I mean, I can tell you that I remember reading B'Elanna/Janeway fic as a lurking lurker, feeling like I was doing something illicit, before I ever owned my own queerness, which places that reading sometime pre-2005, and that the first major fandom I was in (recognizing that I've always got fingers in all of the pies) where I'd say f/f was really a major or defining component of how I participated was Supernatural, from about mid 2009 to early 2011. You could kind of say I went from SPN to Avengers verses by way of a lot of short-lived fannish love affairs, but f/f doesn't dominate my Avengers fanwork consumption. Although it does dominate my fanwork production, I think?
A lot of it ties into thingswithwing's comments downthread, about how she doesn't identify as femslash fan specifically. I think I do a little, because I'm a big ol' queer and I love women characters more than anything else except maybe podfic metafandom, but f/f isn't a reason I go to any fandom in particular. It's just usually the first thing I look for when I get there, even if I want all of the rest of it too.
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Re: Femslash Fandom Migration
Date: 2013-06-12 03:13 am (UTC)I mean, I can tell you that I remember reading B'Elanna/Janeway fic as a lurking lurker, feeling like I was doing something illicit, before I ever owned my own queerness, which places that reading sometime pre-2005, and that the first major fandom I was in (recognizing that I've always got fingers in all of the pies) where I'd say f/f was really a major or defining component of how I participated was Supernatural, from about mid 2009 to early 2011. You could kind of say I went from SPN to Avengers verses by way of a lot of short-lived fannish love affairs, but f/f doesn't dominate my Avengers fanwork consumption. Although it does dominate my fanwork production, I think?
A lot of it ties into thingswithwing's comments downthread, about how she doesn't identify as femslash fan specifically. I think I do a little, because I'm a big ol' queer and I love women characters more than anything else except maybe podfic metafandom, but f/f isn't a reason I go to any fandom in particular. It's just usually the first thing I look for when I get there, even if I want all of the rest of it too.