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[(Anonymous)]

Sorry you're mad my femslash art gets thousands of reblogs when you're bound and determined to say no one likes it?

I've seen ridiculously popular femslash writers whine that no one likes them because they write femslash, which is especially noticeable when the same author has het or m/m content that has less than a third of the comments/kudos as their f/f stuff. What is with femslash writers and needing to believe that no one likes them, and no one likes anyone else who does f/f either, despite evidence to the contrary?

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[(Anonymous)]

Where did I say no one likes it? I'm just sick of people derailing people specifically talking about wanting more f/f fic to call them entitled because fanart/other fandoms exist (like, I know, I came up through anime/jrpg fandom, I'm not your ao3 live action western m/m juggernaut fandom boogeyman)

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[(Anonymous)]

I made the original comment ("I hate the "why is f/f isn't so popular as..." etc kind of discussion," etc) and I wasn't specifically thinking about fic. So I really have no idea why you're being so insistent on this being a Discussion About Fic.

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

It does sometimes seem that they don't want f/f to be seen as popular, doesn't it?

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[(Anonymous)]

You seem to think f/f fandom popularity is about a warm and fuzzy feeling of solidarity with the abstract concept of femslash and not f/f content you enjoy existing, so I'm sure you're happy regardless.

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

Man, you are just determined to be unhappy.

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[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, sorry.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Especially when they go "But this m/m ship in some other fandom has 100 more fics!". Shit, who cares, can we ever be happy about a ship without someone bringing up some m/m ship? Not everyone cares about it being a contest.

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[(Anonymous)]

NA Yeah, as someone who writes pretty much everything, I'm always kind of O.o at people who claim femslash never gets readers, always is the least-kudosed, etc. My F/F stuff tends, on average, to do better than my M/F and M/M work, and gets some of my favorite comments. It's rec'd more often. People are more enthusiastic about it. And I'm sure some of that is that (a) I write more of it and (b) maybe I enjoy writing female characters more and that shows, but still.

But if you try to say that, everyone says you're wrong, or it's only like that in Supergirl fandom and they hate Supergirl, or [other excuse here].