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

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

I'm a slasher/slash fan/slash reader/femslasher/fem slash fan/fem slash reader/het fan/het reader, my current OTP is slash, but I wouldn't say I'm exactly a yaoi fan. Yaoi tends to be chicks with dicks, where as slash is generally guys who are actually guys.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

What's your current OTP?

I'm iffy about yaoi too. I've been reading a lot Weiss Kreuz yoai lately, and it's so hard to find stories that don't have a seme/uke thing going on, or just no guys in sight. I find myself sticking to writers I know from slash fandom.

You can find some strangely effeminate guys in slash too, which would be cool, if it wasn't usually so out of character for the typical subjects of slash.

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

Connor/Kyle. It doesn't hurt that I found out from Perry Moore's site originally they were going to kiss, but DixonDickery stopped that.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Really? That is so not on. I remember, lo these many years ago, when Marvel pulled a similar thing with Shatterstar and Ricter in X-Force. I still feel ripped off.

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

I KNOW D: ! It feels all perfect and natural, much more then Connor/RandomGhostChickDixonHadHimBangBecauseHe'sStraightYouKnow, or Kyle/Corpse of your choice.

I've never read X-Factor, but is Rictor bisexual?

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I hate when they try to 'prove' the characters' straightness.

I've never read X-Factor, but is Rictor bisexual?

Maybe? It's never been 100% established in canon but it was strongly hinted at during X-Force, and PAD has danced around the idea in X-Factor. I get the feeling that he's in it for the lulz, rather than a genuine interest in writing a queer character. Of course, X-Factor is so much about Jamie, to the exclusion of much character development for anyone else.

iirc FabNic or whoever the writer of X-Force was at the time, as much as said that S/R was canon, but the next writer on the book just kind of forgot about them.

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

You never know with PAD. He invented Andrea Martinez, a lesbian who crushed on Supergirl and was occasionally Comet the Super Horse.

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

Also another reason to love FabNic!

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Andrea! God, that series was delicious, crack. But strangely intelligent crack.

Also another reason to love FabNic!

Too true. I'm always happy to see his name attached to projects that interest me.

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

I feel about him similar to how I do about Gail Simone, no matter how bad a story it is, he'll always treat all of the characters and fans with respect, and a bad story is horrifically rare.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I completely agree. I don't feel the kind of... devotion to Simone that a lot of people in comics fandom do, but I usually feel pretty secure in her hands. You know you're going to get a solid story with great character moments.