Hello! I'm cherie_morte, and ash48 invited me here to try and sell you all one of my niche interests, femmeslash. I was actually a very late convert to femmeslash, so I know you may be thinking it's not for you. I was there once! Or maybe you've considered looking into it but not had any idea where to start? If you care to take a stroll with me down Lady Love Lane, I hope to help settle any interested converts into the Wonderful World of Femmeslash.


No, dammit. I didn't mean it like that, Ruby.

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So, that's my sell! Hopefully I've at least piqued some interests or helped interested parties orient themselves. If you have any femmeslash related questions that I didn't cover in the above post, please please feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer! I'll edit this post as we go along in case there's things in the comments that I think will help new femmeslashers along.

If this post has given you such a burning need for femmeslash that you cannot contain yourself and must find a way to make more exist, I heartily endorse any and all attempts at getting another femmeslash bang off the ground. :P

Major thanks to the mods for giving me the chance to pimp my special little corner of the SPN fandom. 

I love a lot of things about SPN. Well, okay, let’s be honest. I love everything about SPN. I play in several different areas of fandom, but my true fandom love is hardcore. Like SPN, there's a lot I love about hardcore, but there's a subsection that particularly engages me, one that skirts the borderlands between hardcore and mainstream. 

I’m not talking about the sizzling hot explicit sex between two brothers happily humping like bunnies (how many fandoms get to claim that as mainstream?). I’m talking about the dark underbelly of hardcore that explores those darker aspects of humanity while hurting our boys like nothing else can. 

If you read it, you know what I’m talking about. For those of you who see hardcore elements listed in a story's warnings and run for the hills, I'm here to tell you why we use them and why you should give hardcore a chance. 

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Hello, I am verucasalt123, nice to meet you. I would like to thank the mods of spnroundtable for giving me this opportunity to post about one of the niche aspects of fandom. In advance, I’d like to apologize for not knowing how to embed videos and only being able to give links. Please forgive me, I hope you'll click on the links so you can get a visual of my opinions. Also, if you haven't watched all the way through S7, there are spoilers.

Today I’m going to talk about my love for Lucifer.



I realize he’s maybe not so easy to love, or like, or even not really really hate. But there are some canon examples that illustrate why I have a soft spot in my heart for the Morningstar.

And not just because Mark Pellegrino is hotttttttttt.





His speech to Dean during The End was exceptionally touching for me. The way he saw what happened to him, and the question of whether or not the ‘punishment fit the crime’…well, yeah, what he’s doing now? Sure. But the way Lucifer views his fate…it made sense to me. My first moment of sympathy for the devil.

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In one of the episodes I’ve never been able to re-watch because it’s so heartbreaking, Abandon All Hope, Castiel meets his brother in a ring of fire.

First of all, the way Lucifer pronounces his name, Cast-IEL, is for some reason very endearing to me. Like that's the way it’s supposed to be said, but humans don’t get it, except sometimes maybe Sam. So they say it wrong. But Lucifer doesn’t. CastIEL. Lucifer gets it right, because he knows. They’re connected, whether Cas wants to accept it or not.

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Both rebelled. Both were cast out. It’s the truth. Maybe it was for different reasons, at different times, but still. Castiel doesn’t really want to acknowledge it, but it’s the truth. The circumstances weren't the same, but both chose their own path, a path that defied orders from On High, and paying dearly for it.

And then we get to Hammer of the Gods, and those tiny little seconds when Lucifer breaks after having killed his brother Gabriel. Not much time is given to it, but the impact, for me, was profound. He didn’t want to do it. He has a heart, one that broke after what he did. Those few seconds of his unadulterated grief affected me greatly, just seeing his sharp intakes of breath and looking like he was holding back tears.

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Now, don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I think it’s fantastic that Lucifer tortured Sam (though I love a good Sam!whump just as much as the next fangirl), or that he almost killed Dean. But it’s not like the guy doesn’t have redeeming qualities.

