This is what happens when you let a former English major read sites like metafandom and Fanfic Symposium. Those not interested in either discussions of slash, fanfic writing or pseudo-academic ramblings, skip this one.

( Why I Write Transformers Slash: )

I was rereading Barbara Hambly's Dead Water and it got me to thinking about something I'd never associated with Transformers before: voodoo.

Some background: Dead Water is the 8th in Hambly's Benjamin January series of books which all take place in the 1830s and are all, except for Days of the Dead set in New Orleans. The main character is a ( Read more... )