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

[piscaria]

I'm Piscaria. I pretty much lurk here, and on DW in general, but that could always change.

Let's see, a little about me. I've been writing fanfiction since I was in middle school, but I'm trying to branch out and submit some of my original work for publication (my goal is five submissions by September 1st, so I need to get on that!). Because of that, I've been thinking a lot lately about the divide between my original fiction, which is so centered around female characters that I need to remind myself to write some men into it, and my fanfiction, which is pretty male-dominated. I'd like to stop that trend, to write strong women in fanfiction and let some interesting men co-star in my original fic (because I'm not getting rid of my leading ladies, of course!).

I've written a few fan stories from female POVs, but the main issue for me is that the fandoms that call me to write in them never seem to have female characters that speak to me. There are shows with strong female characters that I LOVE (Doctor Who and Star Trek DS9 come to mind first), but I've written long-ass meta about the qualities that draw me to write fanfiction about something, so I won't bother to get into that here.

That said, my earliest fandom was probably The Baby-Sitters Club, and I still maintain that Claudia was crushing over Ashley Wyeth like nobody's business. I have a Claudia/Ashley WIP that I need to finish up one of these days. I also loved all of the Andy/Miranda stories that came out of The Devil Wears Prada.

I love stories that focus on all sorts of the relationships women have with each other: as lovers, as mothers, as daughters, as sisters, as friends, as mentors, as mentees, as enemies. I love the nuances in relationships between women.

[nocowardsoul]

I would read that Claudia/Ashley in a heartbeat.