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Formative canons/characters

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What canons and characters were formative for you? Either in a fannish way, or in a personal/life way.

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SAILOR MOON.

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+1, Sailor Moon was so magical for the amount of opportunities in it.

Also its weirder, more surreal sister series, Utena, which was literally the show that made me realize certain things about myself. Thanks Juri!

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La Femme Nikita, with Peta Wilson.

Hot. DAMN. *swoon* My wee little baby dyke self crushed HARD. The whole badass assassin thing helped. A bit.

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The Justice League cartoon! There were TWO WHOLE WOMEN in it, rather than just one! Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl were both pretty fucking awesome, and the Themysceria bits were formative enough for me to cry when I got to see Themysceria on the big screen when I saw the Wonder Woman movie.

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Buffy, Kim Possible (specifically, Shego), the Birds of Prey tv show lol, and a little later (after I spent some teenage years swallowing fandom logic on why every female character and ship was bad), BSG, which I got into because all these m/m shippers I followed from fandom to fandom insisted Kara/Lee was the hottest het ever that people who like m/m can like, but stayed into because I wanted so many different combinations of the women to Fuck.

Oh, and the Chicago movie. Those women did things to my 16-year-old libido.

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+1 to chicago, i didn't fully realize my attraction to women until i was in my early 20s but goddamn that movie certainly awakened things in me as a preteen/young teen

also it is a crime that all of the bsg women weren't fucking each other

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I was so bored by ALL OF THE BSG HET (hopefully it's okay to talk about het in this context?), but there were so many good ladies, and there were a few stalwart shippers producing great fic about them in various combinations, and I lasted so long in that fandom just to stay up to date with the context for like, Three/Eight or Roslin/Cain fic.

I went back and forth on acknowledging my attraction to women from about 13 to 21 but Chicago helped push me onto the more aware track for a few beautiful months.

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i actually just started watching the show a few months ago (i'd always been aware of its existence but i was super late in deciding to watch it) but i haven't finished it yet because the fact that so many of the characters got paired off in boring het during the timeskip at the end of season 2 threw me off a lot. i'm still gonna watch the rest of it at some point because generally i hate leaving things unfinished, and i love the female characters enough to push through and know in my heart that they all deserve gfs

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Yup, slogging through the het can make the story move super slow. The one canon f/f ship that I recall was in a rapey context. Which, like... I was into at the time. But it was pretty fucked up for a show that is 99% m/f.

It's a fun show and fandom if you are someone who just makes up femslash ships in your head regardless of the level of interactions on the show, though, haha. Because yes! So many great ladies! Not that many great f/f interactions, from what I recall, but so so sooo many great ladies. I was into it as an lj-based fandom but my fingers are crossed that most of those authors put their fic up on AO3 for you should you go looking!

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i might check out ao3 whenever i finally finish the show just to see what's out there but beyond that it's not really something i'm engaging with in a fandom sense especially since it's a 10+ year old show. i'll just stick with what's in my head lmao

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Magic Knight Rayearth was when I discovered that I was into girls, so I have a soft spot in my heart for it despite it probably being CLAMP's most heterosexual offering. Umi was my first female crush I actually recognized as a crush.

As for fannishly, Vocaloid was my fist 'wow, there's a lot of femslash here, and I really like it' fandom. I had a great time there. Tragically the biggest f/f ship got in the way of my f/f otp.

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Definitely A:tLA. Thirteen-year-old me thought Azula was hot as hell *fans self*

I think my Gay Fandom Awakening was definitely, uh, kinky Disney Princess femslash, though. Especially that one Tiana/Ursula tentacle porn fic.

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disney_kink is beautiful and I love it.

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Azula is super hot. Especially with her hair down!

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Viola from Twelfth Night and the girl who played her when I was in eighth grade.