I don't! I am learning lots of things from talking to people in this post. I have always gotten the impression that a lot of folks in football fandom are not in other fandoms though--I thought that was part of what you were researching? maybe I'm wrong, I remember that being part of your survey but idk. so it's hard to tell, especially since I find that the folks I talk to the most around here are the ones who are (or have been) in other fandoms, and also are cool with het/ladies in various forms. but I am not doing surveys and anecdotal evidence is worth exactly fuck-all, so there you go. if/when there are statistics to the contrary I shall shut my trap immediately!
BUT DUDE I WILL DEFEND A:TLA FANDOM TO MY LAST BREATH. (though I haven't noticed it being a particular het-heavy fandom? maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I didn't find much on delicious or the AO3 when I was in my OH GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW GIVE ME ALL THE FIC phase. not sure why JetKo is such a big thing, either. ugh, Jet, nobody cares about your psychotic manpain. and why no Aang/Katara, anywhere. ~sulky~)
but, like. I am not blaming anybody in fandom? so I am confused why you keep insisting that I am? societal default is misogynist, it is unfortunate but not anybody's fault. I would like a place for hetfic in this fandom, and I am curious to know whether other people would be interested in one. I started thinking about it because of the self-insert hetfic and rambled my way down, and I'm sorry that I offended you in the rambling; I wasn't trying to, but it takes a lot more effort to word everything perfectly and then I never would have posted anything and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now, so. it is obviously a complex issue and I don't have the answers! I would just like a place where I can collect other people who are both into football and into the ladies so that we can squee at each other on the regular, and maybe encourage other people who are into football to appreciate the awesomeness of the ladies, since they are (as you have pointed out) underexposed. so now I'll see what I can do on that front, since it is better to be productive than to complain! (she says, despite loving to complain more than almost anything. ahhhhh bitching is like my favorite hobby never take it away from me!)
(it is hard to be into a pairing when one half of it inspires you with determined apathy, and it is really hard to be into writing gen for a person you've read one article about. or maybe that's me being weird? idk, I find it a lot easier to get into stories about relationships, is that weird? I guess I need that hook at the beginning. it took me almost a year in football fandom to be able to appreciate good gen, and now I love it, but man. I shake my head at you, younger self who was too ignorant to appreciate applefic's stories. but I don't much like books that don't have a romantic pairing that I'm rooting for either, so maybe it really is just me.
all of which is to say: if you write the fic, I will read it, and that will be a hook into that character for me! I don't feel equipped to even think about writing her, though. so... no, I did not respond to that prompt.)
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Date: 2012-06-01 06:49 pm (UTC)BUT DUDE I WILL DEFEND A:TLA FANDOM TO MY LAST BREATH. (though I haven't noticed it being a particular het-heavy fandom? maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but I didn't find much on delicious or the AO3 when I was in my OH GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW GIVE ME ALL THE FIC phase. not sure why JetKo is such a big thing, either. ugh, Jet, nobody cares about your psychotic manpain. and why no Aang/Katara, anywhere. ~sulky~)
but, like. I am not blaming anybody in fandom? so I am confused why you keep insisting that I am? societal default is misogynist, it is unfortunate but not anybody's fault. I would like a place for hetfic in this fandom, and I am curious to know whether other people would be interested in one. I started thinking about it because of the self-insert hetfic and rambled my way down, and I'm sorry that I offended you in the rambling; I wasn't trying to, but it takes a lot more effort to word everything perfectly and then I never would have posted anything and I wouldn't be having this conversation right now, so. it is obviously a complex issue and I don't have the answers! I would just like a place where I can collect other people who are both into football and into the ladies so that we can squee at each other on the regular, and maybe encourage other people who are into football to appreciate the awesomeness of the ladies, since they are (as you have pointed out) underexposed. so now I'll see what I can do on that front, since it is better to be productive than to complain! (she says, despite loving to complain more than almost anything. ahhhhh bitching is like my favorite hobby never take it away from me!)
(it is hard to be into a pairing when one half of it inspires you with determined apathy, and it is really hard to be into writing gen for a person you've read one article about. or maybe that's me being weird? idk, I find it a lot easier to get into stories about relationships, is that weird? I guess I need that hook at the beginning. it took me almost a year in football fandom to be able to appreciate good gen, and now I love it, but man. I shake my head at you, younger self who was too ignorant to appreciate
all of which is to say: if you write the fic, I will read it, and that will be a hook into that character for me! I don't feel equipped to even think about writing her, though. so... no, I did not respond to that prompt.)