Your thoughts on yaoi

[schmevil]

Although I read (and sometimes write) slash, I've never really considered slash to be an important part of my fannish identity. I'm as likely to fall for a het ship, or femslash ship, as a slash ship, and it's even more likely for me to not ship much of anything at all. And although I have many friends in the slash community, I don't consider it to be my fannish home base.

So what makes a slasher? Are you a slasher? Why do you consider yourself to be (or not to be) a slasher?

[Poll #1347864]

Comments

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

There's a fourth part though, which is that certain parts of fandom "treat" me like a slasher, whether I think of myself that way or not.

Yeah, this. I'm not prolific enough to develop a reputation, I don't think. But depending on the fandom I have inadvertently 'passed' as an exclusive slasher, hetshipper, or gen writer.

And who my friends in that fandom are?

And this.