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Lovely post here that you all might want to read. I'm definitely one of the Cold Pricklies the OP is talking about. *g* "All slashers make the homoerotic subtext of their canon explicit, but not all think it's appropriate to also make the emotional subtext explicit" - this articulates the very reason that a *lot* of the fic in my favourite pairings (slash *and* het) have me gritting my teeth and pressing the back button.

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jaybee65.livejournal.com

I just recently caught up with all the Xena seasons on DVD -- as I may have mentioned, I never watched the show when it was on the air because it just struck me as so cheesy and campy, from the snippets I saw.

But because of its importance in f/f fandom, I finally gave in and rented them, and found that I quickly got over the cheesiness and *adored* the show. Completely adored, as in "OMG I must now read every single fanfic story out there!!!111" adored. As in, "I am such a stupid idiot and must kick myself repeatedly for not getting involved in this fandom when the show was still alive!" adored.

*Ahem*

So. I am now on the verge of diving into that fic universe, but it's a vast and uncharted place to me -- while I've found boatloads of archives (and finally figured out their fanfic lexicon, which is quite unique), I haven't found a good source of recs to narrow things down. At the moment I'm just stabbing at stories and authors randomly, but I hope to get a better sense of things soon. I'll let you know what I find.

From:

swatkat24.livejournal.com

You've done a good thing - from what I've heard, Xena is *the* fandom for long, plotty f/f. *g*

Swatkat

From:

jaybee65.livejournal.com

Long and plotty? *Eyes widen*

My God, I've found paradise!

From:

nell65.livejournal.com

Speaking of newfandom squee - I finally watched the first disk of Firefly last night - all four eps, out of what I now - post searching - know is only 14 filmed eps. Sigh - it is a wonderfully campy show from Joss Weadon.

Gina Torres is in it, in a marvelous kick ass sort of role.

But more than this - OMG!!! the f/f! It is so beautiful! Inara/Kaylee - from the very first exchange between them I was all 'OMG!OMG just LOOK at them!"

So I went running to crack van and recs - and all the major pairings are m/m. Oh, yes, some people have written it - but, not so much in comparison to the favored m/m. And the crack_van summary was written by an avid m/m fan for all the m/m pairing and she was squeein away about from the very first exchange ...see above - and I'm all - Huh. Knew this was a big m/m fandom - was actually looking for it. Didn't see it leap off the screen. Actually - didn't see much leap off the screen from the men at all, really. Sparks, energy, alterness.....not so much. They were all very laid back and manly in a woodenish sort of way. I mean, sure, you could write it, but....

And one of the most popular slashed men actually makes an incredibly rude and ugly anti-lesbian joke in the first ep, one that was designed to hurt and embarass Kaylee (actually, I learned that was the second/third ep shown not the first/second, but still. Early.) It could be sublimation - or, he could be a raving misogynist, or so far anyway - plain old run of the mill homophobe, he's looking like.

I haven't read any slash about him yet - finals to grade and all - but I'm going to be *very* curious about the writers handle this.

Today we have learned that my slash goggles are working just fine thanks, but apparently I only have a f/f pair. *grin*