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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2007, 09:19:41 AM »
I tried to read a slash/fantasy fic which again shall remain nameless cuz I don't want to insult the author. (Although it wasn't the fact that it was written bad. It's just me LOL) I figured ok... Slash and fantasy are prolly the two genres I REALLY don't read too much although I have read excellent stories in both catergories in the past. (There was a great slash I read a few years ago, I forget the name, but it was a Nick/AJ and it focused more on how the media reacted to them coming out and I think I enjoyed it more cuz the characters were so strong you kind of forgot it was Nick and AJ and you felt really bad for them. But yea... even at that I had to skim the sex parts) Anyway I'm rambling again...

Point is that I only got maybe half a page in before I was like OMG I can't do this! LOL How sad is that?
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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2007, 10:25:08 AM »
^ not sad at all! I remember one time I was supposed to help judge for an awards and the category I got stuck with was slash and I got through maybe two sentences of a story and had to let the person who was in charge know that I wasn't going to be able to be impartial since I couldn't get through even a paragraph without laughing lol

Some genres just aren't for everybody.

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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #32 on: April 09, 2007, 11:08:16 AM »
Quote from: mare on April 09, 2007, 10:25:08 AM
^ not sad at all! I remember one time I was supposed to help judge for an awards and the category I got stuck with was slash and I got through maybe two sentences of a story and had to let the person who was in charge know that I wasn't going to be able to be impartial since I couldn't get through even a paragraph without laughing lol

Some genres just aren't for everybody.



Yea I had to judge an awards once for like best Nick story and I read all the stories except the slash one. I guess that wasn't very fair, huh?  :-[
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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2007, 12:32:46 PM »
Quote from: MellzBellz on April 09, 2007, 11:08:16 AM
Yea I had to judge an awards once for like best Nick story and I read all the stories except the slash one. I guess that wasn't very fair, huh?  :-[

LOL no, but i'm sure you aren't the first person to do that either. 


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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #34 on: April 09, 2007, 02:27:58 PM »
Quote from: mare on April 09, 2007, 10:25:08 AM
^ not sad at all! I remember one time I was supposed to help judge for an awards and the category I got stuck with was slash and I got through maybe two sentences of a story and had to let the person who was in charge know that I wasn't going to be able to be impartial since I couldn't get through even a paragraph without laughing lol

Some genres just aren't for everybody.


That's me too.  Slash is the one genre I can't take seriously.  I just can't.  I've read one really good story where Brian was gay, but it wasn't a SLASH.  He didn't get it on with any of the other guys; it was more about the emotional stuff he went through and the reactions of others and so on.  That kind of stuff is fine, but it's when the guys are in bed together calling each other cutesy pet names that I just can't handle it - it's too funny, even when it's not supposed to be!
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« Reply #35 on: April 09, 2007, 02:40:02 PM »
Slash in any fandom is amusing to me. There's another fandom I tried reading it in and I about died laughing because it made no sense.... Mainly because the characters that were paired together shared the same body... But still... :D
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« Reply #36 on: April 09, 2007, 02:43:34 PM »
Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 09, 2007, 02:27:58 PM
That's me too.  Slash is the one genre I can't take seriously.  I just can't.  I've read one really good story where Brian was gay, but it wasn't a SLASH.  He didn't get it on with any of the other guys; it was more about the emotional stuff he went through and the reactions of others and so on.  That kind of stuff is fine, but it's when the guys are in bed together calling each other cutesy pet names that I just can't handle it - it's too funny, even when it's not supposed to be!

Its not that i think its funny though. Its just like eww I don't want to picture that about my boys LOl
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Re: Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
« Reply #37 on: April 09, 2007, 02:48:50 PM »
Quote from: MellzBellz on April 09, 2007, 02:43:34 PM
Its not that i think its funny though. Its just like eww I don't want to picture that about my boys LOl

For me, it's more or less a "one true pairing" type of thing. In one of my original stories, I have a gay couple, though one is dead and they are hardly the main characters.... Anyway, to me, their relationship is okay, because they're supposed to be with each other.

