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This is spliced together from several of my posts about Nimona.


Why I Love Nimona

I love Nimona.

I love the fact that she's a polymorph who can take any shape. She uses them all with fluid grace and great effect in combat.

I love the fact that she refuses to define herself as more than "Nimona." She won't try to be anything else but what she is. She just wishes other people would accept her for who she really is.

I love how casually destructive and violent she is, especially when it comes to tearing down symbols of the corrupt social order. And she breaks a few things in Ballister that he frankly needs broken. We could use someone like that in local-Earth.

I love how she is wild and fierce and free, a forest spirit even in the city. She brings a breath of fresh air everywhere she goes.

It's not so much one scene as one character, one aspect of Nimona -- that she's chaos incarnate. The trailer really captures that sense; this movie is so, so queer in all the best ways. That's Nimona for you. At least with her, life is never boring.

I grok that.

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Today's [community profile] followfriday post features communities about feminism and women. Browse the list and you could find more communities that match your interests. There's a lot of fannish content, but a few non-fannish communities too.

What other fem-thought-related communities or blogs do you read?
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I posted the below meta on my journal about Femslash, the importance of missing scene fic to our history, and why there can never be too many takes on a ship.

Here: This is what Femslash is to me
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I posted on my journal summarising and pondering two interesting blog posts I came across:

Yuri isn’t Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans compiles existing information on Japanese creators and fans

Report on the Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey discusses a survey they ran in English speaking yuri fandom

More stats!

Jul. 3rd, 2019 12:19 pm
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A link that might be of interest: for Pride Month this year, toastystats on AO3 put together a light analysis of AO3 F/F works.

It's interesting to see what's up there -- I didn't expect to know any of the band RPF type fandoms, but I had no idea Naruto had a significant F/F presence and had never even heard of fandoms like Mamamoo or Holby City.

I did eyebrow a bit at counting nonbinary characters on the grounds of "voiced by female actors", but I only recognized the Steven Universe characters (who are canonically woman-aligned).
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[personal profile] letzan runs a weekly stats summary on f/f fic on AO3, originally hosted on Tumblr and now mirrored on DW -- here is this week's summary. I discovered them when I was searching around a while back and realized today that the project might be of some interest to a few others here and apparently I subbed but never actually joined yea all those years ago.

Wellwishes!
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I wrote a personal essay on my difficulties with femslash, and was encouraged to cross-post here by [personal profile] hebethen.

interrogating one's preferences: the femslash gap.
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Transformative Works and Cultures (the scholarly journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works) is seeking submissions for a special issue on femslash and other fan activities around queer female characters and pairings. In particular, "Symposium" essays are 1500-2500 words and often written by non-academics. The full call is under the cut and on Tumblr.

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Over on my journal, I wrote up some rough thoughts on women characters, romantic subplots, and the way fandom reacts to them. (Basic conclusion: not great.)

Over here.
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I wrote a meta post on White Collar's Sara Ellis and why I consider her such a feminist character.

Why Sara Ellis is One of the Most Feminist Characters on TV
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What do I want from femslash? I'm in it for the characterization.

In case you feel like talking about what you'd like from femslash characterization, or about femslash, or just femslash in general.
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Is there an active fandom for this show yet? It is all about the ladies. There are awesome WOC and a trans character played by a trans actress. I haven't found much fic yet and there don't seem to be any communities. Help?
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Femslash Mini Meta fest was an utter fail this year. And I'm still not in a place where I could do it, so I purpose Comment Meta. And let's have it cover all things female and fannish. However you define those.

How it works

1. Post a meta topic in a top level comment. Use the subject line for the meta subject and expand as you want in the body of the comment. Or don't.

2. Repeat Step 1 for as many meta ideas as you have.

3. Comment on other meta topics.


It's kinda like a kink meme, only with meta. Feel free to browse the mini meta tag for ideas.

This is meant to be about as low pressure as it comes. Feel free to write on your own journal/Tumblr/blog and link back here. Respond with as little or as much as you want. This post will remain open indefinitely, so please track it if that makes things easier for you.
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3 weeks for DW
FRIENDING MEME



Make new DW friends and find like-minded people :)
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[community profile] month_of_meta is a month-long meta fest for all kinds of meta - general discussion about fandom, writing, vidding, etc. as well as fandom-specific meta. We're looking forward to a great variety of meta topics and a lot of discussion, hopefully including some meta about femslash and women! :)

From April 15th, you can sign up with a topic you want to write about, and a day in May when you'd like to post it - or you can post spontaneously during May. (There's also a post for requesting and suggesting meta topics if you need inspiration!) You can find the full rules here.

The fest is run through [community profile] month_of_meta and [livejournal.com profile] month_of_meta.

Sign-ups are open now on LJ and on DW!
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[personal profile] amaresu
New year, new goals. That's how it works right? So what would you, the people of this community, like to see happen in 2013? We've got the femslash mini meta fest towards the end of April, but that leaves a whole lot of the year left for stuff.


Throw out your suggestions and discuss!
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Pairing the Spares: Femslashing When There's Only Two Female Characters





Got a prompt? Leave it here.
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Provided by [personal profile] el_staplador

Class differences in femslash. Some of my favourite rarefandom pairings, particularly in Shakespeare and opera, feature a lady and her maid. Or think about Gwen/Morgana in Merlin, or Jenny/Madame Vastra in Doctor Who. What are others' experiences with writing or reading class inequalities?




Have a prompt? Leave it here.
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