[fandom] Baby-Sitters Club slash

[escritoireazul]

I 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

Comments

[lionessvalenti]

I know I prefer writing boy slash. When it comes to girl slash, it's kind of too close for me. I've been in relationships with girls, and while I might know what that's like, it gets into a too-personal space for me.

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!

[hermionesviolin]

BSC has boyslash? Clearly I hang out in specific circles 'cause most all I see is girlslash (specifically the members in relationships with each other).

[nikitangel]

Yeah, my limited experiences in the fandom have been all about the girls. Different circles, I guess.

ETA to use my "Dibble" icon!

[cabell]

Yeah, that's been my experience, too.

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

[fox1013]

Me... four? I think?

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*

[thelastgoodname]

Where are you finding all this BSC slash? I've read one story about the Pike triplets (excellent, but still just the one), and then I'm a member of bsclove, which does not feature fic as often as I'd like, but which does have a great deal of all sorts of babysitter pairings. And Stacey/Charlotte, which, as hermionesviolin implies, is practically canon. But then, it's a girls-only kind of place.