Argh. This is what I get for posting at the last minute and not checking over my words... I really didn't make much sense, for which I apologize. ^^;
I really liked what Reenka said before about the need for two levels of a relationship, one for the slash and the other just to be there, a platonic connection between characters. But then, I look for that in all of the stories I read, and I think one of the major things that annoys me is to create a story where that connection simply doesn't exist. I wonder if that's why it's easier to slash fanfic characters than it is to create a plausible (and enjoyable for the reader) homosexual couple. With original fic, so many writers ignore that crucial in-between stage and jump immediately to getting the characters in bed or in love. It annoys me with fanfic and it will make me simply stop reading an original story. You've *got* to have that other layer to the relationship or its meaningless. Not love, but lust.
Anyway.
I tend to view preslash as author intended UST. *g* Specifically, author intended UST that will, eventually, go somewhere. Even if that somewhere is never actually written, it's implied that in the future of the characters, they'll eventually hook up.
Back then it was probably more about the angst and the passion or whatever between the male characters I would get attached to.
*This* I completely understand. I was the same way and still am; I enjoy reading about character relationships. It doesn't have to be sexual in the slightest for it to be enjoyable. It's the intensity of those relationships that make them all the more fun to read about, though likewise easy to slash. Hm.. But I like that sort of intensity in *all* of my character relationships, which is why certain pairings pop out at me more than others, het *or* slash.
You're probably right about the politially correctness of not hetting canonically gay characters. I suppose it could also be based on how few there are; gay characters in mainstream media are pretty rare.
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Date: 2004-11-16 04:28 pm (UTC)I really liked what Reenka said before about the need for two levels of a relationship, one for the slash and the other just to be there, a platonic connection between characters. But then, I look for that in all of the stories I read, and I think one of the major things that annoys me is to create a story where that connection simply doesn't exist. I wonder if that's why it's easier to slash fanfic characters than it is to create a plausible (and enjoyable for the reader) homosexual couple. With original fic, so many writers ignore that crucial in-between stage and jump immediately to getting the characters in bed or in love. It annoys me with fanfic and it will make me simply stop reading an original story. You've *got* to have that other layer to the relationship or its meaningless. Not love, but lust.
Anyway.
I tend to view preslash as author intended UST. *g* Specifically, author intended UST that will, eventually, go somewhere. Even if that somewhere is never actually written, it's implied that in the future of the characters, they'll eventually hook up.
Back then it was probably more about the angst and the passion or whatever between the male characters I would get attached to.
*This* I completely understand. I was the same way and still am; I enjoy reading about character relationships. It doesn't have to be sexual in the slightest for it to be enjoyable. It's the intensity of those relationships that make them all the more fun to read about, though likewise easy to slash. Hm.. But I like that sort of intensity in *all* of my character relationships, which is why certain pairings pop out at me more than others, het *or* slash.
You're probably right about the politially correctness of not hetting canonically gay characters. I suppose it could also be based on how few there are; gay characters in mainstream media are pretty rare.