conuly

*decides to throw terminology all around*

Way back... not that long ago, really, I had that whole argument involving slash with somebody. And it's been niggling at my mind this simple fact: While (out of more-serious fiction, not, say, the Dudley in Leather Pants fic) I prefer gen fic, with a minimum of relationships, when it comes to fic involving any sort of relationship, I prefer slash. More specifically, I automatically view het fic with suspicion.

My friend had a lot of bad experiences with slash. That's not why she doesn't like it, entirely, but I can only imagine that it's colored her impressions beyond "not my thing, nor Jo's" into "EEEEEEWWWWWW!"

I, fortunately, never had those experiences with het, but... *laughs* I can't believe I just now figured it out - by lucky coincidence, the best writers I know write a lot of slash, and reccommend a lot of other good writers who write slash. I associated het fic with the sort of dreck you find on

pottersues all too often, where Hermione finds out she has to marry Draco, or where random girls frak Sirius, and where Harry becomes Harriet all the time just so he can have sex with Draco without all that icky gay.

So when people say they don't like slash, instead of me thinking "gee, I guess they like good fic that's not slash, or no fic at all", I think "OMG!HERMIONEANDDRACO,SITTINGINATREE!" and run away screaming.

Our lives truly are colored too much by our experiences.

And now, I must hie me to bed. Night all!

Oh, and I'm going through my old posts, unlocking them, tagging them, figuring out what memory categories I ultimately want. I may reply to some very old comments. Don't be surprised. You don't have to respond to my replies.