COMPLAINING and a rec!
2/4/14 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roxyI'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.
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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 by
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2/5/14 12:21 am (UTC)I mean... if you write a story in which Dean has a relationship with Lisa, or Sam has one with Crowley (which are both perfectly fine!) and then go label it as Sam/Dean, just because it has Sam and Dean in it, that's totally misleading!
Heh, so that's what I'm gonna do. And then laugh when you read it and you're all 'dude, wtf was that bullshit?!'.
I know that in a lot of fandoms (not just LJ-based) slash means m/m relationship. Others have slash as ANY relationship (which really makes more sense). In any case, you can't use '/' when you really mean 'n'.
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2/5/14 12:48 am (UTC)I agree that '/ ' actually indicates any relationship that has a romantic or physical component to it--it could be Sam/Amelia, horrible as that idea is, and I'd know that they were touching naughty bits, hopefully offstage. And yes, damn it, the 'n' is a perfect heads up to let us know "in this story, the brothers are slightly less dysfunctional."