#hp femlash fic

[marianamonteverde]

My new fic for @hermionesnookgroup Rare Pair Fest was just released!

This is my second Narcissa x Lily story... do they have a ship name? Lissa? Nily? Lissy? Idk, but I love them!

Here is: Don't underestimate art, it brought us together...

Summary: Narcissa and Lily kissed for the first time after the Gryffindor helped the blonde witch make a beautiful painting... What happens in the weeks after it?

Hope you enjoy it <3

[johannas-motivational-insults]

I mean, I read Lifeblood and then I went back to my angst femlash in the HP-world, a year went by and I came back to my angst femlash THG-world and I decided to read Loyalty in 2 freaking days, I swear I didn’t do anything ALL day, it’s carnival time here em Brazil and all my friends wanted to go partying but all I wanted to do was read this fanfic and now I’m literally obsessed. I keep opening the AO3 Joniss page everyday to see if it’s updated... Just thought you should know I LOVE YOU!!!!

Awww thank you, that’s a sweet thing to hear on Valentine’s Day ;D. Hate to break it to you but I won’t be updating Loyalty for a bit, I am focusing on my gig writing for the Fandomentals as well as my The 100 fics. But hopefully within a couple months I will get the next chapter up. Thanks for your patience.

[mxlfoydraco]

Is the reason why femlash fics are so few because the ships are fairly a new thing? Or just gaining popularity? I feel like luna/ginny is just new. Or is it just only getting popular in tumblr lately? It's so frustrating. The lack of femslash fics. :(

Also most femslash fics are either short fluffy ones or smutty ones. No really long ones with proper development. It's so sad.

This is a question that needs a really thought out analysis of fandom culture as a whole, and doesn’t just have one answer. I’ll try to talk about a few. One of the reasons is that the main, and well-developed side characters are usually male. People read and write about protagonists more because there’s just more knowledge and depth available, it makes writing and connecting with the character easier. This is of course directly connected to real life gender dynamics and societal beliefs. Speaking of which, they influence the fandom a lot. Sexism in fandoms is real and very evident. How many female bashing fics have we encountered, especially in slash fandoms? How many times we’ve seen female characters get hated on for qualities and flaws a male character would’ve been happily excused or forgiven for? A direct example of the most common attitudes toward the grief of Cho Chang and Severus Snape. Who gets more sympathy? Sexism doesn’t end with attitudes toward characters as well. There’s also that implicit belief that a story, or even a relationship, must have a male to be interesting or meaningful. I know this sounds like a terrible accusation, but we all have varying degrees of sexism to unlearn inside of us and some of us naturally project those to their fandom experiences.Lets try another approach. Here is the demographic information of the AO3 census survey. One important point the note is that according to this data, 80% of ao3 users are female, and 29% of the participants are straight. This, along with my own observations, points to the obvious. There are a good portion of straight people, who are mostly female, interacting with content they’re interested in and apparently that’s slash. I don’t like to generalize or stereotype fandom as a whole, but i’d have to be really ignorant to say that mlm commodification/fetishization doesn’t play a part here. It’s not a nice thought, but homophobia (especially against wlw) is very much alive and well in fandoms. But... that can’t be it, right? That’s not the fandom we interact with? Surely, those people do exist, and we do come across them from time to time, but are they really the majority? No, actually they aren’t. Back to our data, when combined 49% of the participants identified as not heterosexual, and 55% identified as belonging to a gender, sexual and/or romantic minority. So why is there so little femslash content in a community that is in majority formed by non-cishet females? Two explanations come to me. One, women don’t feel comfortable reading/writing about female sexuality because they’ve been actively taught that it was shameful and should be kept secret. I’ve heard multiple LGBT female fans say that it felt too personal to write about femslash. And two, and perhaps the most explicit factor. There aren’t enough people who support femslash content creators because of the reasons above and maybe more. Femslash writers get only a scrap of attention and appreciation slash writers receive. The lack of likes, notes, hits, kudos and comments results in them not being motivated to get involved with bigger projects, or stop writing femslash all together. A little disclaimer, these are all my personal thoughts about the subject, which are mostly HP fandom centric and made by thinking about the majorities in demographics. I’m not targeting any one group, or disregarding any other.