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]

Did he have his powers? It takes a lot for me to rationalized super-powered individuals turning to prostitution. That stripper!Emma Frost is canon just irks me to no end - why would she need to dance for men at all? She could have just talked people into giving her their wallets. *grumble*

Totally. And it would only increase his appeal with people when he left that life behind. He'd be like the male Diablo Cody.

Ha! I'd so read his bio.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

No, he didn't. It was a I-need-to-have-sex-with-men-to-take-care-of-Aunt-May deal (men in question being Cap and Iron Man).

That stripper!Emma thing sounds crappy. I can KIND OF deal with Catwoman being an ex-prostitute, given her horrible origin in general, but ... eh, I haven't actually read Year One yet and Frank Miller's Daredevil/Elektra stories made me angry enough.