[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fanfics with slash & sex...I don't get it

[the.gremlin at verizon.net]

ahh, my first post on OTChatter. hi everyone ::waves as if on major caffeine high::

Saitaina wrote:
"Third, why should slash carry warnings if het does not?  I don't like to read aboutHermione getting it on with every male in Hogwarts, yet I've accidentally stumbled upon some.  Yes, stumbled, there was no warning what so ever.  <snip>

Should not het authors have to do the same if we slash authors do?"

I was (and still am, sort of) a fan of an anime series called Gundam Wing, which stars 5 15 year old boys, all orphans, with virtually no family, or no known contact with family, and no friends save for each other. Obviously, fan fic authors who wrote stories based on the series started up romantic attachments between the 4 boys.

Also, in anime fanfic, male homosexual relationships *w/o sex (and this refers anything that would lead to arousal)* were stated with a "shonen-ai" warning, which, translated into English, means "boy-love." Female homosexual relationships w/o sex were referred to as "shojo-ai", meanining "girl-love." Anything with sex in it was called a lemon. 

The summaries to these all had warnings, telling if it was shonen/shojo-ai (since there were about 4 lead female characters and 1 background), and what the pairing/s was/were.

I also used to read fanfics about my favorite band, some which were very sexual. 

In short, I think that anything with any sex in it, whether man and woman, man and man, man and tree, etc., should have a warning, and the pairing mentioned. For instance, if someone were to write a Harry/Draco slash fic, they should post the warning "Sexual situations mentioned in the story, Harry/Draco pairing." If the fic were a Ron/Hermione fic, than the same warning should be posted, but with "Ron/Hermione pairing." I can see no one being offended using that method, but unfortunately, this is not a perfect world, and we can not make fic authors follow this, or any method.

If the story just has one character lusting after another, then the pairing should just be mentioned.

'James: "Option One is that we go back into the jail cell and pretend we have no idea how the couch came to be lying in the hall when he comes back."'

I would very much like to know the situation surrounding that...that's a quote several of my friends would find funny.

-Acire, who has read enough slash fics to not be surprised by much...yet...



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