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[the5thmarauder]

I'm sure this has been brought up in the past but I can't find anything in the memories so

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[synekdokee]

I don't think Neil's against it, I think he's just weirded out by it. At least that what I remember reading in his blog.

[rinnington]

I think weirded out might be the wrong choice of words for it, too. Neil Gaiman definitely doesn't have a problem with slash, and I've never gotten any impression from anything he's written that the idea of A/C is weird to him (at least in the connotation of unpleasant and perhaps disgusted, which is usually what I associate with 'weirded out'). In fact, he's always appeared, at least to me, as amused by the idea. I think the only times he's had anything to say against the ship is when people act as though an A/C relationship is canon, such as when people were modifying the Wikipedia entry with "evidence" of the pairing. However, maybe I missed some interviews and blog entries, but I've always thought Neil Gaiman's position was that it wasn't intentional and wouldn't be made canon, but he has nothing against the existence of the ship.

But I'd really like to see that Terry Pratchett interview, since I've never heard his opinion on the matter.

[synekdokee]

I can't remember what he said exactly, but it was something about A/C slash and how he was still surprised at people shipping them. When I said weirded out, I didn't mean so much weirded out by slash in general, but more like weirded by the fact that two of his characters that he (apparently) never meant to be romantically involved were being slashed, if you get my meaning. I know he doesn't have a problem with slash (didn't he write that Gollum slash parody or something? :D).

[prologi]

There's a lesbian couple in one of his shorter comics, called Sarah-and-Anthea. (I actually found that way of expressing it so neat I pilfered it and shamelessly used it in my own writing. :P)

[gantar]

I've never read Gaiman's comics, but as far as his books are concerned, there's also quite a lot of "slash" such, for example, as in the story - I don't remember the title - about the angels in "Smoke and Mirrors", or the chapter about Salim in "American Gods".
As for Neil's approach to GO slash, then I've once read in his blog that he still finds it "mindboggling". He didn't mention, however, that he is against it.

[megkips]

The short story you're thinking of is Murder Mysteries, one of my absoulte favourite Gaiman stories. It was later put in comic form by Craig P. Russel and the good folks at Dark Horse. Totally worth picking up, it's still one of my favourite comics.

Technically Murder Mysteries and that chapter in American Gods are not slash though, as both instances are canonical.

[gantar]

Oh, yeah, by writing "slash" I actually meant that the stories describe homoexual er, relations.