No slash? WTF?

[dragonyphoenix]

I just realized the Circle of Friends remix has a no slash policy. I'm having difficulty not reading that as homophobic. I don't think I'm going to drop out but I also think I wouldn't have joined in if I'd read the rules more closely beforehand.

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[baudown.livejournal.com]

When I first read that post, I was pretty new to fandom/fanfic/slash, and I didn't realize that anti-slash people were a thing. I was legitimately baffled at the time. But while I generally like to give people the benefit of the doubt -- nah, not about this. Reading it again, I find it even more offensive.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I seem to have missed the anti-slash aspect of fandom. Go me.

[punch-kicker15.livejournal.com]

Coming to this very late, but just wanted to say that I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one that had a WTF reaction to that requirement.

A while ago, I was looking at the Twisting The Hellmouth challenges that members had posted, and there were a bunch of them that said, "NO SLASH" pretty vociferously, which just kind of threw me for a loop. Like, I undertand if someone is looking for more of genfic, or only wants to read canon pairings, but there are ways to articulate that without saying "NO SLASH."

It made me sort of sad. But because I am evil, it also made me want to write a story that met their requirements, but also had the most horrific / canonically ridiculous hetero 'ships, like Glory/Oz, Joyce/Adam,
Tara/The Mayor, Jenny Calendar/Warren
Maggie Walsh/Xander, Kendra/Rack, Kennedy/Caleb.

Fortunately for everyone, I have enough problems finding enough time to write stuff that makes me happy, so those crackpairings-to-annoy-people stories will never be unleashed upon the world.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice it at first. I think it was beer good foamy who pointed it out to me. But, yeah, makes no sense.

Hmmm, and I didn't even think of going the really awful 'ships route. Clever. Some of those are terribly squicky!

[punch-kicker15.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was definitely going for maximum squick-factor with those, just to illustrate what a bizarre requirement it was. I don't actually advocate anyone writing a story with these just to annoy someone. (Since I see that aadler seriously argued that slash fiction was written for shock value, or to annoy people, I guess I should clarify that this was a flippant response of mine and not actually my agenda when writing fic.)

On a more serious note, good luck with your remix. :)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

My slash is written because I really like Giles/Ethan as a couple.

Thanks. It's coming along but I don't think it's going to be expected. Not slashy or meant to annoy or anything, I just took the whole remix concept in a different direction. I am enjoying writing it though.