Introduction/Paryt/Hang Out Post!

[amaresu]

So, apparently this community has 211 members with 308 subscribers and I bet you barely know each other. I know that I barely know you. So we are having an introduction/party/hang out post of greatness!

What do you do here? Introduce yourself in a comment, reply to other peoples comments, talk about that bizarre idea you've had and didn't think anyone else would be interested in, throw out some ideas you think this comm could have fun with, basically have fun and get to know each other. There's no wrong way to do this. Except .gif spamming in a top level comment because there are still people out there on dial up.

I'll go first in the comments.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I like both reading and writing femslash! I didn't have internet access until I was 19, and immediately jumped into fandom - I know people sometimes scorn the millions of soft-focus falling-in-love stories, and the PSA-type coming out fics, but as a teenager in a rural town who didn't actually know lesbians existed, I would have loved those fics. I'm primarily a superhero comics fan, especially X-Men, and for all the debates about over-sexualised images, sexist writing, killing off female characters and so on, comics are still a great place to find a huge cast of women who interact with each other, have histories together and sometimes (see icon) canonically get together.

As for the comm, I'd love to see something like mini metas on, say, femslash-friendly fandoms, a place to ask for fic recs, ship manifestos and so on. "Meta" sounds so important that it can be intimidating to write!

[amaresu]

I've always wanted to be more into comics than I am. But even when I read them on a regular basis they tend to be the first thing cut when money gets tight. Also there's the problem of where to start with some things, like I read the Batwoman run and had a desire to maybe start exploring the Bat Family, but there's so much of it. Where do I even start?

[lilacsigil]

Ha, yes, comics is a very big place, and a series that's excellent with one creator might be absolutely awful with another! I'm not so into the Bat-clan apart from Oracle, so Birds of Prey would be a good title to go to for lots of cool women. The Catwoman series written by Brubaker and drawn by Cooke is really good, too. So are all the various Batgirl series (with Barbara (Batgirl: Year One), Cass or Stephanie as Batgirl).

[amaresu]

I've heard lots of good things about Birds of Prey and I did watch most of the tv series. I don't remember quite why I never finished it, but I suspect it had something to do with being distracted by the Gotham Girls minis.

I will note these down. Thanks!