I wonder what the ratio of canon vs. non-canon fans tends to be, and if it's different for different fandoms or for femslash in particular? So if we want to engage the fans who need to be more invested in particular characters or canon sources in order to interact with them/it fannishly, are we trying to get them to see the appeal of the less canonically involved type of fannish interaction, or get them excited about the source canon, or a mixture of both? I think of fandom as my actual fandom, and read everything that even slightly appeals to me no matter where it's from, but I think I'm in the minority with that.
I think reccing would be a big help, and I would totally be on board for helping with that if you'd like. And I think it would be pretty easy to incorporate promoting source materials into recs. Eventually maybe we could get a sort of primer for femslash for particular fandoms? I'm thinking of the one cherie_morte did for SPN/SPN RPF at spnroundtable a few months ago, which recced particular works, but also sort of gave an overview of the fandom, characters, and resources. It really did a great job of the ship_manifesto type of info without being quite as involved, but also (I think) engaged people who might not have thought about femslash in that fandom before.
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Re: femslash production
Date: 2013-06-12 03:46 am (UTC)I think reccing would be a big help, and I would totally be on board for helping with that if you'd like. And I think it would be pretty easy to incorporate promoting source materials into recs. Eventually maybe we could get a sort of primer for femslash for particular fandoms? I'm thinking of the one cherie_morte did for SPN/SPN RPF at spnroundtable a few months ago, which recced particular works, but also sort of gave an overview of the fandom, characters, and resources. It really did a great job of the ship_manifesto type of info without being quite as involved, but also (I think) engaged people who might not have thought about femslash in that fandom before.