Good Lord, all these things going on in the world and I’m writing about... slash fanfiction. But this came out of a conversation I had at Eastercon (which was awesome, by the by) and what began as a short reply to Gavreads’  piece “Things I don’t get: Slashfic” got long, so I’m putting it here.

Hi Gav. You started off by defining slash as:

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I made a helpful handy guide for all your genre-bashing needs!

This was inspired by the recent/ongoing steampunk kerfuffle, but the good news is it works on ANY genre! Romance, sci-fi, even, if you're feeling ambitious THE WHOLE OF FICTION! Soon you too can be up and sneering at other people's tastes and basking in the warm sense of your own ( Read more... )

It appears to be Bash Steampunk Week. Well, if two prominent SFF writers whacking the genre about the head with its own brass goggles while shouting IGNORANTLY FETISHISING AN AGE OF CODIFIED PRIVILEGE counts as such. Which I think it does.

( A long hard day of colonising things and putting orphans in workhouses. )

I’m coming to this late, as I am to almost everything these days. It’s been a week, practically a century in internet terms. But still, I might as well take the Gabaldon debacle as an opportunity to show you my thoughts on yaoi talk about fanfiction in general -and make  a SHOCKING CONFESSION.

As a refresher, if anyone needs it -  Diana Gabaldon ( Read more... )