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matrixrefugee

The Long-Promised Teal Deer About Slash Fiction

Jan 02, 2010 03:10

Or, How, with the Help of a Green-Eyed Love Machine, a Messianic Figure and His Opposite, and Some Handsome Death Gods, and Those Who Like to Write about Them, Along with a Writer whose Name is Pronounced Somewhat Like "Gay Man", I Learned to Stop Being a Rules Lawyer and Start Appreciating Some Pairings and/or the Writers Therof

( Cut for length and content. You might want to get yourself a sandwich and something to drink. Here be a big-ol' post )

fanfiction: theory and criticism, glbt issues, slash, fandom: yami no matsuei, teal deers, catholicism, rambling post, fandom: the matrix, writing, fandom: a.i.: artificial intelligence

Comments 5

anivad January 2 2010, 14:42:35 UTC

That was a great read; thanks!

(and ok, how is 'Gaiman' pronounced?)

matrixrefugee January 2 2010, 15:19:15 UTC

It's pronounced somewhat like "GAY-mun", and I'd mistakenly been pronouncing it like "GUY-mun"

EDITED TO ADD: And thanks for managing to get through all that: it took me the better part of two days to organize and write; and mind you, that's the capsule version of my story. :: Laughs::

northernwalker January 2 2010, 22:18:02 UTC

This is the reason I tend to avoid fanfic based on the series "Supernatural": there's so much Wincest, that I just go by recommendations (I love the episode where they Lampshaded this aspect of the fandom, and I have to wonder if the squicked look on Jensen Ackles's face when he says, "They know we're brothers, right?" was More Than Acting).

I hear you. I personally stick to gen there- lord knows that family is screwed up enough without adding in incest.

Thanks for sharing!

matrixrefugee January 2 2010, 22:40:11 UTC

Oy, yeah... The SPN badfic that grinds my gears the worst are ones with John doing unspeakable things to his sons, which I doubt would happen unless he was possessed by a demon, and even then, I think he'd find some way to keep himself from hurting Sam and Dean. No one would nominate John as Father of the Year, but he really loves his boys, even if he has a gruff, tough way of showing that love, and that's what I like about him.

tomboy_typist January 2 2010, 23:02:26 UTC

Eru, but we have a lot in common with all this. And by which I mean the orientation, (I'm also bicelibate), the religion (also raised a Catholic), and the opinions on slash (the better parts of which have been tl;dr'd in this thread.) and my squicks are very much the same as yours for quite similar reasons ( ... )