What do you look for in a story on this site?

I like stories where the superwoman is enjoying her powers rather than focusing on how miserable she is making everybody else. That tends to turn me off on power transfer stories and evil superwoman stories, although not entirely - sometimes those work if they don't linger too much on the misery of the non-super characters.

Stories that actually have story to them have a lot more appeal to me as well - just a superwoman slice of life story tends to get old, although it can work in a vignette format where you're just seeing a scene or two.

Finally, pettiness just annoys me. There is no reason why a happy superwoman should waste her attention on some elaborate or obsessive revenge on some guy who didn't ask her out on a date or whatever - just vaporize him and move on. Ordinary mortals are essentially insects - squash them and forget about them if you really feel the need to get revenge.

Big, badass fight sequences.

An in-depth description of scenes goes a long way. Someone who can write scenes and then re-wind and re-write to improve the depth. It has to be said, Conceptfan is, of course, right up there with writing some great scene descriptions.
I remember him saying, tell the story as if you are speaking the narrative to someone face-to-face in a bar.
All The Best CF!

On the one hand, my wishes in a story are quite shallow. 

• It must be centered around a hot girl (or a girl who suddenly became hot by some surge of power)
• She must have superpowers in the sense that she is able to single-handedly subjugate the entire planet.
• Her ambition MUST be to subjugate the entire planet.
• And, above all, she must be evil. Very, very evil.

With that being said, these elements are only able to push my buttons if they are integrated into a well-crafted story with decent character development, engaging plot movement and dialogue.
A story becomes a page-turner for me when the author manages to uphold some hope throughout the story that despite all the struggles and despair the girl in question WILL become all-powerful and unstoppable in the end.
And I like long stories. Very, very long stories. Like Game of Thrones long, with an unending amount of chapters. I rarely read short stories and almost always hit the ‘multiple chapter' section. And even these are far too short for my taste.

Like

Relatively ‘nice’ girls.
They don’t have to all be heroesand could even be thieves or similar but ultimately I prefer to read about
someone who I would actually like to meet not some evil vindictive monster.

Displays of super strength.
Other powers can be cool butultimately if a woman can’t lift a car overhead with ease then she’s not that
inserting to me.

Height, muscle and breast growth.
My original interestwas in female muscle growth and I still find the idea of a 7’ tall muscle-bound
incredibly busty (and preferably red haired) superwoman to some short skinny
blond.

Pleasant, relatively competent male leads. 
I like reading stories where the male characters(at last the main ones on the ‘good’ side) are polite, mature and sympathetic
people rather than arrogant brutes. It’s also a bonus if they are able to support
the superwomen in the story, either technically or even just being someone to
talk to.

Any stories staring celebrities or characters that I amalready fond off.
Fairly obviously, if I already like someone such as Mary Janefrom Spiderman or Karen Gillan then the idea of a super powered version is even
more exiting.


Dislikes

Extreme gore or violence.
Paragraphs describing ingraphic detail a superwoman brutally torturing and murdering everyone that
crosses their path turn me right off.

Excessive and unjustified violence.
A character crushingtheir cheating ex boyfriend’s car into a cube and leaving him hanging from a
flagpole by his underwear is interesting, one who wipes out an entire town
because someone looks at her the wrong way is not.

Characters who are excessively powerful.
This is probablymy most controversial comment but once a character becomes too powerful most
stories just become boring. The level varies a little depending on setting (if
it’s a comic book setting then a character several times stronger than
superman/the hulk is to be expected) but if it gets to the supergoddess level I
tend to lose interest.

Not going to lie, I look for stories where women use their powers for evil and/or selfish purposes. Women using their powers for good is a bit too predictable and common.

I can definitely see where you’re coming from and do agree. I just think that in most forms of media, when women are super powered, they use their abilities for good. In instances where the main character uses their abilities for evil/selfish purposes, the character is male. Women using their abilities for evil seem to take more of a secondary role or have limited screen time. Which is why we’re lucky to have a site such as this.

somedude1 wrote: I can definitely see where you’re coming from and do agree. I just think that in most forms of media, when women are super powered, they use their abilities for good. In instances where the main character uses their abilities for evil/selfish purposes, the character is male. Women using their abilities for evil seem to take more of a secondary role or have limited screen time. Which is why we’re lucky to have a site such as this.

Is this really the "secret sauce" of SWM? The one place in the universe where evil/selfish superpowered women can shine, without apology?  

Shadar

Is this really the "secret sauce" of SWM? The one place in the universe where evil/selfish superpowered women can shine, without apology?  
Shadar

I thought the secret sauce was celebrating all tastes and all kinds of superwomen good, bad and everything in between.  Giving a platform to content-creators and fans of all flavours of superwomen.  That and an unwritten agreement that you just let other people enjoy the stuff that doesn't interest/excite/amuse/arouse you and engage with the stuff that does.

Amen! There’s a whole lot of everything here. If you can’t find something that you like, you are not trying hard enough.

conceptfan wrote: I thought the secret sauce was celebrating all tastes and all kinds of superwomen good, bad and everything in between.  Giving a platform to content-creators and fans of all flavours of superwomen.  That and an unwritten agreement that you just let other people enjoy the stuff that doesn't interest/excite/amuse/arouse you and engage with the stuff that does.
 

yes, Amen to that!

I look for excitement. Usually it means some dispute between characters over power. I prefer more realistic scnearios rather than futuristic or alien ones, though alien technogies are often a welcome empowering resource.