[fandom] Baby-Sitters Club slash

[escritoireazul]

I have insomnia.

I also have thinky thoughts about The Baby-Sitters Club and why a fandom based on a book series about eight girls (plus two associate members, only one of whom is a male) has so much more boy slash than girl slash. I think this says something about the way fans treat women, but I'm not quite sure yet which words I want to use.

But seriously. Most of the slash fic I see is one of the triplets and Jeff (or Nicky and Jeff). The series is about eight female baby-sitters (nine if you count Shannon, who wasn't the focus of very many stories, but was still a member from early on), and yet the fanfic focuses on the male charges.

I wonder if it has something to do with the age of the people writing fic now? Where they closer to the charges' ages when reading it, and therefore were more interested in them? That might be part of it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Why so much boy slash instead of girl slash in that fandom? My inquiring mind wants to know.

Comments

[aphrodite-mine.livejournal.com]

I think if you tackle that issue, you delve into a whole larger issue which is the issue of boy slash vs girl slash in general. Who writes what, and for what purpose.

I don't like to talk about my views on that in public forums because I don't tread lightly on people's feelings.

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

I know I prefer writing boy slash. When it comes to girl slash, it's kind of too close for me. I've been in relationships with girls, and while I might know what that's like, it gets into a too-personal space for me.

I'm not a big fan of charge-fic. I like BSC-in-high-school fics the best, hands down, and I can read just about any [well written] pairing in that. There's a really great one on ffn right now with Mary Anne/Alan Gray. And they make the pairing work. It's really impressive.

But, um, slash. I've written some BSC girl slash, but oddly enough, never BSC-member on BSC-member. I've written Mary Anne/Kerry Bruno, Sunny/Stacey, and Claudia/Ashley. I did boy slash in my California Diaries fics, but Ducky's a good one for that. :D

I can't tell you why it's not there on a whole, or why Jeff/Byron is so popular. Which kind of annoys me, Byron is the quiet triplet so obviously, he's the gay triplet. Bring on the Adam/Jeff!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

BSC has boyslash? Clearly I hang out in specific circles 'cause most all I see is girlslash (specifically the members in relationships with each other).

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Where are you finding all this BSC slash? I've read one story about the Pike triplets (excellent, but still just the one), and then I'm a member of bsclove, which does not feature fic as often as I'd like, but which does have a great deal of all sorts of babysitter pairings. And Stacey/Charlotte, which, as hermionesviolin implies, is practically canon. But then, it's a girls-only kind of place.