have a chance to really go wild, and not enough people are doing it.
I know that I get comments on my stories about Weir (SGA) saying that they wished she was better in canon.
With BSG, I find it interesting that I didn't see a lot of femslash until Michelle Forbes brought the gay. It's almost like we had to be spoon fed it.
I wonder how much a fandom adapts itself to authorial perceptions, regardless of how unintentional the intentions are (wow, we'll just pretend I said that in a way that makes sense) or how unconscious the fandom movements are.
The two fandoms I'm most familiar with are the Buffyverse and SGA.
I'd say that with SGA, most people know it's a boys club. They also know from SG-1 that there's never going to be any sort of sex or hooking up of the main characters. (Ships? What ships?) And then there's the DeLuise that comments on things like Weir's boobs in commentary. To fans, it makes sense that the female characters are subpar and a lot of them are okay with that since no one is shipped together and can stop the fandom boyslash OTP.
With Buffyverse, it's overwhelmingly apparent that a) a lot of people worship Joss and b) believe wholeheartedly that he was writing a feminist show with Buffy. This is definitely why there is more het here. I think Buffy/Willow would be a lot bigger if Willow hadn't went evil and if they were friends at the end of the show like they were in S1. Or there would've been more femslash in general if the women (the non-related ones) had more screen time. Really, only Faith/Buffy and early Willow/Buffy was given that development. But then you get into those that don't want to write teenagers...
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I know that I get comments on my stories about Weir (SGA) saying that they wished she was better in canon.
With BSG, I find it interesting that I didn't see a lot of femslash until Michelle Forbes brought the gay. It's almost like we had to be spoon fed it.
I wonder how much a fandom adapts itself to authorial perceptions, regardless of how unintentional the intentions are (wow, we'll just pretend I said that in a way that makes sense) or how unconscious the fandom movements are.
The two fandoms I'm most familiar with are the Buffyverse and SGA.
I'd say that with SGA, most people know it's a boys club. They also know from SG-1 that there's never going to be any sort of sex or hooking up of the main characters. (Ships? What ships?) And then there's the DeLuise that comments on things like Weir's boobs in commentary. To fans, it makes sense that the female characters are subpar and a lot of them are okay with that since no one is shipped together and can stop the fandom boyslash OTP.
With Buffyverse, it's overwhelmingly apparent that a) a lot of people worship Joss and b) believe wholeheartedly that he was writing a feminist show with Buffy. This is definitely why there is more het here. I think Buffy/Willow would be a lot bigger if Willow hadn't went evil and if they were friends at the end of the show like they were in S1. Or there would've been more femslash in general if the women (the non-related ones) had more screen time. Really, only Faith/Buffy and early Willow/Buffy was given that development. But then you get into those that don't want to write teenagers...