I came here to peruse your rec list, but this post interested me so forgive my strange butting in :D
I think I agree on the whole with what you're saying, although I've always been a fan of het, to me it depends of the actual subject/fandom, if the pairing works and I feel ok about it then I can ship it. So I don't think I've ever gone through the cycle you have.
RPF is a whole different ball game I suppose, and canon isn't black and white (depends who you ask!), but it's a real shame women get no love, wag or player-wise. I have to say, though, that I think there's a lot of self-insert fic around on livejournal, it's just the names have been changed to that of a favourite player, which is probably no better than the kind you've found in the Valdes tag. Sometimes I'm not sure if the author's aware they're doing it or not though :/
I've had to change my view of tumblr recently because my main fandom's 'best' (as in the quality of writing.I have issues with the the context/pairings but that's a different matter) fic is written on tumblr, which I don't particularly like, or find easy to read, but what can you do? So whilst I think tumblr is 'for pictures' in the football community, I think it's different for every fandom. though I agree that there seems to be a lot more younger people on there.
I adore femslash, and I wish it was more popular in every fandom, but it doesn't seem to be. Though within this fandom I see no surprises in the way women are treated as look at how they're treated by the football world/press as a whole. It sucks but I don't see it changing any time soon either :/
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Date: 2012-05-18 01:51 pm (UTC)I think I agree on the whole with what you're saying, although I've always been a fan of het, to me it depends of the actual subject/fandom, if the pairing works and I feel ok about it then I can ship it. So I don't think I've ever gone through the cycle you have.
RPF is a whole different ball game I suppose, and canon isn't black and white (depends who you ask!), but it's a real shame women get no love, wag or player-wise. I have to say, though, that I think there's a lot of self-insert fic around on livejournal, it's just the names have been changed to that of a favourite player, which is probably no better than the kind you've found in the Valdes tag. Sometimes I'm not sure if the author's aware they're doing it or not though :/
I've had to change my view of tumblr recently because my main fandom's 'best' (as in the quality of writing.I have issues with the the context/pairings but that's a different matter) fic is written on tumblr, which I don't particularly like, or find easy to read, but what can you do? So whilst I think tumblr is 'for pictures' in the football community, I think it's different for every fandom. though I agree that there seems to be a lot more younger people on there.
I adore femslash, and I wish it was more popular in every fandom, but it doesn't seem to be. Though within this fandom I see no surprises in the way women are treated as look at how they're treated by the football world/press as a whole. It sucks but I don't see it changing any time soon either :/