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Date Posted: Thursday, November 17, 07:07:20am
Author: Nell and Jaybee
Subject: Wednesday Roundup

(Hush. I know it's a day late.)

This week, lj fanfic fandom's latest round of discussions: Fandom, Misogyny and Female Characters

As many commentators note, this is a recurring discussion in fanfic fandom, the comparative popularity of m/m, f/f, het, and gen stories, and what larger patterns or ideas the relative popularity of the various types of fanfiction might suggest about the fans who read and write it all.

The current round can be seen emergering in this metafandom roundup, and continued in this one.

Our own Jaybee, rather than entering the fray directly, posts her own thoughts here.

I think it is an interesting conversation from the perspective of LFN fandom, which after all has two incredibly strong women as central (if not *the* central) protagonists, and several powerful and interesting women as recuring or one-shot characters - all of whom anitmate our fanfic to such a degree that the otherwise fannnishly popular m/m has almost no traction in LFN fanfic.

Which may mean we are outliers, or freaks, or just weird - I don't know for sure! - but it does give us a different seat on the meta arena.

Nell

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