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[nilchance]

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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[girlfan1979.livejournal.com]

Huh.

Cool answer.

Now I must go and digest.