Replying to Tavia and Neil:
Neil wrote:
and I think the only thing that bothers me is the insistence by either pro or anti-slashers that their reading is the only possible correct one. That particular line coming
from
the pro-slash side bothers me more, but I think that's because they just tend to be so much louder, so much more insistent, and so eager to clutch
at
the feeblest of straws and claim them as hard evidence.
Dana womanfully refraining from jokes about hard evidential straws being clutched by feeble straws
(from Neil)
The only real difference between the two is the relative importance accorded to the sexuality of the characters, and it's not something I regard as terribly important. If Blake is planting explosives round a Federation base, who cares if he's gay, straight or bi?
Presumably someone would care if they thought he was a pedophile-- that was the whole point of fabricating those charges rather than others.
(from Tavia)
True. But -- likewise -- not everyone's interested in fanfic about Blake planting explosives around a Federation base.
For my taste, there was too much of that sort of thing in canon, more of it not required in fanfic
Tavia said:
I agree in disliking one-dimensional fiction. To me, the adult/slash fiction I enjoy intellectually is the stuff that attempts to map sexual tensions onto other aspects of the series.
I think that sexuality is one of the more interesting aspects of human personality, although not the ONLY interesting aspect, much less the only aspect.
-(Y)