I do think as a general rule of thumb if you can't write cock (or prick, dick or even, depending on context, penis) you shouldn't be writing slashfic.
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I can't understand why you'd want to even read slash, let alone write it, if you can't bring yourself to say cock or dick or some variant thereof.
...you could argue whatever you wanted about a character (IIRC, it was Claudius and Polonius in Hamlet) as long as you could back it up...
That's true. If you can back it up, then it can work. But you have to bother to back it up, not just write it. If someone has gone through the steps of making the reaction be one possibility to the scenario, then I give them kudos for that even if I don't like/don't agree with their take on the situation. It's this "I think [insert thing not supported by canon at all here, e.g. weepy!John] would look good. That's what I'll write", without trying to give any explanation of why the characters would react int he good-looking way, that bugs me. Even PWP has to have some logic to it, I think. It bugs the hell out of me when I see people pairing characters who could have logically never even met without trying to give at least a remotely plausible excuse for them being together in the same place and time. There's suspension of disbelief, but it has its limits.
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Date: 2012-06-23 06:42 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I can't understand why you'd want to even read slash, let alone write it, if you can't bring yourself to say cock or dick or some variant thereof.
...you could argue whatever you wanted about a character (IIRC, it was Claudius and Polonius in Hamlet) as long as you could back it up...
That's true. If you can back it up, then it can work. But you have to bother to back it up, not just write it. If someone has gone through the steps of making the reaction be one possibility to the scenario, then I give them kudos for that even if I don't like/don't agree with their take on the situation. It's this "I think [insert thing not supported by canon at all here, e.g. weepy!John] would look good. That's what I'll write", without trying to give any explanation of why the characters would react int he good-looking way, that bugs me. Even PWP has to have some logic to it, I think. It bugs the hell out of me when I see people pairing characters who could have logically never even met without trying to give at least a remotely plausible excuse for them being together in the same place and time. There's suspension of disbelief, but it has its limits.