beckaliz wrote...
@CGG:
Can you take top for me? I can't edit posts from my phone. Lol. XD
Mercedes Lackey introduced me to slash. I was surprised, confused, curious, tolerant, then eventually I took a turn driving that bus myself.
I'm sure I could turn this around to a deconstruction of Anders vs. Fenris slash, but I think that's a touchy subject for some. (Plus, I'm using an iPhone right now. I have to manually make quotes for crissake. Forget about rambling.)
Sure, I'll find a top in a sec.
And I don't consider canon homosexual pairings to be "slash." I was already on board with
canon homosexual pairings. I had (have) a weird literary hangup about fanfiction in general that is rapidly being chiseled away. It's something I always mean to write an essay about, the problem is that both sides (pro-fic and anti-fic) are very... vocal, and describing my transition from being moderately anti-fic when I was very young to being more tolerant to actually enjoying it now might get angry letters
from both sides. There's nothing I hate more than angry letters from both sides.
Anyway, in my weirdly regimented view: Slash is fanfiction that establishes a romantic relationship between characters who do not explicitly share one in canon (orig: a way of denoting the pairing in a fic, Kirk/Spock is the earliest recorded example). Elaboration on relationships that explicitly exist in canon may be erotic fanfiction, sort of a grey area (fic featuring Batwoman and Rene Montoya, for example. They are in a relationship in the comics)
So, to me, videos of M!Hawke and Fenris or Anders kissing are not slash in my book, they're a canon homosexual pairing. Fanfiction that elaborates on that idea is sort-of-slash, since it's elaborating on a canon relationship. Anders + Fenris is PURE slash, since it is inventing a relationship between two characters who do not share a canon relationship. None of this really matters, and it's largely an artifact in my thinking based on the fact that I first approached the idea of fanfiction with purely anthropological curiosity, as one would view a tribe of undiscovered pornsmiths who have remained uncontacted in the amazon for decades.