probably the majority of the fandoms in existence are het-focused.
That used to be the case! As beccaelizabeth pointed out, with graphics, it is no longer the case. It hasn't for a while. And while there are "many femslash fandoms," as you say, femslash ships still tend to be the minority compared to both het and m/m slash. If you write to get dozens of comments and kudos, honestly, femslash is not the place for you. That said, femslashers are a pretty welcoming bunch, for the most part, and do not tend to require that one is Only Ever A Femslasher, No Writing Dudes Allowed in order to call oneself a femslasher.
(Some of us just had this discussion recently. If you want to check out femslash, I can point in some of the directions on LJ and DW. Tumblr, not so much.)
Personally, I tend to write and read about the female characters, with a few exceptions to that rule. So I'm all for anyone who wants to do more of that, whether they continue to primarily write about men or not. And thank you to beccaelizabeth for examining and noting tendencies in a fandom type I'm not a part of.
Haven is a lovely series and absolutely wonderful when it comes to its treatment of Audrey Parker! I'm afraid it suffers terribly from a case of One Girl In All The World syndrome, however, as all the other women have either been put on a bus or killed off (or had their minds wiped) for one reason or another - and the only woman left on the series who isn't Audrey has become a villain and is being written as hating/jealous of Audrey due to a romantic rivalry with another man. Which. Very frustrating. Again, I love Haven and I've watched every episode of every season. But it absolutely makes my skin crawl when I see another woman brought onto the show, because I know exactly what's going to happen to her in the end.
If you want to watch a show that has one woman who makes friendships with other women and then loses them, but maintains her relationships with a bunch of men - all while investigating psychic abilities that are more curse than blessing and her own mysterious background - then Haven is the series for you. It definitely has a nice X-Files vibe to it; I know that I started watching it specifically because it reminded me of XF and had a lot of the things I liked, without the things about XF I didn't like.
I will say, the poly writers for Haven are, by and large, excellent and the fic tends to be well-balanced and doesn't shove one-third of the trio off to the side for a 'preferred' two-thirds.
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That used to be the case! As
(Some of us just had this discussion recently. If you want to check out femslash, I can point in some of the directions on LJ and DW. Tumblr, not so much.)
Personally, I tend to write and read about the female characters, with a few exceptions to that rule. So I'm all for anyone who wants to do more of that, whether they continue to primarily write about men or not. And thank you to
Haven is a lovely series and absolutely wonderful when it comes to its treatment of Audrey Parker! I'm afraid it suffers terribly from a case of One Girl In All The World syndrome, however, as all the other women have either been put on a bus or killed off (or had their minds wiped) for one reason or another - and the only woman left on the series who isn't Audrey has become a villain and is being written as hating/jealous of Audrey due to a romantic rivalry with another man. Which. Very frustrating. Again, I love Haven and I've watched every episode of every season. But it absolutely makes my skin crawl when I see another woman brought onto the show, because I know exactly what's going to happen to her in the end.
If you want to watch a show that has one woman who makes friendships with other women and then loses them, but maintains her relationships with a bunch of men - all while investigating psychic abilities that are more curse than blessing and her own mysterious background - then Haven is the series for you. It definitely has a nice X-Files vibe to it; I know that I started watching it specifically because it reminded me of XF and had a lot of the things I liked, without the things about XF I didn't like.
I will say, the poly writers for Haven are, by and large, excellent and the fic tends to be well-balanced and doesn't shove one-third of the trio off to the side for a 'preferred' two-thirds.
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