Crossover Femslash: The Gateway Fic

[amaresu]

Written for the prompt: Crossover femslash: Not just a last resort

The very first femslash story I ever read was a crossover. It was Sam Carter/CJ Cregg and all of a sudden I got the appeal of femslash. Here were two awesome women that I adored and there they were, together, and it was awesome. From there I went on to read some Sam/Janet and various other pairings that I never would've looked at if I hadn't read that one Sam/CJ fic out of a desperate desire for a Stargate/West Wing crossover.

Crossover femslash can be very effective gateway fic.

Crossovers, in general, can be a great way to introduce people to pairings they normally wouldn't consider because they really want to read a Fandom X/Fandom Y fic. This presents great opportunities to introduce people to femslash. I'm not saying that you should write fic for that express purpose, but keep in mind that most crossover fans are used to reading fic with pairings they might not be super excited about. This allows you to introduce them to something that they might not otherwise look at, namely, femslash.

So, don't be afraid to throw in a femslash pairing when writing a crossover fic. It probably won't hurt you and it might just convince someone that femslash is awesome.

Comments

[ar]

...I have no idea why this never consciously occurred to me before, wow. I suppose because it's rare I write crossovers.

But this is a brilliant idea, because I've had the problem several times before of wanting femslash of a character--Thirteen from House and Tonks from Harry Potter come to mind right now--but hating the idea of pairing her up with any of the other canon female characters. I don't currently have that issue in my fandoms, but now I do rather want to write the crossover femslash pairing I've had in mind for a bit now. /o/

And I want to try and make a meme of it--pick twelve female characters, randomize pairings, try and write any of the six options that appeal, or whatever. :D

[thegeneral.insanejournal.com]

And I want to try and make a meme of it--pick twelve female characters, randomize pairings, try and write any of the six options that appeal, or whatever.

I've done something like this before! It turned out to be a pretty great exercise and even produced some scenarios/pairings that I wrote a couple more times. You should go for it. :)

[nike-ravus.livejournal.com]

You want a meme for crossover femslash of awesome?

http://nike-ravus.livejournal.com/7989.html

It changed my life. :)

[ar]

Dude, brilliant idea. Done. :D