Slash Fiction

[CharleyH]

The other day, Doc asked about fetishes. All I could come up with was my fetish for legs. But then ... I was watching the continuing saga (third season of Battlestar Galactica) and felt myself not only involved with the plots and characters, but wanting certain plots to happen and certain hardcore to ensue. My thoughts then went to the fact that I may indeed be a fandom fetishist or at least an interested party in Slash Fiction.

For those that do not know, Slash Fiction is porn involving male TV characters (I believe this definition could be significantly broadened). It arises from the original StarTrek series and interestingly was begun by female fans wanting to see Mr. Spock get it on with Captain Kirk. The original porn stories were called K/S (Kirk/Spock), but are now called "Slash" because of the obvious slash between the letters.

Anyhow, moving on ... first is anyone addicted to BSG? Second is anyone into slash? Third and more importantly - which TV characters do you want to see get it on and why?

Edit for example: A threesome (other than the allusion in the Battlestar series) with Baltar, Caprica 6 and D'Anna (Cylon 3 played by Lucy Lawless aka Xena-Princess Warrior) might have been good. A scene with Baltar and numerous Caprica 6's might have been more intriguing. There are many scenarios and many TV series. Take Charlies Angels for example ... Sabrina WAS GAY, lets face it. Bree Vandercamp in Deperate Housewives is a Femdom ...

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Heh heh....

Law & Order

Fred Thompson (DA Arthur Branch) and S. Epatha Merkerson (Police Lt. Anita Van Buren)

Or Sam Waterson masturbating.

Either one

 

[Grushenka]

Sam Waterson masturbating.

Rolling on the floor spewing. Honey, I don't think the man has a penis.

 

[ruminator]

Now I really want to get caught up on that series. That was one that somehow slipped past me being addicted to. Can the slash category be expanded for this discussion as you suggested? I'm sure K/S would be a great couple, it wouldn't grab and hold my attention. Have you seen (FX) Dirt's Courtney Cox vibrator and various sex scenes? She pulls it off well. Did you catch The Wire by any chance?

Great to see you again and it's no wonder I can't stay away from this place with posts like this one.



...lemme see,...so many fuckables out there....

 

[Stella_Omega]

I hadn't been writing specifically gay erotica for many years, but seems as if slash is the only thing I'm writing at the moment

I have little interest in any TV shows, though- mostly because I have no decent TV connection and I don't get a chance to see any of the series- but it seems to me, from the chatter that I monitor, that the slashiness of canon characters is being written into them from the start nowadays... as often as not, the sense of attraction between two men in a buddy series was accidental or barely hinted at. Nowadays, the writers are more willing to put some tension into the scripts.

 

[CharleyH]

Now I really want to get caught up on that series. That was one that somehow slipped past me being addicted to. Can the slash category be expanded for this discussion as you suggested? I'm sure K/S would be a great couple, it wouldn't grab and hold my attention. Have you seen (FX) Dirt's Courtney Cox vibrator and various sex scenes? She pulls it off well. Did you catch The Wire by any chance?

Great to see you again and it's no wonder I can't stay away from this place with posts like this one.



...lemme see,...so many fuckables out there....

I hope to extend the slash category for discussion, as I doubt everyone is gay. I am also not sure the term is well defined yet. Certainly, it came from fans of the original StarTrek series, but I do believe it extends into other series and sexualities ... Hm, saw the movie FX (is that what you are referring?) And no, I do not have cable and never heard of The Wire ... what is it?

 

[CharleyH]

I hadn't been writing specifically gay erotica for many years, but seems as if slash is the only thing I'm writing at the moment

I have little interest in any TV shows, though- mostly because I have no decent TV connection and I don't get a chance to see any of the series- but it seems to me, from the chatter that I monitor, that the slashiness of canon characters is being written into them from the start nowadays... as often as not, the sense of attraction between two men in a buddy series was accidental or barely hinted at. Nowadays, the writers are more willing to put some tension into the scripts.

First, I want to ask why you are rolling your eyes at slash? I understand you might be writing it at the moment, yet why does slash (don't like to use the word - added UGH) "BORE" or tire you?

Can you explain the rest of your post more thoroughly, Stell?

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's very well defined in it's most basic form- gay relationship between two canon characters- and the name has permutated in several different ways. "femmslash" for one. "Hetslash" for another.
(I quite enjoy the concept that the gay writing is considered the basepoint, if that's the right term. In almost every other literary tradition, heterosexuality is the norm, and the authors are asked to give warning shold men touch each other)

But the first time someone told me I had written "Original slash" I wondered about their IQ. To me, the term relates to canon characters, not original fiction. The internet is changing our language...

 

[elsol]

Battlestar -- Yes.

Roslyn & Adama (Obviously!)
Multiple Athena & Chief (Now that he's a cylon... extra long battery life
Xena Cylon & Xena Cylon

 

[Stella_Omega]

First, I want to ask why you are rolling your eyes at slash? I understand you might be writing it at the moment, yet why does slash (don't like to use the word - added UGH) "BORE" or tire you?

Can you explain the rest of your post more thoroughly, Stell?

