curious

[cornerofmadness]

How dependent we can get on things. Earthlink crapped out on me today and I was a puddle of babbling goo. And i really needed the break since I'm making up exams and needed to unwind. Pouts. So I called evil_little_dog and we were both laughing so hard at MXC we were less talking on the phone than pointing and giggling at the TV.

Been reading a lot of shonen-ai manga lately, (and just my luck I'm at the library surrounded by my manga picks, which for those who don't know, shonen-ai are male homosexual comic when one of teh math profs from my school pops over to my table. Head desk). Curiously I've been considering writing a slash pairing for the first time ever. And I do mean ever. Mostly I've always eschewed it, especially when I know the actors and/or creators are against the changing of sexual preferences for their creations. Even when I know the creator doesn't much care (like Joss for instance) mostly I've not seen very convincing cases being made for a lot of the pairings I've seen. So this sudden urge, for the first time in 20 + years of writing fanfic (I've written homosexual characters in my original fic since high school so that's no big for me) is surprising.

Though I was highly amused reading the conclusion of "Ghost", one of the shonen-ai which concluded with the two boys getting together and ends with them fighting who's going to be the bottom and my first thought was Angel/Spike. This is one of the ways slash often fails to grab me, is the total ignoring of personality types. Two highly dominant tops usually don't work. Ah well, the little things that amuse me.

and speaking of amusing, back to thinking of my exams. Ah, the smell of fear in the morning, nothing like it. Whee, I've found a job that plugs into that slightly sadistic part of my personality.

Comments

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Nooo! Not you, too! It's like invasion of the body snatchers! One by one, everyone gets sucked in, until I'm the last one left, being chased around LJ by the bug-eyed slash!zombies!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I know it's like WTF? Does it count that they're not real men but rather animated ones...no that jsut makes it worse doesn't it

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I wrote m/m slash in high school with my best friend Regina. It was original, collaborative fic. Regina told her previous best friend Junko about it, and Junko was Japanese and a sketch artist, so she drew anime versions of all the characters for us. So there you go, animated gay-boys!

You know what? I kept all that fic we wrote, 'cause I keep all my writing. And I can still find the comments we wrote to each other in the margins while we were writing the story *fighting* over whether the main character was going to be gay, straight, or bisexual. Regina wanted him to get together with this cool rock star character she'd made up, and I wanted him to stay with his girlfriend who lived across the street.

And did I mention the incest fic with his brother?

Geesh. Slash is so thirty years ago for me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sounds almost exactly what I was writing in high school too for that matter, except make it SF and you'll be there. Never did lose my interest in writing m/m homosexuality, probably because of various gay friends who love to tell their sex lives.

i know how you feal

[ryuu-artist.livejournal.com]

i know how you feel. I'm usualy really devoted to one type of pairing.