Meh, slash fic

[breakinglight11]

As I’ve mentioned, I’m not a slash fan. I tend to prefer when fan work sticks to canon, so I don’t really enjoy when the characters’ relationships are disrupted to suit an author’s personal preferences. But another thing that bothers me is how it encourages fans to interpret everything characters who are close to each other do through a lens

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[youareverysmall]

Oooooh, you definitely hit the nail on the head about not a lot of strong portrayals of friendship. I think that's why I tend to gravitate toward children's movies--they're usually about friendship rather than romance, and as far as romance in movies goes, I'd rather see a female-female romance than a male-female one.

[lisefrac]

This is actually a topic I've thought a lot about, so excuse me if I ramble. (Also, why do I have the feeling this post was brought on by certain elements of P&P that certain members of our large larping contingent were squeeing about

[offside7]

Totally agree regarding friendship being undervalued when compared with romantic relationships. I cannot stand when people complain about being "friendzoned". And I hate the expression "more than friends" (though I slip up and occasionally use by accident, I think mostly because it's just part of our cultural lexicon.) The implication that a friendship is an inherently lesser relationship (instead of just a different form) is something that I not only thoroughly disagree with, but sometimes actually angers me.

[twilighttremolo]

I very much agree that it's a problem when society devalues friendship. This also comes up for me when people declare that two people in history were a gay couple -- yes, in societies where queer people have to hide, those queers who are lucky enough to find each other and find love often disguise it as a great friendship. But some people are also lucky enough to have great friendships. Also, this discounts the possibility of even-less-mainstream (if I can say that) queerness, such as asexual romantic relationships, people who identify as the other gender but present as their assigned gender and are in a straight relationship that looks gay, etc. But I digress. I agree that slash is often another form of this -- although I think it's possible to create slash that respects the fact that the slash pairings don't HAVE to be the case based on the relationship we've seen, and I think plenty of slash does respect that.

(what's this about P and P slash? Unless it's Lydia and Mrs. Foster, who have been intimate two months...)

[lisefrac]

Oh, there's just a moment where Mr. Darcy puts his hand on Mr. Bingley's shoulder very fondly... there may have been some giggling going on in our row when that happened.

[jh1230]

I'll remind you that's only to shove me into a chair and lecture me on why marrying Jane is a bad idea, but yeah, I shouldn't be surprised you looked at it that way.