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lumiosecity!

1. What rating do you write most fics under?
Teen and Up, with 74 fic out of 142, a little more than half of them. To be honest, I tend to be cautious with my tagging: some things might fit under General Audiences, but if there's any doubt or element that could raise it, I put Teen, just in case. Mature is a distant second with 46.

2. What is your most-tagged category? (F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, or Other?)
Femslash reigns supreme with 53! F/F, Gen (47 at the moment) and F/M (45 right now, but if I finish two drafts, by this weekend it'll catch up with Gen) are usually very close together, with F/F usually a bit above the other two. M/M really lags behind with... 7 fics, as of today aldsfkjñl. But it will change in the future, as I ship my most written male character with more than a few dudes.

It will never get on the other three's level though xD

Multi has 5, and it will raise a bit too (I also ship my favourite dude in an F/M/M ot3 AND my favourite gal in a specific F/F poly arrangement, so).

3. What are your top 3 fandoms?
The DCU with 47 fics, 44 of which are tagged DCU (Comics), 23 as Batman (Comics), and 15 as Batgirl (Comics). As you see, I'm exhaustive LOL. But I'm counting all those as only one fandom, DCU. Second spot goes to Supernatural with 21 fanworks, and the third is a tie between The 100 (TV) and the Plecverse (The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms) with 11 fanworks each.

4. What is your top character you write about?
Right now, it's a tie between Jason Todd and Cassandra Cain, with 13 each. Jason will get top spot this weekend, and he won't have a hard time staying around the top with all the WIPs I have where he's a protagonist, a love interest, a deuteragonist, a secondary/antagonistic menance, a ghost hunting the narrative... or several of the above at once lol. But tbh a lot of DC characters have good chances and are close to those numbers. It usually depends on fandom events that can make the numbers change, and Cass herself does have a week in January that I might try to write something for.

5. What are the 3 top pairings?
The gold is for Castiel/Meg from Supernatural with 10, most of which are edits (I REALLY went out when I organised a ship event while I was active in the fandom lol), and the silver for Caroline/Klaus as the runner-up with 6. The bronze is a triple tie between Steph/Cass, Jason/Mia Dearden, and Isabelle/Raphael (from Shadowhunters) with 4 fics each, but Jason/Mia will be on the rise (Steph/Cass will probably make appearances too, but I am a fan of them as messy exes first and foremost, so keep that in mind!).

6. What are the top 3 additional tags?
My top tags are Drabble (59), Pre-Reboot (32) and Femslash February (30).

7. Did any of this surprise you? (e.g. what turned out to be your top tag.)
Absolutely none of it lol, I tend to be very aware of my ~general trends. I like what I like :P. The only thing I can say is that the presence of SPN or Shadowhunters is a bit outdated because I have abandoned those fandoms. Sometimes I do get a bit of an itch for Bela Talbot in particular (and even less often, other SPN women), but I try to ignore it xD, I have other priorities now.

I borrowed these from

luckyzukky

1) First time you encoutered canon femslash

Well, I was a Xena fan from early childhood, so xD. I watched episodes as they were shown on tv, so I've never actually watched it the whole thing, and I should definitely remedy that.

2) First times you encountered femslash shipping

Circa 11 years old, when I first started lurking in the Buffyverse fandom.

3) Is femslash the main part of your fandom life?

Fandom-wise it might be more balanced, if only because in what's been my main fandom for over a year now (and most active fandom ever), aka DC comics, my best beloved characters happens to be a guy. I post and love a lot of het ships too (rn the ratio on my ao3 fics is 45 F/F, 42 F/M, I just looked lol).

Femslash is however extremely dominant in my original fiction. I write about women first and foremost, about the relationships between them, of any all of types, and if there's romance, it's 99% guaranteed to be F/F. I might utterly fall in love with (admittedly very few) male characters created by OTHER people (primary examples being Jason Todd or Black Sails' John Silver), but my personal creativity is extremely biased towards women LMAO.

4) Have you already started a canon just because you knew there would be femslash shipping opportunities?

Nah, not really. Sometimes a femslash ship reblogged on tumblr caught my eye, yes, but I need more than that to give a canon a try. Especially because my shipping preferences rarely are aligned with that of the rest of the fandom. I even made an ask meme about it once: give me a popular F/F ship, and I'll tell you which antagonistic F/F alternative I vastly prefer xDD

5) Canon, subtext, or make-everything-work-by-yourself ships?

