Yes, I fixed the title but couldn’t be bothered to fix the actual map. One is easier to do than the other?

My biggest headcanon is easily that Sam and Jack totally got married in Vegas between seasons eight and nine of SG-1 when Sam was working at Area 51. Also, Janet got better after the time screwiness of Continuum – whose to say that the timeline is exactly the same?

For Warehouse 13, the Regents shipped HG Wells off to the Sanctuary at the end of season two cuz Helen and Tesla threw fits about being left in the dark about her debronzing. Will’s psychiatrist powers and Helen’s blood (if it does suppress John’s crazy – idk, the show retcons itself and I get the webisodes mixed up with the series proper all the time) made HG better. Myka, of course, was recruited by Helen and now she and HG hunt monsters instead of artefacts and have lots of sex.

Speaking of Sanctuary, The Five? Totally engaged in group sex. Multiple times. Also, Helen has slept with most important historical figures.

Rose and human!Ten had a rough start of their relationship until they grew a TARDIS and went on adventures in Pete’s World Universe.

Also, Christina de Souza and Sophie Devereaux are distantly related and Christina kinda idolises Sophie.

Seven dumped Chakotay shortly after arriving on Earth and she ends up hanging out with Janeway a lot. Depending on my mood, sex occurs.

Xena didn’t stay dead. Her and Gabrielle had lots of sex. (Okay, so my slash goggles are on tight enough to believe that the second sentence is canon for reals.)

Kim and Shego? They met up a few years after the series ended and hit it off. Kim and Ron’s breakup was mutual and took place shortly after graduating high school and going to separate colleges – turns out that long distance relationships were one of the few things not possible for a Possible.

Speaking of cartoons and college, Daria and Jane realised that their friendship ran a little deeper than either quite expected. College experimentation was enlightening and Jane revised her belief that she wasn’t bi.

Huh. I didn’t realise just how many of my headcanons involved femslash. It really shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise, though.

As for why fanfic?  It’s easier to summarise in a couple of sentences.  No need to explain who and where, just what and why.  Also, I want to be writing my fucking comic and not novelling atm – it’s time for my yearly post-NaNo-you-suck-at-life depression.

It should go without saying that everything on this list is a WIP and that the longer the length is, the less likely I am to write it.

The fandoms, if you’re interested, are Castle, Gargoyles, Criminal Minds, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary and Lost Girl.  Every single fic but one (a Castle fic) listed is a crossover.  Yeah, idk, I’m on a crossover kick as of late?

Title:  What Rick Saw
Fandom:  Castle
Characters:  Castle, Beckett, possibly Alexis, Lanie and Martha
Ship:  I… really don’t know.  Castle/Beckett UST goes without saying (you can’t write Castle/Beckett without the UST, of course) but I won’t know if it gets resolved until I write it.
Length:  One shot
Summary:  Set right after Kate’s apartment goes boom and she’s staying at Castle’s.  In short, Castle finds out that Kate’s been writing fic.  I suspect that she freaks out and flees to Lanie’s, which just shapes it up to be a series of one shots, which is SO LAME and hard to read on FF.Net.  Ugh.

Fandom: Castle and Gargoyles
Characters: idk, everyone in Castle?  Well, maybe less of Martha and Alexis.  Manhattan Clan, Xanatos, Fox, Alex, probably Demona and MacBeth because I loves those two.
Ship: Castle/Beckett UST, Goliath/Elisa, Fox/Xanatos, maybe Demona/MacBeth shiptease if they’re there?
Length: Probably really fucking long
Summary: A series of animal maulings, one of which takes place in Beckett’s jurisdiction, cause Beckett and Castle to unintentionally meet the Manhattan Clan.  Elisa and Beckett already know each other.  Semi AU by necessity - the gargoyles aren’t public knowledge, though there were those rumours over a decade ago….

Fandom: Castle and Criminal Minds
Characters: Everyone.  Including JJ.  Will likely be focused on Castle, Beckett, Rossi, Prentiss and Hotch due to my own unabashed character preferences.
Ship: Nothing, apart from the requisite Castle/Beckett UST.  And probably a few shipteases for Hotch/Rossi/Prentiss (any and all combinations) since I (sorta) ship it.
Length: Long.
Summary: Serial killer in NYC (again… for both shows).  Castle calls up Rossi (hey, they’re both authors with a plethora of ex wives!) with a slew of questions and Rossi being Rossi knows that it’s not book research and gets the team on the plane.  Beckett probably fangirls Rossi, much to Castle’s annoyance.
Note: I wanted to write this before any info about the (awesome) Castle two parter last season.  So, yeah, the show itself beat me to the punch and I dislike writing things that I know other people have already written.  Unless they did it horribly.

Fandom: Warehouse 13 and Sanctuary
Characters: HG, Helen, Tesla.  Probably Watson (cuz I love him) and maybe some Griffon too
Ship: It has Tesla.  C’mon, he’s going to be hitting on Helen and HG.  And it’s me – I’m going to be putting some Helen/HG in.
Length: Short.  Probably not a one shot.  Most likely a series of one shots a la the Castle fics.
Summary: Uh, hullo?  I think it’s obvious – HG, Helen and Tesla science (and possibly sex) it up in Warehouse 12 and the original Sanctuary.

