I consider myself a slasher, even if there are aspects of the community that exhaust me and I don't feel the need to slash EVERYTHING or consider my favorite m/m couples canon or even THE WAY THINGS SHOULD BE. Actually, in three of my OTPs, I really like one half of the couple's canon or ex-canon girlfriend. (Peter/Harry & MJ, Dante/Randal & Veronica or Becky, Rorschach/Nite Owl & Silk Spectre II -- actually, the last one is starting to move into OT3 territory with me.)
Anyway, most of my stories ARE slash-oriented, so if the shoe fits, you know? I DO write femmeslash occasionally, and actually am maybe more open to femmeslash than slash pairings because I really like female characters, but I think being only a little bisexual stunts my imagination in that area. (I consider myself a 1 on the Kinsey scale.) Gen I've also written -- mostly in Spider-Man because for awhile the canon just sucked. Well, the canon STILL sucks, but now it sucks so hard I don't really want to "fix it."
Which kind of comes to why I get inspired to write fanfic -- if the work doesn't have an aspect that I WANT to see, then I feel the need to write it. Which is why I usually don't write any of the canon m/f couples I really like -- I can see that in the work. Of course, I did write about a canon m/m couple having sex and the creator even wrote sex fanfics, so I could just be a pervert who is full of shit.
I've also figured out that despite trying to get into it, I don't like yaoi. This is kind of strange, since I liked Gravitation, which most people think of as the nadir of seme/uke shonen ai, but at least the show itself was fun and kept me interested. I've found a lot of yaoi to be either really boring or really stingy on the payoff. (This one time I bought two yaoi DVDs. The first one ended up having NO SEX despite what it said on the box -- I felt a lot like Dr. Venture watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that day. The second one had sex but their penises were invisible. I gave up after that.)
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Anyway, most of my stories ARE slash-oriented, so if the shoe fits, you know? I DO write femmeslash occasionally, and actually am maybe more open to femmeslash than slash pairings because I really like female characters, but I think being only a little bisexual stunts my imagination in that area. (I consider myself a 1 on the Kinsey scale.) Gen I've also written -- mostly in Spider-Man because for awhile the canon just sucked. Well, the canon STILL sucks, but now it sucks so hard I don't really want to "fix it."
Which kind of comes to why I get inspired to write fanfic -- if the work doesn't have an aspect that I WANT to see, then I feel the need to write it. Which is why I usually don't write any of the canon m/f couples I really like -- I can see that in the work. Of course, I did write about a canon m/m couple having sex and the creator even wrote sex fanfics, so I could just be a pervert who is full of shit.
I've also figured out that despite trying to get into it, I don't like yaoi. This is kind of strange, since I liked Gravitation, which most people think of as the nadir of seme/uke shonen ai, but at least the show itself was fun and kept me interested. I've found a lot of yaoi to be either really boring or really stingy on the payoff. (This one time I bought two yaoi DVDs. The first one ended up having NO SEX despite what it said on the box -- I felt a lot like Dr. Venture watching The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas that day. The second one had sex but their penises were invisible. I gave up after that.)