Mothers and Daughters
(This month, I'm contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)
In the push for femslash, I want to make sure female-centric gen is not forgotten. Like femslash, female friendships and family relationships are heavily sidelined in many fandoms, if they exist at all. We can debate about the causes, or we can do something about it (or both - both is good).
So today I bring you a heavily underrepresented relationship: mothers and daughters. We have fathers and sons EVERYWHERE in fandom: complex relationships on every end of the spectrum from positive to negative. For mothers and daughters, we have few enough canonical relationships that it's a chore for me to think of more than 10 that have actual fanworks for them, and I've been in fandom for decades.
So my request today is for you to point me to a specific mother-daughter relationship in fandom, or a work that centers on a mother-daughter relationship. It doesn't even have to be canonical - if you have a link to a work that makes Bobbi Morse into Kate Bishop's mom, or that has Relena adopt Mariemeia, or that shows Gwen Pendragon's relationship with her mother before she died/disappeared, I want it! *grabby hands*
(And yes, I'm totally collecting all your responses to post at the end of the month. In case you were wondering.)
Freeforms of the day: Motherhood, Daughters, and Mother-Daughter Relationship
Got some mothers and daughters for me?
Originally posted to Dreamwidth. Current replies:
In the push for femslash, I want to make sure female-centric gen is not forgotten. Like femslash, female friendships and family relationships are heavily sidelined in many fandoms, if they exist at all. We can debate about the causes, or we can do something about it (or both - both is good).
So today I bring you a heavily underrepresented relationship: mothers and daughters. We have fathers and sons EVERYWHERE in fandom: complex relationships on every end of the spectrum from positive to negative. For mothers and daughters, we have few enough canonical relationships that it's a chore for me to think of more than 10 that have actual fanworks for them, and I've been in fandom for decades.
So my request today is for you to point me to a specific mother-daughter relationship in fandom, or a work that centers on a mother-daughter relationship. It doesn't even have to be canonical - if you have a link to a work that makes Bobbi Morse into Kate Bishop's mom, or that has Relena adopt Mariemeia, or that shows Gwen Pendragon's relationship with her mother before she died/disappeared, I want it! *grabby hands*
(And yes, I'm totally collecting all your responses to post at the end of the month. In case you were wondering.)
Freeforms of the day: Motherhood, Daughters, and Mother-Daughter Relationship
Got some mothers and daughters for me?
Originally posted to Dreamwidth. Current replies: