Guidelines

## Rules

1. Please only edit in good faith. That means only making changes that you believe will improve the wiki or a page's information about a character.
2. Try to make a discussion post about characters that you think should be added and get the character approved by an administrator before making a page. It's not the end of the world if you make a page without previously getting that character approved, and the admins will discuss whether the character is a sexywoman regardless, but if you make a discussion post prior to page creation, that means that if your character doesn't get approved you won't have a page you've written deleted.
3. Please refer to the Forbidden Characters page before making a request for character approval or creating a page.
4. The initial penalty for vandalism is having edits and account creation prohibited for 1 week. If disruptive behavior continues, you may have your account and IP address permanently blocked from editing.

## Help to Properly Assess Sexywoman Potential

### What is a Tumblr Sexywoman?

To quote the Sexywomanpedia, "a sexywoman, in the context of this document, is a character who shows the 'lanky suitman villain' tropes, is popular with wlw, and/or is highly divisive. Basically, think Vriska." This sounds simple on paper, but in reality they're a bit harder to define because they're a less common archetype. Even the tried and true "people are attracted to [x]" "PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO X!?" test doesn't work because, unlike their male counterparts, tumblr sexywomen can be conventionally attractive and still qualify as a sexywoman. As a result, trying to determine if a character is a sexywoman is more just. Checking the vibe than anything. Even the size of the fan reaction is a smaller gap to clear because, to quote the Sexywomanpedia again, "plenty of characters on this list don’t actually have much of a following — this is a less common archetype, I had to do some barrel scraping."

So! With that in mind, here are some helpful tips on how to determine if the character you have in mind is a tumblr sexywoman.

### Fantastic Sexywomen and Where to Find Them

***Are They Fictional?*** Which is to say, real people or real people-adjacent characters cannot be sexywomen, no matter how hard you want it. This is less a qualifier and more a rule, but I put it here since it's more relevant to the page-making process. If they're not a real person or uncomfortably blur the lines, then you just have to check with the next two.

***Do they fit the tropes?*** Take a look around this wiki if you need some examples. Be brutally honest with yourself on this one - if they only fit one or two tropes, or the tropes they do fit require a ridiculous amount of stretching, they're probably not a sexywoman, just a normal character. This is why someone like Hatsune Miku doesn't qualify; she has the popularity, but not really any tropes.

***Do they have a disproportionately large WLW following?*** Basically, just do some digging around your character's tag on various social media sites, you should figure this out pretty quick. Do note this isn't just about popularity, it's about specifically a WLW following. This is why someone like vanilla Bowsette doesn't qualify; Bowsette was very popular, but the typical vanilla Bowsette that's just a Peach palette swap doesn't qualify as a sexywoman - she had some WLW fans, sure, but it was mostly horny twitter dudes who were a fan of her. It's only the specific "buff lesbian" interpretation drawn by WLW that qualifies.

If they fit both the latter qualifiers, they're probably a sexywoman. "Divisive" isn't really necessary, but does tend to pop up in the more popular sexywomen.