I'm not surprised you're confused at how I'm using the term slash--I feel like part of this post is my moving through different ideas about how I do mean it--so I'm probably coming across as confused as I am!
What I meant by sexual non-slashy (which is very silly sounding when I hear it again now) is that if I'm writing about characters who are, say ten, I would be thinking about things in their relationship that could be sexualized when they were older. There could be things that are present in the relationship now that could already be sexualized in a child-sexual way. But in the things I'm thinking about that I've written, I would feel like I needed to keep the two things separate, like mahoni mentioned above. Like, I couldn't write about the characters *and* add a slash element at the same time because at this point the slash would be a comment on the text. Perhaps I could with older characters, but here it would be like taking a gen fic and thinking, "What could I learn from slashing these characters that I can use in a fic that's still 100% gen??
So there would be a sexual component to the slash yes, as I thought about what these two boys might be like in a few years. But to apply it to them as they are now I feel like I have to remove the sexual aspect because that's not in play yet for them, if that makes sense. It's a bit like fast-forwarding into the future, seeing them as adolescents or adults, and then rewinding back. I would want to only keep the parts that applied to them now. I'm not sure if this were fanfic whether to call it pre-slash or not. Sometimes there will be something that does ping me as something that *could* be pre-slash, but if the slash never happens in the actual piece being written, how can there be pre-slash?
Unfortunately I feel like right now I define slash on a sort of, "I know it when I see it," instinct, and that's not very helpful for anyone else in a communication.
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Date: 2004-11-16 08:24 pm (UTC)What I meant by sexual non-slashy (which is very silly sounding when I hear it again now) is that if I'm writing about characters who are, say ten, I would be thinking about things in their relationship that could be sexualized when they were older. There could be things that are present in the relationship now that could already be sexualized in a child-sexual way. But in the things I'm thinking about that I've written, I would feel like I needed to keep the two things separate, like
So there would be a sexual component to the slash yes, as I thought about what these two boys might be like in a few years. But to apply it to them as they are now I feel like I have to remove the sexual aspect because that's not in play yet for them, if that makes sense. It's a bit like fast-forwarding into the future, seeing them as adolescents or adults, and then rewinding back. I would want to only keep the parts that applied to them now. I'm not sure if this were fanfic whether to call it pre-slash or not. Sometimes there will be something that does ping me as something that *could* be pre-slash, but if the slash never happens in the actual piece being written, how can there be pre-slash?
Unfortunately I feel like right now I define slash on a sort of, "I know it when I see it," instinct, and that's not very helpful for anyone else in a communication.