welcome welcome, stay and chat a while! :D (though off-topic but... should I move that post to the top of the page or something? I don't want people to be forced to read my blatherings just to get to it...)
dude good for you, I am not exactly proud of the six years of my life I spent almost exclusively hanging out in slash fandom. not that there's anything wrong with slash fandom, obvs, I'm still here! but the refusal to get into fandoms with ladybits in them was, in retrospect, kind of icky of me. (though weirdly enough, throughout those six years I was also devouring het romance novels, and I loved a lot of het canon source material; I just wasn't really interacting with it. I still have no idea what was going on in my teenage brain.)
oh, tumblr. I mean, I know other fandoms really do use it for fic, it just makes me sad. it's so completely impractical! tumblr was designed for pictures! but it's probably no worse than mailing group fandom, and I did my stint in those, so. (but livejournal! dreamwidth! AO3! SO MANY OTHER PLATFORMS BETTER SUITED TO POSTING AND COMMENTING ON FIC! ...ok I swear I'm done.) I have similar feelings about using tumblr as a srs bsns blog platform, and lots of people do that. I'm basically a cranky old woman shouting for the kids to get off my lawn.
yeah, it's just tough when there's so little known about any female "characters" that could be written about. I wish I had a solution, but I don't. even acquiring the knowledge doesn't really seem to be enough, I'm finding; the more I research female footballers, the less I want to write fic and the more I want to beat society over the head with a plank.
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dude good for you, I am not exactly proud of the six years of my life I spent almost exclusively hanging out in slash fandom. not that there's anything wrong with slash fandom, obvs, I'm still here! but the refusal to get into fandoms with ladybits in them was, in retrospect, kind of icky of me. (though weirdly enough, throughout those six years I was also devouring het romance novels, and I loved a lot of het canon source material; I just wasn't really interacting with it. I still have no idea what was going on in my teenage brain.)
oh, tumblr. I mean, I know other fandoms really do use it for fic, it just makes me sad. it's so completely impractical! tumblr was designed for pictures! but it's probably no worse than mailing group fandom, and I did my stint in those, so. (but livejournal! dreamwidth! AO3! SO MANY OTHER PLATFORMS BETTER SUITED TO POSTING AND COMMENTING ON FIC! ...ok I swear I'm done.) I have similar feelings about using tumblr as a srs bsns blog platform, and lots of people do that. I'm basically a cranky old woman shouting for the kids to get off my lawn.
yeah, it's just tough when there's so little known about any female "characters" that could be written about. I wish I had a solution, but I don't. even acquiring the knowledge doesn't really seem to be enough, I'm finding; the more I research female footballers, the less I want to write fic and the more I want to beat society over the head with a plank.