Hi! Um. I agree that the act of 'slashing' is a sexualizing of the original non-sexual subtext between (normally) two men-- it is a commentary on the text, yeah. Which is kinda why QaF fic works for me even though it's about a canon same-sex relationship-- because I think most fic still subverts the text by making it a romantic as well as sexual relationship-- most (good) fics seem to be focusing on Brian's journey to admit his feelings for Justin, which is an interesting breed of slash, but is still slash in that it messes with an existing relationship between a same-sex couple. Eh, close enough.
It's in original slash that this definition completely breaks down 100%, and I really can't imagine, even for ease of classification, why it's all that different from sheer 'romance fic' except with boys. If it's got the 'slash aesthetic', then I'm just not sure what that -is- without the act of slashing-- from an existing source text, which an original fic would clearly lack. That is, you could obviously have a sexual relationship between two men-- but what would be the source text? That's what I don't get at all.
Mostly I just wanted to say that to 'view a source text in a certain way', you'd need to have a source text. And you could say that an original fic would kind of create a non-sexual foundation at the same time as it slashed itself, but I've read a number of so-called original 'slash' fics, and I've never seen this dual narrative work, and am not sure how it would.
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Date: 2004-11-16 06:57 pm (UTC)It's in original slash that this definition completely breaks down 100%, and I really can't imagine, even for ease of classification, why it's all that different from sheer 'romance fic' except with boys. If it's got the 'slash aesthetic', then I'm just not sure what that -is- without the act of slashing-- from an existing source text, which an original fic would clearly lack. That is, you could obviously have a sexual relationship between two men-- but what would be the source text? That's what I don't get at all.
Mostly I just wanted to say that to 'view a source text in a certain way', you'd need to have a source text. And you could say that an original fic would kind of create a non-sexual foundation at the same time as it slashed itself, but I've read a number of so-called original 'slash' fics, and I've never seen this dual narrative work, and am not sure how it would.