stupid monday deserves a kick in the head...

[tommygirl]

So I can't stop staring at this picture of Jared taken by vorpalblades. He is so adorable. Just adorable. Can he come to Philadelphia?

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medie is hosting an impromptu multifandom drabble meme. Go play. I'm hoping to if I can get past my own writing laze of a block.

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Apparently, the whole slash vs. het & gen debate is alive and well. ladybug218 has opened up her journal for discussion of the topic (no flaming!) because she's as flummoxed as I am by the whole thing.

I'll never understand what's so horrible about het. I love the slash for a lot of pairings...but I also love the het. For me, it's all about character chemistry. And I get that we're all different and that different things ping for each of us...so why does it matter so much to some people that what works for one person is a het couple? Why is het so frowned upon by some people?

I guess it goes back to my belief that bad writing is bad writing. Slash writers aren't automatically better because they write slash and vice versa. You either are capable of writing a good story or you're not, and genre designation won't change that.

Comments

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

Ooh, slash vs. het debates scare me, because I'm afraid that whatever I say, it'll be the wrong thing. I'm not gonna get into the current discussion in ladybug218's journal, but I feel safe to babble a little bit here. For some unknown reason, I've discovered (late in life) that I'm utterly het-challenged. I can love a het couple with all my heart (I was a complete sucker for Izzie/Denny on Grey's), but I could never, ever write het. I've tried and tried, and I've even written a whole fanfic Nano novel with a Jack/Juliet pairing, but I'm afraid I'll never finish it because I left out all the love/sex scenes and I can't make myself go back to them. I think it has something to do with me cringing at writing the names of girl-parts. Even when I try to finesse the words I feel 1)squeamish, and 2)silly. Which is NOT to say that I have anything against girl parts; I'm kind of fond of my own. (Is that TMI?) I'm just too...inhibited?...bashful? Or am I some of the things that make me *gigglesnort*: demure, modest, shrinking violet(!) -- yeah, I'm using my thesaurus. ;) But how can that be, when I write the most graphic m/m slash there is? Boy parts? Love 'em! Bring 'em on, baby! And I don't blush or shrink like a violet at all! Clearly I make no sense to myself, let alone anyone else, so I have no business participating in this debate.

*shrinks away demurely*

(edited due to an embarrassing Freudian slip)

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

I very rarely write smut in any of my fics, regardless of whether they are het or slash. It's not something that I find easy to write and I don't generally find it integral to my stories.

So I don't see why you couldn't still write het fic without including the sex parts :)

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

I see nothing wrong with anyone choosing not to write het and/or slash. It seems to just be when people feel like the other person is wrong for their own choices that I get annoyed.

But dude, you can write lovely het without the smut if you want! God knows that's what I do. I'm terrible with the smut.