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misswindy
2004-09-19 07:53 pm UTC (link)

I don't know if the really is a need for another term or not. That seems like it would just splinter things even further. I don't label my fics one way or the other.

Oh, me neither. I think I was mostly just curious about these people who were vehemently claiming it's not slash (slash meaning "explicitly and exclusively gay" for those folks) and the folks insisting it isn't straight either. I mean, to me, the latter position seems obvious. A story that has two guys giving each other blowjobs isn't heterosexual erotica. The former position seems a little less obvious and necessitating more narrow definitions.

I tend to want "slash" to be, in fanfic, descriptive of the same sexual arenas as the word "queer" is in real-life politics - anything that deviates from exclusive heterosexuality. But apparently this is far too ambiguous and confusing for some people, and I get that, but my question for those folks is, then what is it?

I, like you, don't label anything I write and tend to think that a fic labeled "Colin/Amy/Ephram" (I write a lot for the Everwood fandom) is a self-explanatory threesome, but the idea that someone who writes threesomes isn't technically a slasher is a little odd and exclusionary to me, don't you think?

What bugs me is the idea that anything with girl parts in it should not be posted to a slash list (what if it was a multi-chaptered story with some Ron/Hermione/Harry chapters and some chapters where it was just Ron and Harry shagging? Are you not to post the R/Hr/H chapters on that list?) and giving m/m/f and f/f/m their own term seems like it would only encourage that.

*nods* It might also pre-emptively reduce a lot of bitching, too, though, yes?

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iczer6
2004-09-19 09:38 pm UTC (link)

What bugs me is the idea that anything with girl parts in it should not be posted to a slash list

This bugs me because it's up to the list owner to decide what they want and don't want on their lists.

If they don't wank 'icky girl parts' on their slash lists that's their right.

If you don't like it find another list or just don't post that part of the fic.

I remember being on certain pairing list where the rule was that fics had to center on that pairing. If they didn't they couldn't be posted there.

Most people would just post links to parts of the story that weren't ____ pairing centric and that seemed to work well for everyone.

Icz

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