Aaaack, what do you mean 'no B/S subtext'?? They hated each other! Clearly that means they want to shag each other's brains out!! :D! (...This is part of that 'but you don't have to ship friends' thing....)
I think slash is the equivalent of writing B/S fic pre-season-6, at any point-- when they had chemistry, when it was clear Spike had a 'thing', when they -hated- each other-- it's all game before they kissed (which I think counts as consummation). It's just that while things remain unconsummated in the source, I think they're 'slashy' but after that-- well they're just uh... boring normative (whether queer-normative or het-normative, doesn't matter, I don't think).
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Re: and yet more rambling...
Date: 2004-11-16 03:40 pm (UTC)I think slash is the equivalent of writing B/S fic pre-season-6, at any point-- when they had chemistry, when it was clear Spike had a 'thing', when they -hated- each other-- it's all game before they kissed (which I think counts as consummation). It's just that while things remain unconsummated in the source, I think they're 'slashy' but after that-- well they're just uh...
boringnormative (whether queer-normative or het-normative, doesn't matter, I don't think).