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Some discourse running around about "humanization of monsters" but one thing I'd like to add is that I feel there's a certain lack of diversity when it comes to who gets to be a sympathetic, misunderstood, redeemable monster.
Basically, I want more women as such.
— Nov 04, 2025 07:58AM
Basically, I want more women as such.
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Nov 04, 2025 07:58AM
One thing I remember I think from a What The Force podcast episode is that, in stories, when we get a sympathetic monster, there's usually a man within to be found. Now, when women are the monsters, they tend to be a beauty outside but hide the monstrosity, their true nature, inside
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I want a gender-flipped monsterfucking, where the evil but redeemable beast/misunderstood monster/etc is a woman, and the tender, innocent, sweethearted beauty to gets to access the wounded human within is a guy
If I may start a train of recommendations, I'll start with the k-drama It's Okay To Not Be Okay. While the monstrosity is not fantastical/literal, it's very much a gender-flipped Beauty and Beast and I cannot emphasize enough how good it is
Also, please keep an eye on Wayne Kelley's (postedbygaslite on Twitter and BlueSky) books, 'Aspects Of The First'. Enemies to back-to-back battling badass lovers. She's not a Literal Monster, but as a villainous witch, she's treated as such, & gets to fall in love with the sweetest man that ever lived & be redeemed
