Same goal! Viva la lesbians!
Hi there, I'm Kat and I make Dungeon Delves:
Logline: Relatable ranting about tabletop roleplaying games.
Quote: "I got dice, I got snacks, I got my character sheet... I got my game face!" (Ep 85)
My series started out as a way to keep me drawing everyday. While making it I have thrown myself into the TTRPG community, and am always incredibly happy and humbled when people respond with how they relate to my content. This is important to me, because it helps show that the general feelings conveyed in the silly stories are universal, and not unique to any one gender. I try to focus on the light, funny moments of inclusivity that we can all come together and laugh about.
Logline: A popular "mean girl" has to protect the naïve new girl from her controlling, manipulative bad boy ex—and also her own lack of confidence.
Quote: "So sorry I'm not the good little follower you fell in love with. I know I can do better than you now, so that's what I'm doing. Must really hurt your ego, huh?"
The main protagonist, Pearl, starts out the story shy and naïve with little confidence, but she still has her own strength—she's kind, but also cautious and can be downright cunning. The story also deconstructs misogynistic YA romance tropes and tackles topics like confidence, self-worth, body image, and finding strength in "feminine" things like fashion and makeup that are usually dismissed as frivolous. Not to mention the importance of girls supporting girls!
For me, being a woman creator has never been unusual or a big deal. I have a background in fanfiction and platforms like Tumblr and Wattpad, which are all very female-dominated, so I never felt out of the norm. However, it's also always been important to me to have characters in my stories whose identities are underrepresented in fiction—or often poorly represented, as is the case with women and girls. I try to make a conscious decision to stay away from harmful tropes and worn-out archetypes or at least subvert or deconstruct them. Not even in an on-the-nose girl-power-smash-the-patriarchy way, but by treating strong women and capable girls as a completely natural thing, because in a truly equal world, such things should be normal and natural. I stand for equality, and those values always make their way into my writing, even if I don't usually call attention to it.
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Follow the Career of Catarina Suzuki as she breaks into the cutthroat Japanese pro boxing world! She'll have to navigate her new coach's family problems, her gym's crumbling reputation, and her own flaws to make a name for herself!
Quote: "I don't care how strong Sascha is... I'm not gonna lose my dream here!" - Catarina Suzuki, chapter 2, page 31!
I'm openly trans and lesbian, and I've tried making webcomics in the past, but before I knew I was a woman I could never get myself to work on them for long. Being a woman is as important to my writing on Catspaw, it's borne from my desire to see myself and other girls represented in sports action comics and manga! Comics tend to back away from being too "out there" with main characters, "Cat" is a mixed japanese/african american trans woman, but so is the singer Avu-Chan in real life! People aren't just one thing in real life, and boxing is a sport with a lot of potential for diversity. I want to give girls like me a comic that is a little different than the usual and I hope it inspires more girls to get into boxing too!
"Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be."
Sarcasm and wit from one of the most misrepresented figures in religion. "Mary" in Hebrew means "rebel" and much of what she said in the Bible is about social justice but Christianity basically locked her up, silenced her, and substituted a weak, weepy, and forever grieving docile mother figure (see episode 34 "Silencing Mary).
A lot of people, including girls and women, still believes and like to believe in the divine and they need women heroes.
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A young girl who lost money, her best friend and basically everything gets a scholarship in one of the top universities, makes new friends, and meets him again. But good fortune comes with a price, what price does she have to pay for it?
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From the prologue - "I'm a strong girl and I will not cry!"
Coming from a country where women are always portrayed as weaker than men it gets hard to establish your name out there. Ever since school, I have faced a lot of difficulties being a woman and always had a hard-luck in making friends. slowly and gradually I found a way to keep myself busy and that is through art.
My webcomic - 'Entangled' is the story of a girl who goes through a lot of stuff in her whole life. I just picked up random elements and incidents from my life and some common things women face in general to make this story! I just started all this to kill time and be happy with my own company but I met so many artists in this community, most of them are women and it gives me a sense of pride and I feel so happy to be a part of it.
thank you so much for the nomination! I don't think I qualify due to my main characters being male but it means so much that you would give a shout out to my story.
Burning Red6
Series logline: A mysterious girl needs to prove her will to become a soldier, while being challenged by the prejudice of commoners surrounding her hair. Will she gain trust and respect? Or is this prejudice based on solid ground rather than just a myth?
Quote: > I don't know what it takes but I'll give my all. And if I grow strong enough I could help others too.
