I'm not sure I can discuss your thoughts in any meaningful way, because I can't determine how you define slash from your post. I was especially thrown by the following:
I don’t slash them, but it makes me think of their relationship from non-sexual slashy angles-yes, they do exist, imo.
Slashy means containing subtextual homoerotic tension, to me. In other words, sexual. Slash means containing textual homoerotic tension. Again, sexual. The slash aesthetic (as opposed to style) means, to me, viewing the text in question in a certain way, hinged on sexuality. Whether the text in question is one you're reading, one you're reacting to, or one you're writing is irrelevant. The aesthetic is the same.
So yes, I believe you can have original fiction that is, in fact, slash, in that it's written with a slash aesthetic, or perhaps sensibility. But then, I also don't believe you can have slash in any permutation without that sexual factor. And I don't mean sex itself, just some awareness and acknowledgement of the sexual level of interaction.
I've written B/J QaF fic. I call it slash in part for ease of categorization, but also because I am writing from a slash sensibility. I'm not commenting on gay culture or gay relationships, I'm commenting on my own reaction to the specific relationship of the specific characters of Brian and Justin. And I'm commenting as a straight woman. And slash, with apologies to the men who have taken to writing it, remains an uniquely female artform in my mind. Not because it's derivative, not because it's reactionary, but because it takes the archetypes common to humankind (as opposed to mankind), and moves them in a different direction than other, male viewpoint-dominated artforms.
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Date: 2004-11-16 05:15 pm (UTC)I don’t slash them, but it makes me think of their relationship from non-sexual slashy angles-yes, they do exist, imo.
Slashy means containing subtextual homoerotic tension, to me. In other words, sexual. Slash means containing textual homoerotic tension. Again, sexual. The slash aesthetic (as opposed to style) means, to me, viewing the text in question in a certain way, hinged on sexuality. Whether the text in question is one you're reading, one you're reacting to, or one you're writing is irrelevant. The aesthetic is the same.
So yes, I believe you can have original fiction that is, in fact, slash, in that it's written with a slash aesthetic, or perhaps sensibility. But then, I also don't believe you can have slash in any permutation without that sexual factor. And I don't mean sex itself, just some awareness and acknowledgement of the sexual level of interaction.
I've written B/J QaF fic. I call it slash in part for ease of categorization, but also because I am writing from a slash sensibility. I'm not commenting on gay culture or gay relationships, I'm commenting on my own reaction to the specific relationship of the specific characters of Brian and Justin. And I'm commenting as a straight woman. And slash, with apologies to the men who have taken to writing it, remains an uniquely female artform in my mind. Not because it's derivative, not because it's reactionary, but because it takes the archetypes common to humankind (as opposed to mankind), and moves them in a different direction than other, male viewpoint-dominated artforms.