#fandom specific meta

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F/F Vidding: Commentary by Creators.

All featured commentary comes from the lovely essay View of Femslash goggles: Fan vids with commentary from creators. This essay is superb and has a lovely analysis of the similarities between fannish spaces and virtual reality. Below the cut are three links to f/f vids plus the commentary from creators. If you enjoy this snippet, the original article has many more.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

(A Gamora &/ Nebula vid).

While I really enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Studios, 2014) movie, I was disappointed we never got more backstory about Gamora and Nebula—Gamora especially, being one of the core protagonists, but we were only introduced to her after she had already made the decision to go against her family and steal the orb. I also really liked Nebula's line "of all our siblings, I hated you the least," which implied a particularly interesting relationship between them. 

I actually like them so much that I walked out of the movie theater already planning a fan vid in my head. Sadly, it took me a while to find a song and actually finish the vid, but I was certainly inspired by their relationship from the beginning. Luckily, my delay in making the vid ensured I was able to include a deleted scene between Nebula and Gamora that went into their backstory a little further as well as including an awesome shot of them getting up in each other's faces. It was actually this shot that tipped their relationship from being platonic into somewhat incestuous in my mind.

I do Adore.

A Bubbline vid.

It's interesting to vid a cartoon as opposed to the live-action source that I typically use in that different illustrators draw the characters with their own individual style. A lot of cartoons tend to have set character looks. The structure of Adventure Time makes vidding minor characters easier than most television shows because they tend to focus on a couple of characters in each episode. I pulled from the Princess Bubblegum and Marceline–focused episodes and additional episodes where they were in the background as part of the ensemble. Toward the end of the vid, I manipulated the clips with the inclusion of a book page titled "How to Kiss a Princess" taken out of context, to give the impression of a more textual romantic relationship without a lot of special effects on the source. 

I think representation in cartoons is extremely important and making this vid was important to me. Had young me seen this vid and cartoons like Adventure Time and Steven Universe (Cartoon Network, 2013–), I am certain I wouldn't have had as many identity issues growing up 

Past the Feeling

A Regina focused Swan Queen vid.

Regina and Emma's dynamic is a great example of the enemies-to-lovers romantic trope, with their initial interactions antagonistic but full of flirting looks, rough touching, and growing obsession with each other that comes across as strongly femslashy—I tried to highlight this aspect particularly in the beginning of the vid. On top of that, their interaction takes on a destined quality, not only because of how both of them came to have Henry in their lives but also because of their magical powers, which help them protect Henry together. I emphasize this in the vid through the choruses, which provide a contrast to Regina and Emma's antagonism by showing them combining their magical powers to work together to save Henry. Ultimately they discover their magical bond as they pool their powers at the very end, taking their relationship to another level. In this vid, I specifically tried to add more cross-dissolves than I usually do in order to highlight this symbolism and to make the emotions and reactions of the characters clearer, as well as to enhance the aesthetics and fit the tone of the song.

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Putting the “F” Back in Fanfiction: K-pop Femslash

Yulsic. Chaemin. Sulber. Jiafei. Narin. Do these popular pairing names of members from SNSD, 2NE1, f(x), Miss A, and Brown Eyed Girls sound familiar or are they totally new to you? For the record, …

“This leads to one of two important points: femslash is a predominately female space. K-pop femslash is primarily females writing about female-female friendships and female-female relationships, which can be about but are not limited to romantic or sexual relationships. Fans might write about Bomzy (2NE1’s Park Bom and Minzy) because they find their friendship adorable, intriguing, hot, inspiring, or something else entirely. Female fans create thousands of words of fiction, hours and hours worth of fanvideo and picture edits, and let’s not forget the myriad world of gifs. This is a lot of work! It’s worth noting there are also non-females who participate, but we must realize that the femslash fanspace, particularly when looking at fanfiction, is produced by a female majority and for a female majority. These hours of work come from and lead back to a place where female voices speak and are listened to in return, which I find extremely heartening.”

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This is a bit of a rant, but I'd love some feedback on some issues that have been bothering me. I want to ask you wonderful smart ladies about fandom and femslash. Now, notwithstanding the fact that maleslash far outnumbers femslash, and that one of the reasons given for this is that the writers…

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Multifandom Shipping Metas

This eclectic list contains metas and essays that are relevant to a specific fandom. Here we have everything from tumblr ship meta to academic journals. All center around femslash: why and how a pairing works, why there’s a significant f/f fandom surrounding certain media, etc.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

Meta on Skimmons: (Daisy Johnson/Jemma Simmons) from tumblr users theclaravoyant and amvricachavez.

Guiding Light 

The Otalia Pandemic: Or how I come out of the closet as a soap opera watcher and also dissect the growing worldwide addiction to a popular same sex soon-to-be soap super couple

Gilmore Girls:

The Real Love Story of Gilmore Girls: An analysis of the shipping dynamics between Rory Gilmore and Paris Geller.

The Appeal of...Femmeslash Edition: A complete essay (from an incomplete series) on the appeal of Rory/Paris.

Once Upon a Time

A tumblr devoted to SwanQueen Meta

“Yes, the Evil Queen is Latina!”: Racial Dynamics of Online Femslash Fandoms: An essay from OTW’s academic journal.

“Once Upon a Time” in queer fandom: Another OTW academic essay.

Popular

Top 10 Reasons Lesbians Love “Popular”: AfterEllen on the femslashy appeal of popular

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Tumblr meta on the emotional dynamics in Kira Nerys/Jadzia Dax.

Star Trek: Discovery

@thatlightsaberlesbian on Ellen Landry/Michael Burnham.

Star Trek: TOS

Fanlore’s article on Kismet, the earliest recognized femslash story (about Chapel/Uhura).

Supergirl

The Secret Identity Trope is Turning Supergirl Gay:  A Cat Grant/Kara Danvers leaning article on Kara’s use of the traditionally romantic secret identity trope towards the women who are important to her (Cat, Lena).

Xena: Warrior Princess

Xena and Gabrielle: Lesbian Icons: Half ship manifesto, half critical analysis.