Been thinking about femslash lately, and my goodness but it can be hard to find some good examples. Didn't used to be quite so hard, but once Xena was done with... poof! No more. All gone. For every good Buffy/Faith or Hermione/Ginny story I find, there are so many more that just suck. And that's on the good days when there's a wealth of fem stories to go through.
I guess I'm a very untypical slasher. (Being less interested in the boys than the girls when it comes to looking for fic) Of course, most (though certanly not all) slashers are female and *straight*. (Te comes to mind as an exception) Maybe that has something to do with it. Certanly, a lot of the mainstream media articles about slashfic seem to focus around the whole "straight women writing about gay men" angle.
So I'm thinking, forget about fic for a while, and lets go find some movies with a femslash undertone. Movies where there's strong girl/girl UST, ST, or (maybe) kissing, but you still have to read between the lines for the relationship. (Meaning, I'm not counting "But I'm A Cheerleader" or "The Totally True Adventures of Two Girls In Love" for this list, 'cause there's no subtext there. It's all quite text.)
- Fried Green Tomatoes - The movie, not the book. They were pretty much out in the book. The movie got toned down.
- Tank Girl - Tank/Jet... (with the added bonus of getting to watch Lori Petty.)
- Bring It On - This one's slashy enough there's even a fic archive for it.
- The Color Purple - Shug was *so* bi. And there was kissage!
Hmm... I was hoping I could think of more than that. ::Goes off to ponder:: More to come later. (maybe)