One reason I started writing fanfic again 11 or 12 years ago (after my angsty fling with self-insert Pernfic and parodic Star Trek/Star Wars fic during my adolescence) was because I was tired of slashfail -- I was tired of reading about two girls or women getting together as if they were the first to have the idea in the whole wide world, because it just doesn't happen like that. I was also tired of the lesbian literary cliches that were rampant in the femslash I read. I am a fan of queer female characters in SFF, and femslash is one way I can get that... when it's not done badly. Given that femslash, a much smaller percentage of fic, has these problems, I can only imagine how m/m slash magnifies it (and adds its own problems of anatomy and portrayal to the issue).

So yes, hi, I'm a dyke who like my queer SFF, and I feel ambivalent too.