Continuation of discussion

[delmarsdoll]

This post grew from a reply I left to Spooky FBI. I felt I wanted to make it a post because it expands on the discussion I started and gets a little closer to the discussion I meant to start long ago

Comments

[klangley56]

You know, it may have been Jacqueline Lichtenberg who gave me the impression (or even said somewhere directly) that Marshak and Culbreath weren't K/Sers.

Or maybe not. The old gray matter she ain't what she used to be. :-) But she would be a good person to ask, since she and Marshak are buds.

And it's really not unheard of for non-slash writers to present material that skirts the slash edge . . . that's a large part of what the "smarm" genre is, in my opinion. :-)

Either way, I'm not trying to seriously convince slash-oriented fans (I'm both) that something isn't slash if they think it is, because that's a lost cause. :-)

[delmarsdoll]

I get that some material may be intended as not slash but it gets really close to the line. I actually wasn't aware of the genre of smarm until this fandom and I encountered people not into K/S. But there are some things they (Culbreath and Marshak) write or edit that just, cross the line in my opinion. The bit in Winged Dreamers where Spock talks openly to Kirk about running away together to be together always: I really don't buy that as just a close bond of brotherhood. I am the last person, however, to try to tell people what they intended with their writing. I always failed the "analyze this" assignments in school lit classes. But I would say to these writers that their perception of a deep but not sexual bond are not believable.
And I don't kow how old your gray matter is, but mine already isn't what it used to be at 35+, so you have my complete sympathy. Why do we have to get older?!!!

[klangley56]

Oh, great--I've been in fandom longer than you've been alive. Now I *really* feel old. :-)

[delmarsdoll]

Sorry, that was NOT my intention.

[klangley56]

As our favorite Scotsman would say: Dinna fash yourself, lassie.

I'm just kidding you. :-)

[delmarsdoll]

Omg love your icon