For me most m/m is dreadfully boring and the guys in them are redicilously effeminate (ffs!). Making them interesting and complex characters who just happen to fall for each other goes a long way of making me actually pay attention. Put them in a good story and it's great.

I can see the possibility of greatness in m/m sadly I just haven't found a single one that would be interesting enough to keep me entertained.

Some books exist out there but my local bookstore... no. Just nothing. But can't really order from Amazon if I don't know what I'm getting.

I'd love to find some slash that had the same level of sheer quality as Fingersmith for femslash.

(Or Ivy/Rachel, Phédre/Melisande, etc...)

For me I kinda accidentally found femslash through Kim's books. (Heh, what irony that :P)

I don't get much of the rest of femslash either. Seems that they just pick two gorgeous women from some TV series and then try to put them together. Doesn't much work for me that either. (Except bleighton). Well I loved Xena when it first started airing, but after the series already had ended and I found that Gabrielle/Xena was near canon I went huh? wot? Just shows how thick I'm sometimes :)

Only thing that works is the complexity and believabality(am not native speaker). The characters have to actually be believabally(wot?) feeling the feelings and processing them.

Ok, I think that's enough ranting for today.