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Good morning, snowstorm.
So, we're going to skip straight over the homework angst and the fic-writing paranoia, and get straight to the Deep Thought.
What's slashy?
I'm not really confident in my ability to make a valid judgement on slashiness, but there are things that I think qualify, and, for me, they're generally *not* connected to anything I'd want to read or write slash about. This includes but is not limited to: nearly every interaction between Winters and Nixon in Band of Brothers the last twenty minutes of Jaws, which is the only part of the movie I've seen, from Richard Dreyfus going into the cage until they paddle off into the sunset, and, maybe, but I'm not sure about this, Catch Me if You Can, pretty much the whole part of the plot involving Frank and Carl's interaction.
And let me just say again: I don't mean, by that, that I think the relationship portrayed is a sexual or romantic one, and I don't want to read, or write, or even really think about the characters getting it on (especially not Winters and Nixon, because, okay, popstar RPS is one thing, but, dude, no).
So what *do* I mean? I mean it pushes my guy/guy buttons, makes me go Awwww and feel all warm and fuzzy. I think, sadly, that it boils down to pretty much any instance of two guys sharing caring/affection/tenderness (Or: Why Spy Game is a Touching Love Story, No, Really, I Mean It). I think my brain equates it partially to slash because those behaviors aren't typical between your average macho het guys. Which doesn't mean the guys who do it aren't het, I tell my brain, it means they're not locked into rigid homophobic gender roles, and that's *good*, and you should be impressed by their ability to be straight in a way that nonetheless allows them to care about other guys, not assume that their ability to do so makes them automatically a little bit gay. I think. Right?
The question is complicated by me and my best friend, who, I realized a few weeks ago, are slashy. If we were guys, and we behaved the way we do, we'd be really, really slashy. I think the effect is muted by our being female: affection doesn't stand out so much on women, because we're supposed to be all nurturing, but the fact remains that we come off like the other kind of girlfriends, most of the time.
So. I don't know what any of that means, and I'd go on to talk about why slash, and why guys, and stuff like that, but I have to get dressed and go to class and learn about snowstorms and not think about the fact that, hey, I didn't turn in that project. Good things I carry Tums in my backpack. Silly stomach.
What's slashy?
I'm not really confident in my ability to make a valid judgement on slashiness, but there are things that I think qualify, and, for me, they're generally *not* connected to anything I'd want to read or write slash about. This includes but is not limited to: nearly every interaction between Winters and Nixon in Band of Brothers the last twenty minutes of Jaws, which is the only part of the movie I've seen, from Richard Dreyfus going into the cage until they paddle off into the sunset, and, maybe, but I'm not sure about this, Catch Me if You Can, pretty much the whole part of the plot involving Frank and Carl's interaction.
And let me just say again: I don't mean, by that, that I think the relationship portrayed is a sexual or romantic one, and I don't want to read, or write, or even really think about the characters getting it on (especially not Winters and Nixon, because, okay, popstar RPS is one thing, but, dude, no).
So what *do* I mean? I mean it pushes my guy/guy buttons, makes me go Awwww and feel all warm and fuzzy. I think, sadly, that it boils down to pretty much any instance of two guys sharing caring/affection/tenderness (Or: Why Spy Game is a Touching Love Story, No, Really, I Mean It). I think my brain equates it partially to slash because those behaviors aren't typical between your average macho het guys. Which doesn't mean the guys who do it aren't het, I tell my brain, it means they're not locked into rigid homophobic gender roles, and that's *good*, and you should be impressed by their ability to be straight in a way that nonetheless allows them to care about other guys, not assume that their ability to do so makes them automatically a little bit gay. I think. Right?
The question is complicated by me and my best friend, who, I realized a few weeks ago, are slashy. If we were guys, and we behaved the way we do, we'd be really, really slashy. I think the effect is muted by our being female: affection doesn't stand out so much on women, because we're supposed to be all nurturing, but the fact remains that we come off like the other kind of girlfriends, most of the time.
So. I don't know what any of that means, and I'd go on to talk about why slash, and why guys, and stuff like that, but I have to get dressed and go to class and learn about snowstorms and not think about the fact that, hey, I didn't turn in that project. Good things I carry Tums in my backpack. Silly stomach.