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[cosmic_llin]

Lookie-look at my gorgeous new layout! cadiliniel very kindly made the lovely banner for me!
Went to Eilidh's house party this evening, but I'm back already because I'm starting my new job first thing tomorrow morning. So I should probably go to sleep right after I post this. I doubt I actually will...

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[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

it irritates me that the fandom public can't seem to accept the idea that two people of the same sex can have a deep, emotionally intimate friendship that doesn't automatically have to be romantic or even sexual in its nature

I agree! It's just getting silly now. Especially in the Potterverse, where there are so many people writing slash that people feel that they have to come up with more and more outlandish pairings just to stand out from the crowd. To me that's pointless. If you really, really see something there, then write about it, but don't just do it because you want some attention.

I did think of Willow and Tara, but to me that doesn't exactly count, partly because Buffy is just in a different league, and also because it's more sort of... pop-culturey and contemporary and somehow more chilled out than other shows.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

The ickiest part of it, for me, is that the bulk of slash fanfic is being written by people who, for various reasons (ranging from age-related sexual inexperience to the unavoidable fact, she said as tactfully as possible, that so many of the older slashsmiths are sexually inexperienced due to social awkwardness and/or emotional or physical unattractiveness), have smeg-all knowledge of How To Do Sex, much less How To Do Sex in Prose. I've by now read a small but not surpassingly small amount of slashfic, and to a piece it's been a snarfleworthy kitschfest of purplishly overeffulgent, embarrassingly-Anne Rice-wannabe Romance-with-an-uppercase-R. In other words, instead of two boys or men acting like boys and men do when they're shagging each other, they act more like three-legged gay girls. Dude. Not that men can't be tender an' a' tha', but (whether a matter of cultural conditioning or hardwiring) it's not the same sort of tenderness. Erm, am I making any sense?

We have sexually open characters here and there, e.g. Inara, in sf series now, but yeah, main storylines don't often centre on same-sex relationships. Though there was the plainly depicted though unresolved physical and emotional attraction between a couple of B5 women - lessee, Ivanova and the telepath Talia IIRC.

Indeed, it would be Joss who had the maturity to portray same-sex relationships...heheh.