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

[aryas_zehral]

Hiya,

I'm Sayra. I'm pretty much over at lj all the time but I keep meaning to spend more time over this away. I have been trying to read more female centric and femslash fic of late because it struck me a while ago that although I am a girl, and although almost all of my friends are female, and although I am a feminist who rails against how few awesome women there are around in fiction I.... tend to just read endless boyslash or fic about male characters. And it made me... unhappy. So I want to... redress the balance I guess. Find what is good, what are the tropes, be more demonstrative of my pride and interest and enthusiasm for women and female characters.

In terms of what I actually do.... well I'm working on an all femslash first line bingo for kink_bingo and I'm a mod over on LJ's femslash_land (although its having the summer off at the moment). Oh, and I have endless endless conversations about JJ/Emily on Criminal Minds. :D

What I would like, in terms of discussions, well maybe we could champion female characters or discuss history of femslash because- you know what- I've heard plenty about boyslash but femslash... really not heard that much. I'm also kind of with dagas_isa on the whole "we should start talking about what women do well and less on the fail of certain shows" even though I still have a tendancy to go right to that arguement (because, omg, there is so much fail!!). So, yeah, it would be good to have discussions but I think we want to try and not make it either too self-congratulatory or as self-defeating as many conversations about women characters are.

[amaresu]

I know I've heard some history of femslash, but I get the impression that it's not nearly as coherant as slash. There seems to have been little pockets that eventually merged. I agree that it's be nice to have a discussion on how people think it developed/precieved it to develop.

Also 3rding you and dagas_isa. More talking about the things that get done right.

[havocthecat]

I like to do both. Well, I get so happy I squee over what's been done right, and then I get annoyed and start ranting about what's been done wrong. But that's me.

[aryas_zehral]

I have a tendancy to squee over something (for example, River Song on Doctor Who) and then... analyse it and find problems. And finding things that make you quibble tends (in my case) to totally dampen my squee. :)

[havocthecat]

For me, it doesn't work that way. I can critique the problematic and still find the good things to love. Or I can quite often, which explains how I spent so long focused on the women in Stargate fandom. :) I see how it doesn't work that way for some people, believe me! But I did want to point out that some of us try to balance it out and deal with both.

Also, there are some people that focus on only the negative, and the critique, while useful, can get to be a little too much after a while.

[havocthecat]

m Sayra. I'm pretty much over at lj all the time but I keep meaning to spend more time over this away. I have been trying to read more female centric and femslash fic of late because it struck me a while ago that although I am a girl, and although almost all of my friends are female, and although I am a feminist who rails against how few awesome women there are around in fiction I.... tend to just read endless boyslash or fic about male characters. And it made me... unhappy. So I want to... redress the balance I guess. Find what is good, what are the tropes, be more demonstrative of my pride and interest and enthusiasm for women and female characters.

I really appreciate hearing this! (I think I replied to a comment of yours in one of the writing comms, and then abruptly ran out of spoons to continue the discussion. Sorry!)