GIP

If I weren't already a Fred fan, I think the screencap from which I made this icon would be enough to convince me. (The language geek in me says: Use of the subjunctive plus a "from which" construction in the previous sentence! Elevated language score!) (The philosophy geek in me says: Counterfactual conditional score! But if I weren't a Fred fan, I would have to be fundamentally different than I am now, because my being a Fred fan has necessary and sufficient causes in my life history and temperament, the latter being to some degree a result of the former. Would those fundamental differences be enough to render me resistant to teh awesomeness of teh Fred? And if I said "If the Fred fan were not me" [or technically, as language geek points out, "If the Fred fan were not I"] which is supposedly logically equivalent, would that mean the same thing?) (Welcome to my mind. Are you scared yet?)

And to prove I am a geek (as if I needed any more proof after the parentheticals in that last paragraph), I've spent many many hours over the last few days going through the archives over at femslash_minis and indexing the fics so they are searchable by character. So if you've been wondering why I haven't been reading my flist and commenting on all your brilliant posts and why my own posting has been sparse (and I know none of you have been wondering that but I like to pretend you have) that is the reason why. What is it that allows me to be so organized with fic? I don't know, because I don't seem to be able to get anything else organized. But I still need a screencap of Nandi if anyone has one.

So, tabulating the results, it turns out that we've had somewhere in the vicinity of 185 fics served. (My numbers are off because the total number of fics added up, with each fic being counted twice--once for each member of the pairing--except for the Kennedy/OFC which gets counted once should be an odd number, but isn't. So there are still issues with the index, which I expected. If you figure out what's wrong, or find I've done something unforgiveable like leave your fic off the list, don't hesitate to comment or email.)

So, I know the question on everyone's mind is: who's the slashiest? So here's the answers:

No. of Pairings
1: Amy, Alonna, Bethany, Cassie, Edna Mae, Furies, Kit, Marcie, Nandi, Pat, Veruca
2: Amanda, Anne, Glory, Illyria, Kendra
3: Eve, Saffron, Zoe
4: Drusilla, Joyce, Kate
5: Gwen, Harmony
7: darla, River
8: Inara, Kennedy
9: Anya, Jenny
10: Kaylee
11: Nina
12: Lilah
13: Fred, Tara
14: Cordelia, Willow
16: Dawn
17: Buffy
18: Faith

No. of Fics
1: Amy, Alonna, Bethany, Cassie, Edna Mae, Furies, Kit, Marcie, Nandi, Pat, Veruca
2: Amanda, Anne, Glory, Illyria, Kendra
3: Eve, Saffron
4: Drusilla, Joyce, Kate
5: Gwen
6: Zoe
7: Darla
9: River
10: Harmony, Jenny
13: Inara
14: Anya, Kennedy
15: Lilah
17: Nina
18: Kaylee
23: Fred, Willow
24: Tara
29: Cordelia
31: Dawn
36: Buffy
40: Faith

Which proves that Faith is the little black dress of Jossverse femslash, having been paired with 18 other Jossverse women and starring in a whopping 40 fics. That's quite a feat! But one which surprises no one, I suppose, because we all knew that Faith was, well, Faith. What is it that jennyo likes to say about Eliza Dushku and femslash? I forget, but I wish I didn't, because if I could remember then I'd sound all cool.

This prodigious amount of femslash (and believe me, I know now just how prodigious it truly is) would not, of course, exist if not for the brilliant idea and hard work of cadence_k.

ETA as I read everyone on my flist complaining about the weather: Lastly, yes, it is hot here too. 95 degreesF outside at this moment and it's frelling 9:30 at night. And work has no air conditioning. C'est la vie.