OK, we just had the thread where a whole bunch o’female Dopers came out of the closet and admitted finding guy-on-guy action hot. And that they liked slash fiction. (for the uneducated, it’s fanfiction written about tv, movie, or literary characters pairing members of the same sex) So, slash fans out there, what are your favorite pairings? And do you actually wirte in your fandom or just read in it? We’ve got a diverse group of people on this board and I’m interested in what y’all are up to.
(and, if you’re totallly disgusted by this topic, feel free to go get yer rant on in the Pit, just don’t crap in the thread)
Anyway, here’re mine (I wish I could write, but I suck):
Current:
Star Gate: Jack/Daniel
Stargate Atlantis: John/Rodney
Anime:
Gundam Wing: any but especially Heero/Trowa & Heero/Wufei
YuYu Hakusho: Hiei/Kurama
DC Comics: Flash/Green Lantern
Trigun: Vash/Wolfwood
Past favorites:
Smallville: Clark/Lex
Voyager: Paris/Chakotay
Highlander: Duncan/Methos
SportsNight: Dan/Casey
Old school:
STOS: Kirk/Spock (the granddaddy of slash pairings)
Starsky&Hutch
Dukes of Hazzard: Bo/Luke
Various pairings of elves, it just seems to work well.
Ranma/Ryoga (for some reason I’m more embarased over this one than all the rest).
And I read mostly, but have scratched out the occasional story (both slash and regular erotica). No one has ever read my stories, though, other than myself.
I wrote Garak/Bashir for years, and if I’m “famous” as a slash writer, it’s for that.
When I was into DS9 fanfic, I also wrote a little O’Brien/Bashir (mostly involving Garak and O’Brien fighting over the adorable doctor), and a series of Sisko/Bashir stories where they were stuck in 21st-century San Francisco.
For the last two years, I have had a serious hobbit fetish, and have taken to writing Frodo/Sam (with some Merry/Pippin as a side-pairing).
Fandoms I have liked reading, but never wrote in:
Q/Picard
Mulder/Krychek
D’Argo/Crichton
But I’ll look at anything if the character pairing interests me.
When writing a story, I can sometimes actually stay pretty close to the book or film, and then just slip in a little of ‘what we didn’t see at the end of that scene.’
And I’ve always said that the scene in the Tower of Cirith Ungol is already a perfect little piece of hurt/comfort without any additional help.
I’m one of nature’s slashers (I decided there was something going on between Zhane and Andros on Power Rangers, for crying out loud, and this was when I was twelve), so listing my pairings would take…quite a while.
I recently re-read those books after about five years, and was a little surprised to find the homosexual relationship I remembered between those two didn’t actually happen. And it can’t have been fanfic because a) If it’s out there, it’s hiding from me; and b) I didn’t have internet when I first read those books. The subtext is just that strong.
But I know, and it’s with Snape most often. Isn’t this more or less childporn? I mean, Harry (not the actor) only just turned 14, didn’t he? A bit young for me. (To be honest I normally like older guys anyway.
Due South, Ray Kowalski/Benton Fraser. I do like some Vecchio/Fraser, but Kowalski (who’s actor recently appered in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries) just goes with Fraser in a Hoyay way that Vecchio, well, doesn’t. Vecchio’s just too straight.
And even though I’ve never even seen one entire episode of the actual series, The Sentinel, Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg.
I’ve never written slash, and I barely read it anymore, but I used to be really big on slash when I first discovered it in the early college years.
On the subject of Harry Potter slash: there’s a -heck- of a lot of it out there. And it makes me happy. Far less Buffy slash than there is HP. It out-fics any other fanom I’ve explored. most authors go out of their way to make it future-fic so it’s not(mostly) child porn. Chanslash, on the other hand, is its own genre and generally gets really huge warnings smacked all over it.
On the subject of ‘Dear Og, there’s salsh fanfiction for -this-?’: there is Bible slash. I’ve read some, didn’t like it, thought it was weird as all heck. Know someone who writes it, though. She doesn’t really take it seriously.
Anyway, favorite pairings…
HP:
Snape/anyone, really, though Lupin tends to be best
and everything else kinda comes in second, with the exception of anything invovling Ron, because I like Ron the way he is in canon, and authors change him too much.
BtVS: Spike/Xander. Hands down favorite. (anyone got any links to reccomend?)
and Spike/anyone else next, then Angel/anyone else.
Smallville: Clark/Lex, because there almost is no other pairing.
Hmm…I read a bit of Boondocks Saints slash, but exhausted that fandom pretty quickly.
So, yeah. I like slash, yes I do.
