Then there's questionable examples like Mycroft/Lestrade from the BBC Sherlock fandom, which is eyeroll-inducing, as the characters have never met in canon, but it's unclear what f/f ship would make more sense.
*looks around nervously* a brave statement in fandom but it's truee!!!
I am hopping around on all of these comments (good! discussion!!!). And just, same! Same same. I do feel it's a little bit the 10%/90% thing -- there isn't enough femslash for the 10% that's good to be anywhere near visible.
My disappointment/frustration has been acute because the thing that got me into fandom was how the mouth changes its shape (rule 63 1950's Holmes/Watson, novel length), and consequently I came into fandom, generally, and Sherlock, specifically, expecting lots of complex difficult queer women having complex difficult hot sex (I probably do not need to elaborate on my disappointment there, although I have otherwise had a thrilling Holmesiana experience).
I hadn't realized why the rule 63 stuff is so good -- that it gives male complexity to women! Of course and obviously! Re: above, for example, I would read 1000 more fics of lady!Mycroft being a lady and wearing heels and doing weirdo surveillance.
An addn'l sidenote for me is that, generally: good femslash >>>> good slash >> shallow femslash > shallow slash. This internal ranking is strong enough that if the slash meets some esoteric criteria, I characterize it in my head as "feeling like femslash", because GOOD femslash is a level of complexity an order above good slash. I think that's because it is an additional emotional level of twistiness, of people who nominally *can* deal with their emotions, but are in this case failing because emotions are hard.
Also, I'm sure someone has pointed you at this, but there's a f/f rec fest. Annnndddd I know there were some good fics from the femslashexchange this year, if you were to wade through those!
edit I saw someone mention the way you can follow authors from femslash to femslash - have you found that to be true at all?
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Date: 2018-12-19 06:58 am (UTC)*looks around nervously* a brave statement in fandom but it's truee!!!
I am hopping around on all of these comments (good! discussion!!!). And just, same! Same same. I do feel it's a little bit the 10%/90% thing -- there isn't enough femslash for the 10% that's good to be anywhere near visible.
My disappointment/frustration has been acute because the thing that got me into fandom was how the mouth changes its shape (rule 63 1950's Holmes/Watson, novel length), and consequently I came into fandom, generally, and Sherlock, specifically, expecting lots of complex difficult queer women having complex difficult hot sex (I probably do not need to elaborate on my disappointment there, although I have otherwise had a thrilling Holmesiana experience).
I hadn't realized why the rule 63 stuff is so good -- that it gives male complexity to women! Of course and obviously! Re: above, for example, I would read 1000 more fics of lady!Mycroft being a lady and wearing heels and doing weirdo surveillance.
An addn'l sidenote for me is that, generally: good femslash >>>> good slash >> shallow femslash > shallow slash. This internal ranking is strong enough that if the slash meets some esoteric criteria, I characterize it in my head as "feeling like femslash", because GOOD femslash is a level of complexity an order above good slash. I think that's because it is an additional emotional level of twistiness, of people who nominally *can* deal with their emotions, but are in this case failing because emotions are hard.
Also, I'm sure someone has pointed you at this, but there's a f/f rec fest. Annnndddd I know there were some good fics from the femslashexchange this year, if you were to wade through those!
edit I saw someone mention the way you can follow authors from femslash to femslash - have you found that to be true at all?