Fandom: (Belated) December Talking Meme #15: Femslash

December Talking Meme Master List

(There are still some days left open in the meme, if you want to suggest a(nother) topic.)

Day 15 suggested by osprey_archer: femslash in general.

Oh, femslash. I love femslash. I love stories about girls and women, I find women seriously sexy (especially competent, tough, smart women), and two (or more) women falling into love or lust together is the best. The best. Part of why I love femslash so much is that there is still a dearth of female characters getting to be awesome together in the same source material. It's getting better, but it's still not great. (Joss Whedon's take on the Avengers is but one example of this.) So taking the women in the source material and telling their stories together, sexual, romantic, friendly, whatever, is important to me.

I am flailing. I don't know why, but it's such a broad topic, I can't seem to find any words. I love stories about girls and women falling in love and how that fits into their canons. Letty and Mia in Fast and the Furious, the way they each carve out a place in a world made up mostly of men, where women are love interests or sex symbols. Faith from BTVS and basically everyone ever as she eyefucks them as seduction. D.E.B.S. and it's adorable queer girl romance. (Mia as the jewel thief lesbian, A MILLION TIMES YES.) Surf girls in love. Dancers in love. Gymnasts in love.

Just give me all the stories about girls and women, in love, in lust, having adventures, heroes and villains, princesses and knights, thieves and doctors. I just -- tell me all their stories, please. Poly stories. Family stories. Everything. Give it to me.

Fandom: Yuletide Update

Finally finished treat #2, edited, and posted. Pulled up treat #3, which I haven't touched since before assignments went out. (I like to read through the letters linked on the letters post at the Yuletide community to find treats, and this was one of the first that intrigued me.) We'll see if I can make anything of it. It is the last of the letters I flagged for treating before I focused solely on my assignment, so now I need to go out in search of other letters, see what I can do. The house is full of teenagers right now, Nephew and his friends, and since Sister T is home, I've taken the dog back to the bedroom. She got super excited to have people over. And then she got barky. So now, she's in a time out, and I'm writing in peace. (I love teenagers. I'm just not feeling very people today.) They're all off to a basketball game later, and I think J and I may have a dinner date, since it's rare for it to only be the two of us.

Yuletide tally so far:

Assignment: >3K, previous fandom, posted
Treat #1: >10k, previous fandom, posted
Treat #2: >2k, new fandom, posted
Treat #3: >100, previous fandom, in progress