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Some days, you gotta let it out.
On slash: I don't see the point of turning two men into women, and then pairing them together. What you're looking for is called "femmeslash."
Not all slash does this. The vast majority of it, I've found, does. Kind of kicks the theory of "two hot guys together" in the teeth. See, that I can get. The turning one or more of them into women, I do not. If you're going to do that, either actually use female characters, or keep them as men. Doing otherwise is an atrocity that makes me want to laugh and laugh and laugh and gouge my eyes out if they don't first fall out of my head from rolling too hard.
Actually, do what you want. But dude. Call it as it is.
Why I can can hardly read slash anymore: Is fluffy DRECK. About two women with penises.
So. If you have slash recs that don't have the above limitations, rec here so that I might see the attraction once more. Otherwise, I can get fluffy dreck from het fics, which aren't nearly as supercilious, and has the added bonus of actually featuring at least one man.
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To apologize for ranting, but also to kind of prove my point, here is some hot Draco/Ginny/Harry smut that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mynuet just posted. Dom!Draco!! Whooooo. And am going to be beta'ing smut that jade_okelani just sent my way. Am v. lucky girl!
Not all slash does this. The vast majority of it, I've found, does. Kind of kicks the theory of "two hot guys together" in the teeth. See, that I can get. The turning one or more of them into women, I do not. If you're going to do that, either actually use female characters, or keep them as men. Doing otherwise is an atrocity that makes me want to laugh and laugh and laugh and gouge my eyes out if they don't first fall out of my head from rolling too hard.
Actually, do what you want. But dude. Call it as it is.
Why I can can hardly read slash anymore: Is fluffy DRECK. About two women with penises.
So. If you have slash recs that don't have the above limitations, rec here so that I might see the attraction once more. Otherwise, I can get fluffy dreck from het fics, which aren't nearly as supercilious, and has the added bonus of actually featuring at least one man.
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To apologize for ranting, but also to kind of prove my point, here is some hot Draco/Ginny/Harry smut that
mynuet just posted. Dom!Draco!! Whooooo. And am going to be beta'ing smut that jade_okelani just sent my way. Am v. lucky girl!
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Yeah, I know. It's absolutely true. But I never talk about this, because it's a slippery slope. That gets into characterization, and I'm hardly one to talk about that, am I, t00by D/G shipper that I am? Yet, all the time, I do want to say, "Okay, but there are levels and levels of characterization, and with every level, you're going further and further out of the realm of possibility."
Still, assuming that believability is put aside, and it's believable for Draco to like Ginny and vice versa, and for Harry to like Draco and vice versa, it still doesn't answer my question of why so many slash writers insist on turning either Draco or Harry (or insert whatever male character of choice) into women. Of course, I am also one of those people who do not in the least understand the attraction of, say, MPREG. *shudder* Or, again, two weepy women with penises, which is what I find all too often in slashfic.
why don't there seem to be that many fans of slash featuring actual gay characters?
How true this is, Ropo. How true this is. It's this twisted thing where I don't believe these people actually find homosexual men attractive, and yet neither are they truly making them men in these stories. I have no idea what's going on, and thinking about it too much makes my head hurt.
And definitely re: the Cool Factor. That exists in the HP fandom. In fact, I have half a mind to believe that it created it, it's so prevalent. :D But what's ironic about that, of course, is that the preferences that are supposed to set them apart as being "refreshing" and "avant garde" are instead making them just like everyone else. Hahahhahahaa.