(this is refering to Delia's will to enter the trainee program to become a soldier)
From a very young age I've been conditioned that women wrote romantic stories, or stories prevalently romantic because we are usually more "emotional" than men, while men wrote skillfully captivating and intriguing stories. I've also been told to stick to the romantic side because it would be easier for me to convey emotions.
However, growing up I've realized two things:
1. The authors who have written skillful and breathtaking stories I look up to are equally men and women.
2. Not only emotions are important, but one can tell when a romantic sidestory has been inserted "just because", so it isn't as easy as it seems.
I started working on Burning Red out of passion and of deep desire to bring this story to life, but if I can show these two realizations in the story as well it would be amazing.
I strongly believe anyone can improve their skill on storybuilding and plotting, and anyone can convey emotions if they stay true to themselves and the message they want to pass on the world.
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Don't mess with the old lady.
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This is a comedy picturing a strong woman (an old lady) teaching good manners.
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I'm proud to be a female creator. I have seen a lot of movies and comics made by men and for men. So I decided to create series that I personally as a woman would like to read. A story focusing on a charismatic old lady teaching good manners.
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After a successful coup dethrones the emperor, Albus has to save his father and reclaim their empire from the power-hungry witch warrior Irene. But with just him and his bodyguard Styrka against the entire force of the empire, how can they hope to stand a chance? And what was the real reason for the coup in the first place?
A heartfelt fantasy story about sticking together through hardships and being better than you were yesterday.
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"It gets old after a while, being told to take young girls form their homes. I guess that was my wake up call."
I've always loved redaing fantasy and action books, and now I'm lucky to be creating my own story, which has everything I've ever loved, but it caters to me specifically. I can have as many kick-ass females as I want, lgbt+ representation, explore non-romantic male-female relationships... It's really great. I love the freedom of just being able to post my stories, and I get so excited whenever someone reads it and enjoys what I made!
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Follow 23-year-old mage Junah on her adventure of discovery and independence alongside her assigned partner Kaelen, a wizard of sorts, at the Institute or Mystical, Magical, & Mythical Arts located at the Heart of Lufiriya; a magical mashup of beings, cultures, and lifestyles trying to coexist in one nation.
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"One size fits all you say? Nothing that ever says that means that." - Junah
Applies in life and clothes!
What making MagicalMashup! means to me:
Growing up as a fat black gal who loves fantasy/sci-fi and fiction in general, I NEVER got to see characters that resembled me as story leads or as the focus of fantastically illustrated works of art. It was hard enough to find black characters, let alone black women, and then add on plus-size/fat... GOOD LUCK. It used to be that finding any two of the 3 parts would elate me no matter how minor the role she was, but hanging on scaps isn't enough to feed the hunger I had for characters that I could relate to on a physical level.
Once I started taking my art seriously, I noticed the impact of how not seeing myself in the media I consumed affected my art. This took years and is in no small part thanks to the beautiful depictions of all kinds of women just existing in Sophie Campbell's art and comics that made me feel seen and excited. Thanks to Sophies's art /comics as well as encouragement from my loved ones, I started to draw characters based on the people around me and stopped trying to mimic the atypical looks of women presented to me by the genres I loved. I drew tall gals, fat gals, muscular gals, nonbinary/gender conforming folks, and just really fell in love with the beauty of creating with diversity and an open mind.
Once I finally started to see more media featuring BIPOC fat/plus-sized folks in comics and on tv, they were side-characters, joke-characters, or meant to be villains. I love Ursula as much as the next big gal, but It hurt that the commutative amount of reps for gals like me always fell into the negative side of life with being destined to fail and be unhappy or just be a never-ending joke. It sucked because I'm a person just like anyone else, so why couldn't I have stories like everyone else?
Sure I'm fat, but there's more to me than just that and I want to see more stories that have fat and nonatypical-looking gals existing in leading roles. It has taken a while for me to get here, but I'm finally here and I get to be part of the solution that addresses the problem of representation for BIPOC women with non-typical body types getting to be depicted as people who can be desired, have a life outside their waistline, and who gets to be the focus in their own stories and depictions in art/comics.
Lady T.
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During the golden era of prohibition, a talented contract killer crosses paths with an ambitious mafia boss. Their combined forces have the power to bring the city to its knees. But first, they have to learn to trust each other or risk destruction.
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"Mistakes are prohibited, mistakes get you killed."
I am a woman, however I don't like to be reduced by my gender. Not because I'm ashamed of it but because everyone has the right to be treated equally regardless of their gender, skin color or sexual orientation.
Therefore, although the story follows the footsteps of a woman, I try covering sensitive topics that affect all genders equally , such as depression, racism, abuse in their various forms.
I want to place my characters in difficult situations and show how even seemingly small decisions can change everything.