Fandom: Warehouse 13 and Sanctuary
Characters: Myka, HG and the main Sanctuary gang (and maybe some Tesla)
Ship: Myka/HG.  Probably HG/Helen UST.  Ish.  They’d've been involved back in the WH12 days.
Length: Long.
Summary: The Regents shipped off HG to the one place where she could be contained (and uncrazied) – Helen’s Sanctuary.  Helen is epic pissed that she wasn’t informed that HG was debronzed, HG is omg Helen’s ALIVE wtffff?, an enraged Myka hunts HG down.

Fandom: Lost Girl and Sanctuary
Characters: Everyone
Ship: Uhhh… none, really
Length: Not a clue.  Probably long.
Summary: AU – Helen gets at Bo before the Fae do.  Madness ensues and the two worlds clash, turning Helen’s world upside down.  Big Foot a spy for the Light (redemption for his un-Light-ish human tormenting), Helen angsts.  The Fae call out Helen for calling them Abnormals, Helen angsts.  Tesla learns that he wasn’t the last vampire, Tesla angsts.  Turns out that Helen’s Sanctuary network is little more than a prison/exile for the undesirable Light and Dark Fae.  Helen angsts.

Buuut I’ll put it under a cut cuz I really hate uncut long articles on blogs.

• House – I’m pretttty sure the perma-stubble gives away the gender of the lead character
• Chuck – The last time I checked, Sarah wasn’t the lead character
• Castle – Third show in a row to be named after the male lead? Niiiice Nikki, niiice.
• The Big Bang Theory – One female character in the regular cast. ’nuff said.
• Fringe – I’m not sure on this one… Olivia is sorta the main character, but Walter steals the screen and Peter is almost as important as Olivia.  It is a bit too ensemble-y with the three leads to really count as a female lead. Getting close, though!
• Criminal Minds – This show has not one, but two male leads
• Bones – Brennan and Booth are equally important, as seen by the title screen with both Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in the most equal manner possible
• Eleventh Hour – Canceled, yes, but Rufus Sewell (aka, the male lead) is yummy enough for me to watch the show again… and again… and again…. Oh, the science is great too.
• Sanctuary – Amanda Tapping!
• Eureka – Male lead. But, wut wut, the not-Tony-Stark character is on the screen?  Get that sheriff outta my line of sight!
• Stargate SG-1 – While Sam Carter should have been the lead character after Richard Dean Anderson left the show, it was not to be.
• Stargate Atlantis – Ultimately, John Sheppard is the lead character of this series… though Elizabeth Weir and Sam Carter lead the expedition for four seasons and (Meredith) Rodney McKay stole the show with awesomeness.
• Star Trek: TOS, TNG, ENT – Combined cuz I’m lazy and, well, the Captain is male. ’nuff said.  (DS9 is excluded simply because I haven’t had a chance to watch that series yet.)
• Star Trek: Voyager – Honestly?  I find most of the male characters rather boring. But, yay, short redheaded female captains ftw!
• The X-Files – C’mon, there are only two main-main characters (what? I need to separate M+S from Skinner, Reyes and Doggett somehow) and they share the lead pretty well – whilst Mulder will run off without Scully, the weird stuff tends to happen to her, not him.
• Warehouse 13 – It’s in the vein of The X-Files and Bones so Myka and Pete are co-main characters, I guess
• Defying Gravity – Ensemble cast, but the two leaders of the expedition are male

So, yeah, long story short?  There generally aren’t any clearly dominant female leads in the stuff I watch.  This also applies to novels (unless they were written for women), but I’m not going to make a massive list of that because A) I’ve read way too many books in my life time and B) I don’t even remember all the names or the authors of most of the books I’ve read.

And I’m not going to bother listing comics because those are written for men and I expect the lead characters to be male and I half expect that the female characters are going to suck.  Some of them don’t, but I find that male writers tend to have women that are just… weird.  They don’t seem like they’re people, y’know?  Not that I’m dissing male writers – the opposite definitely holds true for female writers.  Seriously, read any yaoi recently?  Half of the time one or both of the characters take on a distinctly feminine feel.  And that’s even in fanfic where the character isn’t canonically girly.

Again, the opposite often is true for men writing femslash.

Naturally, I began wondering why it is this way and, wellll, beyond the ‘women/men can’t write men/women’, I haven’t come up with a good reason.  Of course, I’ve come up with reasons, but my idealistic self doesn’t want them to be true and my feminist self doesn’t believe that they’re good reasons.

Simply put, my other reasons all involve sexism – too many male writers/producers/executives that all believe that men could never relate to a female character.  And, thus, for whatever reason they have decided that lead characters must be male because either A) women don’t count (from a marketers standpoint, that’s technically true since, in some workplaces, women still make a lower salary than men.  Add in the fact that it still seems to be women who leave the workforce to raise children and you have a definite skew towards men making, and thus spending, more money.  Thus, you’d want men to be watching the show and commercials and, thus, buying stuff) or, B) they feel that women can relate to men (or throw in a secondary female character for women to relate to).

Yeah.

You can see why I hope that I’m not right.

For interests of full disclosure, I’m kind of guilty of this as well – my lead characters tend to be female and, in the story that still only has a WIP name (currently Forced Fate), my two main characters are both female and, of my three secondary characters, two are male.  Not a very gender balanced cast, but I’d rather have the cast skewed in one direction over it being dead even because casts with exactly as many women as there are men often seem a little bit contrived.  It can be done, but I don’t think I could pull it off.

Besides, I don’t think about that sort of thing while writing – I just come up with characters and put them together.  If they happen to be male, fine by me.  It really does not make a difference to me.

And, perhaps, that’s just how tv is written as well.

But I doubt it.