i love female characters and femslash and for the life of me i will never be able to get into Scandal. i just don't like Shonda Rimes as a storyteller. Bunheads...you might be able to convince me there. ;)
How do we convince more femslashers to break free from canon?
you know, this has never actually been my problem as a femslash fan. i often tend to prefer non-canon pairings whether het, femslash or boyslash to canon ones. i think what is required are interesting female characters and a canon that is capacious enough to allow for femslash pairings. one of my current favorite femslash pairings is Irene/Molly from BBC Sherlock- and they don't actually even share a scene in canon! so i'm not sure why i'm so into them, other than it makes sense in my imagination. ;) and with such a limited canon and a long hiatus, it seems like there is enough "room" in the canon to allow for the pairing.
Re: femslash production
you know, this has never actually been my problem as a femslash fan. i often tend to prefer non-canon pairings whether het, femslash or boyslash to canon ones. i think what is required are interesting female characters and a canon that is capacious enough to allow for femslash pairings. one of my current favorite femslash pairings is Irene/Molly from BBC Sherlock- and they don't actually even share a scene in canon! so i'm not sure why i'm so into them, other than it makes sense in my imagination. ;) and with such a limited canon and a long hiatus, it seems like there is enough "room" in the canon to allow for the pairing.