Comment Meta

[amaresu]

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.

Comments

Re: changing fannish boundaries

[sarken]

JetC was the first thing I thought of, too! The nature of mailing lists meant you kind of had to stay on a narrow topic, so even if there were m/m or f/f fans on the list, it was hard to know, especially since some J/C lists banned even background use of same-sex pairings. But once you get to LJ, everyone is free to talk about all of their interests, and if you find out that there are slash fans among your friends, then maybe you get into it, too, or, if it's not your cup of tea, you at least get to see that there's not really a clear split like "us het shippers" and "those weird slashers," and you think twice about defining yourself and your fellows fans in those terms.

...not that it's always a bad thing to define yourself in such ways, of course! Like thingswithwings, I don't really think of myself as a part of something called "femslash fandom," but considering the relatively small number of femslash fanworks, I can definitely see the appeal of thinking of oneself as a femslash fan and seeking out femslash spaces where other people share your general interests and can kind of make up for the support you don't necessarily get in your specific show/book/movie/etc fandom. It's just that I write so much het and gen and m/m and threesomes and so on it seems a bit... misleading or disingenuous to label myself a femslash fan.

(Also, hi, cantarina! I am nosy and saw on AO3 that you used AKOT as a pseud for your Voyager work -- I think we might have known each other. I was SaRa. Which is not exactly a memorable name considering JetC was more than a decade ago, so please don't feel bad if it doesn't jog any memories. ;))

Re: changing fannish boundaries

[cantarina]

I always find it interesting that because of the communities I run, I've acquired this reputation is a femslasher without a lot of nuance to it, but if you look at the fanworks I generate, there's more gen and/or het than f/f. I'm not devastated that this is my reputation, but it's interesting how we're understood.

No, no, hello again! I remember you :D I think it's possible we crossed paths a few years ago on LJ too, before I made the jump to the cantarina pseud (I had way, way too much of my offline life mixed in with LJ when I got into SPN's kinky, incestuous fandom), although my memory is a capricious creature.

I was complaining on Twitter yesterday that I'm so disconnected from my pre-LJ fandoms, which brought cosmic_llin out of the woodwork as a former pondie and now here you are. I should complain more often!