit an underdeveloped existing character into in my fanworks. Not a victim, not a vamp -- has shades of both maybe, but is so much more. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. A swaggering bitch. Proud, moody, and cynical with defiance on her brow and vengeance in her heart. Tempestuous and independent, hard to love and even harder to know. I just think women in fiction should be allowed to be selfish and arrogant and fractious and just all-around shithouse human beings, but in a way that is complex and sympathetic and darkly alluring and evocative of the human condition as a whole.


In other news, I've been writing.