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

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Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

What are your least favorites?

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

You.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

Symmetra/Pharah, because the fandom's notorious antis and the "soft brown sapphics" crowd have pissed down that well and driven me off. Symmetra/Sombra is getting there but there is still a trickle of non-soft content.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

Right, that's just what a new femslash-only meme needs, negativity about femslash.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

You're desperately trying every angle you can, settle down a little.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

For me, Lapidot. I wouldn't actually call it "worst" because I 100% see the appeal but it's definitely my least favorite and some of the shippers are the absolute worst f/f fandom I've come up against in years.

I'm not a fan of Jasper/Peridot or Jasper/Lapis either, even if I feel bad for the wank the latter automatically gets. But mostly I think I just got tired of this entire corner of shipping. I like all three characters but I don't want to hear about them together anymore. Ever.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike Lapidot too. Off-screen character development is borinnnnng.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

The worsssssst. I get how healing the ship is for some people but for me it just took all the conflict and tension of the getting together phase I would have been interested in and threw it out the barn door.

Their breakup was actually the most interesting thing about the ship, it brought so many interesting issues to the surface, but I've just been too turned off the ship for too long to want to see those issues explored in a shippy way.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

The most fun I ever had with Lapis herself was her being pissy at Peridot, and then she just... stopped. It was very disappointing for me, personally. I would have enjoyed something a tad prickly but still workable going on there.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

I just can't get into Peridot in a sexy context, which is what I desperately need for ships. So any ship with her is dead in the water for me, and Lapis is one of my fave characters so :(

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

I was around back before Peridot lost her limb enhancers, and I had a grand old time then. But now she just looks and acts a lot more childlike, I feel.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT I love the tiny nerd and ship her with many characters, but I never really thought about smut for her and I think you're right that it's partially because she very much has a "Steven's little sister" vibe. Not to an extent where I'm squicked by romance with her and other adult characters, but I definitely feel more like I'm shipping a character from a kid's show than I do with say, Jasper or the Diamonds.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

I can't get into ships involving Lapis or Jasper at all and IDK why. They have the kind of fucked-up dynamic I usually love, and I find Jasper pretty attractive, but ships involving either character do nothing for me, and I also just don't find the characters that interesting for whatever reason. I totally multiship Peridot, though.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

Sophie/Libby from Carnivale, because I shipped it and then it hurt me. :(

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

This is just shit-stirring. Kill it.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

Are you trolling, or are you serious? This does not need to be a positivity-only place. Just a femslash-only place. Just because I love femslash doesn't mean I love every pairing that's ever been popular in my fandoms and it would be nice to have a place to vent about that where I'm not just feeding the "and this is why slash fandom is superior" people.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I can see thier point, though? I'm not saying this should be a positivity-only meme, but this early in the game, a post like this is only inviting trolling and the type of discourse that's going to give this meme a bad name.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

So far all the replies to this thread have been perfectly tame, and discussion-not-discourse-provoking.

This is not a dare for someone to demonstrate otherwise, btw. Just, you know. Pointing out that so far the only wank in this thread is about whether it should exist, not the people actually answering the question.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

DDA, but I can kind of see it from a different direction. I found myself looking through this thread with a kind of trepidation like, shit, what ships are people here already wishing I'd shut up about? And while I will totally admit that's a "me" problem, I feel like this meme is small enough and slow enough and new enough that something going flat-out "this femslash is THE WORST" rather than just "what are your NOTPs" or whatever risks turning people off or making them more hesitant when they consider posting about or reccing their ships.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Yeah, I have a NOTP or two, and even entire styles or genres of femslash that don't do it for me, but right now I'd much rather talk about what I love.

(And then there was that time when I rewatched a canon and my hueg giant NOTP (one specific canon f/f pairing where fandom and I disagreed strongly about characterization) turned out to be fairly palatable on second viewing now that I knew where the plot was headed? So that's dampened my ardor for femslash NOTP hateboner stroking in general.)

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[(Anonymous)]

Jesus, femslash shippers can have preferences and I don't know why everything has to be some baggage about slash fans. I don't care what other fans are doing. If someone thinks a femslash shipper can't have a NOTP because we owe it to love all ships or we're making ourselves look bad, that's their problem. People can still be very homophobic about slash ships too but no one would say everyone has to love a slash ship because of that.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships - MODS

[tardigradetreasurer]

We have taken note of the modcalls in this thread and are keeping a close eye on it, but for now we're leaving it alone since it seems to be going well.

Personally, I would suggest giving this thread a title like "NOTPs" or "Femslash You Don't Like" in future posts.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

Xena/Gabrielle - less the ship and more the Tumblr shippers who create all the new content I see now.

Yes, Xena and Gabrielle are soulmates, yes, they are always going to have each others backs and yes, the show provided some lovely soft caring moments between but that's not all they were. They disagreed with each other, failed to communicate their problems and fought over things big and small. I want the edges as well. There's no fun in just having the moments of complete agreement knowing this is right if they haven't had to work to get there.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the only person who never liked Madoka/Homura, even before Rebellion. The fandom got so angry at anyone who didn't ship it and any other f/f ships that weren't the Big Two got mocked, so I'm still bitter.

Re: Worst Femslash Ships

[(Anonymous)]

Grimes/Azealia Banks RPF