[fandom] Baby-Sitters Club slash
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escritoireazulI have insomnia.
I also have thinky thoughts about The Baby-Sitters Club and why a fandom based on a book series about eight girls (plus two associate members, only one of whom is a male) has so much more boy slash than girl slash. I think this says something about the way fans treat women, but I'm not quite sure yet which words I want to use.
But seriously. Most of the slash fic I see is one of the triplets and Jeff (or Nicky and Jeff). The series is about eight female baby-sitters (nine if you count Shannon, who wasn't the focus of very many stories, but was still a member from early on), and yet the fanfic focuses on the male charges.
I wonder if it has something to do with the age of the people writing fic now? Where they closer to the charges' ages when reading it, and therefore were more interested in them? That might be part of it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Why so much boy slash instead of girl slash in that fandom? My inquiring mind wants to know.
I also have thinky thoughts about The Baby-Sitters Club and why a fandom based on a book series about eight girls (plus two associate members, only one of whom is a male) has so much more boy slash than girl slash. I think this says something about the way fans treat women, but I'm not quite sure yet which words I want to use.
But seriously. Most of the slash fic I see is one of the triplets and Jeff (or Nicky and Jeff). The series is about eight female baby-sitters (nine if you count Shannon, who wasn't the focus of very many stories, but was still a member from early on), and yet the fanfic focuses on the male charges.
I wonder if it has something to do with the age of the people writing fic now? Where they closer to the charges' ages when reading it, and therefore were more interested in them? That might be part of it, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Why so much boy slash instead of girl slash in that fandom? My inquiring mind wants to know.
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Date: 2008-02-11 07:54 am (UTC)I don't like to talk about my views on that in public forums because I don't tread lightly on people's feelings.
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Date: 2008-02-11 08:15 am (UTC)I'm not a big fan of charge-fic. I like BSC-in-high-school fics the best, hands down, and I can read just about any [well written] pairing in that. There's a really great one on ffn right now with Mary Anne/Alan Gray. And they make the pairing work. It's really impressive.
But, um, slash. I've written some BSC girl slash, but oddly enough, never BSC-member on BSC-member. I've written Mary Anne/Kerry Bruno, Sunny/Stacey, and Claudia/Ashley. I did boy slash in my California Diaries fics, but Ducky's a good one for that. :D
I can't tell you why it's not there on a whole, or why Jeff/Byron is so popular. Which kind of annoys me, Byron is the quiet triplet so obviously, he's the gay triplet. Bring on the Adam/Jeff!
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Date: 2008-02-11 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-11 02:48 pm (UTC)ETA to use my "Dibble" icon!
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Date: 2008-02-11 03:20 pm (UTC)I definitely don't think that the majority of readers identified with the charges--while typically BSC readers were probably under 12, children generally identify a few years up when reading YA fiction. Everyone wants to sit at the grown-up table, right? :p
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Date: 2008-02-11 03:41 pm (UTC)What confuses me is that, if the audiences are relating to the charges rather than the baby-sitters, aren't there comparatively WAY more female kids?
I mean, Vanessa! Charlotte! Becca! Right there you have three EXCELLENT POSSIBLE PAIRINGS.
*gestures wildly*
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