It definitely depends, though I'd say most of my femslash ships are probably on the subtext territory first, canon second. In general, I need a canon push to become interested in a ship, with some exceptions. I like it when characters are important to each other, one way or another!

6) A femslash ship you feel like you're alone in shipping

I know there were a few other shippers around, but Rosita Bustillos/Waverly Earp (which I named Rosewaves on tumblr) definitely fits. Especially because it seems people shipped it as like... a nice rarepair to multiship alongside Waverly's canon relationship, and I could NOT care less for that one LMAO. I was ALL about Rosewaves, and I would've paid real money to see it be the show's ship instead of Wayhaugh.

7) Did you see a change in femslash fandom since the time you started fandom?

I didn't see as much of this... defanged, toothless, out-of-convenience-only femslash shipping when I started. Because homophobia xD, but also the trends in fandom misogyny. Before it was all about WHAT A BITCH the female characters in question were for getting in the way of my slash ship/being the object of interest of the guy EYE find hot/not being a perfect fluffer/whatever.

Now instead of insulting and bashing the woman, because that would make them Look Bad, it's all about how she's the BESTIE, the fujoshi, and sometimes, how ACTUALLY!!! she's a lesbian (even when she's shown no hint of it and often her life revolves around men in a way I'd find insulting for a lesbian character, tbqh)!!! ew how can you ship her with MEN who are UNWORTHY of her!! Nonono, let's pair her with this other woman (often someone she wouldn't be interested in in a million years, but okay) and put them in the background, being generic as fuck.

BUT. I don't really consider this as part of The Femslash Fandom, because again, this is Convenience Shipping and nothing that actually puts the care into the characters involved.

8) Some femslash poly ships? What are your opinions about f/f/m poly?

One of my longest original WIPs will involve a F/F/F triangle/messy triad, so there's that xD

In fandom I rarely seem to go for it? In general I ship things 1-on-1, it's how I like it lol, that kind of... claustrophobia. The few polyships I've been REALLY into (like Jason/Mia/Tim at the moment) were F/F/M or F/M/M.

I think in part it's because in general I prefer Triangulation Drama TM in my femslash over the classic Let's Solve Things With Polyshipping. If there's a set-up with more than two female characters with sexual an emotional tension between them, I'm more likely to want them to fight about it lol. Tbf that's also semi-present in my other poly configurations but. I REALLY want F/F conflict lol.

9) Do you feel like shipping femslash is different from shipping slash, het or other? How?

It's different in the sense that you better get used to be a minority in fandom and all that it entails LOL. Otherwise you'll be endlessly frustrated.

10) Favourites tropes for femslash ships?

One of my favourite things is older/younger woman configurations where the older one sees ~her younger self in the other and that configures how the relationship takes form (resentment? Protectiveness?). In general, "mirror" characters pair really well in F/F imo.

11) Fluff, humor, angst, or smut?

Angst is my area of expertise, though I definitely mix in the others. A little flavour makes the angst even sadder xD

12) Are there some m/m or m/f ships that you love genderswapped as f/f?

I'm not much for genderswapping, but I have done it once: a Pepper/Tony fic. Except it's based on the fact that Marvel *did* create a continuity where Tony was a woman. Generally speaking, if a given male character was genderswapped from the start, I would've probably liked them MORE lol, given my usual patterns, but the times I *really* like a male character... I like them as is and their gender and how they interact with it is usually a feature of it, not a bug, because it happens to be interesting on its own.

13) Did you already write original femslash? If so, what was it about? If not, what would it be about if you did? If you would never, why?

Nothing complete that I've shared (well, some in an old writeblr, but that was deleted), but as I said, this is my primary interest in original fiction. Some of the examples in my original stories, for your amusement:

stylish butch former pirate/princess + messy former assassin have a ons and then end up in the same space ship.
powerful witch + her codependent best friend + a third woman who becomes enamoured with the first before everything goes sideways and has a hate/hate realtionship with the second before they slowly fall for each other.
immortal scholar + the also immortal woman who's in unrequited love with her and wants her to kill her.
secretary of a hardboiled detective that actually does the job and can hear echoes of the dead + the femme fatale who seduced her and used her + the sob-sister serious journalist wannabe investigating them.
newest victim of a serial abuser + his former flame he still pines for.
doomed woman with little time to live + the butch princess she's obsessed with ever since she was kind to her once.
theatre diva with a dwindling career + the femmish literal angel who wants to become her.
whatever the fuck is going with all the women in Underground Elysium which includes: the dictator, her ever-faithful guard, her human maid she regards as little more than a pet but gets horny for her vampire bites, the tyrant's rival who hates her for that one time she mutilated her, the rival's daughter who she groomed to beat the dictator, and a couple more others.
many, MANY more lol.

