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I started reading and writing Orig F/F because most of my fandoms are so male centric.

I'm having an identical problem tbh. I am a pansexual married to a woman but I only write m/m. I don't understand why I just can't ship femslash the same way! It's frustrating to me. I feel like I'm being a Bad Gay.

I used to like m/m slash a lot more, but lately I've been liking the f/f, probably since Korrasami showed what the possibilities were.

TBH, I'm sometimes the same way. I prefer writing for kind of shallow fandoms just because I feel like the characterization is easier to pin down, but the drawback of that is that the female characters are often... not great. When I actually like the relationship between two female characters I get worried that I won't be able to write them well! And I think maybe a lot of people have a similar problem, so there's not as much F/F fic to read to keep myself excited about a ship, so I don't feel like writing as much, and I feel insecure about what I do write because when I write a rarepair I feel a responsibility to do a good job... a vicious cycle.

This used to be me until I found an exception to my femslash block: fucked up femslash! I realized that I can't warm up to the fluffy, sweet f/f my fandoms tend to produce, but give me enemies who hate and lust over each other, or complicated relationships that are all shades of grey, or, um, incest that isn't idealized? I'm here, I'm here.

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME but I can't find much fucked up shit.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-01-25 01:35 (UTC) - Expand

This might be my problem. I mainly right now like villain/villain or villain/hero ships. And most fandoms with good female villains have male heroes, and rarely are there two female villains in the same fandom. Although, Thor 3 might change that since I've had the urge to write some Hela/Valkyrie.

I'm counting down the days until the next series of Doctor Who. I've shipped the wrongbad that is Doctor/Master for a couple of decades, and I'm finally going to have both a canonical female Doctor and Master to play with!

my femslash ships are all basically characters who've tried to kill each other, lol. Swan Queen from Once Upon A Time, Cara/Kahlan from Legend of the Seeker, Root/Shaw from Person of Interest (that one actually became canon!)...

I guess Morgana/Morgause was the one exception, but I also love ships with a mentor/protege type of dynamic, which that fits into, as well as Andy/Miranda from Devil Wears Prada.

but BFFs/friends-to-lovers does nothing for me. treacly sweet and gooey fics bore me to death. I need some delicious conflict and reluctant UST, mwahaha.

I want to write femslash porn but I'm not attracted to women so I don't have any first-hand experience. I really wish there was a Minotaur Sex Tips for F/F because reading the one he wrote for M/M is what made me confident in writing M/M porn. He was great about telling what real life was like but also what certain fantasy conceits were common in M/M writing and it was okay to use them. I would love if someone did the same for F/F.

DA this is my first time here ever but why would you want to write femslash when you're not even attracted to women? Are you trying to please someone?

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I love reading f/f that isn't fic, but I seldom read any f/f fic. Absolutely no idea why.

... so, biographies?

I was interpreting "fic" as short for fanfiction.

I'm in the same situation as you, OP, though I'm way closer to lesbian than bi. And I still only write male slash. I think I just like more action-centric, fucked up stories, and those genres tend to have male casts. And it seems unusual to find a series that's action focused, treats the female characters just as male characters, and still has enough homoerotic subtext between two female characters to interest me.

For original fic, I write both m/m and f/f. I still find m/m a little easier to write, I think a part of me is just more self-conscious writing f/f.

Honestly, same.

I absolutely love drawing femslash but I'm not good at writing it and I'm not sure why because I can write GEN one-shots with my fave female characters but trying to put words down for my f/f ships leaves me staring blankly at the page.

I do however love reading f/f though, just can't type it out.

Brains are weird.

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I don't think that anyone should feel like they have to write anything or ship anything out of any kind of obligation. That's garbage. Do as the spirit moves you. If all that you write and consume is M/M, that's fine. But what I am a little skeptical of is the idea that people who write and consume exclusively M/M also totally want to read and write F/F but are just incapable of actually doing so.

Regardless of all that, though, I think femslash is great and I'm happy if people are into it at all.

All of this.

Same. Most of the things I'm super into are also pretty male-centric, and if there's one awesome female character, there's almost never a second one to pair her with.

For me it's a ~mystique~ sort of thing. I'm a married lesbian, and all I write is m/m because there's still a level of fantasy detachment in it for me. (Most) het and f/f is hard to get titillated by, because of the descriptions of the sensations the girls are feeling-- which hardly ever match up with my own lived experience (which is fine! fantasy is meant to be unrealistic), so it pulls me out of it a bit. With guys, I don't have that issue, so I can just write mind-blowing hands-free orgasms to my heart's content.

My fanfic skews heavily m/m, largely due to the fact that my fandoms are in genres that tend to be male-centric. My original fiction skews a lot more f/f. But there are exceptions in both directions, and I write het for both fanfic and original fiction as well.

I'm in pretty much the same boat right now. I'm bi and a lot more attracted to women than men, and yet for some reason I'm just... not finding femslash very interesting right now. It's probably at least partially because my current fandom fixation has very few women and I'm pretty sure that I can count on one hand the number of times any two women have interacted in the whole of canon (there are valid reasons for it, to be fair, but still a bit :/) so it's not that surprising that I wouldn't ship anything, but I've also been reading a TON of fic for this fandom and delving into pairings I'd never thought about at all, with fairly minor characters... and yet every time I see an f/f pairing my brain just goes "meh" and I don't read it.

It's frustrating because I love femslash! I love female characters! I write mostly female characters! But for some reason it feels really, really weird right now.

Look for canon material that isn’t so heavily male-centric? That’s an option you know...

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