I'm tempted to wait until tomorrow to respond, so I won't have to worry about enabling your procrastination. But I'm even more tempted to respond right away.
The paper will still be there tomorrow, too (it's due on Wednesday) and I have other projects (of which you may or may not be the direct cause) to help me not write it. *g*
I'd be very interested to find out what you see as being at the core of the femslash fandom of which you find yourself to be an outlier.
In my first response to this, which I never posted and which I don't think is saved anywhere, there was a lot of the lady doth protest too much discussion of how even though I've paired her with half the female population of Sunnydale/LA and Kaylee and Tammy Metzler, I'm really not a Faith-girl after all. [In a now-familiar pattern, I left this comment to go to dinner and thus was a poor dinner companion to my family. I have more to say, though.] So I have a list of several things that I feel separate me from the panfannish femslash community, which I will mention then abandon because I agree with your next point. Those things are, though (in tendancies, not absolutes): lack of interest in reciprocity, in "two high-powered women" do anything, lack of a profoundly developed enemies kink, disinterest in schmoop between equals. In a sense this might all come back to the obvious set of fetishes that are most important to me -- age difference, power differential, student/teacher, and older women in general. Right now I'm particularly interested in these things and disinterested in anything else, but I can deny the ninety billion pairings and dynamics that I've written with interest over the past couple of yeras. I do tend away from fannish OTPs (across pairing-types) -- in SG-1, for instance, I can't quite bring myself to 'ship the femslash pairing that has actual textual support instead of the pairings that I find interesting (because my brain is broken). We discussed briefly how neither you nor I requested any of the most popular pairings for femslash07, though I admitted that I would have requested some of them if I'd requested in those fandoms. And in the sense that femslashdom is polytextual, polyfictional, polyfannish, kidlit-friendly and shortfic-driven, I really am a quintessential femslasher.
I almost think it is in the nature of a femslasher herself to be an outlier
That I think is absolutely true, and I decided over dinner that obviously, the idea of an "essential" femslasher is ridiculous. If we use femslash_minis as a sample, obviously I'm extraordinary because I wrote in every round but one, (and so did Settiai and Voleuse), but Bri and Cady are also extraordinary because they moderated, and so are you because you created the index. At the same moment that we're obvious choices as "representative," we have features even in our participation in that community that mean we can't be. Since viciouswishes asked several months ago if anyone even identified as a femslasher, there's obviously something unstable in the category; if it has a center there's no one there, just everyone circling it. (I think this is different from the boyslash community; where you might know what pairings the Essential Boyslasher 'ships -- John/Rodney or Dean/Sam, or has fandom found something new? -- whereas we don't have something similar in femslash, unless it's the very lack of One True Show, let alone OTP.
So while I still feel mildly alienated from a community that (amazingly!) isn't writing exactly to my kinks or flocking to my crackfic, I concede that conceptually there's no reason why I can't be a representative femslasher.
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Date: 2007-05-01 01:00 am (UTC)The paper will still be there tomorrow, too (it's due on Wednesday) and I have other projects (of which you may or may not be the direct cause) to help me not write it. *g*
I'd be very interested to find out what you see as being at the core of the femslash fandom of which you find yourself to be an outlier.
In my first response to this, which I never posted and which I don't think is saved anywhere, there was a lot of the lady doth protest too much discussion of how even though I've paired her with half the female population of Sunnydale/LA and Kaylee and Tammy Metzler, I'm really not a Faith-girl after all. [In a now-familiar pattern, I left this comment to go to dinner and thus was a poor dinner companion to my family. I have more to say, though.] So I have a list of several things that I feel separate me from the panfannish femslash community, which I will mention then abandon because I agree with your next point. Those things are, though (in tendancies, not absolutes): lack of interest in reciprocity, in "two high-powered women" do anything, lack of a profoundly developed enemies kink, disinterest in schmoop between equals. In a sense this might all come back to the obvious set of fetishes that are most important to me -- age difference, power differential, student/teacher, and older women in general. Right now I'm particularly interested in these things and disinterested in anything else, but I can deny the ninety billion pairings and dynamics that I've written with interest over the past couple of yeras. I do tend away from fannish OTPs (across pairing-types) -- in SG-1, for instance, I can't quite bring myself to 'ship the femslash pairing that has actual textual support instead of the pairings that I find interesting (because my brain is broken). We discussed briefly how neither you nor I requested any of the most popular pairings for
I almost think it is in the nature of a femslasher herself to be an outlier
That I think is absolutely true, and I decided over dinner that obviously, the idea of an "essential" femslasher is ridiculous. If we use femslash_minis as a sample, obviously I'm extraordinary because I wrote in every round but one, (and so did Settiai and Voleuse), but Bri and Cady are also extraordinary because they moderated, and so are you because you created the index. At the same moment that we're obvious choices as "representative," we have features even in our participation in that community that mean we can't be. Since
So while I still feel mildly alienated from a community that (amazingly!) isn't writing exactly to my kinks or flocking to my crackfic, I concede that conceptually there's no reason why I can't be a representative femslasher.