Naw, I think we'd be all like ... this is so mild. Daily Deviant won't take it :D
I think Slash is something people either get or not get. I'm not sure I'd ever be motivated to provide a logical explanation to its appeal - because I'm not sure that there is a logical basis to it.
And I I have to, I'd say it has much more to do with the branch of creativity the readers and writers had had and/or embraced than their view on sex and romance. Of the people I've met here, the latter differs widely, but the one thing that is for sure, that unites us is our ability and love to use a fictional world and characters built up in media as a foundation of a hypothetical world, and build something upon it by more or less following the guidelines that are provided by canon. It's ... rather like building a hypothesis upon a hypothesis, and many people do not find appeal in even the first hypothesis alone. It doesn't mean they're wrong or less in any way, it's just ... their thinking is wired differently. :)
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Date: 2009-05-06 07:14 pm (UTC)I think Slash is something people either get or not get. I'm not sure I'd ever be motivated to provide a logical explanation to its appeal - because I'm not sure that there is a logical basis to it.
And I I have to, I'd say it has much more to do with the branch of creativity the readers and writers had had and/or embraced than their view on sex and romance. Of the people I've met here, the latter differs widely, but the one thing that is for sure, that unites us is our ability and love to use a fictional world and characters built up in media as a foundation of a hypothetical world, and build something upon it by more or less following the guidelines that are provided by canon. It's ... rather like building a hypothesis upon a hypothesis, and many people do not find appeal in even the first hypothesis alone. It doesn't mean they're wrong or less in any way, it's just ... their thinking is wired differently. :)