I'm rolling my eyes because- as a writer of original fiction, it's just a wee bit embarrassing to me to be fixating on someone else's inventions!
and no, it's in no way boring, it's so fucking addictive... so very satisfying. And at the same time, so very much a road to nowhere, as a writer.
I am writing a piece for the common beginnings chain, and I have to re-write the first part of it, because I hadn't introduced my characters very well. In slash you hardly need to, because we all know who these guys are. (or we don't bother with that fandom) But I'm writing original characters, in a standalone story, and my readers would want to know who these guys are and why they play these headgames on each other. Slash writing can make a person lazy. And if I spend as much time on a piece of fan-fic as I would on something original- why? Perhaps I'll learn something more about my craft, but couldn't I learn that writing something that I can share with a larger audience?

(Ugh is right- I HATE the word!)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Multiple Athena & Chief (Now that he's a cylon... extra long battery life

Well, thanks a lot! Charley and I have only seen up to episode 12 of the 3rd season. Please try not to spoil the fun until we're done with the other 8. (Should take a couple of days, at the rate we're going. Addiction is a bitch.)

 

[elsol]

Well, thanks a lot! Charley and I have only seen up to episode 12 of the 3rd season. Please try not to spoil the fun until we're done with the other 8. (Should take a couple of days, at the rate we're going. Addiction is a bitch.)

Ooops!!!

Sorry... when you get to the finale of this last season.

Prepare to have your socks blown off...

 

[CharleyH]

It's very well defined in it's most basic form- gay relationship between two canon characters- and the name has permutated in several different ways. "femmslash" for one. "Hetslash" for another.

Fortunately I never rely on Wikipedia.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I'll slash just about anything in my mind. My fandoms of late are: Supernatual(Sam/Dean), Smallville(Clark/Oliver and CLEX), TV chef slash, Euro football, emo slash, pop slash, gay porn rps, Nascar, baseball, Harry Potter, Princes William and Harry....I could go on and on.

Mostly, I just read slash, since I'm not the best writer of it. I have a hard time with not writing my own original characters. I admire anyone who can take someone else's characters and write them in a unique situation, yet maintain the style and manner of the existing character. It's definitely not easy.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Ooops!!!

Sorry... when you get to the finale of this last season.

Prepare to have your socks blown off...

Right now we're debating who the hell is the one-of-the-five that D-Anna saw at the temple of the Eye of Jupiter. Give us a couple of days! That's all we need.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Euro football

You're sick.

Champions League matches start in less than 15. I'm off to watch.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

You're sick.

Champions League matches start in less than 15. I'm off to watch.

Yes I am and so are the 3 million other people who write soccer slash.

 

[CharleyH]

Battlestar -- Yes.

Roslyn & Adama (Obviously!)
Multiple Athena & Chief (Now that he's a cylon... extra long battery life
Xena Cylon & Xena Cylon

Chief is too lame to get it up He can barely handle Callie. Callie needs to die!!!! LOL

 

[Stella_Omega]

Fortunately I never rely on Wikipedia.

Which is why you can can say you're unsure if the word has ever been very well defined.

You can probably trust wikipedia for matters relating to internet culture, if nothing else, and slash is a particularly internet phenomena. Although there were a few 'zines self-published back in the 90's, there was no way to bring people together in the kind of fan-bases that would encourage this proliferation. My fandom has a grand total of... um... seven members! and only three of us write, and only two of us write consistently. And one of us is in England, and one of us is in New Zealand, and one of us is in California. How would we have ever found each other without the World Wide Web? I certainly would never have thought about writing these things if I hadn't read their work. (Excellent writers, too- extraordinarily good)

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'll slash just about anything in my mind. My fandoms of late are: Supernatual(Sam/Dean), Smallville(Clark/Oliver and CLEX), TV chef slash, Euro football, emo slash, pop slash, gay porn rps, Nascar, baseball, Harry Potter, Princes William and Harry....I could go on and on.

Mostly, I just read slash, since I'm not the best writer of it. I have a hard time with not writing my own original characters. I admire anyone who can take someone else's characters and write them in a unique situation, yet maintain the style and manner of the existing character. It's definitely not easy.

I found Ed Edd and Eddie slash once- the funniest concept and actually pretty hot! I was so impressed

 

[elsol]

Chief is too lame to get it up He can barely handle Callie. Callie needs to die!!!! LOL

If you haven't seen the full seasons... then you can't know just how much Callie needs to die.

I just want to kill the whiny little bitch myself.

 

[Just-Legal]

Scarlett - which flavours of Harry Potter slash are you preferable to?

J-L - Slash junkie

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I found Ed Edd and Eddie slash once- the funniest concept and actually pretty hot! I was so impressed

No way! Though no fandom really surprises me anymore. I found a hot Drake and Josh fic a while back. 18+, of course.

 

[CharleyH]

Mostly, I just read slash, since I'm not the best writer of it. I have a hard time with not writing my own original characters. I admire anyone who can take someone else's characters and write them in a unique situation, yet maintain the style and manner of the existing character. It's definitely not easy.

I was rooting for Lana/Chloe in Smallville.

You hit on a point ...not easy to write from a specifically determined POV. How does one do it?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Scarlett - which flavours of Harry Potter slash are you preferable to?

J-L - Slash junkie

I'll read about any pairing, but my favorite is Harry/Ron.