sciatrix

Absolutely and extremely cosigned. It's so stifling to have all of f/f shoved into a little box marked Pure and Wholesome. And like you said, there's nothing wrong with fluff--but there's something wrong with one note, instead of reflecting the variation of the world. It's an improvement over And Then They Died And It Was Very Sad, but I'm always still just like I WANT THE SAME STORIES EVERYONE ELSE GETS BUT WITH GIRLS WHO LOVE GIRLS THANKS. I want to see myself in my favorite genres, goddamnit. I haven't been reading much of any profic of late, because it's just so hard to find anything with lesbians in it--and I'm still gunshy from Black Blade Blues promising me a badass lesbian blacksmith with an undercut and then giving her an extended angst plot about fighting with her girlfriend about being in the closet and it was written by a man and BOY COULD I TELL--and just... at least AO3 has tags. I've found myself just kind of going back to the kind of mslash I read when I was 12 because it's so hard to find femslash, especially at the lengths I prefer to read (100k+, the longer the better). And that kind of no-conflict Soft Sapphic Fluff doesn't lend itself to the kind of length I prefer to read anyway! But reading mslash and het too much ends up feeling rather empty, because I'm not there.