Article about fanfic
Sara
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/02/1072908900255.html
They talk about slashfic (homoerotic fanfic) and how most of it is
written by women.
It occured to me that the reason so many women write slashfic is that
most of the characters in the usual source material are male, and
women like to write about relationships - hence slash.
Any other thoughts?
cheers
Sara
Highlandish
Sara <sa...@vurt.net> Quoth The Raven:
that would explain Anne Rice
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> that would explain Anne Rice
I'm not entirely sure it is possible,
in this day and age, to explain Anne Rice.
I was in a book shop yesterday, and was
astounded to see the sheer, overwhealming
number of Vampire Chronicles tomes - even seeming
to crowd out the Star Wars/Star Trek novels.
I think one was even called 'Blood Farm'.
I suspect Anne Rice died many years ago,
and a computer is, somewhere, churning out poor,
homo-erotic tales of vampires in poorly researched
historical settings, cobbled from the collected works of
Mills and Boon-esque romances.
Or so it seems to me - though I gave up at Tale of the
Body Theif, and only finished that because I hate to let a book
beat me.
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<sa...@vurt.net> wrote:
<snip>
> They talk about slashfic (homoerotic fanfic) and how most of it is
> written by women.
>
> It occured to me that the reason so many women write slashfic is that
> most of the characters in the usual source material are male, and
> women like to write about relationships - hence slash.
>
> Any other thoughts?
as a good female friend and avid slasher told me a while back (mainly
on why it was homoerotic fanfic she read) "it's porn from a safe
distance... you don't have to identify with any of the characters"
she also explained that she had given up on "hetfic" such as
mulder-scully pairings because the female characters always ended up
pregnant, getting married and settling down.
It all seemed like a reasonable explaination to me.
RAX.
Highlandish
GreylockatWork <GreylockatWork> Quoth The Raven:
> "Highlandish" wrote:
>> that would explain Anne Rice
>
> I'm not entirely sure it is possible,
> in this day and age, to explain Anne Rice.
>
> I was in a book shop yesterday, and was
> astounded to see the sheer, overwhealming
> number of Vampire Chronicles tomes - even seeming
> to crowd out the Star Wars/Star Trek novels.
>
> I think one was even called 'Blood Farm'.
>
> I suspect Anne Rice died many years ago,
> and a computer is, somewhere, churning out poor,
> homo-erotic tales of vampires in poorly researched
> historical settings, cobbled from the collected works of
> Mills and Boon-esque romances.
>
> Or so it seems to me - though I gave up at Tale of the
> Body Theif, and only finished that because I hate to let a book
> beat me.
>
that was Blackwood Farm, still a homoerotic book, but more Bisexual than
homo. surprisingly it wasn't that bad a book, I was giving up with the
individual vampire tales of the others, but this book brought me back into
the fold, so to speak. and I look forward to the inevitable sequel.
Highlandish
Greylock <Greylock_NOTT...@vurt.net> Quoth The Raven:
> Last episode "Highlandish" <ckreska...@dodo.com.au> said:
>> that was Blackwood Farm, still a homoerotic book, but more Bisexual
>> than homo. surprisingly it wasn't that bad a book, I was giving up
>> with the individual vampire tales of the others, but this book
>> brought me back into the fold, so to speak. and I look forward to
>> the inevitable sequel.
>
> perhaps.
blood and gold is an older book, a sequel to marius's books, or something.
blood canticle is right
(http://books.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n9/n49076.htm?authorid=2413)
Brock Ulfsen
> Any other thoughts?
Women like to watch guys getting screwed.
...Brock.
Mr Q. Z. Diablo
(in message <d5f83f53.0401...@posting.google.com>):
Writing about shagging is probably not generally considered "writing about
relationships" so much as "writing about relations".
Just a thought.
Mr Q. Z. D.
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Sara
From the few that I've read, they seem to be more about the seduction
than the final action, and when they do get to the 'good bits', it's
not "Wham Bam, Thank You Mamm!" type sex, it's slow and draw out
erotica. Mills & Boon sex.
Perhaps it's a form of wish-fulfillment that men are capable of
sensuality [1] rather than just sex.
cheers
Sara
Octobriana
S> It occured to me that the reason so many women write slashfic is that
S> most of the characters in the usual source material are male, and
S> women like to write about relationships - hence slash.
S> Any other thoughts?
How about Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles as Slash Fiction?
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Octobriana
S> From the few that I've read, they seem to be more about the seduction
S> than the final action, and when they do get to the 'good bits', it's
S> not "Wham Bam, Thank You Mamm!" type sex, it's slow and draw out
S> erotica. Mills & Boon sex.
Ah, if you've ever read any Trek slash, it's all about stuff like
McCoy agonising over whether to "sacrifice himself" when he and Spock
are stranded on a planet and Spock goes into Pon-Far!
Octobriana
H> that would explain Anne Rice
bugger, you beat me to it (just posted a reply to an earlier posting)!
;^)
Highlandish
Octobriana <gal...@hunter.apana.org.au> Quoth The Raven:
> It was written (by Highlandish),
>
>
> bugger, you beat me to it (just posted a reply to an earlier posting)!
> ;^)
LOL, well you only make an appearance once a month, you will miss much!
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