Icons - I like to add an icon to the post because it makes my page look pretty - see totally superficial, lol. I used to let LJ do it but it was so hit and miss about doing it that I decided to do it myself. I didn't realise I've won something that round. Will have to have a look. :D
Because the men had the only interesting relationships in canon.
You know I never thought of that but it is so true of so much of what we still see on the box. Hmmm. And fanfic was around for Star Trek? Wow, I am out of the loop and a latecomer, grin. Actually, I do wonder how far from a true m/m relationship the written word is. I imagine that it is, as all fictional relationships, not close at all but rather an amalgamation of reality and fantasy. Fiction must gives us that near perfect pairing because, I suppose, that we read to escape to a world we might imagine for ourselves, better than what we have or maybe worse if we are into self flagellation. I'm not into reality shows and never got too much into soaps that were based on what my world was at the time. I read to learn, to escape, to dream and, I guess, my dreams are still bigger than where I am currently. Certainly, if I watch tv or go to the movies I'm looking for escapism, entertainment, a little vacation from the real world. I might learn something while I'm there, but it is the best type of learning, subliminal. What I take from them is dependent on my life experiences and how open I am to change.
the ideal of a more "equal" relationship... You know I can see this so easily and have probably thought something similar. It's because we still live in a patriarchal hierarchy. Men are still the boss, so therefore if the relationship were two women there would be no boss. No boss must mean, partners. Very simplistic, idealist and of course totally forgetting the nature of humans. Also, all of us know the grass is always greener on the other side and in fiction. :)
Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.
I could add here endless romance interludes where the sex is not graphic but it's there on almost every page. I do read such, I love it when it is well written but will generally skip over it after the second 'joining' because I really want the plot. Maybe I get enough sex, or am really good at pleasing myself so I don't need to read about it so much.
If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it
I'm not sure how much I would get into this genre other than the bits I've written in WTF which started of as a total tongue in cheek piece and started going off somewhere else leaving me wondering where to go with it. I really think my non writing of late is simply laziness. It's a discipline like anything else but I've been happy to play with Photoshop where I can grab a theme from somewhere and then let it run in images.
Tara with ANY man
You know, I agree with that. She is so well written into the role of lesbian, to me, that really I think it is rather an affront to the charachter to write her otherwise. She knows herself. She is centred. Willow, to me is bi and not because of her prior experience but her continued behaviour. She is still experimenting, learning. I don't know, that could be a load of crock. I've read two Spara stories that I did like but it is not a ship I look for.
If I were to enter a lesbian affair, I would so want Tara for a partner. Someone quietly strong to offset my brash/rash loudness but equally, perhaps more than, capable of leadership simply by the quiet self assurance. She would teach me to be a partner because I do want a 'partner', an equal.
Anya, would be the other choice. The experience of a thousand year old demon coupled with brash forthrightness. Oh yeah,
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Icons - I like to add an icon to the post because it makes my page look pretty - see totally superficial, lol. I used to let LJ do it but it was so hit and miss about doing it that I decided to do it myself. I didn't realise I've won something that round. Will have to have a look. :D
<i>Because the men had the only interesting relationships in canon. </i>
You know I never thought of that but it is so true of so much of what we still see on the box. Hmmm. And fanfic was around for Star Trek? Wow, I am out of the loop and a latecomer, grin. Actually, I do wonder how far from a true m/m relationship the written word is. I imagine that it is, as all fictional relationships, not close at all but rather an amalgamation of reality and fantasy. Fiction must gives us that near perfect pairing because, I suppose, that we read to escape to a world we might imagine for ourselves, better than what we have or maybe worse if we are into self flagellation. I'm not into reality shows and never got too much into soaps that were based on what my world was at the time. I read to learn, to escape, to dream and, I guess, my dreams are still bigger than where I am currently. Certainly, if I watch tv or go to the movies I'm looking for escapism, entertainment, a little vacation from the real world. I might learn something while I'm there, but it is the best type of learning, subliminal. What I take from them is dependent on my life experiences and how open I am to change.
<i>the ideal of a more "equal" relationship...</i> You know I can see this so easily and have probably thought something similar. It's because we still live in a patriarchal hierarchy. Men are still the boss, so therefore if the relationship were two women there would be no boss. No boss must mean, partners. Very simplistic, idealist and of course totally forgetting the nature of humans. Also, all of us know the grass is always greener on the other side and in fiction. :)
<i>Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.</i>
I could add here endless romance interludes where the sex is not graphic but it's there on almost every page. I do read such, I love it when it is well written but will generally skip over it after the second 'joining' because I really want the plot. Maybe I get enough sex, or am really good at pleasing myself so I don't need to read about it so much.
<i>If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it</i>
I'm not sure how much I would get into this genre other than the bits I've written in WTF which started of as a total tongue in cheek piece and started going off somewhere else leaving me wondering where to go with it. I really think my non writing of late is simply laziness. It's a discipline like anything else but I've been happy to play with Photoshop where I can grab a theme from somewhere and then let it run in images.
<i>Tara with ANY man</i>
You know, I agree with that. She is so well written into the role of lesbian, to me, that really I think it is rather an affront to the charachter to write her otherwise. She knows herself. She is centred. Willow, to me is bi and not because of her prior experience but her continued behaviour. She is still experimenting, learning. I don't know, that could be a load of crock. I've read two Spara stories that I did like but it is not a ship I look for.
If I were to enter a lesbian affair, I would so want Tara for a partner. Someone quietly strong to offset my brash/rash loudness but equally, perhaps more than, capable of leadership simply by the quiet self assurance. She would teach me to be a partner because I do want a 'partner', an equal.
