Femslash gothic
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| Title: | femslash gothic |
| Creator: | disregardcanon |
| Date(s): | October 2015 |
| Medium: | online |
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| Topic: | Femslash |
| External Links: | femslash gothic, Archived version |
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Femslash gothic is a parody meta post by disregardcanon on the experience of femslash fans creating and consuming f/f fanworks.
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femslash gothicsomeone reblogs your art with the tag “they are such cute friends!” you did not draw them as friends, you drew them making out. you wonder if the blogger sees the same thing as you do. you wonder if anything actually exists.
you post a story on ao3. the same twelve people leave kudos as the last ten stories you posted. when you post another story, the same twelve people will leave kudos on the next one. there are only twelve of you, or perhaps the other eleven are an illusion.
you browse the tag on ao3, but are flooded by slash fics. you search for hours and hours, never finding an actual femslash fic, even your own. you wonder if they exist.
Responses
[kaleidoscopes-and-carousels]: The top rated stories in your femslash tag are all het fics, with your pairing as a secondary one. They appear for one line.
[returnofthepundead]: you select f/f, but there aren’t any there. did you mean multi? did you mean multi? did you mean multi? did you mean multi? did you mean multi? did you mean multi? did you mean multi?
[bedannibal-lectaurier]: your dash is filled with meta-posts with titles like “Where is All the Femslash?” but you’re here, you’ve been here all along, but no one can hear you femslash in the void.
you see posts saying that people only write femslash for brownie points. you’ve written so much femslash and there are no brownies yet, which is too bad because the only thing you love more than two women fucking is chocolate.
[lesbopsappho]: there are about 13 fics for your otp, and they’re either porn or fluff. you want an adventure, but apparently girls who love girls don’t have any. people tell you to write your own femslash if you’re so desperate, and you don’t bother to tell them that you are, but reading your own writing just isn’t the same. they’ve had their het and slash fics handed to them on golden platters–they wouldn’t understand. you finally find a femslash fic that sounds interesting and long, but when you click on the link it leads you to a blank page. you wonder if the fic ever existed, or if it was just a practical joke. you search a pairing on tumblr, but most people only ship it platonically. there are two posts about shipping it romantically, and they’re both the same thing: am I the only one who ships this pairing? you think about how much potential that ship had, and then wonder if you imagined that as well. you probably did. you’re hungry, you’re always hungry, you need more femslash, more, more, more. you read the same fic 20 times. it is the best fic ever. it’s far too short.
[dellaxstreet dellaxstreet]: you contemplate just writing the fic you want to see in the world because at least if you do it, it won’t only be 300 words of porn with no discernible plot or characterization. if you write it, then the grammar might not make you cringe and the women involved will have actual personalities.
…..you stare longingly at the blank document open on your laptop, trying to remember what words are and how to use them.