Slash or not slash, that is the question...

[erestor]

Over this last week, I had a very interesting conversation with a reader of "The most boring life of Master Erestor" about - slash. She made a few good points and I thought about it. She said: "Erestor/Glorfindel in the EOAS universe is not slash, because Erestor is not male

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[erestor]

I like that definition! :) "Erestor de luxe" :-D

[tyasante]

In answer to your last question, yes

[lauand]

*bows to Dwarfy's ability to type better than speak. And in the morning!*

[yagaofgreywood]

YES!

[megselv]

Haha!
Not slash? Who are you kidding... :P

Basically, slash (m/m) is two+ guys engaging in romantic and/ or sexual activities for our viewing pleasure. (We, the audience, being overwhelmingly female.)
Technicalities like "Plains elves" and "Wraeththu" and other excuses to write mpreg changes nothing ;-)
(This is of course a Good Thing!)

Actually, I've been wondering if this genius Wraeththu photographer talked the pretty boys into posing -- if reluctant -- by playing the "they're not really male, so they're not really gay" card . Also, hasn't there been some sort of cons with role playing where ms Constantine (name of the author?) was present etc? Genius, pure genius.

(I have to say that I've read approx 1/3 Wraeththu book, so I'm no expert.)

[erestor]

Actually, not much talking-into was needed...

From what I knew, several of the pretty boys are gay/bi/whatever, and had no problems at all posing as beautiful multisexual creatures. Good for us! We made an interview with the photographer (soon to be online), and she told us that all the models were exactly what the author had in mind, means: they look the way the author imagined them. :)

[megselv]

Gnnn! Do you have more photos

[chloe_amethyst]

I believe that most human sexuality (and even gender sometimes) is fluid at least to some degree. But our society demands that we make sexual categories to force everyone into an easily definable and supposedly easily understandable definition, so we have terms like homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, slash, femslash, etc., that we tend to ardently adhere to and thus make our own sexuality as static as possible to fit in with everyone else.

So I don't see the point in my wondering whether your Erestor is really slash, or Wraethu is really slash or not, or what it should be called if it isn't. The characters are what they are, created beings with distinct personalities, preferences, and behaviors, who express their sexuality and gender in their own ways as defined by the author. They are all pretty much experiments in the fluidity of sexual identity. I have no need to try and force what I enjoy reading into yet another category.