I try not to growl at people I don't know, unless they try to hug me.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2003 12:23:46 pm PST #2838 of 10000
brillig
Phill - Jan 20, 2003 12:23:57 pm PST #2839 of 10000
I like to talk about politics with people that agree with me, and I like high class places.
Hey, what're you two whisperin' about?
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2003 12:24:54 pm PST #2840 of 10000
brillig
Nothing, nothing at all.
Phill - Jan 20, 2003 12:25:22 pm PST #2841 of 10000
I like to talk about politics with people that agree with me, and I like high class places.
Hmmmmm...
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2003 12:26:30 pm PST #2842 of 10000
brillig
So, Am-Chau, why did you start reading slash? I'd always said that it seemed kind of odd. And you know where I've ended up.
Consuela - Jan 20, 2003 12:27:20 pm PST #2843 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Am-Chau, Phill is the source of the brilliant "Braiiiinnnssss" bits from the summer after Season 5. Funny guy.
Dunno why you'd want to growl at him, though.
Hmm, no comments on the Neal Pollack thing? 'kay.
P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2003 12:28:54 pm PST #2844 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hmm, no comments on the Neal Pollack thing? 'kay.
I'll have comments after 7 pm. Remind me.
Awww...
Phill's like, Old Skool! It's PHILL!!!
Braaaiiiiiiiiiins, Orb, some other stuff.
Lyra Jane - Jan 20, 2003 12:30:07 pm PST #2845 of 10000
Up with the sun
It's a tad absolute to say that every non-homophobic person presented with the finest the slash world has to offer will become a convert and immediately not uncomfortable.
Word. FWIW, slash doesn't squick me, it just doesn't interest me. (As erotica, I hasten to add. There's some well-written slash I've appreciated as fiction.) But in general, I want a woman in a PWP so there's someone I can identify with. I know this is, like, the opposite of every other mostly-straight girl on the plant, but you like what you like.
Fay - Jan 20, 2003 12:34:59 pm PST #2846 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I know this is, like, the opposite of every other mostly-straight girl on the plant, but you like what you like.
Nah - I'm pretty sure you're in a majority.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 20, 2003 12:36:07 pm PST #2847 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Um.. good question.
I came online, I looked a Yahoo, I wondered what to search for, I thought, "Oh- that funny show I watched the other night. Buffy the Vampire Slayer or whatever." And I search, and I looked at sites, and I watched the show again, and I thought, "That Spike, he's good-looking," so I went in search of scripts, and pictures, and I found fanfic on the same sites.
So then I read things with Spike in- anything, everything. Spike/Buffy to start with (I remember hours spent at Obsidian Moonlight fondly), then Spike/Drusilla (when I started to catch up with season 2), then Spike/Harmony. I hated that, so I looked for something else. Spike/Xander presented, so I read that. Then I found Spike/Angel- especially Days of Our Unlives and I was hooked. From there, I watched the show, I read the stories, and started writing my own. It all seemed perfectly natural at the time. After all, I'd been more intrested in gay men than straight men for years- ever since I found out that Monty Python's Graham Chapman was gay, I think, or maybe before. I'd thought hard about Legolas/Gimli at quite a young age, too.
Goddess that's a long post.
Edit: and major x-post. I think straight women who identify with women probably are the majority; I'm a straight (or at least not mainly gay) woman who happens to identify better with gay men.