Because the amount of slash and het in fanfic outweighs the amount of gen, regardless of the gender, sexual orientation, or marital status of the author.

Yeah, I can see that. I just like to tell stories, y'know? It's weird because, on the face of it, the stories I write are what I'd consider fairly mainstream--I try to keep to the basic constraints of what could appear on the TV--and yet sometimes it seems that what I do is an oddity among fan fic writers.

Ah, the lament of the gen writer. I think it comes back down to that other eternal question of "but *why fanfic?", and for a lot of people, the answer is "So I can get what I don't see on my screen."

"So I can get what I don't see on my screen."

And by that, I mean "porn." (:

I always got the impression that fanfic was much more of a woman fan phenomenon.

I think it really depends on the fandom and/or genre. In my experience as a fic archivist and con-goer, there's a fairly high percentage of men in fandoms like Buffy and Farscape. And comics, of course.

My default gender assumption for fandom used to be "female", but it isn't now, especially since I've moved back into comics. I think the fan fiction sphere is female-dominated, but anymore that's all I can generalize, because demographics shift like whoa from fandom to fandom.

I've been going to Dragon*Con for the last few years, and it seems like there's a fairly even boy/girl split. Problem is, I've been trespassing in traditionally male space since I was wee, so it's difficult to have perspective.

With my parties, you'll notice a hugely disproportionate number of really hot women in pretty dresses. I'll never figure out why more men don't attend these things.

Chances are good, yo.

Happily, not just for those seeking hot women in pretty dresses.

I finally replaced my DVD player and am looking at my Wonderfalls DVDs RIGHT NOW! Wheeeeee!

I mean "porn." (:

Why you think the Net was born? For porn, porn. porn.

From upthread:

They'd raised $3M in pledges last I read.

Which was pledged by a couple of spaceflight related companies.

Hey! Why don’t the chick campaigns get space-company contributions! I call BS on that shiznit right there, yo.

"The final episode is ... appalling."

I believe I previously mentioned that they could have replaced current episodes with a placard reading FUCK YOU FOR WATCHING. REGARDS, THE MGMT.

See but they brought in Manny Coto (created & wrote most of Odyssey 5, short-lived but IMO pretty good Showtime sci-fi effort) and I actually thought it got noticeably better. Of course, it couldn’t get much worse - and I never really watched it before - but the BF is really liking this season.

Oh dear god. I just read another script for The Inside.

Our boy may just win an Emmy. I wonder if he'll bring his mom to the awards.

Hm. Hm. So, it's like if The Smoking Man, John McLean, Ellen Ripley, and that scene where Angel is all calm and cool and then SMOTHERS THE FUCK OUT OF WESLEY with a pillow were all baked in a Cooks Illustrator buttery flaky pie crust and topped with a dollop of that scene in the XFiles when Mulder pulls his gun in a state of panic on a duck, and says he still wants to shoot it.

But really, am not doing it justice.

I wonder if I'm very, very quiet and promise to be good if he'll let me watch them film some of it.