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[thelana]

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Warnings that fics should have.

Cool rant/essay on technically good stories that fail because of the villain. Because somebody who might be good in canon is revealed to be the surprise monster villain without any sane explanation.

Somebody's list of fanfic squicks and musings on the "Well, it doesn't suck" kind of reccing. I rather liked that

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[plazmah]

the House fandom (apart from House/Wilson) seems to gravitate towards Chase rather than Foreman, or in CSI Gil/Nick and Gil/Greg is fairly big, so why relatively no Warrick/Gil?

Oy vey, I was wondering if anyone on my flist would bring this up one day!

I have no idea why slash writers don't gravitate towards biracial pairings, but a definate aversion is there. My (half-assed) explanation is that it has a lot to do with power dynamics. If in the pairing the white man is dominant, it's seen as subjugation. And if the black man is dominant, it's seen as playing into stereotype.

/two cents

[thelana]

I wonder if people are too afraid that they might offend somebody if they don't get the characterisation of a black character right.

Then again, considering that the boundaries for incest or underage fic have been broken doesn't that seem petty in comparison? And that aside from the whole "Is it more offensive to write them badly than it is to not write them at all?".

I've always been a fan of biracial het pairings in canon (in a completely superficial "Eeee, pretty!" and "Eeeee, hot" kind of way) it surprises me that it isn't more kink in slash. Like, I'm always looking for interesting dynamics, there's the whole "We work and law enforcement and have to hide our relationship", "Incest!!!" and "But I'm your boss/mentor". If the thing is so taboo and scary as the lack of fic suggests, shouldn't that be more thrill?

[plazmah]

It does seem like an insignificant thing in the wake of all the other wild kinks one reads about. I don't think it has anything with being tabboo or scary. Slashers... just don't write it. Which brings us back to the question of why?

Biracial het pairings = love, no matter the fandom for me. In Lost it would be Ana/Eko or Micheal/Sun, in CSI it's Catherine/Warrick, and in House it's Foreman/Cuddy. But the fact that I have few slash pairings in Lost and none in CSI complicates matters. I know with me, personally, I'm not usually attracted to black men unless they are exceptionally hot, like Warrick, who's character is pretty much promoted as "Hot Black Guy".

/late nite ramblings

[thelana]

In Lost it would be Ana/Eko or Micheal/Sun, in CSI it's Catherine/Warrick, and in House it's Foreman/Cuddy

Foreman/Cuddy? O__0

So how's the fic writing ratio for those pairings you described?

Word on the hotness or Warrick, but it still seems to me that the fic amount is totally inproportionate to the actual hotness.

[plazmah]

HAHA, I knew I'd get looks for that. What can I say, when the whole "You are taking over for House" deal went down, I definately saw potential between the two of them :) And now that I am rewatching season 1 with my sister I've seen (extremely brief) glimpses of Foreman/Cameron and Foreman/Wilson too.

As far as I know (excluding the CSI pairing) fics for those ships are non-existant. With Lost, no one likes Ana, or they pair her with Jack. Sun is married already. And we all know House is almost always about House/Wilson or House/Cameron. At least with CSI, Cath/Warrick is one of the most popular het pairings to write.

There is a fair amount of fic written with Warrick/Nick, now that I think about it. So maybe just the HOT black guys get a fair share of the pairing pie. I'm not sure though. CSI slash isn't my thing.