I have to admit, I identify as a femslasher and have complained (quite a lot) about the lack of femslash in general. At the same time I agree that it's often too fluffy. I like serious, often dark femslash and that can be quite hard to get, even when the pairing isn't fluffy in canon.
A great example is the Eve/Villanelle ship from Killing Eve - it's a dark ship where the two women are obsessed with and want to kill each other but a lot of the content has them as domestic girlfriends. That's just not the dynamic they have.
So you have two problems: there's not enough femslash, and the femslash that exists isn't serious enough. You can't win!
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Date: 2018-12-10 07:28 am (UTC)I have to admit, I identify as a femslasher and have complained (quite a lot) about the lack of femslash in general. At the same time I agree that it's often too fluffy. I like serious, often dark femslash and that can be quite hard to get, even when the pairing isn't fluffy in canon.
A great example is the Eve/Villanelle ship from Killing Eve - it's a dark ship where the two women are obsessed with and want to kill each other but a lot of the content has them as domestic girlfriends. That's just not the dynamic they have.
So you have two problems: there's not enough femslash, and the femslash that exists isn't serious enough. You can't win!