Fandom and Exchanges
Thursday, 20 August 2015 10:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lea_hazelI have kind of a love-hate relationships with ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
femslashex. Okay, maybe that's overstating it a little. But, I have participated a couple of times and like a lot of multi-fandom fests, when your fandom is minor or you're interested in less mainstream pairings... things get interesting. So I would nominate a whole bunch of obscure fandoms and strange pairings and put up an offer as broad as possible, so as to make matching easier.
Years in fandom and a free-for-all shipping mentality have made me very good at adapting to a wide variety of different types of stories and pairings. Yet, somehow, even when I was going in with bright eyes and a positive attitude, I've always struggled to fulfill my FEX assignments. Oh, I got them all done and they were all passably decent, but I don't think I've ever felt really good about any of them. And I was often anxious about how best to balance my tendency to default to the bizarre and esoteric, with meeting the parameters of the recipient's request.
Not sure how it's gonna go this year, but since I have a shiny, shiny new fandom with a whole bunch of femslash pairings, and since I know at least one other person nominated pairings in this fandom... we'll see how it goes.
femslashex. Okay, maybe that's overstating it a little. But, I have participated a couple of times and like a lot of multi-fandom fests, when your fandom is minor or you're interested in less mainstream pairings... things get interesting. So I would nominate a whole bunch of obscure fandoms and strange pairings and put up an offer as broad as possible, so as to make matching easier. Years in fandom and a free-for-all shipping mentality have made me very good at adapting to a wide variety of different types of stories and pairings. Yet, somehow, even when I was going in with bright eyes and a positive attitude, I've always struggled to fulfill my FEX assignments. Oh, I got them all done and they were all passably decent, but I don't think I've ever felt really good about any of them. And I was often anxious about how best to balance my tendency to default to the bizarre and esoteric, with meeting the parameters of the recipient's request.
Not sure how it's gonna go this year, but since I have a shiny, shiny new fandom with a whole bunch of femslash pairings, and since I know at least one other person nominated pairings in this fandom... we'll see how it goes.
