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I have doubts that [a femslash meme] would be very long-lived

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What do you do when you can see the well start to run dry in your fandom? Stay and be the change? Lower your standards and read absolutely any f/f fic that turns up? Move on to a more femslash-friendly fandom?

I'm kind of in the process of facing the fact that f/f in my relatively small fandom has been on a steep decline for the past year or so. I'm a "be the change" type myself, so I'm still here and still writing it, but I can't deny feeling a little disheartened. Last year's Femslash February was almost nonexistent in my fandom and I kinda wish I'd taken the initiative and promoted it more heavily myself. Hope to do so this coming year, at least. To be clear, I don't think guilt-tripping people is effective and I have no interest in that, only in trying to spread enthusiasm. I know some people would probably tell me to just move on. But I still have stories I want to tell, and I'm just not ready to leave this fandom yet.

Sometimes I think, "Since no one is filling this need, my fanworks are going to get a lot more attention," since anyone else coming to that fandom looking for femslash isn't going to have many options. Other times, it just makes me sigh and think, "No one but me even cares about this, why even bother?" and move on to a different fandom.

Weirdly, what discourages me the most is when I ship a particular f/f ship which isn't popular, but a different f/f ship in the same fandom gets much bigger. I mean, all f/f isn't interchangeable! But when there's already a f/f juggernaut in a fandom, I feel like any f/f that isn't that juggernaut can just get ignored. There are exceptions to that, fandoms that are more femslash free-for-alls, but a lot of times it's just one ship that brings in the influx of thirsty femslash fans, and that's all they care about.

I feel all of that. In the midst of a general decline in femslash in my fandom, there's one ship that seems to be gaining a bit of traction... and it's one I don't really like. I wouldn't call it quite a noTP, but still. Why not my ship, fandom?! /bratty

Why would you say that and not name the fandom? C'mon, anon :P

It's Red vs. Blue and greylina. :P (And when I say "gaining traction" that needs to be qualified with a massive "for an f/f ship.") And I don't want to bash the ship! It's fine. It's just not one I care for.

I found out what "migratory femslash fandom" meant because no one wanted to stick with my fandom and I still love my pairing.

I wouldn't call my standards low, but I will try to read just about anything with femslash for my fandom, even things with OCs that I would've avoided years ago.

I'm so multifannish that I can just slip out of one fandom and go to the next once the well runs dry. Then after a few more months/years I go back and see what's up + reread my faves.

You are definitely migratory femslash fandom, nonnie. Which isn't a bad thing, but you do contribute to the well running dry for the rest of us.

I'm the Shane of fandom flings, adding but a single splash into each well before flitting off to the next hot young thing.

...Not really, no.

"Which isn't a bad thing" -- oh please. Even if you insist you don't mean anything bad by it, most people consider "migratory" fans to be "lesser" fans. Oh, look at those migrating fans; they're not dedicated like we are.

Well, the flipside of "dedication" is "overinvestment," so you can sling insults from both sides.

And as social media becomes more and more transient and soundbite-oriented, I suspect "migratory fandom" is going to become how the majority of people do fandom in the near future. So you have that going for you.

i'm not sure how i feel about social media becoming more transient and relying on fewer and fewer words as i miss the days of actual forums, where you can have actual conversations and debates

and i can only feel like that'll affect fandom for the worst

If you're going to be offended by me when I was literally telling you I didn't mean anything bad by it and felt your way of doing fandom was fine, please take it to the wank containment area.

If you're going to jump right to assuming I'm "offended" rather than "tired of being called migratory just because I like more than one fandom", maybe you should take it to the wank thread.

LOL. "No, I'm not being wanky, YOU ARE." This is hilarious. Want to start with some "I am rubber, you are glue" too?

Take it to the wank thread.

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