Imagining Brian or Kevin paired up with one of the others is weird to me because they're married and already have their "one true pairing" so to speak.
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« Reply #38 on: April 09, 2007, 04:44:54 PM »
I read a slash too. Well, I tried. I actually got like five chapters in or something. AJ was in love with Brian and at first it didn't seem so bad cause he was struggling with it and it was emotional and stuff. But then Brian started ahving the feelings back, no mind the fact that he ahd a wife and kid, and that was just way too hard to believe and then Howie was gay too and he had a boyfriend so AJ was always going to him for advice and he was trying to help AJ win Brian... 

anyway, I just can't buy it. I tried, really I did, but I just can't get into it. It's hard to like a story if you just can't accept anything that you're reading as possible. Plus the whole guys getting excited when the other touches them and calling each other terms of endearment?? Yeah, then I'm laughing in places I shouldn't be and it's like why am I reading this when I could be reading Under My Skin?   

(is it a shameless plug if it's not your story? ;) )

Anyway, good challenge, but I failed miserably... I'll probably never read another slash again. But at least now I know, right?
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« Reply #39 on: April 09, 2007, 04:59:50 PM »
Okay...now that everyone else has admitted that they had bad slash experiences, I feel weird having actually enjoyed slash, even if it was the rest of the story that I enjoyed instead of the fact that Nick was getting it on with whatever male there was. *cringe*

I know what you mean about seeing them as "your Boys" and being unable to read about them that way, Mel. I think the writer whose slash I enjoyed had written them in an AU and made the reader see them as just characters and not as the BSB, so that's probably why I made it through those.

Kelly, I think I know which slash you were talking about because I laughed all over the place in the first couple chapters and couldn't continue.  I don't think that's fair to the writer, so...yeah. I don't think I could read slash from anyone but Kid Sinclair LOL

Oh...and I don't think it's a shameless plug when it's not your story! Under My Skin is a great story and, Mel, the last chapter was really, really GOOD! Keep going!
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« Reply #40 on: April 09, 2007, 05:40:35 PM »
Aww to be fair to slash i'm just as easily giggled out by visuals as well. Not that I don't picture the guys getting it on with girls because I do lmao, but I just don't want to read about it. Sex scenes always make me laugh for some reason, especially when the word 'loins' is anywhere in the chapter!

As far as the incest thing goes, i'll never understand that! One of the slash stories I tried was supposedly a 'classic' that everyone loves and I should have known from past experience I tend to not always love what everyone else does, but I tried it anyway and it was just so weird. Kevin was so creepy in it and of course I stopped when Brian called Kevin for a 'night' visit! And they were all so hell bent on not letting Nick know they were all gay because he was so young and meanwhile Kevin and Brian are going at it! lmao

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« Reply #41 on: April 09, 2007, 05:57:30 PM »
aww don't feel bad about enjoying the slash Sarah. A lot of people must or else there wouldn't be so much of it out there. And I totally agree with Mare on the visuals thing... sex... I can't write it, I can't read it... it's just silly. A love scene here and there doesn't turn me off from a story, but when it's like every other chapter and the story starts to sound more like some cheesy porno then I lose interest there too. But slash visuals????? That's like the best of both worlds -lol
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« Reply #42 on: April 09, 2007, 08:09:23 PM »
Quote from: nicksgal on April 09, 2007, 02:48:50 PM
For me, it's more or less a "one true pairing" type of thing. In one of my original stories, I have a gay couple, though one is dead and they are hardly the main characters.... Anyway, to me, their relationship is okay, because they're supposed to be with each other.

Imagining Brian or Kevin paired up with one of the others is weird to me because they're married and already have their "one true pairing" so to speak.

Yeah, exactly, I think that's why it's weird to me too.  If two of the guys were openly gay, then okay, write all the slash you want.  Even if they weren't involved with each other in real life, it would at least be feasible that they COULD one day hook up, if they hadn't already.

But when two of them are married and the other three all have girlfriends, it just doesn't really work for me LOL.
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« Reply #43 on: April 09, 2007, 08:12:00 PM »
Quote from: mare on April 09, 2007, 05:40:35 PM
Kevin was so creepy in it and of course I stopped when Brian called Kevin for a 'night' visit! And they were all so hell bent on not letting Nick know they were all gay because he was so young and meanwhile Kevin and Brian are going at it! lmao

Ahhh, that's so wrong!!  LMFAO
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« Reply #44 on: April 09, 2007, 08:23:59 PM »
^ yes it is and on top of that I do believe it is also one of those fics that portrayed Nick as a 16 year old who falls asleep on Kevin's chest as he pats his back lmao

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