For once I'd like to see an article that managed to mention a current pairing.

Oh, yeah. I mean, Kirk/Spock isn't exactly extinct, but it's not the big happening thing in the fanfic world. Have any of the recent articles mentioned Clark/Lex?

And I have to share this, which was in my cut and paste. It's from Thamiris' LJ, on the subject of writing sex:

My not-very-profound summary? Actual orgasms are easier to have than fictional ones are to write. I need some kind of meta-dildo.

---

Hee! That made my morning to read. Meta-dildo is now part of my vocab.

---

I've written the odd bit of fic, and I must admit that slash absolutely baffles me. It just leaves me cold and vaguely confused. I'd really like to understand the attraction that it invokes.

Really a genuine question.

---

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Clark/Lex? I mean, geez--SV is a huge fandom and they are such pretty, pretty boys.

---

Before I answer, I'd like to know why it baffles you and leaves you cold and vaguely confused.

---

askye:

Not sure. I think it's because I was moved to write fic because I was inspired by Buffy/Angel (the programmes :-) ) and so I want to write as much as I can like the shows were written, because that's what inspired me. If a reltionship wasn't put there by the writers then it leaves me cold.

I'm not explaining this well. What I mean is ... what's happened on the shows is what inspired me to write, not what slash pairing I've come up with. Does that make sense?
I don't want anyone to think I'm poo poooinf slashyness, it's just that I don't really get it.

---

I've written the odd bit of fic, and I must admit that slash absolutely baffles me. It just leaves me cold and vaguely confused. I'd really like to understand the attraction that it invokes.

Well, like askye said, what's the cold confusion coming from?

I write and read het, gen, and slash. GOOD slash, like Thrall, (spoilers through the most recent AtS, but really, people, if you've seen that, READ IT!!!) by shrift, takes the characters we know and the subtext we've been given (and we've been given a fair amount), and makes it text.

Is it only m/m slash that bothers you, or does femslash cause the same issues? I can see a straight male not getting down with the Big Gay Love, because there's a fair number of (female) slash fans who aren't down with the Hot Girl on Girl Action. (I'm down with the HGoGA, FWIW, as well as the BGL). It's just not something they're interested in.

---

Okay, but what about het relationships that are written about that aren't on the show.

Like, Buffy/Xander or Willow/Xander or Fred/Wes? Do those leave you cold?

---

I'm don't read a lot of femslash in Jossverse just because I'm only really interested in Cordelia and Anya and I've never seen credibly written stories that pair them up.

Okay, well Rosavere's Fred/Lilah story got me thinking about that, but most of the female characters on Buffy just don't interest me.

---

I'm not explaining this well. What I mean is ... what's happened on the shows is what inspired me to write, not what slash pairing I've come up with. Does that make sense?

I don't want anyone to think I'm poo poooinf slashyness, it's just that I don't really get it.

Cereal:

Well, there's a fair amount that you Just Can't Show on network TV. Even when Canon, Tara/Willow wasn't overt until S6, with the network switch. Gunn/Wes received comment in Spin the Bottle, Angel/Lindsey has plenty of script comment support, plus script/canon support where Darla flat out tells our little lawyer buddy that he wants to do the Big Broody Hairloaf.

Is it just Unconventional/Non-canon pairings? Because there are plenty of those in fic that aren't slash. (Willow/Spike is popular, as is Faith/Wes or Faith/Angel or Faith/Breathing or Not Breathing Male. Buffy/Xander has a following, as does Buffy/Giles and Kate/Angel) Some of that is just gratuitous PRETTY!!, and some of it is a big old game of What-if?

I tend to write UC pairings, and, for the most part, I do it out of a sense of "what would happen if..." rather than "PRETTY!!!".

---