Sometimes you get a whack-up-call from life reminding you that you might be more than slightly off mainstream. Some people at work found out I read slash and they have this 'leer' when they caught me reading slash between work and I really can't figure out why. When I think about it though, I think I get it: Most people deem slash is pr0n. That, and I suppose I really shouldn't read slash at work.
filogrrl asked me once why I like slash and I really can't explain it. It's not the porn, I can read hetero porn or same sex (both gender) porn just the same, but I prefer gay romance and out of all gay romances, I like sci-fi ones. However, it doesn't explain why, so maybe I should explain it from why I don't like most hetero romances: the female half of the pair is generally a clingy, whiny, weak and spoiled girl. A good example is
Fushigi Yuugi, which was a series I enjoyed in the first season and abhorred in the second season. Miaka was a capable priestess in the first season. She's a klutz, but she's trying hard. In the second season, whenever she's in trouble, she does the least that she could do: Scream "Tamahome!!"
Argh! Go and die already!
A lot of slash are also quite funny and smart, the likes of
indybaggins's
But I’m A Lieutenant Colonel (Just the summary is enough to crack you up) while others, can't be explained or put into words. When I read
sheafrotherdon's
Compass Points and its accompanying
vid for example. I don't know about you, in the space of time when I read that fic, I smiled, my nose burned and my eyes tear up a bit, I laughed and in the end, there's this slow burn under my ribcage that could just be heartburn, except it wasn't there before.
After a week of this, I would go and read a fast-paced thriller or a totally off-the-wall humourous book, but that's another story...