[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A Thought or Two on Slash (long...)

[Saitaina]

Well...since you quoted me I might as well stick my head in the flames
again.

What I said was a JOKE.  A simple joke that's funny to those of us who have
been in the fandom for ages.  It's true that Justin's gay in way more fics
then he should be....but in all honesty, it's a fandom staple.  Much like
Simon.  I don't see Justin as decoration, in fact I find him a much more
appealing character then Harry himself but that's just my view.

Now to move onto the bigger thing that's bugging the hell out of me...who
said all slash characters were gay?  You don't have to be labeled something
to fall in love and that's what my slash is.  I don't see
Draco/Harry/Percy/Neville/Voldemort/Peter/what have you as anything but two
men in love...or out of love depending what I'm writing.

You can be perfectly strait for all of your life until that one moment when
you find yourself in love with someone of the same sex.  Does that make you
gay?  Does it make you strait?  Does it make you out of your mind? These
questions are for the individual person but the fact still remains your in
love.   It's my job as a writer to show people what happens with that
love...not what happens in the bedroom and not what happens when they label
themselves.

Yes sexuality is a hot topic in the world right now...but that's not why I
write slash.  I write it because I can't write anything else.  For the Harry
Potter fandom I cannot write het or gen for some reason, it turns into slash
no matter how I try.  (Look at "The Dark Lord's Servant' or "The End of the
Beginning" for two examples, found on both FFN and FictionAlley).  I'm also
a bi-sexual female and I find Draco and Harry hot...doesn't mean I write
them because I would love to see them without they're shirts on...I write
them because the possibilities of they're relationship are endless....what
if Draco was a DE...what if he was a spy, how would Harry react to
this...that is why I write, to awnser a question I posed to myself.

I also write because I find certain couples cute and charming together...or
because they tell me they want they're story told.  It's just as if I wrote
Draco/Ginny...they want they're story told so I tell it...public opinion be
damned.

Well, that's my rebuff that made no sense....I'm gonna stick to fiction then
getting into fandom debates at 1am in the morning.  Anybody want more
Voldie/Peter slash?  Anybody? :o)

Saitaina
*****
Giles (to the Council members): You all stand around and look somber.
(Indeed they do.) Good job.
Quentin: You used to respect us, Giles. You used to be one of us.
Giles: You used to pay me.

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in."
-Oscar Wilde