I've been in online fandom for 17 years, and I've really noticed changing boundaries over that time, in a lot of ways, but particularly in terms of people who identify as "slashers" vs "femslashers" vs "het shippers" etc. Maybe this is just because of my personal trajectory through a narrow subset of fandoms? But I feel like nowadays you're much more likely to find people who write/vid/read/podfic various sexualities and pairings and groupings. It used to be that any given fan I knew was pretty likely to be JUST doing m/m, or JUST doing f/f, or JUST doing f/m, or JUST doing kinky f/m, etc., but over the last . . . five years? I feel like I know tons of people who do absolutely everything, boyslash femslash transfic het poly threesomes and so on. Does this match up with other peoples' experiences? Is it just that I've found friends who are better suited to me? Or am I projecting my own experience onto others?

Because I don't personally identify with anything called "femslash fandom," but I do write/vid a good amount of femslash, mixed up with everything else. And I really like it that way, I like that I can do femslash one day and boyslash another and I'll get the same people commenting on both stories/vids/posts, no big deal.