Apparently het is becoming more popular in slash. I've just been informed.
Some days I wish I could avoid getting into these discussions. But apparently I'm not able.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:06:18 am PST #14157 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Jan 03, 2012 8:09:52 am PST #14158 of 30001
Because books.
Apparently het is becoming more popular in slash.
IN slash or THAN slash?
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2012 8:11:23 am PST #14159 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Good Lord. We all came in to work to an e-mail telling us one of our co-workers was having "open heart surgery" today and would be off for a month afterward.
Half the office is annoyed we were told through an e-mail, because they think it's impersonal. (My feeling is, if you go around and tell everyone in person, it's going to take forever. If you call a meeting to announce it, that's a bit overdramatic. I'm fine with the e-mail.)
The other half of the office is annoyed that the e-mail was ridiculously vague. There is no medical procedure actually named "open heart surgery." That's just a descriptor for many, many different heart surgeries, some of which are comparatively minor, and some of which are a big damn deal. "Open heart surgery" tells us nothing other than the fact that it's something heart-related. A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.
Turns out it's an aortic valve replacement and a single bypass of a completely blocked artery. So, fairly major. The surgery was expected to be about 9 hours. Dang.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:14:21 am PST #14160 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IN slash or THAN slash?
In. It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.
And even "than" would be an argument I couldn't resist getting into.
Okay, I need to go to the police station. Apparently I can't amend the report over the phone.
Jesse - Jan 03, 2012 8:18:15 am PST #14161 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Eek, Steph. Good luck to your coworker.
It's someone explaining why slash fans would so like a Radcliffe/Watson sex tape. Because of all the slash in it.
Um. Huh.
brenda m - Jan 03, 2012 8:21:26 am PST #14162 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Um, what? But I will say that I see far fewer squick warnings for het than I used to. Whether that speaks more to my own reading habits or to fandom or certain fandoms generally I can't say.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2012 8:30:26 am PST #14163 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I do think I prefer het in my slash; that is to say, if the slash is a particular non-canon pairing being focused on then I want the rest of the characters' orientations to be the same as in canon. Not generally a fan of stories set in The World Where Everyone Is Gay.
(Exceptions made for Queer as Folk and Torchwood fic, where all the major characters really are gay or bi. And Angel, where Cordelia seems to be the lone bastion of heterosexuality...)
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:32:02 am PST #14164 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm very glad that squick warnings for het are going away. Just because it's the side of privilege doesn't mean that isn't deeply disturbing. And I'm not sure I want people *disgusted* by straight sex on my side in anything, ever.
Of course, I'm also in another argument defending breast implants, so evidently I need to get off my ass and go to the damned police station. Getting right on that.
Fred Pete - Jan 03, 2012 8:32:15 am PST #14165 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Good luck to Steph's co-worker.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 8:34:09 am PST #14166 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A little information is no one's friend. Don't do that to medical editors.
Isn't it a bit weird to need to know precisely what surgery your co-worker is having? I'd be okay with a friend being vague, never mind a colleague. It's all good.
Nevertheless, I hope his open thingy thingy gets closed up nice and tight and s/he's okay.