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Or you can read the manga online if you want. *prepares silver tray of links*

... that they find interesting. I can't really comment, even though I like slash and femslash, because I'm bi. I have a straight friend who quite likes m/m but gets squicked at f/f. Maybe the straight women who write femslash just see a specific pairing and think "Oh, they are so together." Then they write it, not because it's hot, but because it's a romantic pairing that they find interesting. You don't have to find something "hot" to enjoy writing it. I mean, look at all the SyaoSaku fans. I doubt many of them see their relation as anything other than "omg so cute".

Most likely though is that they're just open-minded and mature enough to not let something like sexuality get in the way of writing a fun pairing.

Sadly they both love NIN and would be rendered catatonic by what happens to it in this thing, so I don't know how much help they'd be.

however, Gmail is being annoying and eating emails currently so it may have gone missing. Did you get it, Cass?

there's not even a tiny smidge of the real Harry in that character. Not a jot. I say kill it.

Hmmm... while it is most likely true that lesbian/bi women might do a better job of writing femslash, it's perfectly possible that a straight woman could see two female characters as 'meant for each other,' and want to write this.

Or perhaps they feel that part of a certain female character's pysche is due to them pining for another female, and want to make this part of their story.

(N.B: I have not yet read Wicked, and the above are generalizations that probably don't support your example.)

However, if you're talking about bad or PWP fanfiction, I think you're right in saying that "omg they're so hawt!" isn't the correct reason.
But if f/f romance is an interesting plot point rather than just vapid porn, I don't think women have to be straight to write it.

For me, writing any relationship is a progression from what potential I can see for it in canon. If I see potential for a f/f sexual relationship, then that's what I'll write. If I feel up to writing smut for it, then why shouldn't I? It has nothing to do with my own personal sexuality.

Hope this helps you.

Most of you know about the research paper I'm doing for university; a broad overview of the world of fanfiction. I've finally finished sifting through all the data from interviews and other research, but a few gaps remain. So I'm throwing the question out to you:

Why do straight women write femslash?

I don't really understand slash at all, but that's personal preferance. I've been told, by many interviewees, that straight women can enjoy writing m/m slash because it lets them oggle two attractive guys without female competition (as well as simply "being hot"), but my Logic Circuits short out when I try to apply similar logic to straight women writing f/f slash.

Admittedly, I haven't got solid demographics here; it could be that a large part of femslash is written by bisexual or lesbian women. I don't know. What I do know is that I've been exploring the Wicked archive on FFN (which, if you don't know, is by and large a story about the friendship between two women, Glinda and Elphaba - there's also the man who ends up caught in a love triangle with them, Fiyero (eventually ending up with Elphaba), and another male interest that's quite often paired with Glinda), and I found that there is a (wonderful!) shortage of Mary Sues, an average amount of het romance (Fiyero/Elphaba, or Glinda/other guy, mostly), and a huge, HUGE amount of ("Gelphie") femslash.

As I find it hard to believe that so many writers for that one fandom just happen to be lesbian or bisexual women, I just don't get it.


(And let me disclaim that I mean no offense to anyone, of course. My preferances are my own and until now, I just avoided slash issues as much as possible because I don't understand and don't want to offend anyone. But for the sake of doing this essay right, I need to know, and my poor, pitiable Logic Circuits are crying out for mercy. Help?)

A spork of my own, all my own! *huggles*

Iza scares you, does she? That's interesting. Flattering! Cheers!

*is happy, cuddling her spork* Never had one before; don't know HOW I survived...

It hurts. The pain.

I thought that might be the case, but I'm having serious trouble writing as a fanbrat. I feel... unclean. :P

I'll make a few of my answers more fangirlish, then send it along.

A fairly good-natured one, maybe. Mostly harmless. :P I laughed in spite of myself.

Pirate Bob. *shakes head* People do the strangest things.

you fill out the form as a TRC fanbrat and send them in to go through the OFU. I don't quite think Kitsune grasped that, but we can work with his form.

Never been to an OFU before, but hey, Tsubasa.

The application doesn't have to be exactly for us, does it? I mean, we can fill it out as though we were a particularly horrid Suethor or something like that?

Just making sure. ; )

That was a pleasure to read. The real people out there need protection, too, and I'm glad we have someone like Veridian protecting three of them. =D

And Iza scares me, as a proper Agent should, in the good way.

Congratulations on a mission well accomplished, and here is an assorted collection of sporks of all sizes for the both of you. =] *hands over two identical cases containing aforementioned sporks*

--Mystia

I started reading it, hoping to be amused, but only five paragraphs in, I had to stop. The nearly-good/coherent writing combined with awful, awful plot is the most painful.

-Mystia, agonizing

And I think we can let him be, unless he starts harassing other users.
He certainly shows more intelligence and wit than the average troll (even though that's not really saying much), which is a nice change.

Pirates. I love it.

More interesting than the average one.

A very well done one, I have to say. *admiring the work*

…I think Tumnus should teach out of The Four Loves, especially the differences between phileo and eros.

… GAH!