/ is starting to irritate me

[roxy]

The thing that irritates me is this: Reading Dean/OMC--or whatever character of your choice followed by a slash in the header, only to find that the interaction between C and OMC was *rape*. Or the /Whoever was in the fic with the character for the blink of an eye. Yes, there's a difference between the short term character being a pivotal point of the story and just someone fucked in an alley.

I know, I know, I complain when I've done it myself but I'm coming to hate it. Because to me, the / means that a relationship with main Character is in the offing. It's an awful disappointment to me when I find the writer thinks / means so little. I'll click out of a story these days when that happens. It's probably just me, but it's becoming more and more an irritation. I'm thinking that newer writers don't know what the slash means? Or am I confusing what the slash means? Has this post descended into incomprehensibility?

Yeah, anyway, it's bugging me so knock it off.

Comments

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think of the slash as a mark for a relationship, not rape or other forms of nonconsensual sex. (Are you reading the Dean/Alistair in hell where Alistair has a barbed cock story? That one scares me!) I was just thinking about inappropriate uses of the slash in that Chuck-centered story that was just posted, since it listed Chuck/Zachariah as a pairing but it was all Zachariah raping Chuck. I would label that as a gen story with rape, not a Chuck/Zachariah story.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Am I reading that story? God, no! No barbed cock for me, thanks! Is that the story that involves Castiel as well? Don't think I can do that one.


I would label that as a gen story with rape, not a Chuck/Zachariah story.

Exactly! That wasn't the particualr story that inspired this post but I keep seeing similar things.