Re: icons I think it's clever how you now make icon versions of your bigger artwork when you post it, like a little " sneak preview" of what's to come. (Congrats on the judges choice win at Slayerstillness btw!
And I definitely hear you about budget - I only got to watch Buffy because my sweetie pays for a Netflix account! Same for a friend of mine I'd rec'd it to when a sibling paid for Hulu. And in terms of not being I interested in the high school years, that might be half the reason I avoided it for so long. (I'm trying to recall a single truly happy school memory and I got nothing.)
And as far as Barb's theory I suspect it differs for everyone. I couldn't say if it was true of het authors or not - I've learned that I cannot assume a fan writer's gender or orientation. In fact the majority of m/m authors in any fandom are female. The adult women who wrote Star Trek fic decades ago and created or popularized modern fanfic were the ones who shipped Kirk/Spock/McCoy et cetera. Because the men had the only ineresting relationships in canon. And probably there was that level of safe remove but also role-play, exploring a different dynamic than m/f ones, which come with certain pre-set assumptions and conventions.
I have read a theory re: anime m/m shippers that the girls and women who write it may also be exploring the ideal of a more "equal" relationship (removing gender equalities.) I have heard plenty of married het women assume that would be true of lesbian relationships. Which is f-----g RUBBISH.
If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it. (Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.) I If you understand the characters and general relationship dynamics there's no reason you couldn' get it right. You're constantly surprising me and when you set out to do something it gets done!
Oh and of the ships you read - at this point I will read almost any ship if the writing is really good. (Which is why I'll read il_mio_capitano' B/G fic and no one else's.) My exceptions are Bangel (bored now) but I will occasionally read B/A/S (Foxinator's "These Things") or Bangelus (leni_ba's Courting Sin 'verse.).
I cannot and will NOT read fic that 'ships Tara with ANY man for a host of reasons I won't go into here.
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And I definitely hear you about budget - I only got to watch Buffy because my sweetie pays for a Netflix account! Same for a friend of mine I'd rec'd it to when a sibling paid for Hulu. And in terms of not being I interested in the high school years, that might be half the reason I avoided it for so long. (I'm trying to recall a single truly happy school memory and I got nothing.)
And as far as Barb's theory I suspect it differs for everyone. I couldn't say if it was true of het authors or not - I've learned that I cannot assume a fan writer's gender or orientation. In fact the majority of m/m authors in any fandom are female. The adult women who wrote Star Trek fic decades ago and created or popularized modern fanfic were the ones who shipped Kirk/Spock/McCoy et cetera. Because the men had the only ineresting relationships in canon. And probably there was that level of safe remove but also role-play, exploring a different dynamic than m/f ones, which come with certain pre-set assumptions and conventions.
I have read a theory re: anime m/m shippers that the girls and women who write it may also be exploring the ideal of a more "equal" relationship (removing gender equalities.) I have heard plenty of married het women assume that would be true of lesbian relationships. Which is f-----g RUBBISH.
If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it. (Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.) I If you understand the characters and general relationship dynamics there's no reason you couldn' get it right. You're constantly surprising me and when you set out to do something it gets done!
Oh and of the ships you read - at this point I will read almost any ship if the writing is really good. (Which is why I'll read il_mio_capitano' B/G fic and no one else's.) My exceptions are Bangel (bored now) but I will occasionally read B/A/S (Foxinator's "These Things") or Bangelus (leni_ba's Courting Sin 'verse.).
I cannot and will NOT read fic that 'ships Tara with ANY man for a host of reasons I won't go into here.