Okay I went and found the anon post (at least the last one) and read through it. And then had to remind myself that everything was like three months old and thus I couldn't comment on it. Bah.
(I have to say that I think I've looked at P&P all of once and decided a place that restrictive wasn't for me, so I'm not sure where the idea that it's the center of femslash fandom comes from.)
I don't think it's wrong to want to be encouraging of new femslash authors, but I don't think it's necessary to leave nice feedback on every femslash fic that passes your radar. It's a lot like how you approach small fandoms, at least for me. Read, comment of the things you like, write your own shit, and nominate it for every ficathon ever that it has even a slim chance of being applicable for. I mean it's hard work to promote your very favorite, but unloved thing, but it can be done. And done without telling every crappy writer out there that they're fic is awesome.
On the other hand I don't think it's necessary to publicly criticize all the bad fic. Privately, criticize to your hearts content. I'm not a fan of public criticism unless it's asked for myself. I know too many people who have various mental issues to be okay with that.
But, yes, basically there's no reason to cater to bad writers, just ignore them.
I think the idea of an all-the-time femslash kink meme would be interesting though. It might have the unfortunate side effect of killing a lot of the little women-focused memes that pop up throughout the year. Which would be sad because I often like those a lot more then the kink meme.
(Not sure how I feel about this DW spellcheck. Stupid not-my-computer.)
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(I have to say that I think I've looked at P&P all of once and decided a place that restrictive wasn't for me, so I'm not sure where the idea that it's the center of femslash fandom comes from.)
I don't think it's wrong to want to be encouraging of new femslash authors, but I don't think it's necessary to leave nice feedback on every femslash fic that passes your radar. It's a lot like how you approach small fandoms, at least for me. Read, comment of the things you like, write your own shit, and nominate it for every ficathon ever that it has even a slim chance of being applicable for. I mean it's hard work to promote your very favorite, but unloved thing, but it can be done. And done without telling every crappy writer out there that they're fic is awesome.
On the other hand I don't think it's necessary to publicly criticize all the bad fic. Privately, criticize to your hearts content. I'm not a fan of public criticism unless it's asked for myself. I know too many people who have various mental issues to be okay with that.
But, yes, basically there's no reason to cater to bad writers, just ignore them.
I think the idea of an all-the-time femslash kink meme would be interesting though. It might have the unfortunate side effect of killing a lot of the little women-focused memes that pop up throughout the year. Which would be sad because I often like those a lot more then the kink meme.
(Not sure how I feel about this DW spellcheck. Stupid not-my-computer.)