la la la femslash
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schmericaI don't really find the "why do lesbians dig m/m slash, anyway?" discussions all that interesting anymore -- like most slash discussions, it seems to have lots of interesting theories but basically come down to "why are people turned on by what turns them on?" which, really, strikes me as a question that doesn't need an answer -- but it struck on this last go-round that, hey. No one ever asks about the straight girls who write/dig femslash, eh?
I imagine this is possibly a combination of several things:
a) That femslash tends to be under-represented or -cared-for or -considered in slash fandom in general.
b) That there aren't that many of us (and possibly an assumption of queerness goes along with the writing of f/f, though I'm not really confident on that point. At any rate, straightness is not necessarily something immediately apparent, especially since slash fandom tends to be a very queer-seeming place, at least in the circles I'm most familiar with).
On a completely different note, my dad and brother left yesterday for their week at the national trapper's convention. I love them both dearly, but the week every year when they're gone? It's like vacation, man. Yaaaaay.
I imagine this is possibly a combination of several things:
a) That femslash tends to be under-represented or -cared-for or -considered in slash fandom in general.
b) That there aren't that many of us (and possibly an assumption of queerness goes along with the writing of f/f, though I'm not really confident on that point. At any rate, straightness is not necessarily something immediately apparent, especially since slash fandom tends to be a very queer-seeming place, at least in the circles I'm most familiar with).
On a completely different note, my dad and brother left yesterday for their week at the national trapper's convention. I love them both dearly, but the week every year when they're gone? It's like vacation, man. Yaaaaay.
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10/8/04 09:46 (UTC)*nod* I don't find women *innately* less interesting in men, is the thing. Nor female-based relationships. Firefly is an excellent examples where I find all the really interesting relationships on the show to be either female-female or female-male based -- River-Simon, Zoe-Wash, Mal-Inara, Zoe-Mal, Kaylee-Inara, Kaylee-Mal, and on and on all seem central in a way the guy-guy ones don't.
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11/8/04 10:46 (UTC)Of course, for me, the fic is 90% about pinging me, and then other ten is either boredom or really trusting the author.
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11/8/04 10:47 (UTC)Though sexual pinging is good too. I find good f/f featuring characters I'm interested in as much of a turn on as good m/m or m/f featuring characters I'm interested in.
It's the "characters I'm interested" part that's important to me.