Hey, what're you two whisperin' about?

Nothing, nothing at all.

Hmmmmm...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Girl/girl slash does absolutely nothing for me. Everything I've read so far reads like some slumber party gone bad. I like male slash because most males have to work harder to get to place where they'll admit deep feelings for someone else, especially someone who, for one reason or another, they don't think they're supposed to have those feelings for. I love seeing tough guys got all mushy.