dagas_isa: Fang, looking up Vanille's skirt. (fang/vanille yuri)
The Bunnie in Rose ([personal profile] dagas_isa) wrote in [community profile] fem_thoughts2010-09-23 01:44 pm

Picking the Collective Femslash Brain: Femslash as a Fandom

If there is in fact, a collective brain, I'd like to ask it a few questions. I've recently been wondering about Femslash fandom as a whole and thinking about whether it exists and how it manifests.


  • Does femslash fandom (as a larger entity) exist?
  • If it does, what, other than the obvious (having at least one f/f ship), are the central features of femslash fandom?
  • How is femslash fandom culture different from (or the same as?) het fandom/guyslash fandom?
  • What are the main fannish interactions in femslash fandom?
  • Are there any femslash fans who are exclusively into femslash?
  • What are the canons that you think most femslash fans would (or should) know through osmosis (that is, they might never have experienced them, but would know through discussion/meta)?
  • What are your personal experiences being a femslasher in a (small/large/eastern/western/etc) fandom?



Tell me, what are your thoughts on femslash?

(I have thoughts, but it's easier to ask questions than give a hazy reply based on a limited sample and my experiences in small fandoms.)
littlebutfierce: (oofuri momokan shinooka)

[personal profile] littlebutfierce 2010-09-23 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I am excited by your questions! I don't have a lot to say myself, but I am going to check back for comments.

I will say my experiences as a femslasher in a really boyslash-heavy fandom (& one in which people seem reluctant to read het as well: ew, girls *eyeroll*) have been kinda meh. I've been psyched to get the odd really positive comment on fic from people who do want to see the pairing, but it's been a lot of cricket chirping. Which... fair enough, there are lots of reasons that might happen in response to fic. But I get the distinct impression it's b/c people don't care about the female characters in a lot of cases, nevermind imagining them in pairings. That's partly b/c they are fairly minor in canon but also, yeah, I think girl cooties too.