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So you may not know this, if you're a first-time reader here, but I'm Canadian. As such, I'm pretty invested in our film and TV industry, which is a place with a lot of ups and downs. Sure we produced Hayden Christensen (and we are so, so sorry) but we also make some damn fine TV! Corner Gas, for instance, is an excellent Canadian TV show. So is Lost Girl. And then you've got our brand-new World War II drama, Bomb Girls, which- and I say this without exaggeration- is one of the best period dramas I've seen some out of the last few years.

( Okay, so what's it about? )

Because I'm producing a startling amount of writing thus far this year, and since it's scattered all over the web, I'll never be able to keep track of it all unless I keep a list. So!

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Dear Yuletide Writer,

First, thank you so much for writing for me! This is my third year doing Yuletide, and I’ve had a blast every year previous with both my assignment and my gift, so don’t feel too much pressure- the best part is sharing the fandom love. That said, here’s my wishlist:

( Newsies (stage), The Lions of Al-Rassan, and Stones )

Okay, so GLAAD just put out a list of queer characters currently on American television (not Canadian or British, hence why you might not see some characters) and formatted them as a list of who was a lead, supporting, recurring, etc, and split it up between cable and broadcast TV. I found it slightly confusing to scroll through and try to figure out why was bisexual, gay, lesbian, etc, and how to tell how many gay characters were leads as opposed to lesbian, how it varied by race, etc. So I made the ill-advised decision to sort the list by race and orientation and number them all. God help me.

( The List )

First off, let's set the stage:







( Do Want versus Do Not Want: what I love and what I don't in fiction )

I originally wrote this up after a conversation on Tumblr about the women of Angel (specifically Fred, but it could pretty much apply to any credited female character on the show, SO) and a joke about how "when joss opens his fridge how can he see past the corpses of women he stuffed in there?" This started out as a list of just fridgings, but then eleusis_walks pointed out that not all of Joss's dead women are fridging victims, and I figured it'd be more comprehensive to just list all of the dead women in his shows. This list isn't complete; I haven;t watched Buffy yet (it's next on my list) so I'm probably missing a few names. If you spot any holes, feel free to point them out.

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