This link has been bookmarked by 14 people . It was first bookmarked on 29 May 2008, by Nele Noppe.
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06 Nov 14
Luanndie Smith"ested in reading up on the issue, there is too much out there to list it all but apart from the excellent other resources here on the Fanfic Symposium, here are a few more links that offer more than just opinions and assumptions and that I can recommend."
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Greedy Dancer"So, Sigmund, wake up. Of course I don’t have a cock. I’m a woman. I don’t need a cock. I have a brain."
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29 May 08
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I hadn’t actually noticed how much I liked slash, even it was more that I noticed that I didn’t like m/f romance in fanfic (I still don’t), and that I disliked it precisely because it was all about love and sex when the original story of my favourite fandom wasn’t.
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But that seemed curiously inconsistent with the fact that I was already knee-deep into another fanfic genre in the same fandom that was all about love and sex. And that in a way that is probably even more removed from the original author’s ideas than the het fics.
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But slash as a political statement? Not me. If I wanted to get active politically, there’d be more efficient ways of getting the relevant people’s attention than spending hours, days and weeks at my computer reading fanfic, and occasionally typing up pieces of my own.
As for promoting gay issues, I support them, but I’m very definitely heterosexual and my interest in Real Life gay issues is of a purely objective social and political kind. -
there can be a certain sort of gratification in a shocked look on your parents’/teachers’/classmates’/co-workers’ faces. But it doesn’t apply to me for the simple reason that this interest of mine is a really, really private thing.
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So, sex or character development? Both, definitely. I believe both aspects exist in their own right in slash, and they also go hand in hand. How exactly, I will go into more detail below.
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Answer # 6: Assuming that the characters are gay makes for great narrative material, especially when the story is set in a world where homosexuality isn’t generally accepted.
Yes. The good old pattern of Love in the Face of Adversity certainly works for me as well as for anyone else, judging by the enormous popularity of the theme ever since the first piece of romantic fiction was written.
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