I (over)identify with a lot said above, but especially the "soft lesbians" phenomenon and the majority of f/f plots being limited to strong women, who are strong in vague but identical ways, experiencing no conflict whatsoever because Women are Naturally Better and would never have relationship struggles.
And then there's spite, the greatest motivator of all time. A fandom wants to take canonically male-attracted characters and insist that they're all really lesbians? (I'm not talking about doing whatever you please in fic, obviously, more like... well, it's basically the same attitude as the soft lesbians thing: the subtext that if you say they could also be bi/not-soft, you may as well go join Westboro Baptist, so homophobic are ye.) Enjoy these female characters being explicitly bi and either single or in relationships with (also bi) men in my fic, fandom!
I'm also a little weird, fandom-wise, because I don't get transformatively interested in 99% of the media that I like. It tends to be anime and video games that make me want to see the gaps filled in, for some reason. And then when I do seek out transformative works, I'm usually fixated on one or two characters, so if those characters aren't women? I'm probably not gonna be looking at much f/f. Given that my jam is best defined as "men who don't cope well with vulnerability," that tips the scales even further.
Edit: It strikes me that basically I prioritize writing good, varied women over making sure those women are in relationships with other women, and on a fandom-specific level I'm spitefully disinterested in catering to people who have made it clear they already view me as lesser.
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Date: 2018-12-10 03:21 pm (UTC)And then there's spite, the greatest motivator of all time. A fandom wants to take canonically male-attracted characters and insist that they're all really lesbians? (I'm not talking about doing whatever you please in fic, obviously, more like... well, it's basically the same attitude as the soft lesbians thing: the subtext that if you say they could also be bi/not-soft, you may as well go join Westboro Baptist, so homophobic are ye.) Enjoy these female characters being explicitly bi and either single or in relationships with (also bi) men in my fic, fandom!
I'm also a little weird, fandom-wise, because I don't get transformatively interested in 99% of the media that I like. It tends to be anime and video games that make me want to see the gaps filled in, for some reason. And then when I do seek out transformative works, I'm usually fixated on one or two characters, so if those characters aren't women? I'm probably not gonna be looking at much f/f. Given that my jam is best defined as "men who don't cope well with vulnerability," that tips the scales even further.
Edit: It strikes me that basically I prioritize writing good, varied women over making sure those women are in relationships with other women, and on a fandom-specific level I'm spitefully disinterested in catering to people who have made it clear they already view me as lesser.