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Last week I wrote a piece on how visibility matters when it comes to lesbians on TV. Shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and the upcoming webseries “Venice” are making great strides in the right direction. However, there is another forum for us little lesbians to “fill in the blanks” left by the shows makers. Fan fiction, sometimes referred to as fanfic, is a massive medium for those of us who feel that the characters relationships would be better served developing in different ways.
Basically fan fiction does exactly what it says on the tin. Fans write stories about their favourite shows and believe you me, they can take weird twists! One example of a good site is www.fanfiction.net where there seems to be endless stories of varying lengths taking all kinds of angels and going in weird and wonderful directions. You can search by TV show and then narrow your search to characters and genre.
So, for example, if you’re sick on Emily and JJ only being friends on “Criminal Minds” you can click in and pick their characters and look under “romantic” and there you have it, an Aladdins cave of stories, some good, some not so good, but all written by fans for fans. Femslash is a term often used by the writers to describe to prospective readers that the content is of a romantic or sexual nature. The stories are also rated so you know what you’re getting yourself into.
There are also ‘cross-over’ stories which can be interesting. Let’s say, for example, one of our Criminal Minds agents is injured in the line of duty, well, they may be in Seattle and end up at Seattle Grace being treated by one Dr Callie Torres from Grey’s anatomy – see – clever!
So if you are gutted that your favourite character was killed or even worse, straight, just pop along to your nearest fan fiction site where someone out there will have a happy ending all ready for you.
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I love femslash. Discovered it during the days before Xena/Gabrielle became maintext and now follow, largely, Law & Order SVU.
There’s some interesting stuff there with SVU, where viewers believed that Det Benson was gay during the first 4/5 seasons and then the character started to femme up (and aquire “manvils”). Also the main “ship” was sunk as ADA Alex Cabot left the show in Season 5. Now, in Season 11, they’ve brought her back, and the femslashers have never been so busy.
NBC have toyed with us a bit, asking questions on their website about whether viewers still believe Benson is gay (by and large, yes) and then saddling her with yet another “manvil”. They threw the gays a bone last episode where Dr Huang (FBI psych) comes out, but it took them until Season 11 to have a recurring gay character in a show that often explored LGBT themes. So sad.
I’m sorry, this isn’t much of a comment, but more of an essay. Anyway, femslash fanfic rocks!
Great comment CanuckJacq, I have to agree, the writers know we’re out here reading all this fan fiction so every now and again they do “throw us a bone” but they rarely if ever actually do anything meaningful.
I welcome the recurring gay character in SVU but you are right, they know what we want but they won’t give it to us. It’s the same story, to a lesser degreee, on Criminal Minds.
Thank God for those fanfic authors
I LOVE SVU and the fic, especially Benson and Cabot.
The actress who plays Alex has been very open about the lesbian subtext between the characters and has said that they might be in love: http://www.afterellen.com/blog/sarahwarn/stephanie-march-talks-about-an-Alex-Olivia-romance-on-SVU
What was with that femme-up of Olivia in seasons 4/5??! Oh my god, the hair was SO much sexier short. Olivia was such a sexy mother in the first few seasons.
Sorry this is supposed to be about Fanfic….oops.
Ok fanfic…..I loved The Sum of Contradictions series on Ralst – http://www.ralst.com/SumContradictions1.HTM
There are loads of great ones though.
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