I'm not coherent yet about Bush and the war, so I'm not gonna go there.
What I will say, is this: I agree with you, 100%, on the whole idea of smut. If you try to define slash to someone they immediately assume you're writing gay porn, not gay relationships, and the vast amount of peniscockmanhoodmemberthrobbingerectionmanmeatasspenetrationdickdickdick that's out there is probablywhy. Fuck. Personally, the reason I read AND write slash is in order to delve into the heads of characters or people who interest me, create conflicts, word with issues or pscyhoses, deal with the characters as characters, not sex bombs. I can like a well-written smutfic here and there (in the same way that I don't have a One True Pairing in any fandom, because I'm open to anything if it's done intriguingly) but I hav always been and will always be about what's going on inside a character's head.
It's the buildup that makes it hot. It's the tension that makes it fascinating. It's everything before and after the sex itself that I love.
This is unproofread, but there you have it. I agree. SO very much.
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Date: 2003-03-17 08:01 pm (UTC)What I will say, is this: I agree with you, 100%, on the whole idea of smut. If you try to define slash to someone they immediately assume you're writing gay porn, not gay relationships, and the vast amount of peniscockmanhoodmemberthrobbingerectionmanmeatasspenetrationdickdickdick that's out there is probablywhy. Fuck. Personally, the reason I read AND write slash is in order to delve into the heads of characters or people who interest me, create conflicts, word with issues or pscyhoses, deal with the characters as characters, not sex bombs. I can like a well-written smutfic here and there (in the same way that I don't have a One True Pairing in any fandom, because I'm open to anything if it's done intriguingly) but I hav always been and will always be about what's going on inside a character's head.
It's the buildup that makes it hot. It's the tension that makes it fascinating. It's everything before and after the sex itself that I love.
This is unproofread, but there you have it. I agree. SO very much.