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[swatkat]

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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Oh, it does!

When I was growing up, I was this incorrigible tomboy who would have nothing to do with girls. I had many girl friends, I did (got along pretty well with both boys and girls) - but I was always the outsider who didn't quite get them very well. And no, I didn't think I was missing anything - I was comfortable enough in my own dreamworld. Until the time I learnt to become comfortable with being a girl. And then it was all a very new experience (it still is sometimes; sometimes, surrounded by my closest girlfriends, it's difficult to believe how *much* I enjoy their company), and reading fiction certainly helped me a lot - to understand, to figure things about myself (I'm still doing that) and about being a girl. That's something I still do, which is probably the reason why I identify so easily with female characters. But there are experiences and sentiments that don't depend on gender, and I'm interested in them too, because it's all a part of knowing more about myself.

Which is my long-winded way of saying that I understand what you mean.

Swatkat