Eory is a fairy prince locked in a tower. Pollyanna is an invincible warrior-maiden who has guarded his family for two centuries, on her way to rescue him. She is a woman who has given her womanhood--her personhood--to become a sword, because to her, being strong is everything, and being a sword means she no longer has to remember her own weakness in the past. Meeting up with Eory, however--a particularly feminine young man--has reminded her that she is a woman, and has unearthed the pain and pleasures of being a woman--and moreover, the pain and pleasures of being human.
"The point of having children is so they can carry on your legacy. I can’t die and I can’t have children. I am my own legacy."
Well, I really don't think being a woman makes me special in any sort of way. I certainly do enjoy stories that are told from different perspectives; I think both men and women bring unique and beautiful things to the table when they create. I think one thing that I like to do with my writing, however, is champion traditional female traits in my work. I like to uplift women by embracing traits like openness and agreeableness and sensitivity by portraying them as admirable traits that make women happy. I also like to highlight some of the challenges women tend to face in their lives, such as: Choosing a family or a career, rising above mental illness since women are statistically a little more prone to it, and what happiness means for different types of ladies. I suppose what it means to me is bringing a soft, feminine slant to storytelling, and being able to share my stories through the webnovel platform since I know that traditional publishing would never have them since they are weird. XD
This is fun! I wish we had a men's history month~! I'd love to see what they would have to say, too~!
Series: https://tapas.io/series/Draygon-Frost/info2
Logline: In order to save her world, she may have to burn it down first.
Quote: Bidding her time meant they wouldn’t know the hellfire ready to rain down upon them.
Siobhan in Draygon Frost and the sequel Draygon Inferno is probably my favorite character I've ever written. To me as a woman, a strong female character isn't just one that can kick as and needs no help to do it. A strong female character is also lost, scared, vulnerable, and everything in between. As a creator, it's important to me that each of my characters are relatable. Siobhan's story arch in the two Draygon books thus far has been a real treat for me to watch as her creator and I hope that my readers can equally enjoy her growth. She starts off acting as if she needs nobody but herself. As her journey goes on her insecurities, her fear, and honestly the loneliness she's felt since being exiled from her kingdom all start to break through of her tough facade. In the end, she's strong, she can fight with any man, but she also knows that she can't do everything alone and it's okay to ask for help.
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Tonx, an ex-boxer and recluse tries to overcome her own personal demons brought on by her past fame while also dealing with every day misadventures with her group of friends, finding that life is still worth enjoying if she is able to get her ass off the sofa and stay open to others.
3) A Quote From episode 21 (excuse the terrible art, this was some time ago)
4) What creating means to me
Creating this comic means a lot to me as a woman. The main inspirations for the comic is a mix of 'Daria' and 'Bojack Horseman', my two favourite shows of all time. But it made me realise how little there is for women when it comes to the ideas of self-worth, identity and celebrating femininity. The majority of media is male dominated and I find it difficult to find main characters as compelling as Bojack Horseman, Walter White etc who are female, aside from Daria, in my opinion of course, feel free to disagree with me.
Creating this webcomic has had an amazing effect on me since I started it a year ago. The main duo, Tonx and Fife have a strong womance and the comic itself focuses primarily on the pair. Over the last few months I have rebooted the comic to contain more of a story-line (and improved art) where I plan to give spotlight several other themes. Tonx is a female who spent a good chunk of her life in the very masculine field of boxing so struggles to be in touch with her femininity as opposed to her friend Fife who is comfortable with her femininity and encourages Tonx to embrace it. I will dip more into the LGBTQ plus community as well as the comic goes on. I'm just very happy to be making this comic, it has helped me grow and realise things about myself that I never thought about. It's been a huge comfort through some difficult times for me and I'm excited to continue it
https://tapas.io/series/Project-Infinity4
2 - Kidnapped during WW2, Patient Zero was on the receiving end of inhumane experimentation for decades, but after being rescued by Captain Harvey he has a chance at freedom. A chance at finding love and happiness in a world he no longer recognizes.
3 - His tears flowed freely as he sobbed into my chest. I ran my fingers through his hair in an attempt to comfort him.
"Who did this to you?"
4 - Writing has always been an outlet for me. As a woman I always felt I had to meet the standards of society, but as a queer, Non-Binary, dominant type, that was never going to happen. I love to write queer stories about people who don't fit the standards and boyslove has always been my favorite. So even though I'm a woman I write about men loving men, because that's what I like. And I write for myself and am so happy to have a place where I can share my passion projects with others.
Hi! I Love this so much~
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Angiris is a 13 year-old girl from Cloveridge City.
