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: The limits of "encouraging" femslash

[sarken]

I'm definitely more of a"squeeing in an infectious manner" type when it comes to "pushing" femslash. As a monofannish person, it's always super awkward when a friend is like, "You should watch X, you'll love it!" directly to me -- it feels like they're trying to get me to leave my current fandom, even though I know that's not their intention, and it's just kind awkward to reply to a direct suggestion like that. So I try to stick to journal posts about how much I love my current fannish object, or encouraging a person if they mention they're already thinking about getting into my fandom, but I try not to give unsolicited (or, heck, even solicited) one-on-one pushes about things people have not already explicitly expressed a vague interest in.

Re: The limits of "encouraging" femslash

[alias_sqbr]

As a monofannish person, it's always super awkward when a friend is like, "You should watch X, you'll love it!" directly to me

That wrinkle never occured to me, I can see how that could be an issue! As a multifannish person I actually don't mind one-on-one tailored recs of a canon from a friend who knows my specific tastes, as long as they accept that even if I do like the canon I'm unlikely to get super fannish about it. I had some mild awkwardness recently when a friend I made through Homestuck fandom got me into Dangan Ronpa, the canon she moved onto after she stopped liking Homestuck... and then I continued to be much more of a Homestuck fan than a Dangan Ronpa fan.