Though I lack your power, I will still persist.

Things I need to write:

• Replies to several comments
• My next review for gay_also_means_happy
• Something for the current queerlygen challenge

Things my brain wants me to write:

• How 5 queer characters reacted to the zombie apocalypse and lived to tell the tale - although I've only got 4 so far

My brain is weird.

I believe that there needs to be more F/F fic (femslash, girlslash, yuri, saffic - whatever you want to call it) in the world. To back up my argument, I present to you the breakdown of the most recent fics posted to AO3 as of 5:40pm (GMT).

Category	Number of Fics	Percentage (approx)
F/F	44	4.6%
F/M	181	19.0%
Gen	258	27.0%
M/M	401	42.0%
Multi	57	6.0%
Other	14	1.5%

Or, for those who'd rather see that in piechart form:



(No, I'm totally not using this as an excuse to get my geek on, so hush. That said, if anyone just happens get access to/know how to get access to the numbers-breakdown for all the fics posted to AO3 (or any other archive for that matter, I'm not fussy), I would do almost anything to look at them. I kinda love numbers, no lie. Also, I plan on comparing this set of figures to the figures as they stand this time next week, if I remember, because this particular snapshot might not be all that fair/representative.)

Anyway, back to the point - WE NEED MORE FEMSLASH.

How exactly this should be accomplished is something I should have thought about before I started making this post. Hmmm.


[So that this isn't a completely wasted post, things you could talk about in the comments include:

• Your favourite F/F pairings (or F/F/F threesomes, etc)
• Fics you like
• Fics you'd like to see written
• Fics you're writing/trying to write (especially if you'd like me/people in general to cheer you on/handhold/beta/etc)

Or you could just complain about the lack of F/F fic out there - I'm not going to stop you, because that'd be ten kinds of hypocritical.]

My brain, being the fantastically annoying thing that it is, is trying to get me to write a Merlin AU - But I'm A Cheerleader! style.

I want to tell my brain that this isn't happening, but then I get this image of Uther telling people that they're not going to be gay anymore, and I really want to write it. Or at least see it written. Shame I didn't think of this a few months ago - I could have done it for reel_merlin.

I was going to talk about all the gender-related fail I've come across in the last few days, but then I came across this macro and, magically, everything's better:


^_^

Also, you know what? Signing up for areyougame was a Bad Idea. Or at the very least, I should have stuck with the one prompt that I was sure I could do something with. Even that one didn't get much of a reception (although I'm about to link to it in every community that I can think of, and have already managed to get it included in the Transfic master list, which proves that I'm good at selling stuff at least), and I'm still unsure if "very interesting" is a compliment or not. I'm also going to link the hell out of the third fic I posted there, for reasons of MOAR GIRLSLASH - Final Fantasy XII has many pretty (and easily slashable) boys, so the girls seem to get left out. Or at least, that's how I see it. I'm hoping that no-one ever finds the second fic I posted to that community, because it was awful and should be allowed to die with some dignity, so I won't be linking to that, ever.

Not bad going, you're probably thinking. Yet I've just had to give up on the other two prompts I claimed (don't worry, I told the mod, although there doesn't seem to be any precedent for it in that community o.o), because I can't get them to work at all. And one of them was my own freaking prompt, so it's not like I haven't had time to work on it.

I'm just frustrated, you know? I would like, for once, just to get through a full fic challenge without having to apologise to the mods for not completing everything (or not completing it at all in one case). Either that or I should learn to accept that I am not made for fic challenges, and learn to just write my own ideas at my own pace.

And I have lots of ideas. Oh man, do I.

( Specific fic bunnies )

( Vague fic ideas )

So, do you have any fic ideas going on right now that you'd like to talk about?