Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
Are you up for a challenge? Come in if you are brave!
nicksgal:
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
MellzBellz:
--- 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!
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Its not that i think its funny though. Its just like eww I don't want to picture that about my boys LOl
nicksgal:
--- 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
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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.
honey:
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?
starbeamz:
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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