I think this has come up in multiple episodes, so I don’t remember if I’m commenting on the right one or not, but: listening to this show has solved something that was a weird mystery to me for a long time. I’ve been a Sailormoon fan ever since I was a kid, and some of my earliest years on the internet were spent in that fandom. A lot of fan energy is spent on “shipping” and I was no exception. When I started reading and writing that kind of fanfiction, I was mostly interested in het and f/f pairings. This seemed very normal to me as a teenager, because Sailormoon has a very female-heavy cast. When I started getting exposed to wider fandom culture, I learned that m/m pairings were some of the most popular. I didn’t quite see the appeal at the time, but okay, sure. What was weird to me, though, was that a number of the young women writing m/m stories also said they were lesbians. “But… there aren’t any women in that.” Why would lesbians want to write m/m fics?
I think this has come up in multiple episodes, so I don’t remember if I’m commenting on the right one or not, but: listening to this show has solved something that was a weird mystery to me for a long time. I’ve been a Sailormoon fan ever since I was a kid, and some of my earliest years on the internet were spent in that fandom. A lot of fan energy is spent on “shipping” and I was no exception. When I started reading and writing that kind of fanfiction, I was mostly interested in het and f/f pairings. This seemed very normal to me as a teenager, because Sailormoon has a very female-heavy cast. When I started getting exposed to wider fandom culture, I learned that m/m pairings were some of the most popular. I didn’t quite see the appeal at the time, but okay, sure. What was weird to me, though, was that a number of the young women writing m/m stories also said they were lesbians. “But… there aren’t any women in that.” Why would lesbians want to write m/m fics?
Now I get it. So thank you!