UR DOING IT WRONG
This is a response to a Swedish newspaper article about Star Trek slash. I have some problems with it and my reply was a bit too large for the comment box.
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And yet one my favourite Kirk/Spock fics ever? Is a PG-13 story written entirely as a set of communiques between the two of them, with only a few direct references to "sucking face" (as Kirk puts it) and more subtle references to them having had sex. But it would still ultimately make at least my top10, if not 5 of favourite K/S fics EVER, because it is just so incredibly well written and in character.
Which just goes to show that the slash is not always about the smut. It would've been nice to see that represented in her story pics as well - hell, if you have to pick some fics to present to a mainstream audience, doesn't it simply make sense to include some tamer stuff? I've read all but the last on her list, and afaik, they were all kink meme responses. (And would hence most likely link back to that, which adds another whole level of FAIL, because introducing mainstream audiences to slash by guiding them towards a kink meme, which is as out there as it gets by its very nature? Maybe not such a smart idea.)
Also (and this may be a translation issue), dislike the way it again drives home the message of "almost all slashers out there are het women", because dude, NOT the case, at least not these days anymore. I'll grant that it's still a majority, but most of the female slashers I personally know would identify as bi, or at least not a full-on Kinsey 0.
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*fails at being awake this morning*
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