I'm so glad, honey. He makes me grin like a loon too. I just this morning got my paws on July concert tickets in Seattle- where are you? Seriously, this tour is going to be EPIC.
Yeah, I don't go so far as to be actually squicked by Kris/Adam- if something is recced or I trust the author I'll read it- but I don't really want non-AU fic for them sort of like I don't really want non-AU J2 fic either.
RE your thinky question: Actually, the discussion I've seen is about the issue of hetting Adam- porn with Adam and women bothers a lot of people, not in the "het is icky" way but in the way that there are serious identity issues there that are different from the issues around slashing someone who is or is presumed to be straight. FWIW I agree- I think it may not be necessarily wrong but is at least highly likely to be problematic and should be handled with extreme caution, and really is different from just slashing a straight guy. I wish I had links on hand for you, or could be more articulate about it.
(It's a problem, too, because so far the only thing I really want to write in this fandom is a threesome with Tommy and Allison, and there are at least three reasons that will squick the fuck out of 99% of the fandom and nobody will read it.)
>slash was largely about subverting the expected interactions...
Well, okay, so, I know there are some people who insist that slash means non-canon pairings only- that, for instance Jack/Ianto (a canon pairing from Torchwood) is not really slash. I think that's... not really a helpful or useful distinction, really. I guess if that's what you want from your slash then slashing Adam would not give you that. But of course there's plenty of joy to be found in fic for other reasons- people write het fic and canon pairings, obviously. In this case, isn't (for instance) Adam/Brad just a particularly sparkly canon pairing? I just can't come up with any argument for why that would be wrong.
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Date: 2010-05-15 10:48 pm (UTC)I'm so glad, honey. He makes me grin like a loon too. I just this morning got my paws on July concert tickets in Seattle- where are you? Seriously, this tour is going to be EPIC.
Yeah, I don't go so far as to be actually squicked by Kris/Adam- if something is recced or I trust the author I'll read it- but I don't really want non-AU fic for them sort of like I don't really want non-AU J2 fic either.
RE your thinky question: Actually, the discussion I've seen is about the issue of hetting Adam- porn with Adam and women bothers a lot of people, not in the "het is icky" way but in the way that there are serious identity issues there that are different from the issues around slashing someone who is or is presumed to be straight. FWIW I agree- I think it may not be necessarily wrong but is at least highly likely to be problematic and should be handled with extreme caution, and really is different from just slashing a straight guy. I wish I had links on hand for you, or could be more articulate about it.
(It's a problem, too, because so far the only thing I really want to write in this fandom is a threesome with Tommy and Allison, and there are at least three reasons that will squick the fuck out of 99% of the fandom and nobody will read it.)
>slash was largely about subverting the expected interactions...
Well, okay, so, I know there are some people who insist that slash means non-canon pairings only- that, for instance Jack/Ianto (a canon pairing from Torchwood) is not really slash. I think that's... not really a helpful or useful distinction, really. I guess if that's what you want from your slash then slashing Adam would not give you that. But of course there's plenty of joy to be found in fic for other reasons- people write het fic and canon pairings, obviously. In this case, isn't (for instance) Adam/Brad just a particularly sparkly canon pairing? I just can't come up with any argument for why that would be wrong.