Wrangle Tangle

(This month, I'll be contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

Yesterday I offered some gaming fandoms on AO3 with large femslash presences. There are also some RPF fandoms with a large helping of femslashy goodness. A very short list:

* Women's Soccer RPF
* Takarazuka Revue RPF
* Gymnastics RPF
* Glee RPF
* Gossip Girl RPF
* So Nyuh Shi Dae (Girls' Generation)
* Wicked RPF

Freeforms of the day: RPF and In-Universe RPF (the kind where someone in the work is producing RPF about people in their universe)

(I'll be collecting all your answers from these last four posts and presenting them at the end of the month, along with answers to later posts in this series. Thank you all for contributing! I have a great list of fandoms to get into now.)

Do you know of any other RPF fandoms that are high in femslash? Or have any favorite femslash pairings or moresomes in RPF?

(Sorry, guys, this was supposed to go up yesterday!)

(This month, I'll be contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

Last post, I offered some western media fandoms on AO3 with large femslash presences. There are also several anime & manga fandoms that offer femslash. (Bear in mind that most of these fandoms have not migrated heavily to AO3 yet, or are in the process of doing so.) My personal list:

* Sailor Moon
* Madoka Magica (and its friends)
* Utena
* Gakuen Alice
* K-On!
* Mai-HIME and Mai-Otome
* Maria-sama ga Miteru
* Nanoha
* Kannazuki no Miko
* Princess Tutu
* Venus Versus Virus
* Strike Witches
* Fairy Tail
* Nana
* Rose of Versailles (Note: Oscar's gender-identity is a complicated topic)
* Strawberry Panic!
* Suzumiya Haruhi Series
* Aoi Hana

* Evangelion (you do have to dig slightly, but it's there)


(If you can read French, I also recommend Fullmetal Alchemist as a place with some F/F. Heed the warnings when the 7 deadly sins are involved.)

The more welcoming these yuri fans find the archive, the more yuri fans will move their work there, I think. So if you have any interest in or exposure to any of the above series (or even if you don't), I highly encourage you click through and leave some kudos or comments.

Freeforms of the day: Yuri and Shoujo-ai

Anyone have other anime/manga/Jdrama fandoms with high rates of yuri? Please reply! Please also help expand this list into non-Japanese East Asian sources. Do you know of high-femslash fandoms from manhwa/Kdrama? Or manhua/TWdrama/Cdrama/SGdrama?

(This month, I'll be contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

When you bookmark on AO3, you can add tags of your own. If a work isn't tagged "Femslash" and you want other femslashers to find it, you can add that tag yourself, and the work will appear under the bookmark list at "Femslash". \o/

(Please note: this doesn't change the tags directly on the work, so the work won't appear under "Works" on Femslash. Just "Bookmarks". But if you tag someone's work with new tags and they notice, they might be inspired to add some of those tags themselves.)

Freeform of the day: Femslash (bookmarks)

(This month, I'll be contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3. Today I'll start with the not-so-happy post, to get it out of the way. The shiny starts tomorrow.)

Any shared system of classification eventually runs into the problem that different people have different definitions of each item in the classification. Case in point: if you filter for F/F on AO3, you will get at least four separate things:

* Works where one or more canonically male characters have a (frequently magical) sex change in-work but are not portrayed as trans*,
* Works where one or more canonically male characters were born cis female,
* Works where two or more women are briefly together in the background, making up a tiny, tiny fraction of the whole work,
* and Works where two or more canonical women are actually involved in the primary relationship.

Generally, the first three categories will equal or even outweigh the fourth. Which is why the statement that F/F even makes up 29,000 works, or 5% of the archive total, is ridiculous to me personally, because my personal definition of F/F is so vastly outnumbered on that tag.

This is also why I've never subscribed to the F/F category, even though it was the first tag to be available via subscription. It's simply far less useful to me that the freeform tag. -_-,

(Incidentally, this is at least 10x more true for poly. I can honestly say I've never bothered to filter for 'Multi' after the first time; as a tag for any form of poly, it's always been useless.)

Starting tomorrow: Happier posts!

Freeforms of the day: Femslash, Polygamy, Threesome, Moresomes