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RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on July 08, 2011, 07:14:46 AM ---I think slash is another controversial one and it's something people either love or hate.  Personally it's not for me, but I have read one over on a Take That site which was so amazingly written and such a good story, that I loved it.  

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I can't take slash seriously, and I think, for me, it goes back to what I was agreeing with Mel on in my last post - I like things to be realistic, especially when it comes to the guys, so the slash thing just doesn't work for me.  Might as call it an AU or a fantasy.

I'm the same way with romance, where it's as if the guys' real life marriages/relationships don't exist.  I hate when the guys are just given random wives/children/siblings, unless there's an explanation for them that gels with reality.  After Brian married Leighanne, I had to start finding ways to get rid of her in the Brian romances I wrote - I killed her off once, had them get divorced, etc., and then I felt free to give him a fictional new relationship.  Once Baylee was born, I just kinda stopped writing Brian romance, unless it was AU.  I wish I wasn't such a stickler; it would give me a lot more freedom as a fanfic writer, but I am.  I'm all for the fiction aspect of fanfic, but since we're writing about real people, I feel like even the fictional stuff should be grounded in reality.

mare:
I am the same when it comes to the boys and being as realistic as possible. I agree about Between the Lines though, that's a great example of an AU keeping the guys their authentic selves while giving them something else to do.

I think i've mentioned this one fantasy story I tried to read a very long time ago before and the guys were SO far out of the box I couldn't even discern who was who. Besides their names, they had nothing in common with who they are. Slash, it's the same way to me. I just don't see them in that light so no matter how well written it is, it still comes off unrealistic to me.

I also don't enjoy random girls with the guys because in my head I know their connected to their real wives and girlfriends. That's why when I have to include them in my stuff they are out shopping or parasailing or something lmao

Carter-Orange:
If I write wives/girlfriends into stories, most of the time I use made up ones.  I can't really explain why, I just feel a bit wrong including their real ones.  I'm weird, lol.

RokofAges75:
For me, it depends on the story.  Rose and I did give Brian and Howie fake children in Undead because we couldn't bear to make Baylee and James zombies LOL.  I've killed off Leighanne before, but I would never touch Baylee in one of my fics.  That does seem wrong.  Like you said, it's hard to explain why that feels wrong, but not writing about - in my case, torturing - the real guys, but it's where I draw the line.

julilly:
I agree that slash is also quite controversial, but from a personal perspective... AU comes with a lot of controversy.

My fanfic "career" started with writing only AU, I didn't really get noticed until the first canon story I wrote. But I will say that as someone who prefers writing, and reading AU, it comes with a lot of opinions from those who prefer canon.

Many times I've been told that the things I've written aren't fanfic, might as well be OF, etc because the boys aren't Backstreet Boys in them and sometimes there's only an appearance by one character. In my mind though, when Nick gets cancer, or Brian and AJ fall in love, or Howie gets addicted to meth, whether they're Backstreet Boys at the time or not I don't think it's canon, that's a universe alternate to the one we live in, no different than if he weren't a performer and were a janitor instead. And if we all only wrote specifically to canon, to the universe that we live in right now, we'd all be writing the same tour/recording story.

I think it's about keeping the characterizati on the same more than keeping professions, etc the same.

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