Best Things about Discovering Slash on the Internet

[opengoal]

As someone not from the West, the best things about discovering slash on the internet are that it made me realise:

1. I don't have to grow out of squeeing at any bit of hoyay I can find on TV, in films, in books, or anywhere. In fact, you could be a mum or a teacher and still be producing slash fics or vids and even raising the next generation of slash fans.
2. every kink, every pairing has its fans. I'm not crazy to want Uther/Gaius slash. I'm no longer surprised at Transformers slash. I've grown to like a certain penguin verse.
3. meta discussions can be so thought-provoking and so deep, and make what is on the surface a rather simple, shallow or commonplace piece of work so much better just because of the discussions sprung from it. And they are probably the only Eng. Lit. training I've ever had, considering that I haven't taken Eng. Lit. at school and Chinese literature just isn't that big on the analysis thing.

There are so much more, but these alone have made my life so much better already.

Comments

[litalex.livejournal.com]

uther/gaius slash?! the mind boggles. anyway, it's interesting that I'm a lot less patient with the show's pace than I was with Smallville. I mean, in Smallville, you know when Clark will turn into Superman, but in Arthur, you have no idea how they're going to pace it. (And please don't get me started on the somewhat strangely colourblind casting, which can be great sometimes, but...)

as to meta discussions, sometimes they're immensely fun, but other times they make you want to bang your head on the wall repeatedly, sigh.

[opengoal.livejournal.com]

LOL~ I'm glad I didn't know anything about the Arthurian legends before watching Merlin. Otherwise I may be compelled to pull my hair out like when I watch the Harry Potter movies :)

It's not such a big leap to uther/gaius slash. Anthony Stewart Head is still pretty hot and the history between these two characters is... intriguing to say the least. I have to admit I've sort of developed an older person kink since the LOTR and the X-Men movies...

I agree with you about the meta discussions. I'm not in the Lotrips fandom but judging from Metafandom, what's happening over there is really mind-boggling...