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: femslash production

[elspethdixon]

the types of shows that tend to have multiple important female characters are not the type of sci-fi/fantasy or procedural shows that fandom tends to enjoy watching collectively.

I feel like this point in particular can't be emphasized enough. I'm not a big fan of mundane-setting television shows unless they're law-enforcement related (my interest in Glee begins and ends with listening to the soundtrack, for example), and that means that a significant number of the canons people write femslash for are just not fannishly interesting or inspiring to me.

I've also noticed that when canons that are already the type of thing that has wide fannish appeal do have a lot of important female characters who interact a lot, there tends to be a lot more femslash produced for them. The het and slash in Homestuck fandom still outweigh the femslash by a substantial margin, but it probably has at least ten times the amount of f/f art, squee, and fanfic that SPN or Sherlock do.

(sadly, thanks to the fact that they apparently wouldn't let Joss have more than one female Avenger, most of Marvel's really good f/f potential is in the mostly-ignored 616 canon rather than the movies, or Marvel would have been a really good candidate to become the next "large popular fandom with decent amounts of femslash." Maybe if they add the Scarlet Witch and Ms. Marvel or She-Hulk to the cast it will still happen)

Re: femslash production

[zvi]

I think the thing to do for 616 is to get all of the femslashers fixed on one book (like Fearless Defenders, or X Men, or even Captain Marvel) so that people who have no intention of following the larger comics universe (Age of Ultron, I fundamentally do not care, even though the issues for the books I follow were good) can keep up.

But I don't know how we'd get everybody to agree on one.

Re: femslash production

[amaresu]

Fearless Defenders would be a good book to try and get people to read. The art is a bit hit or miss, but it's very open to new readers. I'll I knew was that I liked what I'd seen of Valkyrie in Secret Avengers and now it's one of my favorite books. So far it seems to have a lot going for it. Angsty backstories, canon femslash, lots of ladies, Hippolyta. (I love Hippolyta so much. I love her arrogance and her superiority and how she's going to end up so damn protective of everyone.)

It seems like a good book to jump in with. Especially if you don't care about what else is going on in 616. What is Age of Ultron even about? Why should I care? Can we be done with events now?