Anya, would be the other choice. The experience of a thousand year old demon coupled with brash forthrightness. Oh yeah, <i.that</i> would be a dance I'd want on my card. :D
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Date: 2013-11-29 11:46 pm (UTC)Because the men had the only interesting relationships in canon.
You know I never thought of that but it is so true of so much of what we still see on the box. Hmmm. And fanfic was around for Star Trek? Wow, I am out of the loop and a latecomer, grin. Actually, I do wonder how far from a true m/m relationship the written word is. I imagine that it is, as all fictional relationships, not close at all but rather an amalgamation of reality and fantasy. Fiction must gives us that near perfect pairing because, I suppose, that we read to escape to a world we might imagine for ourselves, better than what we have or maybe worse if we are into self flagellation. I'm not into reality shows and never got too much into soaps that were based on what my world was at the time. I read to learn, to escape, to dream and, I guess, my dreams are still bigger than where I am currently. Certainly, if I watch tv or go to the movies I'm looking for escapism, entertainment, a little vacation from the real world. I might learn something while I'm there, but it is the best type of learning, subliminal. What I take from them is dependent on my life experiences and how open I am to change.
the ideal of a more "equal" relationship... You know I can see this so easily and have probably thought something similar. It's because we still live in a patriarchal hierarchy. Men are still the boss, so therefore if the relationship were two women there would be no boss. No boss must mean, partners. Very simplistic, idealist and of course totally forgetting the nature of humans. Also, all of us know the grass is always greener on the other side and in fiction. :)
Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.
I could add here endless romance interludes where the sex is not graphic but it's there on almost every page. I do read such, I love it when it is well written but will generally skip over it after the second 'joining' because I really want the plot. Maybe I get enough sex, or am really good at pleasing myself so I don't need to read about it so much.
If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it
I'm not sure how much I would get into this genre other than the bits I've written in WTF which started of as a total tongue in cheek piece and started going off somewhere else leaving me wondering where to go with it. I really think my non writing of late is simply laziness. It's a discipline like anything else but I've been happy to play with Photoshop where I can grab a theme from somewhere and then let it run in images.
Tara with ANY man
You know, I agree with that. She is so well written into the role of lesbian, to me, that really I think it is rather an affront to the charachter to write her otherwise. She knows herself. She is centred. Willow, to me is bi and not because of her prior experience but her continued behaviour. She is still experimenting, learning. I don't know, that could be a load of crock. I've read two Spara stories that I did like but it is not a ship I look for.
If I were to enter a lesbian affair, I would so want Tara for a partner. Someone quietly strong to offset my brash/rash loudness but equally, perhaps more than, capable of leadership simply by the quiet self assurance. She would teach me to be a partner because I do want a 'partner', an equal.
Anya, would be the other choice. The experience of a thousand year old demon coupled with brash forthrightness. Oh yeah,
<i>Because the men had the only interesting relationships in canon. </i>
You know I never thought of that but it is so true of so much of what we still see on the box. Hmmm. And fanfic was around for Star Trek? Wow, I am out of the loop and a latecomer, grin. Actually, I do wonder how far from a true m/m relationship the written word is. I imagine that it is, as all fictional relationships, not close at all but rather an amalgamation of reality and fantasy. Fiction must gives us that near perfect pairing because, I suppose, that we read to escape to a world we might imagine for ourselves, better than what we have or maybe worse if we are into self flagellation. I'm not into reality shows and never got too much into soaps that were based on what my world was at the time. I read to learn, to escape, to dream and, I guess, my dreams are still bigger than where I am currently. Certainly, if I watch tv or go to the movies I'm looking for escapism, entertainment, a little vacation from the real world. I might learn something while I'm there, but it is the best type of learning, subliminal. What I take from them is dependent on my life experiences and how open I am to change.
<i>the ideal of a more "equal" relationship...</i> You know I can see this so easily and have probably thought something similar. It's because we still live in a patriarchal hierarchy. Men are still the boss, so therefore if the relationship were two women there would be no boss. No boss must mean, partners. Very simplistic, idealist and of course totally forgetting the nature of humans. Also, all of us know the grass is always greener on the other side and in fiction. :)
<i>Graphic sex scenes or PWP is of zero interest to me regardless of gender.</i>
I could add here endless romance interludes where the sex is not graphic but it's there on almost every page. I do read such, I love it when it is well written but will generally skip over it after the second 'joining' because I really want the plot. Maybe I get enough sex, or am really good at pleasing myself so I don't need to read about it so much.
<i>If you try your hand at femmeslash I'd read it</i>
I'm not sure how much I would get into this genre other than the bits I've written in WTF which started of as a total tongue in cheek piece and started going off somewhere else leaving me wondering where to go with it. I really think my non writing of late is simply laziness. It's a discipline like anything else but I've been happy to play with Photoshop where I can grab a theme from somewhere and then let it run in images.
<i>Tara with ANY man</i>
You know, I agree with that. She is so well written into the role of lesbian, to me, that really I think it is rather an affront to the charachter to write her otherwise. She knows herself. She is centred. Willow, to me is bi and not because of her prior experience but her continued behaviour. She is still experimenting, learning. I don't know, that could be a load of crock. I've read two Spara stories that I did like but it is not a ship I look for.
If I were to enter a lesbian affair, I would so want Tara for a partner. Someone quietly strong to offset my brash/rash loudness but equally, perhaps more than, capable of leadership simply by the quiet self assurance. She would teach me to be a partner because I do want a 'partner', an equal.
Anya, would be the other choice. The experience of a thousand year old demon coupled with brash forthrightness. Oh yeah, <i.that</i> would be a dance I'd want on my card. :D