Escapade Con Report: Femslash Panel Edition

[rsadelle]

These are the lists that we made on the flip charts at the panel, with a few annotations.

Fandoms/Pairings

• Pretty Persuasion
  
• Jawbreaker
  
• Saved
  
• Mean Girls
  
• A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
  
• The Craft
  
• DEBS
  
• Grey's Anatomy
  
• Grey's Anatomy RPS
  
• Law & Order: SVU
  
• Bring It On
  
• Far From Xanadu by Julie Ann Peters
  
• Bleak House (miniseries only or also the book?)
  
• Battlestar Galactica
  
• Battlestar Galactica RPS
  
• The L Word
  
• Alias
  
• Marcia Cross/Felicity Huffman
  
• Katy/Lucy (I don't know who this is; the Katy might be spelled some other way.)
  
• Katy/Michelle Forbes (I don't know who the Katy is; it might be spelled some other way.)
  
• Foxfire (movie only or also the book?)
  
• Angelina/Winona
  
• NCIS
  
• Blue Crush
  
• South of Nowhere
  
• CSI
  
• Sarah Waters novels
  
• Wonderfalls
  
• Xena
  
• Deadwood
  
• Firefly/Serenity
  
• Desperate Housewives
  
• Ensign Ro! (I think the exclamation point was just because I was so excited that someone else has a thing for her.)
  
• Star Trek
  
• Heathers
  
• Popular
  
• Cold Mountain
  
• Bewitched
  
• Soccer
  
• Bend It Like Beckham
  
• Underworld
  
• Buffy & Angel
  
• Dark Kingdom
  
• Cybill
  
• Will & Grace (someone wanted Karen slash)
  
• Wicked (Apparently there's some kind of split between musical and book fans.)
  
• West Wing
  
• Girlfriends
  
• Coupling (UK)
  
• Farscape
  
• Space: Above and Beyond

LJ Resources

• femslash_today
  
• femslash100
  
• girls_today (appears to be HP only)
  
• rpfs

Future Panel Idea

• Femslash sex tips (Apparently someone has a vulva puppet and a full vulva costume.)

Comments

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

Katee Sackhoff from BSG

[rsadelle]

Huh. Thanks.

[queenofhell.livejournal.com]

That reminds me--sometime I need to write that Cassandra/Hilary Fay fic I've been thinking about since I first saw the movie.

[rsadelle]

Hee!

I finally saw the movie, and I loved it. It was hilarious.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

You can add Andromeda (Beka, Rommie, Trance). A lot of the femslash is written by men, for what it's worth.

I missed this panel, so sorry if you've covered it already -- a vocabulary list would be handy.

[rsadelle]

How odd, but thanks. I'll keep it in mind for other femslash discussions.

What kind of vocabulary list are you looking for?

Are you the person Molly and I were discussing Firefly pairings with? If so, can you remind me of the Mal/Kaylee you were reccing?

[unovis.livejournal.com]

The main archive for Andromeda slash is Andromeda Uncovered (http://www.anzwers.org/free/andromeda) (which isn't loading, I find).

I did mention a Mal/Kaylee story during the Mal panel, by ana_grrl, but I can't find it on her website. I emailed her to ask about it.

For vocabulary, believe it or not, I meant appealing ways of describing girl parts. It sounds funny but that's a stumbling block for writers used to throbbing cocks when they first try to write femslash. In "Plum Blossom Song" I resorted to the dreaded flower imagery.

[rsadelle]

I think we talked about vocabulary last year, but I didn't keep the flip chart paper. However, I have the handouts from last year's sex writing panel, which include an Erotic Keyword List. It does include horticultural synonyms, which we agreed at last year's femslash panel really should be avoided. There's a list of resources in the sex writing handouts, some of which might be useful, but it's too long to retype. The panelists were KatBear, Tem-ve, and khaleesian, so you could check with them to see if they have the electronic version of the handout they could send you.

[unovis.livejournal.com]

My mind is full of holes. The story's not by Ana. This isn't the one I remember, but it's close: So Long (http://firefly.populli.org/archive/1/solong.shtml) by Kate Elizabeth.

[rsadelle]

Ahhh. I've read that, and I didn't like it that much; however, the Mal/Kaylee story I love is by the same author and has disappeared from the web, so thanks to your link, I can email her and ask what happened to the other one.

[secondhandred.livejournal.com]

I may just be reading wrong, or not reading at all. But I see that you have the words FEMSLAHS and The books A Great and Terrible Beauty/ Rebel Angels on your list. I woke up today in great need of femslash from those two books. Fiction and Role Play. I think you're the only person on the planet that's even come close to it. Do you think you could help me out?

I mean there's slash and fem slash for damn Wizard of Oz, why not these books? Thank you in anyway you can help, and sorry if I came on a bit strong.

[rsadelle]

I actually haven't even read the Libba Bray books yet. I think either jennyo or mimesere who put them on the list.

[secondhandred.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm so sorry. I just read wrong perhaps. Thanks though.

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

Just FYI, I linked this list over at raregirlslash; they were looking for rare femslash fandoms.

[rsadelle]

Okay!