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Quote of the Day -- do you see the pun?
Oct. 27th, 2005 12:47 pmSeen on a campaign sign this morning:
"Thurnheer for Highway Superintendent"
*giggles quietly*
"Thurnheer for Highway Superintendent"
*giggles quietly*
Oct. 27th, 2005
Quote of the Day -- do you see the pun?
Oct. 27th, 2005 12:47 pmSeen on a campaign sign this morning:
"Thurnheer for Highway Superintendent"
*giggles quietly*
"Thurnheer for Highway Superintendent"
*giggles quietly*
I have noticed that some reviews for "The Way of the Apartment Manager" praise the story for not being yaoi. This is interesting to me, because I don't get corresponding reviews praising it for not being het or yuri. I do get reviews saying that it's nice to have a genfic, but that's not the same as singling out yaoi.
(I can understand why nobody comments on it not being yuri -- yuri/femslash is simply nowhere near as common as het or yaoi/slash. I'm not sure what that says about fanfiction readers and writers, but I'm sure it says something. I'd like to find more yuri -- heck, I'd like yuri epics -- but I don't really expect it. *here Liz pauses to shoo away plot bunnies*)
Anyway, this specific attention paid to yaoi makes me slightly uneasy, since I personally have no problems with slash. I have written slash. I've also written het and femslash. Yes, I tend to lean toward gen, and "Apartment Manager" was conceived as a plot- and character-driven genfic, but you'll notice that Naga and Kafunnokaze's little 'thing' crept in toward the end. And I deliberately threw in a few subtextual hints that could be taken as Kakashi/Iruka, as well as Kakashi's pass at Yukiko; I like Kakashi ambiguous, and I think he would probably flirt with people of both genders if he thought it would keep them off balance (and particularly if he thought there was no chance of the flirtation actually going anywhere).
So if relationships pop up in the sequel -- be they yaoi, yuri, or het -- what will the reaction be?
And if my story gets described as a 'non-yaoi' epic, do I really want that? Because it's equally a 'non-yuri' epic and a 'non-het' epic. I don't mind it being described as a 'gen' epic, because it is, but gen means more than just 'non-yaoi.'
This worries me on occasion, and it makes me wonder if my writing is subtly sending messages that homosexuality is wrong or abnormal.
(We will ignore for the moment the school of thought that says yaoi/slash isn't really homosexual but is instead the female equivalent of heterosexual men watching lesbian porn. I think there's some truth to that, but it's not immediately relevant to the topic.)
Or is it just that yaoi is becoming prevalent in various fandoms? Well, honestly, is it? I don't know -- I've never paid much attention to the percentages of various story types beyond noting that yeah, a significant percentage of anything is going to be dreck. (Sturgeon's Law: resistance is futile, mwahahaha!) I suppose I could see people thinking that there's something slightly skewed about homosexuality being much more common in fanfiction than in real life, so to speak, but then again, nobody says you have to read yaoi if you don't like it. And you can't exactly make authors write what you want them to write, so making yaoi writers stop posting stories wouldn't increase the number of het and gen fics on the net.
Eh. It's all very confusing, and I never get much of anywhere when I think about it. I'm just left with a vague sense of unease.
(I can understand why nobody comments on it not being yuri -- yuri/femslash is simply nowhere near as common as het or yaoi/slash. I'm not sure what that says about fanfiction readers and writers, but I'm sure it says something. I'd like to find more yuri -- heck, I'd like yuri epics -- but I don't really expect it. *here Liz pauses to shoo away plot bunnies*)
Anyway, this specific attention paid to yaoi makes me slightly uneasy, since I personally have no problems with slash. I have written slash. I've also written het and femslash. Yes, I tend to lean toward gen, and "Apartment Manager" was conceived as a plot- and character-driven genfic, but you'll notice that Naga and Kafunnokaze's little 'thing' crept in toward the end. And I deliberately threw in a few subtextual hints that could be taken as Kakashi/Iruka, as well as Kakashi's pass at Yukiko; I like Kakashi ambiguous, and I think he would probably flirt with people of both genders if he thought it would keep them off balance (and particularly if he thought there was no chance of the flirtation actually going anywhere).
So if relationships pop up in the sequel -- be they yaoi, yuri, or het -- what will the reaction be?
And if my story gets described as a 'non-yaoi' epic, do I really want that? Because it's equally a 'non-yuri' epic and a 'non-het' epic. I don't mind it being described as a 'gen' epic, because it is, but gen means more than just 'non-yaoi.'
This worries me on occasion, and it makes me wonder if my writing is subtly sending messages that homosexuality is wrong or abnormal.
(We will ignore for the moment the school of thought that says yaoi/slash isn't really homosexual but is instead the female equivalent of heterosexual men watching lesbian porn. I think there's some truth to that, but it's not immediately relevant to the topic.)
Or is it just that yaoi is becoming prevalent in various fandoms? Well, honestly, is it? I don't know -- I've never paid much attention to the percentages of various story types beyond noting that yeah, a significant percentage of anything is going to be dreck. (Sturgeon's Law: resistance is futile, mwahahaha!) I suppose I could see people thinking that there's something slightly skewed about homosexuality being much more common in fanfiction than in real life, so to speak, but then again, nobody says you have to read yaoi if you don't like it. And you can't exactly make authors write what you want them to write, so making yaoi writers stop posting stories wouldn't increase the number of het and gen fics on the net.
