COMPLAINING and a rec!

[roxy]

I'm sorry, but this using a / to indicate a gen relationship really irritates the hell out of me. I'm a SLASH reader and a SLASH writer and more specifically a WINCEST reader and writer. That's my main interest, and when I click on a story that has Sam/Dean in the headline, I expect some form of slash. I don't necessarily need out and out sex--though that's more than nice, but it pisses me off when it turns out to be a completely, *totally* gen story, or worse, a het story. Nothing wrong with either, just not when I'm expecting guy love. When I want to read gen, I read gen. Much, much more rarely, I'll read het. I just like to know what it is I'm reading.

I know that these folks aren't posting like that intending to misrepresent, I think that they just don't get that there's a difference. We've talked about this a few times here. Is it not the same other fandom places? Is it only LJ anymore that adheres to the slash meaning a M/M relationship?

*throws hat down and flings hands up*





Had to get that off my chest. Okay, I bitched, so let me rec a fucking fabulous GEN story. See? I read them sometimes. Are you wondering where Sam's at, what's going on under that massive forehead? This fic explains it all. It's chilling, heartbreaking, *scary* as fuck and just plain amazing. I really liked it.

Stapled Shut, Inside an Outside World bycaranfindel

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh! Thank goodness you didn't mind--I totally forgot to ask permission first!

You know, I'm beginning to think that AO3, with its plethora of tags and people given to some sort of tag-mania just add to the problem. Most of the funky tags I've been taken in by are there. And I can imagine it's really not much fun, clicking on a what seems like a fascinating gen story only to be broadsided by the slash. I think having a slash story end up gen is a lot less unsettling! :)

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Well, there's my own personal LJ ignorance, because it never would occur to me to ask if it's okay to rec something! :-/

And yeah, it's a little bit of a jolt to think you're reading gen and then suddenly it gets all bow chicka wow wow. Probably less shocking to finish a story and say hey, where was my slash? ;-) But, you know, there are worse things that can happen. Good slash is better than bad gen.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Well, there's my own personal LJ ignorance, because it never would occur to me to ask if it's okay to rec something! :-/

Ack, no--that's just me, I think! Always worried about offending! :)