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Short answer: I can never figure out how to pronounce it.

Long answer: I prefer slash to yaoi. Slash seems less structured to me, more dirty-bad-wrong and, in my admittedly experience, less determined by gender roles into uke/seme. I started out reading Sailor Moon yuri when I was a baby dyke, and I loved the hell out of that. I still get into Gundam Wing yaoi sometimes, when I'm in the mood for epic romance and all that jazz. But would I write yaoi? No.

My thoughts on slash? I love it. I love playing with masculine roles; I remember in WWE slash, most of the community fell into the yaoi mindset of "small man bottoms for big man, possibly with tears and rainbows and kittens involved". I was part of the subset that said fuck that, the little guy was still 6'1. I still love playing with the heteronormative cultures of most RPF: pop music, wrestling, acting. (Ditto SPN's male-dominated hunting culture.) And I love the people I write about. And I think two guys having sex is hot.

Do I think there are political aspects to what I write? No. Writing fic for entertainment value has nothing to do with politics, and will ultimately achieve nthing compared to real activism.

Do I think being a lesbian gives me a special calling to write slash? No. Because being a lesbian is socially frowned upon, but it still has nothing on being a gay male in US society. I think I can bring some of the experience of closeted life, coming out, etc, but there's a reason that most of my slash is dystopic AU or PWP.

Um. Favorite yaoi couple? Wufei/Duo/Heero. Which is another reason yaoi isn't my first love: not enough threesomes. Woe.

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Huh.

Cool answer.

Now I must go and digest.

Yey 5x2x1! :)

I love playing with masculine roles; I remember in WWE slash, most of the community fell into the yaoi mindset of "small man bottoms for big man, possibly with tears and rainbows and kittens involved". I was part of the subset that said fuck that, the little guy was still 6'1. I still love playing with the heteronormative cultures of most RPF: pop music, wrestling, acting. (Ditto SPN's male-dominated hunting culture.) And I love the people I write about. And I think two guys having sex is hot.

Oh, there's just no way for this sentence to come out right, but... one of the things I like about Deathknell is that sometimes Jared's on top of Jeff. Yay! I mean, not just "like" in a "that's hot" way. Like in a "obvious fixed roles are made of fail" way.

Ah, don't people with fixed roles get bored? (Says the ex-stone-butch...)

Edited 2008-03-14 19:48 (UTC)

I've only been on LJ since Sep 07. I started reading slash then.

I am embarrassed reading your answer, because I don't know what half of the stuff is that you are talking about. I feel like an idiot. I don't even know what some of the abbreviations mean.

I need a remedial LJ class to follow along.

The part that I did understand however, was quite insightful. And I can't argue with this at all:

(Ditto SPN's male-dominated hunting culture.) And I love the people I write about. And I think two guys having sex is hot.

Because I definitely think that two guys having sex is hot and they way you write it is extra hot and spicy.

yaoi mindset of "small man bottoms for big man, possibly with tears and rainbows and kittens involved". I was part of the subset that said fuck that, the little guy was still 6'1. [snip] And I love the people I write about. And I think two guys having sex is hot.

I can't pronounce yaoi either, nor am I confident of its meaning and permutations, thus my avoidance of its use.

But thank goodness for your fuck that, because the inflexibility of vision is one thing that will make me grind my teeth. Lord knows I love girls, but to write a male in a slash pairing consistently as "the girl" is a deliberate refusal to adequately explore character or relationship, at least to my way of thinking. You never refuse, at least not on those grounds.