so! a few things about anger!
Oct. 7th, 2010 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhI made a post over on the tumblr about being a feminist. It seemed more appropriate there because for a while I was following some feminist bloggers, and also because I somehow ended up on a list of feminist tumblrs, which I'm really honored to be on.
In related news, I was sad a few weeks ago, when I felt like all of my own fics about ladies and/or characters of color were pointless, because the people who are angry about the lack of ladies and characters of color in fic don't care what I do or have done! I think that possibly doing those things only counts in scifi fandoms, or if you write the right pairings--not unlike mainstream boyslash fandom! And I can only write what I write, the pairings I like in the fandoms I like. I would hope that the Mercedes/Quinn that I'm working on, or the Parvati/Lavender that I wrote a while back, or the stuff I'll do for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
tenwomen would "count", but I'm pretty prepared for them to all go unnoticed except by the people who want them. (And to those people I am HUGELY GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL because they keep me going.)
I am only one writer, after all. I cannot single-handedly change the fic counts at AO3, or make more of the pairing you're looking for in the fandom you're in that I'm not in appear, or make /cm/ disappear. It is not within my power! I'm just sad, I guess, that the every little bit that all of us can do is ignored in favor of more ranting about the people who aren't doing it. I think we need carrots as well as sticks here. I think we need to be encouraging as well as angry, if we want things to change.
In related news, I was sad a few weeks ago, when I felt like all of my own fics about ladies and/or characters of color were pointless, because the people who are angry about the lack of ladies and characters of color in fic don't care what I do or have done! I think that possibly doing those things only counts in scifi fandoms, or if you write the right pairings--not unlike mainstream boyslash fandom! And I can only write what I write, the pairings I like in the fandoms I like. I would hope that the Mercedes/Quinn that I'm working on, or the Parvati/Lavender that I wrote a while back, or the stuff I'll do for
tenwomen would "count", but I'm pretty prepared for them to all go unnoticed except by the people who want them. (And to those people I am HUGELY GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL because they keep me going.)I am only one writer, after all. I cannot single-handedly change the fic counts at AO3, or make more of the pairing you're looking for in the fandom you're in that I'm not in appear, or make /cm/ disappear. It is not within my power! I'm just sad, I guess, that the every little bit that all of us can do is ignored in favor of more ranting about the people who aren't doing it. I think we need carrots as well as sticks here. I think we need to be encouraging as well as angry, if we want things to change.
