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Things I have done today:

1. Slept.
2. Slept some more
3. All the laundry! Believe me, it was a lot of laundry. Most of it sheets, for some reason.


Also, We Love the Women That Fandom Hates! Go forth and claim! Basically you choose a character (and that could be basically any female character, since there's always someone hating on them...) and then you post about her for a week, from friday to friday. But, not only that, you can pick whichever language you want! I would really like some more Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Swedish-speaking Finns so we can share the spoils. Because I'm gonna write in Swedish. Probably with a translation, but still!





Lookie! Isn't it pretty? Made by mlekopijca

Guys! GUYS!!!!!!

Fireworks 11: The [Totally Not] Annual femslash_today Porn Battle

is open for prompts. Go there and play, now! Do it! For me, for fandom and for the glory of femslash!!!!!!

I watched Howl's Moving Castle, and as I watched I realized that while I've seen the entire movie, more or less, I've never actually seen it in order. I must have watched it a my parents, when they had movie channels, and just went in and out of it. It makes more sense in the proper order. And of course after reading a synopsis of the book...

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So, Martin Freeman won a BAFTA. Good for him and all that. Just, this interview rubs me wrong in some way. "Gayest story in the history of television". What does that even mean? Apart from John's sister and her wife (or ex-wife), no one is actually named as gay in the series. Is it just because it's two men who have a close friendship? That's gay? More gay than Torchwood? More gay than Queer as Folk? More gay than L-word? My respect for Freeman jus went down. Way down. I don't get why close friendships always get sexualized, or joked about. I feel like we should have gotten further, but apparently not.

So if anyone has some light to shed on this I'd be happy.

Written for the second annual mini meta fest at fem_thoughts.

The thing is, I'm probably not the right person to write this, but I will anyway. For me, fanfic is divided first and foremost by fandom. I know some people will read things for fandoms they don't know if they like the writer enough, but I can't do this.

Secondly, it's divided into shippy and not shippy. Fic can of course be very plot driven but still have romance or an established relationship in the background, and then it will still be considered not shippy by me. Shippy fic is the kind where romance or sex is the point of the fic.

Last comes the distinction of het, guyslash or femslash. It's not a really important distinction for me, since I will read and write fic of all kinds, but I know it is to others, and in some way I think marking something as femslash is important, to show that we exist, that femslash exists. I've recently begun tagging my femslash on AO3 to make it easier to find, and to help the statistics (if someone was going to make such statistics). But to me personally it doesn't mean a lot in terms of reading.

If we're just going to look at the word, femslash to me is fic in which two (or more) characters who see themselves as female are in a romantic or sexual relationship, or are on the verge of entering into such a relationship, or if one character pines after (for?) the other. If one or both (or more) of the characters are in a straight relationship at the time, or have been, or will be, or indeed any other kind of relationship that can't easily be labeled as lesbian it will still be femslash. Sure, if it focuses a lot on the straight relationship it might not be very good femslash, but still.

The only exception is poly relationships, at least if the focus is on that aspect of the relationship and not the characters as they relate in twosomes within the poly relationship. And this only applies if the characters are of two (or more) different genders.

All in all, I do think it's inherently problematic to divide things according to sex or gender, but while I wait, and work for, a society in which sex and gender is irrelevant I will continue to label things when appropriate.