Let’s jump to season 7, when he helped Sam figure things out during the Repo Man episode. Yeah, he had his own agenda, which was completely evil, but for just a little while there, the things Lucifer did led Sam to finding a way to save his brother.

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To sum up, yeah, I know Lucifer does way crazy shitty things. But there’s something underneath, something that makes him almost as human as a human, despite his overall despicable behavior. And that is why, regardless, I have some love for Lucifer.

Thank you again to the mods for letting me share, and I hope that some folks will give some feedback, even if it's along the lines of “Veruca, you are one crazy bitch”.

So okay, I get it, not everybody loves the devil. But there have been enough times in canon when I’ve been able to spot some things that made me understand why he turned out the way he did.

And it doesn’t hurt that Mark Pellegrino is hotttttttttttt. Obviously. Here is a reminder, in case you forgot from the top of my post.



I've listed some fic recs, which vary from canon-based to AU to crack, but I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.

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http://slippery-fish.livejournal.com/1694529.html Lucifer convinces Sam to help him bring Gabriel back, because Sam understands what it’s like to mourn a lost brother.

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http://discreetmath.livejournal.com/6485.html adorable AU about Lucifer and Castiel making a life together after Lucifer is returned to Earth as a human.

Again, thank you so very much, mods, for inviting me to participate in this way. I am sincerely grateful.

Hi all, I'm tiptoe39 and this is my first post to the roundtable. Thanks to lazy_daze, obstinatrix and the rest of the mods for allowing me to post this. I hope it is informative to those of you who are curious and rings true to those of you who agree!

I'm going to chat a bit about Gabriel himself, a bit about Sam/Gabriel, and also about the Sam/Dean/Castiel/Gabriel OT4.

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This is the first in a series of posts about the more niche aspects of fandom. Thanks to obstinatrix and the other mods at spnroundtable for letting me have my say.

Why Mishalecki?

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Hi, Roundtablers!

Most of us are reeling in one or other direction in the wake of the finale last night, but fandom goes on -- and with the hiatus on the way, I expect a flurry of activity. ;) This post concerns a New Feature we've decided to try implementing: Pimp Your...

As you probably know, one of the main intentions of the Round Table is that it should be, well, a round table -- a place where every aspect of fandom is equally free to represent itself, and where everything that goes on is as inclusive as we can make it. Naturally, every fanperson only moves in the circles of fandom that s/he's interested in, so it's hard for one person, or group of people, to reach all the corners. Luckily, we're not just working with one person here at Round Table; we're working with hundreds, and between you guys, we've got to have quite a lot of fandom covered, right?

So, here's the concept: we want to launch a regular feature for the members of Round Table to 'pimp out', or pitch, those particular parts of fandom which are small, or lesser known, or neglected, and which you wish had more activity. Ever wished there was more fic with JDM in it? Pitch JDM fandom here. On the other side of things, ever wished you understood what Novaks fandom was all about? Hopefully, this can also be the sort of place you can come to find your answers. Basically, if you're a fan of a rarepair or a niche genre in fandom, we want you to sign up and explain it and its benefits to everyone else -- a sort of Ship Manifesto for your favourite thing that nobody pays enough attention to.

What counts as a rarepair/niche? Well, some of the things we thought of included: CW RPF femslash, Jared/JDM, Meg/Castiel, Bobby/Rufus, Novakverse, Thingstiel, J2/Danneel/Gen -- but, obviously, this isn't an exhaustive list! If we could think of all the component parts of fandom ourselves, we wouldn't need Pimp Your... :) If your pairing/special area isn't listed, that doesn't mean it's not okay! Sign up, make your suggestion, and as long as it isn't Sam/Dean, Dean/Castiel or J2, it's allowed. Don't worry if you're not sure how to structure your post or what to put in it -- we're here to help with all that stuff later.

If you're interested in writing/hosting a Pimp Your... post, please comment here with the following info:

Name:
Email address:
Topic(s) you'd like to write about:
Months you'd be available/specifically unavailable:

There's no closing date for signing up, so if you have a great idea later, do come back and throw it into the hat.