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

[quiet--tiger.livejournal.com]

What confuses the heck out of me is when people put in the characters/pairing line a character's real identity and his superhero identity, so you wind up with fics with the characters/pairings as: Bruce/Batman, Clark/Superman, Bruce/Clark, and I'm like, "Wow, that's some identity porn," and then I realize that they mean Bruce is both Bruce and Batman, and Clark is Clark and Supes, at different times in the story. When there are two guys in the story and like eight pairings seem to be indicated, it gets overly complicated.

But yeah, a slash mark indicates slash to me. You want gen, use a comma.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Why would they even bother? Is anyone going to be surprised or confused that *SPOILER* Bruce Wayne is Batman? I'll say it gets complicated.

What the hell, can I complain some more? Modern fucking life is getting way complicated!!!!

[quiet--tiger.livejournal.com]

Complain all you need to, this is your forum!! And modern life is insanely complicated. Technology makes it so everything happens at once or is expected to, and people are expected to work full time jobs, manage a house and families, and keep up with said technology, pop culture, social lives, everything in order to live "normal" lives. Everything moves too fast, and has too many people that can't keep up clogging up the works. Maybe things were always this way, but I don't think so.