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On canon.
I'm a purist by nature, I think. I like my food separated and not mixed all up together. I drink a lot of water. This translates into fandom, causing me to enjoy any fics that don't work within the universe a lot less. That doesn't necessarily mean that I don't see why people would want to write something that there is no support for, like Haldir/Frodo or something completely crazy like Clark/Lana (I mean really, EVERYONE on that show has more sexual tension than those two. Any other pairing. Seriously.) It just means that I personally won't ascribe to it.
And yet I'm a slasher. How does that work, you may ask me? After all, slash is VERY rarely canon, unless we're considering Queer as Folk. And here's a deep dark secret of mine - I once wrote *gasp* HET! When I was back in year 8 and the only English-language television I got was a tape of (generally pretty bad) Australian drama was sent to me was when I first discovered the world of fanfiction, and I wrote what was in the show. Once I even wrote - you'll never believe it - OFC het (original character, for those not in the know). I created a female character. Though she was a small role in the fic and she was literally nothing like me or what I wish I could be, she was still there. I generally worked with the couples already either hinted at or pre-existing in the show.
I think the very first inkling I had of slashy thoughts was actually when I read Lord of the Rings in high school. I didn't really know what it was I was thinking of, having not come across slash before somehow, but I knew that there was something about Sam/Frodo that went beyond friendship in my mind. I distinctly remember being genuinely surprised by the insertion of Rosie into the end of the book, and instinctively disliked her.
The first slash I read was then RPS, not FPS. I swear it's true, though, that once you start seeing it you can't stop. Suddenly it was everywhere, and more and more characters and people were seeming slashy to me.
Because here's the thing: what slash REALLY feels like, to me anyway, is that first sexual tension, those first inklings that two characters are attracted to one another. It's almost like the story should just naturally progress, once the TV show or book or movie is over, into becoming a couple. There's a LOT of slash that makes a whole lot more sense in canon than the het pairings that the show sets up (see Clark/Lana vs. Clark/Lex in Smallville.) At other times it seems like it's just happening off in the background, like a het relationship only not specifically stated (reading Harry Potter, for instance, leads me to read Sirius/Remus in book 5 as essentially the same type of relationship as Mr and Mrs Weasley.)
I know a lot of people out there don't like slash, and it's not that I don't like het. I read it sometimes, but it doesn't appeal to me as much. I like the idea of Sayid/Shannon, and my favourite couples on Buffy are a complete mix: Xander/Anya, Spike/Buffy, Willow/Tara, Spike/Angel. I don't read Buffy fanfiction, but if I did I would probably read a lot more het than in, say, Lord of the Rings, where het is almost non-existant and most of what exists, even if it is canon, seems a lot less likely than slash (Dom/Orlando is a hell of a lot more likely than Dom/Liv based strictly on the evidence we've got.)
My argument in a nutshell:Help! I'm in a nutshell! Must be a bloody big nutshell... Sorry. Slash is NOT always against canon, even if it's not expressly stated in canon.
ETA: And "addicting" is NOT A WORD! It's "addictive."
Did that make sense or am I talking out my ass?
Green Queen
I'm a purist by nature, I think. I like my food separated and not mixed all up together. I drink a lot of water. This translates into fandom, causing me to enjoy any fics that don't work within the universe a lot less. That doesn't necessarily mean that I don't see why people would want to write something that there is no support for, like Haldir/Frodo or something completely crazy like Clark/Lana (I mean really, EVERYONE on that show has more sexual tension than those two. Any other pairing. Seriously.) It just means that I personally won't ascribe to it.
And yet I'm a slasher. How does that work, you may ask me? After all, slash is VERY rarely canon, unless we're considering Queer as Folk. And here's a deep dark secret of mine - I once wrote *gasp* HET! When I was back in year 8 and the only English-language television I got was a tape of (generally pretty bad) Australian drama was sent to me was when I first discovered the world of fanfiction, and I wrote what was in the show. Once I even wrote - you'll never believe it - OFC het (original character, for those not in the know). I created a female character. Though she was a small role in the fic and she was literally nothing like me or what I wish I could be, she was still there. I generally worked with the couples already either hinted at or pre-existing in the show.
I think the very first inkling I had of slashy thoughts was actually when I read Lord of the Rings in high school. I didn't really know what it was I was thinking of, having not come across slash before somehow, but I knew that there was something about Sam/Frodo that went beyond friendship in my mind. I distinctly remember being genuinely surprised by the insertion of Rosie into the end of the book, and instinctively disliked her.
The first slash I read was then RPS, not FPS. I swear it's true, though, that once you start seeing it you can't stop. Suddenly it was everywhere, and more and more characters and people were seeming slashy to me.
Because here's the thing: what slash REALLY feels like, to me anyway, is that first sexual tension, those first inklings that two characters are attracted to one another. It's almost like the story should just naturally progress, once the TV show or book or movie is over, into becoming a couple. There's a LOT of slash that makes a whole lot more sense in canon than the het pairings that the show sets up (see Clark/Lana vs. Clark/Lex in Smallville.) At other times it seems like it's just happening off in the background, like a het relationship only not specifically stated (reading Harry Potter, for instance, leads me to read Sirius/Remus in book 5 as essentially the same type of relationship as Mr and Mrs Weasley.)
I know a lot of people out there don't like slash, and it's not that I don't like het. I read it sometimes, but it doesn't appeal to me as much. I like the idea of Sayid/Shannon, and my favourite couples on Buffy are a complete mix: Xander/Anya, Spike/Buffy, Willow/Tara, Spike/Angel. I don't read Buffy fanfiction, but if I did I would probably read a lot more het than in, say, Lord of the Rings, where het is almost non-existant and most of what exists, even if it is canon, seems a lot less likely than slash (Dom/Orlando is a hell of a lot more likely than Dom/Liv based strictly on the evidence we've got.)
My argument in a nutshell:
ETA: And "addicting" is NOT A WORD! It's "addictive."
Did that make sense or am I talking out my ass?
Green Queen
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I don't really know that I'll ever get into Lost fic.