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.
No, that I can see (although my use of the words at that time had largely been as epithets for my brothers ;)). I discovered slash when I was about err...18-ish at uni with free access to the internet and there was a period of... synchronisation? between the reading and the writing. I was reading explicit stuff before I wrote it. IIRC, some slashwriter somewhere said it's a milestone when you write 'cock' or 'fuck' or something like that for the first time, which I would agree with. But then I don't think I was particularly ambitious at first - I worked up to it. I think a lot of the problem here is people who have no natural instinct for writing and probably haven't read many actual books are coming across some of the good stuff and going hey I can do that and get the same kudos, except they can't. They're jumping in the deep end with only the vaguest of idea how to swim and can't actually tell they're drowning... runaway metaphor has runaway from me now...
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
I very fondly remember writing a Crossover fic which paired Methos from Highlander with a character played by the same actor in a one-off WWII tv movie thing. My logic was Methos is Immortal so he would have been around at the time, and I put him at Bletchley Park and engineered a completely spurious reason for how they met - which basically resulted in a massive pornathon I'm still quite proud of ;)
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Date: 2012-06-23 07:28 pm (UTC)No, that I can see (although my use of the words at that time had largely been as epithets for my brothers ;)). I discovered slash when I was about err...18-ish at uni with free access to the internet and there was a period of... synchronisation? between the reading and the writing. I was reading explicit stuff before I wrote it. IIRC, some slashwriter somewhere said it's a milestone when you write 'cock' or 'fuck' or something like that for the first time, which I would agree with. But then I don't think I was particularly ambitious at first - I worked up to it. I think a lot of the problem here is people who have no natural instinct for writing and probably haven't read many actual books are coming across some of the good stuff and going hey I can do that and get the same kudos, except they can't. They're jumping in the deep end with only the vaguest of idea how to swim and can't actually tell they're drowning... runaway metaphor has runaway from me now...
I very fondly remember writing a Crossover fic which paired Methos from Highlander with a character played by the same actor in a one-off WWII tv movie thing. My logic was Methos is Immortal so he would have been around at the time, and I put him at Bletchley Park and engineered a completely spurious reason for how they met - which basically resulted in a massive pornathon I'm still quite proud of ;)