One day, on her way home from school a strange looking creature kidnapped her and took her to another dimension.
A curse was set upon Miraclewish a long time ago. And Angiris was told to be 'the chosen' and that she had to find the way to break the curse to free the people living in there.
"We all used to be humans here...but they just don't remember it." - Bjorn
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"I will free you from this curse, I promise! I won't back down, no matter what happens! I...I can do this!" - Angiris
4) I've always loved coming up with interesting characters and fun stories. It's something I've done since I was younger. But never got the courage to do so, until now.
I think every woman feels a little scared at first when doing anything that can be seen as 'un-ladylike' but, if people are going to criticize you anyways then you better do what you love the most!
This is something I love and I put my heart in every project I start. I won't let anything get in the way of my dreams. 'Prove them wrong!' is a quote I use a lot whenever I doubt myself to keep on going~
I believe you should be able to do whatever you want to do, no matter your gender. Follow your dreams and keep on moving! Nobody can tell you that you are not worthy of it!
This story is about a powerful pirate captain who sales the atlantic. She goes by the name of White Wren and many fear her. One day a stranger is found aboard the captain's ship, does this stranger have what it takes to soften the Captain's heart?
White Wren gets into trouble often, luckily she has a trusty first mate by the name of Nico. They have been best friends since their young teenage years. They comfort each other through the difficult times and learn to understand one another as they go on many adventures."It's alright Lovely, I've always had a resilient body. No slash of a blade will stop me!"
Honestly, before now I never really thought of being a woman as being something different. However, I realized while thinking of what to tell of my experience of being a woman that I'm actually truly lucky to be who I am today. Being a female in this world is something that is challenging to explain. I just know that I'm grateful for the life I have lived and experiences I have been given as a woman in this community. And with those experiences, came inspiration for all of my stories. With these experiences I've learned that a woman should be free to take any path she chooses. Free to be anything she wants. And that is the biggest thought behind my novel and many other stories I have yet to publish. Thank you for giving me a chance to tell you what being a woman and a writer means to me.
-My story is about Harriet Malloy, who is fated by the cards to bring death and destruction wherever she goes. But, at the end of her rope, she is given a chance for a do-over in a different dimension where no one knows what her fate was. In this place she finds a cousin who didn't exist in her previous world: Gordy Harrison, who like her has a terrible fate--but his is to save the world instead of end it. Naturally, she saw herself in his plight and decided to jailbreak him out of school so they could rediscover who they are underneath the cards they were given. What she didn't know, is that most of the world is trying to kill him.
-“Stop it!” Harriet stood up and put her arms in her jacket with all of her fury. “You always have to analyze me. You always have to put some name on me. I'm tired of being all of your names!”
-Growing up I was always attracted to stories that had smart and powerful women which were by women. I think we were all inspired by characters who were good, and kind, and still held strong despite what everyone else tells them to be. Maybe they held a sword, maybe they only held a hand, but writing strong female characters whether in action stories or realistic stories is a joy. Often the standards of "how to write women" are based on comparison to male stereotypes and cliches, with little research or care. But when you write your own story, you can glean from your own life and the lives of women around you--creating a person who feels real and unique. Writing in an online space means you get to write the way you want it to be written.
Logline: A young working-class janitor gets thrown into a world that is remarkably different--yet eerily the same--to his own world.
Quote: "I don't know if risking my life is worth it. But I know that it's possible, and besides, it's better than doing nothing." -Olivia Obiero, page 184
I started An Untold World over three years ago, when I was just 13. I dealt with a lot of internalized misogyny at the time. You can see it in the earlier chapters of my work, with me portraying the leading woman characters as hysterical and mean. However, as I came to terms with my own biases and became more aware of the world's flaws around me, my comic morphed into something much, much more meaningful to me, and I put some of my thoughts and philosophies into my story. I also noticed that much of the media I consumed was portraying women as vapid or shallow in some way. The nice girls in indie romance movies only existed to further the development of the guys, the "strong" female characters were one-dimensional "I don't need a man" archetypes who tore down feminine girls, and whenever there was a multi-faceted male villain in a story, he was sympathized with while female villains were portrayed as purely evil and umsympathetic. I was able to identify some troubling parts in my comic and revise them, for example, the "Chosen One" trope that was emerging in An Untold World in the earlier days. So now I'm trying to make it so that every main character gets a good amount of agency and development in the story. Though my protagonist is a man, I want An Untold World to be an oppurtunity for me to portray female characters as they really are; people. So in short, being a comic creator who is a girl means I get to create women's stories that I want to see.