14) Favorite femslash ship of all times

I couldn't pick just one, but I just finished reading Gideon the Ninth and Griddlehark has me on a chokehold at the moment. I need to finish the other two books before I allow it to consume me, though. I don't want spoilers or misinterpretations on my part xD

15) A guilty pleasure

N/A.

16) A fandom where I have so many femslash ships

DC comics is definitely high on the list, even if 1.) I think ultimately I have more het ones, or at least they're pretty level, and 2.) given how many women I love there, and how many possible combinations there are, it's very unsurprising.

17) A femslash pairing I like on principle without even being in the fandom

I have yet to start Interview with The Vampire, but I think I'll like Claudia and Madeleine.

18) A character I headcanon as lesbian/wlw without having big ships with her

Quite a few, probably, but the first one that came to my mind was Mary Winchester from Supernatural. I ship her with a few characters, but it's more lowkey than my desire to indulge in HOW FUCKED UP it'd be if she was a lesbian.

19) Rec day! Canon or fics, as long as it's femslash! Or even shippable!

In Pursuit of Perfection by Camilla Andrew. Doomed, unbalanced femslash pair between an ambitious imperatrice and her too loyal warrior. Its sequels, though they have a central F/M ship, offer plenty of F/F possibilities, including an exes pair turned complicated best friends that mirrors this one.
DEFINITELY check out The Locked Tomb because the F/F possibilities there are off-the-charts. Griddlehart has my heart but Ianthe/Corona broke my brain negl.
Red by resnullius-bells. Camilla/Laura ficlet with a Snow White/Sleeping Beauty vibe.
I do love Carmilla as a novel as well LOL.

There's so much more but I'm drawing a blank here, guys xD. Some books/films/etc. I'm gonna recommend for femslash shpping, canon or not, Just Because: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Marjorie Liu's Monstress, Nikita, Person of Interest, Dangerous Liaisons, Judd Winick's Outsiders (2003), Paper Girls (comic and show, even cancelled as it is), The Handmaiden, Black Swan, Black Sails (the dyke drama in this one is SO important), or Killjoys.

20) Do you like your femslash homophobia-free?

If it's a secondary-world that pulls it off well, I welcome it. If it's our world? At this point I want to shout BRING IN THE HOMOPHOBIA ñalskfjaf. Well-done, of course, but I think that certain attitudes about it are less about wanting an homophobia-free world than about like... having trouble with any conflict more difficult than who takes the last orange home in the supermarket, and with wanting the straight characters to Look Good.

21) Thoughts about lesbian tragedy and bad endings?

Given how history has evolved there's obviously issues present, but... I think queer authors especially need room to freely want what they want to write. I'm a lesbian who loves writing about lesbians, and I love a good tragedy.

22) Thoughts about (purely fictional!) lesbian unhealthy relationships?

They are amazing and we should all support them wholeheartedly.

23) Historical, fantasy or sci-fi? (or, if none of the above, what and why?)

Love all of it and more.

24) A time where a canon really surprised you, in a good (and femslash) way

I'm gonna go with Black Sails and Max/Eleanor. I expected to outright dislike it, and yet I absolutely love everything about it.

25) A time where a canon really disappointed you (in a femslash or lack of femslash way)

Too many to count lol. I'm picking Wynonna Earp for the absolutely mid toothless main ship.

26) What do you love the most, and what do you love the least, about femslash fans?

They're passionate and committed to something that, lbr, gives little reward lol.

As for what I like least... the very few times a femslash ship happens to be MASSIVE? They're just as awful as every other fanbase of a juggernaut ship. Absolutely no difference, and equal ammounts of racism each and every time.

27) Very last time you encountered canon femslash. Was it a surprise or were you looking for it?

Again, I just read Gideon the Ninth, a novel from a series openly marketed as "dyke drama" xD

28) Now answer the important question about femslash I've forgotten to ask.

You didn't forget, but I'm taking this as an opportunity to link to all my F/F fics LOL.

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