I like when you have thinky thoughts. It's more fun that way!
The questions were sort of deliberately vague, because I'm interested in your peception of fandom, not mine. For example, you defined SGA as a predominantly male fandom, and someone else said that they believed it to be predominantly female.
Different perceptions of the same show are fascinating. Both of you write the women characters, so that doesn't explain it. I'm not sure what does (nor am I sure it matters). It's just interesting.
The femmeslash question was based off left over thoughts from the recent femmeslash ficathon (which I didn't particiapte in and cannot remember the name of), but a lot of the participants commented on the relative unracy ratings (lots of PG/PG13). The comment was made (by who, I don't remember) that if it had been a m/m slash fest, there would likely have been much higher ratings overall.
That made me think that a lot of the participants were writing because they were stretching their wings and wanted to try and write women. I could be (and likely am) wrong, but it interested me enough that I still recall that. *lol*
Anyway, I'm intrigued by the fact that you focus on women characters even in "male" fandoms. If you don't mind telling me, do you find that the women characters tend to be drawn well? Or do you write them to provide them more of a backstory/reality of their own?
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Date: 2008-08-27 10:11 pm (UTC)The questions were sort of deliberately vague, because I'm interested in your peception of fandom, not mine. For example, you defined SGA as a predominantly male fandom, and someone else said that they believed it to be predominantly female.
Different perceptions of the same show are fascinating. Both of you write the women characters, so that doesn't explain it. I'm not sure what does (nor am I sure it matters). It's just interesting.
The femmeslash question was based off left over thoughts from the recent femmeslash ficathon (which I didn't particiapte in and cannot remember the name of), but a lot of the participants commented on the relative unracy ratings (lots of PG/PG13). The comment was made (by who, I don't remember) that if it had been a m/m slash fest, there would likely have been much higher ratings overall.
That made me think that a lot of the participants were writing because they were stretching their wings and wanted to try and write women. I could be (and likely am) wrong, but it interested me enough that I still recall that. *lol*
Anyway, I'm intrigued by the fact that you focus on women characters even in "male" fandoms. If you don't mind telling me, do you find that the women characters tend to be drawn well? Or do you write them to provide them more of a backstory/reality of their own?