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

[amaresu]

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.)

[havocthecat]

I think that there are some people for whom P&P is the center of femslash fandom, you know? And I think that those people have kind of forgotten that their experience =\= everyone's experience. It's also been around long enough that it has a pretty prolific core group, and some of that core group gets rather defensive of critique. Which irritates other people. Which leads to the vitriol that comes out on anon posts (from the pro-P&P and irritated-with-P&P groups both), I think.

(I think that, once the commentary on this post dies down, we'll be having another anon post. I love those.)

[amaresu]

That makes sense. It's easy to forget that the center of your fannish universe is not the center of everybody elses. See: People who forget that fandom even exists off of journaling sites.

Anon post that I could participate in? Excellent...

[havocthecat]

So, tell me, how do you think the conversation is going here? Has it died down?

[amaresu]

It's probably died down enough. My experience from asexual_fandom and running these things is that they'll probably be a conversation or two that lingers for the next week or so, but the main activity has probably finished.