vague meta: femslash

[lyssie]

One of the common complaints about boyslash is "you can't just have a straight male wake up gay!" In fact, lots of people tend to like fic where it's all explained. How they're really bi, or they're hiding, or whatever.

So the question becomes, when I'm writing femslash, with a canonically-straight woman (I'm sorry, but if I want to be correct, I don't think any woman is supposed to be lesbian until they wave a little flag) do I need to give context? Do I need to justify their becoming suddenly all about the girlparts of their friends?

Or is it ok that I'm too shallow for that?

Comments

[havocthecat]

that would mean lots and lots of "lesbian secret origin" stories.

This line, combined with your icon, makes me think that somebody should put out a comic book series called Lesbian Secret Origins.

It really does make me think that.

I might just be kind of sad that way.

[jim-smith.livejournal.com]

And see, I'd be all into such a series, because I'm way more into the "Wow, I'm gay, what happens now?" side of characters turning gay than the "I gay you gay sex now" side of it.