[ SECRET POST #3172 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3172 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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(Ollie Locke)


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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

In my original work, I somehow have several F/F couples, and I like F/F relationships where that's part of the original character design.

Fandom femslash often annoys me, though, because it just feels like overlaying your sexual fetishes on how you see women. It can be done well, but too often it's someone just wanting all the girls to fit into their fantasies.

I've mostly seen this from straight men and lesbians, but I don't think it's entirely from the male-or-lesbian gaze. I think it's mental laziness and disinterest in the broad variety of possible relationships characters can have.

Women with close female friends are not necessarily romantic about them!

Re: Unpopular opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I hate to sound like a one-note caricature here, but literally every single point you're making here has been made at length as a critique of slash shipping. So I really have to ask whether you really think it's something specific to femslash, or why it doesn't bother you with slash, or whatever.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

Well, all of that pretty much goes for "dudeslash" too.

But I tend to write more female characters than male, so I don't do a lot with M/M couples myself. I think about writing a M/M relationship now and then, but I haven't really done much with it. Gay men are just not a big part of what I do these days.

And I've never been into M/M slash.

I'm a big fan of franchises with female protagonists, and if they're in a F/F team or partnership, well, then that's like two female protagonists for the price of one, right? So it's been pretty easy for me to end up in femslashy corners of fandom.

When the text says, "These two characters hate each other like sisters," and they each have chips on their shoulders; but the fandom that claim to love the material have them in lust for each other and one even going all submissive--that can turn a fan off to femslash very fast.

Re: Unpopular opinions

[kitelovesyou]

overlaying your sexual fetishes on how you see women

I might be being obtuse here but isn't that the purpose of (ship) fic?