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Meme: February 2: Canon Het Ships
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iulia commands, &Canon Het Ships; Discuss. :D
As Iulia so compactly points out, I love me a canon het ship, a fact that is virtually undetectable if you look at the stories I write. (Unless, like Iulia, you have a binder full of my earnest 14-year-old Mulder/Scully fic, in which case Where did you get that, and what do I have to do to get you to give it back without putting scans on the internet?) But show me Mulder and Scully, or John and Aeryn, or Zoe and Wash, or Booth and Bones back in seasons one and two, or Danny and Lindsay on CSI:NY, or Castle and Beckett, or Ichabod and Abbie--I swoon. I swoon and want to smoosh them together to make out and get married and have a million babies. <3_____<3 Happily with a canon het ship the show usually agrees with me on that, which is a big part of why I don't write about them. I don't need to! IT'S ALL RIGHT THERE.
I love romances as a genre. I love rom-coms where the com bit doesn't make me cringe, and if you count my mom's Lori Wick/Janette Oke/Grace Livingston Hill collection I've been reading romance novels steadily since I was seven years old--switching over to the non-Christian sexy kind when I was ten and found my mom's stash of Jude Devereaux and Kathleen E. Woodiwiss--and only started reading fewer of them when I went to college and didn't have ready access to a public library or a used bookstore that sold them (your one failing, Dawn Treader, and I have not forgotten being romance-novel-shamed that time I brought in a bag of books to trade that included a few of them). I love romances, whether they end in characters holding hands and getting married (the finding-Jesus-together bit I always just sort of skimmed over) or having torrid and physiologically improbable sex or coming back next week to fight crime together some more, (or all three, although I usually only find that in fic).
So, yes, I love me a canon het ship (I was ALL OVER Derek/Jennifer until canon made it terrible and I wait with hope for word that Sheriff/Melissa happytimes are on their way), but I don't write them. And partly it's because I'm willing to let the show do the work, and partly it's because my particular fannish trajectory means I'm surrounded by people who want to read slash fic, and partly, I think, it's because it's a lot easier for me to write romance, and especially porn, involving characters whose bodies don't too closely resemble or represent my body.
Ten or eleven years ago I found an explanation of that motive for writing slash that really resonated with me even as it didn't quite reflect my own experience--but now I'm tentatively willing to attribute it to being asexual. Since all of my real-life experiences of people being interested in having sex with me have been accompanied by this inarticulate rush of DNW, I tended to also feel just the same way about writing about women having sex. I think I can count on one hand the explicit het sex stories I've written: Frannie Vecchio getting Ray Kowalski to impregnate her, Grace Van Pelt having the most asexual sex ever with Patrick Jane, and... I guess maybe my Shaun/George story counts, but George's body is definitely not a concern there. Likewise my story about all the sex Aral and Cordelia didn't have before they got married.)
Figuring this out makes me feel like my prospects for writing het porn are improved going forward (also I have a lot of Laura/Derek to write), but I expect that I will still be willing to just sit back and watch and adore my canon het ships the vast majority of the time. ♥
iulia commands, &Canon Het Ships; Discuss. :DAs Iulia so compactly points out, I love me a canon het ship, a fact that is virtually undetectable if you look at the stories I write. (Unless, like Iulia, you have a binder full of my earnest 14-year-old Mulder/Scully fic, in which case Where did you get that, and what do I have to do to get you to give it back without putting scans on the internet?) But show me Mulder and Scully, or John and Aeryn, or Zoe and Wash, or Booth and Bones back in seasons one and two, or Danny and Lindsay on CSI:NY, or Castle and Beckett, or Ichabod and Abbie--I swoon. I swoon and want to smoosh them together to make out and get married and have a million babies. <3_____<3 Happily with a canon het ship the show usually agrees with me on that, which is a big part of why I don't write about them. I don't need to! IT'S ALL RIGHT THERE.
I love romances as a genre. I love rom-coms where the com bit doesn't make me cringe, and if you count my mom's Lori Wick/Janette Oke/Grace Livingston Hill collection I've been reading romance novels steadily since I was seven years old--switching over to the non-Christian sexy kind when I was ten and found my mom's stash of Jude Devereaux and Kathleen E. Woodiwiss--and only started reading fewer of them when I went to college and didn't have ready access to a public library or a used bookstore that sold them (your one failing, Dawn Treader, and I have not forgotten being romance-novel-shamed that time I brought in a bag of books to trade that included a few of them). I love romances, whether they end in characters holding hands and getting married (the finding-Jesus-together bit I always just sort of skimmed over) or having torrid and physiologically improbable sex or coming back next week to fight crime together some more, (or all three, although I usually only find that in fic).
So, yes, I love me a canon het ship (I was ALL OVER Derek/Jennifer until canon made it terrible and I wait with hope for word that Sheriff/Melissa happytimes are on their way), but I don't write them. And partly it's because I'm willing to let the show do the work, and partly it's because my particular fannish trajectory means I'm surrounded by people who want to read slash fic, and partly, I think, it's because it's a lot easier for me to write romance, and especially porn, involving characters whose bodies don't too closely resemble or represent my body.
Ten or eleven years ago I found an explanation of that motive for writing slash that really resonated with me even as it didn't quite reflect my own experience--but now I'm tentatively willing to attribute it to being asexual. Since all of my real-life experiences of people being interested in having sex with me have been accompanied by this inarticulate rush of DNW, I tended to also feel just the same way about writing about women having sex. I think I can count on one hand the explicit het sex stories I've written: Frannie Vecchio getting Ray Kowalski to impregnate her, Grace Van Pelt having the most asexual sex ever with Patrick Jane, and... I guess maybe my Shaun/George story counts, but George's body is definitely not a concern there. Likewise my story about all the sex Aral and Cordelia didn't have before they got married.)
Figuring this out makes me feel like my prospects for writing het porn are improved going forward (also I have a lot of Laura/Derek to write), but I expect that I will still be willing to just sit back and watch and adore my canon het ships the vast majority of the time. ♥
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I also want to read stories about people I am attracted to (who are predominately male), instead of read stories where I identify with one of the characters, which is similar to your not wanting to read about female bodies per se.
So yes, I do love me some slash. *g*
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