Which is kind of what bemuses me about the decently-sized QL slash fandom.
Well, there are people out there who will slash anything that moves. Or at least anything that moves in an interesting fashion.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Anne W. - Jan 21, 2003 6:52:59 am PST #2974 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 6:55:07 am PST #2975 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I guess I do have a hangup in preferring slash where I can see it. But some people's ability to see it may exceed mine.
Lyra Jane - Jan 21, 2003 6:55:41 am PST #2976 of 10000
Up with the sun
I've never read QL fanfic, but I can see Sam as being quite slashable -- not only is he a total SNAG, but he Leaped into a lot of women. I guess the way I would work w/Al's homophobia would be to make it a defense mechanism -- all that time in orphanages and foster homes and then the service, he has to have had some boy/boy experience.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 21, 2003 6:57:03 am PST #2977 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
SNAG? I'm guessing abbreviation, but I've not seen it before.
Anne W. - Jan 21, 2003 6:58:52 am PST #2978 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
SNAG = Sensitive New-Age Guy
Dana - Jan 21, 2003 6:59:14 am PST #2979 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sensitive New Age Guy.
You know what also bothers me? And it makes me kind of a prude, amusingly enough, but Sam's married. To a woman he canonically adores.
Anne W. - Jan 21, 2003 7:02:42 am PST #2980 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
QL's great gift to fanfiction, like Highlander's, is that it can be successfully crossed-over with just about anything.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 21, 2003 7:04:38 am PST #2981 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Thanks.
And, while I've never watched QL, nor read any fic, I think that the 'Sam is married' argument might sway me away from slashing him, unless in a pre-marriage time gap. After all, I don't, for example, slash Oz while he's with Willow. Before, yes; after, yes; but when there's a canon 'significant other' and he's known to be loyal, it doesn't work.
Theodosia - Jan 21, 2003 7:04:51 am PST #2982 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I don't think it's prudish to expect somebody who takes his marriage vows seriously, and who is happy with the relationship he is in, to be a faithful husband and eschew nonmarital intercourse. That's called being true to character. By the same token, I wouldn't be surprised if Al ended up having happy casual sex on a mission just because he couldn't resist.
Lyra Jane - Jan 21, 2003 7:06:36 am PST #2983 of 10000
Up with the sun
it makes me kind of a prude, amusingly enough, but Sam's married. To a woman he canonically adores.
To a woman who, canonically, is missing from his swiss-cheesed memory. If the story was set pre-leap, I can see her existence as a problem, but if it's set during the leaps, no big -- after all, her existence didn't stop the show from doing that series of eps where Sam fell in love and fathered a child by another woman (I feel like he Lept into her defense attorney or something, but I haven't seen the show in several years, so MY memory may be the swiss-cheesed one here.).
(I can't remember -- is Al married to wife #5 during the series, or is he divorced from her and dating? Or does it change?)