Fiona wrote:
But some people on this lyst have been trying to claim a canonical basis for slash. Which is, I think you'll agree, awfully difficult if not actually impossible to do.
No, as it happens, I don't agree. But I don't see any point arguing it because I've come to the conclusion that this is a matter of mindset/ideological conviction, something closer to religious belief than reasoned argument, on both sides. When I first saw B7 in the late 1970s - I was 16 or 17 - the sexual tension between Avon and Blake leapt off the screen for me, and I knew other people who saw the same thing. I know many other people who didn't. And I know others again who came to see it gradually. But I have no intention of trying to force it on anyone, nor do I see any likelihood of anyone convincing me I have wilfully imposed something which could not possibly be drawn out of the drama as broadcast.
St Paul may have written a lot of epistles arguing the case for Christianity, but I seem to recall he needed a Damascene conversion himself.
Jarriet