Eh. It's all very confusing, and I never get much of anywhere when I think about it. I'm just left with a vague sense of unease.
I have noticed that some reviews for "The Way of the Apartment Manager" praise the story for not being yaoi. This is interesting to me, because I don't get corresponding reviews praising it for not being het or yuri. I do get reviews saying that it's nice to have a genfic, but that's not the same as singling out yaoi.
(I can understand why nobody comments on it not being yuri -- yuri/femslash is simply nowhere near as common as het or yaoi/slash. I'm not sure what that says about fanfiction readers and writers, but I'm sure it says something. I'd like to find more yuri -- heck, I'd like yuri epics -- but I don't really expect it. *here Liz pauses to shoo away plot bunnies*)
Anyway, this specific attention paid to yaoi makes me slightly uneasy, since I personally have no problems with slash. I have written slash. I've also written het and femslash. Yes, I tend to lean toward gen, and "Apartment Manager" was conceived as a plot- and character-driven genfic, but you'll notice that Naga and Kafunnokaze's little 'thing' crept in toward the end. And I deliberately threw in a few subtextual hints that could be taken as Kakashi/Iruka, as well as Kakashi's pass at Yukiko; I like Kakashi ambiguous, and I think he would probably flirt with people of both genders if he thought it would keep them off balance (and particularly if he thought there was no chance of the flirtation actually going anywhere).
So if relationships pop up in the sequel -- be they yaoi, yuri, or het -- what will the reaction be?
And if my story gets described as a 'non-yaoi' epic, do I really want that? Because it's equally a 'non-yuri' epic and a 'non-het' epic. I don't mind it being described as a 'gen' epic, because it is, but gen means more than just 'non-yaoi.'
This worries me on occasion, and it makes me wonder if my writing is subtly sending messages that homosexuality is wrong or abnormal.
(We will ignore for the moment the school of thought that says yaoi/slash isn't really homosexual but is instead the female equivalent of heterosexual men watching lesbian porn. I think there's some truth to that, but it's not immediately relevant to the topic.)
Or is it just that yaoi is becoming prevalent in various fandoms? Well, honestly, is it? I don't know -- I've never paid much attention to the percentages of various story types beyond noting that yeah, a significant percentage of anything is going to be dreck. (Sturgeon's Law: resistance is futile, mwahahaha!) I suppose I could see people thinking that there's something slightly skewed about homosexuality being much more common in fanfiction than in real life, so to speak, but then again, nobody says you have to read yaoi if you don't like it. And you can't exactly make authors write what you want them to write, so making yaoi writers stop posting stories wouldn't increase the number of het and gen fics on the net.
Eh. It's all very confusing, and I never get much of anywhere when I think about it. I'm just left with a vague sense of unease.
(I can understand why nobody comments on it not being yuri -- yuri/femslash is simply nowhere near as common as het or yaoi/slash. I'm not sure what that says about fanfiction readers and writers, but I'm sure it says something. I'd like to find more yuri -- heck, I'd like yuri epics -- but I don't really expect it. *here Liz pauses to shoo away plot bunnies*)
Anyway, this specific attention paid to yaoi makes me slightly uneasy, since I personally have no problems with slash. I have written slash. I've also written het and femslash. Yes, I tend to lean toward gen, and "Apartment Manager" was conceived as a plot- and character-driven genfic, but you'll notice that Naga and Kafunnokaze's little 'thing' crept in toward the end. And I deliberately threw in a few subtextual hints that could be taken as Kakashi/Iruka, as well as Kakashi's pass at Yukiko; I like Kakashi ambiguous, and I think he would probably flirt with people of both genders if he thought it would keep them off balance (and particularly if he thought there was no chance of the flirtation actually going anywhere).
So if relationships pop up in the sequel -- be they yaoi, yuri, or het -- what will the reaction be?
And if my story gets described as a 'non-yaoi' epic, do I really want that? Because it's equally a 'non-yuri' epic and a 'non-het' epic. I don't mind it being described as a 'gen' epic, because it is, but gen means more than just 'non-yaoi.'
This worries me on occasion, and it makes me wonder if my writing is subtly sending messages that homosexuality is wrong or abnormal.
(We will ignore for the moment the school of thought that says yaoi/slash isn't really homosexual but is instead the female equivalent of heterosexual men watching lesbian porn. I think there's some truth to that, but it's not immediately relevant to the topic.)
Or is it just that yaoi is becoming prevalent in various fandoms? Well, honestly, is it? I don't know -- I've never paid much attention to the percentages of various story types beyond noting that yeah, a significant percentage of anything is going to be dreck. (Sturgeon's Law: resistance is futile, mwahahaha!) I suppose I could see people thinking that there's something slightly skewed about homosexuality being much more common in fanfiction than in real life, so to speak, but then again, nobody says you have to read yaoi if you don't like it. And you can't exactly make authors write what you want them to write, so making yaoi writers stop posting stories wouldn't increase the number of het and gen fics on the net.
Eh. It's all very confusing, and I never get much of anywhere when I think about it. I'm just left with a vague sense of unease.