Friday!

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It's been a long time since I did this, so I have no idea whether it will still work, but it is FRIDAY and so how about some anonymous comments?

Friends! Let it all out! Share your scandal, your angst, your exciting news! Tell the internet who you fancy! Tell us what you dreamed about last night, what you had for breakfast this morning, what you think of the new coalition Cabinet (if you're British), how sick you are of hearing about the UK election (if you're not).

Please do not be unpleasant about anyone who is likely to read this, or I will magically come through the internet and smack you.

OK GO. Hopefully I will not be left alone with the Japanese spammer...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But then it's like 'oooh, teh gayness = horrorshow!" which I don't think is very cool. As I understand it the vast amount of slash etc is about homosexual pairings, which to my mind creates a bit of an uncomfortable exotification of gay sex. I know it's not real life and it doesn't ~really~ matter, but since to my mind it's not ok to take a gay character or celebrity etc and imagine/describe them in a striight pairing (i.e it's disprespectful to the reality/validity of their sexuality), how come it's more ok to do it the other way round?

[(Anonymous)]

That's an interesting angle, I'd not thought of that before. Although the widespread misunderstanding of the mechanics (and plumbing) of the situation is legendary.

[(Anonymous)]

"Slash" is definitionally about gay pairings, so, you know. Fanfiction as a whole is much larger. I think a lot of the complaints here are coming from being rather ill-informed about fanfiction in general.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have to be well informed about a thing in order to not like it though? I think all (or at least most) of these comments are talking about the practice of taking real or fictional people that wouldn't usually have sex and then writing a scenario where they do rude things together, with the assumption being that a lot of the time the pairings are homosexual even though the characters are people are known to be non-homosexual. Whether it's called slash or fanfiction and whether the generalisations above hold for it all the time, I still think the questions and concerns people have about it are valid.

[(Anonymous)]

Um, where are you getting that from? Perhaps the terminology isn't always being used quite correctly, but the commenters seem quite clear in their descriptions of precisely what it is they don't like.