I'm always up for a femslash conversation! Although it's one in the morning so I'm probably pretty incoherent.
I'd say sort of yes, there's an overarching femslash fandom. As others have said, there's femslash_today and Passion & Perfection, but they're pretty narrow-focused imo and are really all about Western media fandom. Being a femslasher doesn't necessarily mean you're part of that overarching entity, though.
You know, it's weird, I've seen a lot more examination of femslash fandom(s) in a Western media context even though I'm really not in any Western media fandoms.
Some trends I've noticed in femslash in general... agreed on the sad, realistic ending thing. It's not like it's super common, but it's kind of hard for me to imagine the old "this is but a fleeting moment, now back to our lives apart" plot happening much in m/m. M/m always seemed more prone to tragic death if they were going to break a couple up. Anyway, I think this trope happens more for rarer ships where the fic is sticking closer to canon. There's also a tendency toward shorter fic, yes, and the porn is likely to be more impressionistic and less detailed, possibly due to not wanting to deal with naming parts. And yes, femslash fandoms spring up more readily around media with canon f/f, so you'll find obscure little movies like DEBS getting a decent trickle of fic, at least for a while.
None of these are hard and fast rules, obviously, and they apply mostly to LJ fandom. When I look for fic in other places, I'm more likely to find happy endings and longer plots and graphic porn, although I'm less likely to find decent writing.
Canons femslash fans would know... depends on the corner, I guess. East/west is a big divide there. For west, idk, probably Xena and Buffy. For animanga, Utena definitely, Sailor Moon, possibly Maria-sama ga Miteru, though that one doesn't get a lot of fic.
I would consider myself exclusively into femslash as much as possible without being a totally inflexible dolt. I've written gen and m/m for exchanges and a couple spur-of-the-moment crack!fics, I have one m/m/f threesome I occasionally enjoy, and the rest of my output and intake is femslash. I'm mostly in Ace Attorney fandom, which has a nice wide selection of women and some lesbian fanon floating around (it is pretty much impossible for me to imagine Adrian Andrews as straight now). I dabble in the Persona 3 and 4 fandoms, both of which have female characters interacting in their canons. 4 especially has a hefty f/f subset thanks to Chie and Yukiko's whole prince thing and general BFF-ness. And I circle around the edges of FFXIII fandom, which is completely made for femslash, but sadly not all that many people have played it. Most of my fandom activity is on kink memes, and I think prompt-based areas like that really encourage more rare pairs to be written, including femslash.
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I'd say sort of yes, there's an overarching femslash fandom. As others have said, there's
You know, it's weird, I've seen a lot more examination of femslash fandom(s) in a Western media context even though I'm really not in any Western media fandoms.
Some trends I've noticed in femslash in general... agreed on the sad, realistic ending thing. It's not like it's super common, but it's kind of hard for me to imagine the old "this is but a fleeting moment, now back to our lives apart" plot happening much in m/m. M/m always seemed more prone to tragic death if they were going to break a couple up. Anyway, I think this trope happens more for rarer ships where the fic is sticking closer to canon. There's also a tendency toward shorter fic, yes, and the porn is likely to be more impressionistic and less detailed, possibly due to not wanting to deal with naming parts. And yes, femslash fandoms spring up more readily around media with canon f/f, so you'll find obscure little movies like DEBS getting a decent trickle of fic, at least for a while.
None of these are hard and fast rules, obviously, and they apply mostly to LJ fandom. When I look for fic in other places, I'm more likely to find happy endings and longer plots and graphic porn, although I'm less likely to find decent writing.
Canons femslash fans would know... depends on the corner, I guess. East/west is a big divide there. For west, idk, probably Xena and Buffy. For animanga, Utena definitely, Sailor Moon, possibly Maria-sama ga Miteru, though that one doesn't get a lot of fic.
I would consider myself exclusively into femslash as much as possible without being a totally inflexible dolt. I've written gen and m/m for exchanges and a couple spur-of-the-moment crack!fics, I have one m/m/f threesome I occasionally enjoy, and the rest of my output and intake is femslash. I'm mostly in Ace Attorney fandom, which has a nice wide selection of women and some lesbian fanon floating around (it is pretty much impossible for me to imagine Adrian Andrews as straight now). I dabble in the Persona 3 and 4 fandoms, both of which have female characters interacting in their canons. 4 especially has a hefty f/f subset thanks to Chie and Yukiko's whole prince thing and general BFF-ness. And I circle around the edges of FFXIII fandom, which is completely made for femslash, but sadly not all that many people have played it. Most of my fandom activity is on kink memes, and I think prompt-based areas like that really encourage more rare pairs to be written, including femslash.
I should really go to bed now urrrrrk