Sophie is so boring, though. I like her well enough onscreen, but I don't really love her paired with anyone.

I think Parker would be a Ravenclaw. Hardison, too, actually. And Eliot is a secret Gryfindor.

I saw some lovely Ariadne/Mal art (suggestive, no nudity) that made me want to root for them as a pairing, but really, there's a whole lot of nothing going on there.

A bit of Parker/Maggie would be fun. Not that I don't like Sophie and Parker together--I just have difficulty with her and people she's emotionally close to who aren't Hardison.

Sophie/Tara could work.

Most of the femmeslash I run across is in Star Trek fandom. I see a bit of Gaila/Uhura, Chapel/Rand (wrote some myself).

There's the Where No Woman New Year Exchange collection at AO3: [link] and it's spawning community: [link] Emphasis is just on the females of Star Trek, so not all stories are femmeslash, but you will find a bit.

There is one community I know of dedicated to femmeslash in Star Trek [link]

Halfamoon [link] is starting up again February 1st. It's not all femmeslash, but since the emphasis is on female characters, you find quite a bit there.

I'm bemused and puzzled that in a culture (at least in my corner) where F/F pairings are considered mainstream HOT and M/M is still icky, that the opposite seems to be true in fandoms. Is it because fandom is mostly female and/or gay and penises are YAY! ?

Right, now I'm wondering if Bandom gets houses.

Pete Wentz wears Gryfindor colors. He might be protesting too much...

Hell, I'll even throw in the short one with the funny hair.

Little black dress of fandom, baybee.

where F/F pairings are considered mainstream HOT

Among women, straight or otherwise?

I'm just thinking of all the magazines, interviews, etc. I've been peripherally exposed to where it was all "two chicks kissing, AWESOME!" whether it be TV or movies, and in the same breath there was "You made the Marlboro Man GAY!!! RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!" So, all of the above?

Why wouldn't Sherlock Holmes be in Ravenclaw? He doesn't seem to have the powerhunger that I see in Slytherin.

I'm just thinking of all the magazines, interviews, etc. I've been peripherally exposed to where it was all "two chicks kissing, AWESOME!" whether it be TV or movies, and in the same breath there was "You made the Marlboro Man GAY!!! RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!" So, all of the above?

Think of it as the Male Gaze in action, Juliebird. The long-standing presumption in Western culture is: that which men find appealing is acceptable, whereas women's sexual desires are weird/outrageous/perverted. Add to that more than a bit of homophobia (you can't imagine the male characters are gay, that will make us gay!) and hypocrisy (how dare women objectify men the way men objectify women!). And add on top, like sprinkles, the idea that what women do is fundamentally of less value than what men do: so women's writing is "chicklit", and women's erotica written for other women is or should be ignored rather than paid attention to or even validated.

Why wouldn't Sherlock Holmes be in Ravenclaw? He doesn't seem to have the powerhunger that I see in Slytherin.

Someone raised that precise point to this person (Dauntdraws), and she said:

I do disagree with you regarding a Slytherin’s ambitions, though. I think ambition doesn’t necessarily mean money or power only. “Ambitious people seek to be the best at what they choose to do for attainment, power, or superiority.” Sherlock gets great enjoyment out of proving himself to be superior to the people around him. He just likes proving his intellectual superiority, in part, I think because he was probably dismissed so often as a child + young man. Snape wasn’t looking for riches or fame. Just recognition. So yeah, I think desiring the answer and breaking the rules for that answer, isn’t in honor of the knowledge (Ravenclaw) it’s to satisfy what he wants (Slytherin).

Her tumblr. I found it quite fascinating, but I think the idea of slotting everyone into four personality based houses (I was in houses in school, but I do think it was random, apart from the time I was in the house that was my last name) is horror.

My sister is on a one by one mission to open women's eyes to the idea of M/M, and it's interesting. She's in anthropology, so she encounters a thinky set of people, but it is Jamaica. Every woman I've seen her suggest "Would you like to see your husband kiss another man?" to...it was like a lightbulb going off in their heads.

No, not everyone was into it, but I was startled that it was a new idea.